While walking the streets of San Francisco this morning, I saw one of those painfully praying mantis-esque women -- the ones whose hair doesn't move no matter what you do to them, and whose bodies imply that they haven't even seen a carb without making the sign of the cross since 1998 -- waiting for the light to change. Women like that are always ( Read more... )

I love that telling Etsy to show me 'pumpkin jewelry' results in nineteen pages of results. Also, is this not the single most Toby-appropriate piece of jewelry you have ever seen? Seriously, I'm like, dude, I should almost buy that just to have it. But then I remember that I still have to find something to wear with my suit, and resume the quest ( Read more... )

So far tonight, I have...

a) Taken a two-hour nap.
b) Watched an episode of NCIS while eating cold canned peas to try to make myself feel better ( Read more... )

Lilly has just run up, jumped into my lap, licked my hand twice, and run off again on some vitally important feline errand. I have no idea what this errand might be, but as I don't hear anything actually breaking, I am choosing not to worry about it overly much. This is what passes for 'sanity' in the life of a Siamese cat owner. (We're a ( Read more... )

Yesterday's glee over my new My Little Pony purse caused me to stop and contemplate physical belongings -- what I have, what I've acquired on purpose, what's been given to me -- and realize that sometimes, what gives me joy is entirely out of proportion with how much effort went into obtaining it. These are ten things that make me happy by ( Read more... )

10. I am wearing a bright orange top with my orange and green 'witch of ripe apple' pendant. Which is, PS, one of the best things anyone ever just up and made for me. (And yes, I consider it to have been made for me, because nobody else in this world would want it ( Read more... )

So far, we have packed ( Read more... )

So every season, Old Navy rotates the colors of their perfect fit tank tops, both to fit the demands of fashion, and to make sure that people will keep coming back and buying more. I like Old Navy tank tops -- they're comfortable, they fit well, and despite being reasonably cheap, they stand up to a vast amount of abuse -- so I don't mind; it ( 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... )

First, the strip:

With Friends Like These... #45: Magpie Mythologies.Second, the footnotes ( Read more... )