...anybody want to be commissioned to make me an eight-foot long cuddly giant squid pillow? Because I mean, dude. Who doesn't want one?

Dear Wild Republic ( Read more... )

I have always somewhat feared and envied those strange souls who could use the snooze button. Me, my alarm goes off, I'm generally up. The snooze button is just the thing you smack to stop the buzzing while you find your glasses, dislodge the cat, and finally use the actual 'off' switch. The snooze button does not allow you to get additional ( Read more... )

My mother and I went to the flea market today. In addition to finding a bunch of books for Mia to cannibalize -- because nothing says 'great place to sell your trashed tomes' like 'the Solano Flea Market' -- I walked away with an enormous stuffed pumpkin Beanie Buddy and a Munsters lunch box which may well wind up becoming my actual functional ( Read more... )

I have finally found a way to keep Nyssa from sleeping on my laptop keyboard (and consequentially screwing things nineteen flavors of up ( Read more... )

10. I have an Amy! I've been lax about posting this, because I've been enormously distracted, but it's true -- I have an Amy, probably still asleep in my guest room at this very moment. And we've been having an awesome time, even if it did include me convincing her to walk to Kate and GP's house from Rockridge BART.

9. Having discovered NCIS ( Read more... )

After essentially ripping the porch off A Local Habitation and replacing it with a shiny new termite-free porch, I have run out of brain. I now have the dumb. I also have a really scrambled idea of what 'productive' means, since I was whining vigorously about only writing sixteen pages until it was pointed out to me that this pace would equal a ( Read more... )

Me: Please give me reasons why I shouldn't purchase a realistic plush squid.

My friends: *provide many reasons both pro- and anti-squid, which makes for a nice distraction*

Trevor: *sends me a realistic plush squid*

Me: ...good reason!

In other news, I have a Giant Squid of most excellent construction and realism, made by the company that makes ( Read more... )

Despite waking up roughly every ninety minutes for the entire night -- which always results in my head being filled with fragments of dreams, like some weird new sort of confetti -- I am disturbingly not tired this morning. I won't say I'm the queen of pep and perk or anything silly like that, but I'm definitely among the living, and may even ( Read more... )

I am searching for valid reasons not to buy myself this plush Giant Squid.

Seriously.

It's very difficult. Especially since he has a realistic siphon and beak. How can you not love this thing? I'd try to convince somebody that I needed to get it for my birthday, but as I'm a January baby, not so much. So now I struggle with my inner love of ( Read more... )