So. Um.

The gist of what I want to say is easily summarized such: #FirstWorldProblems [I am tempted to respond to certain people with that exact syntax, too, and only that ( Read more... )

Sam's was out of bananas! Boo. I'm switching back to apples FOR NOW, but they're sooooo messy by comparison =/

My thoughts are largely unrefined by the time they get to a post window [though there's a draft sitting in semagic that is theoretically refined with each time I proof it, but that is almost never], and as such I recognize that outbursts for ( Read more... )

DEAR ABBY: I chose to be a non-drinker when my children became teenagers. I wanted to show them that I could have a good time without drinking, and I think it was an important lesson ( Read more... )

In a board-games-as-metaphor-for-life retrospection, mine right now feels like a hand of two Copper and three Estates: Enough to get, like, Moat, but Moat's not available. It's not even the starting hand, so to have five Copper on the next, or starting hand but getting Militia-ed out of my five before my next turn even though that's not possible ( Read more... )

So much for thinking out loud.

I'm going to do my R-Type book cover. Maybe not THAT minimalist, especially since I can't think of what the essence of the book could be to generate such compelling symbolism, but I'm going going going to do it. All other projects can screw it, I need a FINISHED PIECE X( [This is, in fact, a deciding factor ( Read more... )

The hair-washing excuse came up again, and I feel compelled to explain it from my perspective. Not justify, exactly, but explain--feel free to comment if I've missed anything ( Read more... )

Try though as I might, I have a hard time coming up with anything noteworthy to say about it being Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s birthday [would have been 86], something that will get harder to do as the years pass now that he's gone. A quick image search on Google turns up the one thing I would have asked of him, tho:


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DEAR ABBY: Please provide a public service to prevent people from looking foolish, specifically those who -- bless their hearts -- have made some drastic change in their lives or their attitudes, and say they have done a "360 ( Read more... )

Given that I prefer not posting to posting something potentially objectionable without thinking, this is a bit postdated from its source of provocation [so you don't wonder why I said I was on shortbake only to post about something that happened at work]. Part of that is intentional in a way that isn't mere deliberation over writing quality ( Read more... )

They's a whole MESS o' black squirrellies outside! =D

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Off until Satiddy! [better enjoy accidental vacation while I can...]

Edit: o_ODEAR ABBY: After I had my baby, my doctor came into my hospital room and asked if I was planning on nursing my baby. I said I was. He could see my roommate was listening to our conversation, so he asked her ( Read more... )