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Painted Sugar Cookies

Ordinarily, I dismiss surveys on facebook out of hand.  This one intrigued me, so I took it.

Essentially, it extrapolates from your responses how big your vocabulary is.    My results are in the link below.

http://testyourvocab.com/?r=1499088

Bear with me.  I'm going to write a bit about my favorite radio show.  No, I'm not going to burst with fangirl glee.  Just a little bullet list of how things went ( Read more... )

I am a creature of impulse buying.  I am also a creature of ADHD creativity.  I have creative skills, I like doing creative things, but I don’t FOCUS well enough on one thing.  I can write; I can work with textiles, yarn, embroidery floss, pencils, pens, watercolors, pastels... but I don’t do any enough to be an expert.

My latest obsession is ( Read more... )

Dear Breast Cancer,

I hate you.  I hate what you did to me.  I hate what you made me do so I could be rid of you.

But I beat you.  Cut you out, poisoned you, killed you.  But in doing so, I had to half kill myself.

It took me forever to feel somewhat normal again.  And it took me even longer to get my cardio back.  Slowy but surely, I climbed back.

I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took part in a 15K, as did the boyfriend.  The results for me were somewhat discouraging.  I was not dead last, but I was dead last in my age group ( Read more... )

... because I can.

... I walked into my doctor's office and told him I was
concerned about a lump that I had found. I walked out with an
appointment for an ultrasound, firmly believing that it was just a
cyst.

Because this is important to me (I have an iPhone, am disenchanted with AT&T's service, and my plan is up in May), I am sharing this with you.

Unfortunately, this article actually dissuades me from getting a Verizon iPhone. I like that I can talk on the phone and access the internet at the same time. To lose that ability is, in my mind, ( Read more... )

One of the unforeseen developments this year has been my renewed interest in knitting.  I had picked up needles for the first time in decades last winter, when I'd finally gotten JT to watch "firefly" with me and he pronounced that he'd love a cunning Jayne Cobb hat.  I proceeded to make him one, then a few scarves, and was starting to look at more ( Read more... )