I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. It’s part of a philosophy I espoused a long time ago that setting goals can get in the way of living life.

Sure, goals can be good for some things. They’re important for business plans and for progress on specific projects, but for me, personally, I find that I end up focusing too much on things I once wanted ( Read more... )

Around Thanksgiving time, my father started talking about how he couldn’t wait to go to the Dollar Tree to buy all the Christmas presents for me and my mother.

Somehow, this prompted the statement, I don’t know if it was mine or my mother’s, that only Bad Santas shop at the Dollar Tree.

This has only escalated over the last few weeks into ( Read more... )

So today I got a little box in the mail from the gift exchange I signed up for over at ( Read more... )

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Happy New Year, everybody ( Read more... )

I started the first part of this post and then realized that there was really no way to adapt it for those of you who are visually impaired, so I apologize most sincerely for that and I did come up with a second half to the post that I hope makes up for the oversight.

Part 1 is A New Year’s Gift for you all: Tea Paper Dolls!


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Okay, first off, thank you to:

rejeneration, furiosity, hxcpunkchick, pierelle, mel06, strangealchemy, bumblefucked, strix_an_stones, and pinkfinity for the lover gift of seven snowflake cookies, one pile of snowflakes, and a Ctulhuclaus in a pear tree!


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Here are the photos from my trip to New Orleans to visit ( Read more... )

From me and liret