YEAH!! GO VOTE! I just did. It was fun. I bought a brownie and coffee for 50 cents afterwards. You should all be so lucky as to vote in a church basement full of nice ladies ( Read more... )

Here's a meaningless quandary in which I am currently enmeshed: have I made a ridiculous clothing choice? Welllll, let's see. It turns out I am a total hypocrite when it comes to clothing choices. Because ( Read more... )

Stuff keeps happening that I mean to write about on here, but.

Well, one good thing is that the latest (and, sadly, last) book in the Series of Unfortunate Events triscadekology came out a few weeks ago, and I am in the middle of reading it right now. Things like determining whether manuscripts are 13th-century Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, or ( Read more... )

Another of my favorites. (This one was posted on YouTube by the animator!) And...alligator!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QlUCZjbG1g

Another Sesame Street sketch that fascinated me:

Edit: Now I want to go to Ella's Deli.

Where is my Eskimo Friend? On the way, apparently. A massive...mass of arctic air is on its way to Wisconsin, and it's supposed to snow a bit tonight. I feel like I should be more excited about this than I am, but I'm having an off week. Despite watching fun videos in class (Sesame Street in Swedish!) and eating the long-awaited salsa and ( Read more... )

I finished reading the dictionary last week. One of my favorite new words is "vardagsgrå," which means "everyday gray." What a typically Scandinavian outlook...that every day is gray. But today actually is gray. There's a chance of flurries on Thursday; lollyjoy's reaction when I told her this was priceless ( Read more... )

"Do you remember the one..."

"No......oh, YEAH!!!"

Anyone else remember this one? I was simultaneosly awed and creeped out by it as a child.

Crayons!! One of my absolute favorites.

especially for Kattis!!

I don't like getting up before the sun comes up, but I do like to see the sun come up. Trade-off. It's up now; so'm I...I am usually woken up by lollyjoy bearing a wriggly but purring kitty. So that's good, too ( Read more... )

-I'm walking a 5K walk to benefit the zoo on Saturday, with lollyjoy and possibly Erin and Anna in tow ( Read more... )