Still 'home' sick. If I don't see an evergreen tree or a real honest-to-goodness lake soon, (not one lined with palm trees), then I'm about to go crazy!

How to make a peanut-butter and pickle sandwich ( Read more... )

I'm listening to the MSI mix cd I made for Josh when we first met, and had nearly forgotten how much they rock. The first track is a recording of the clip that used to be the intro to their website, wasn't on any cd that I knew of but I think that 30 second track is one of my favorites. Now I'm listening to a remix of "Bring the Pain" that isn't ( Read more... )

I'm reading about html, and they recommend certain ways of writing it as more "future proof", more likely to work with changes that will happen in the way that the language is read.

I have never heard that term before, "future proof". I want to be future proof.

about to turn off my computer and pack it up. Tomorrow we close our bank accounts here, pick up the U-haul, and pack it up. Then hopefully we can just relax on Christmas before driving away the next day ( Read more... )

Recently Josh and I were talking to my sister about the TSA scanners and the new pat-down procedures. At first she was like "I don't care" when we told her they sometimes save the naked pictures, and that the pat-downs amount to sexual harassment. Then we brought up the case of the 3-year old girl who was traumatized by the pat-down she had to go ( Read more... )

This pumpkin bread is so delicious that it reminded me to thank God for all the good stuff in my life right now ( Read more... )

In reading about nutrition recently, I have noticed that the FDA reccomends
5 to 9 servings per day of fruits and vegetables.If you search on My Pyramid.gov you'll find the same document I found about fruits and veggies. I think it's pretty confusing to think about how you would actually eat that much of anything in a day, and how they decide ( Read more... )

I almost took a job as a drawing teacher, despite the fact that it would only pay me enough each month for a movie/dinner date with Josh. I don't really agree with some of their pedagogy either, but I was interested in getting the trainings they offer ( Read more... )

I stumbled across scans of a HS yearbook from 1949, it is the most hilarious/cool thing I've ever seen.

Index of pages: here

The first page I saw features nicknames like "Lefty", "Fritz", and "Timber". All through the book are scatterings of neat last names that scream "My parents immigrated from Europe", like "Butrymowicz" and "Evaskatis". ( Read more... )