I got adventurous this year and tried two new cookies.


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This past Wednesday, my Uncle Denny passed away ( Read more... )

Ugh, I need therapy. Retail therapy, more specifically. But not the fun kind where you are having a crappy day and you happen upon a delightful pair of cashmere-blend socks and you're like "not only will this keep my feet warm and feel so fuzzy and awesome against my skin, but this is my treat, because bad day." No, like, I need someone to ( Read more... )

In keeping with the attempt at cheap-or-free entertainment, Teo and I went to COSI on Sunday for their annual Community Open House, aka, Get In For Free Day. We knew going into it that the museum would be a zoo, but we'd both been wanting to check it out. Teo said he basically just wanted to see the building, whereas I was driven by my extreme ( Read more... )

I'll post tomorrow about our trip to COSI, the science museum here, but for now you can just revel in this creepy picture of a giant wire skeleton. Surreal.


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We don't know for certain what happened here, but we think we have a fair idea...


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Okay, so I'm doing Holidailies again this year. When it occurred to me shortly before Thanksgiving that I hadn't signed up for it, part of me was all "Dang, this will be the first time in the past five years that I don't do it." And then...promptly forgot to go see when registration was opened. Until I swung by on the Monday after Thanksgiving, ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to my baby sister! She is one of my favorite people on this planet, and even though we rarely get to spend birthdays together anymore, it always makes me homesick for her when we miss out on that. I hope her days is filled with joy and sugar and I can't wait to see her again!

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So, bed in a second, because I am droopy and we finished our built-ins today, plus I walked, like, maybe 5 or more miles this morning, so tired. But!

Happy belated birthdays to two of my best girls! Miss ambereternal had a birthday on Wednesday and rissykay99 celebrated hers on Friday. Both are extremely dear to me. Both actually lived with me! One has endured my ( Read more... )