I've always been a bookstore junkie. I spend a large part of my paycheck at Tattered Cover, Used to hang out at Stone Lion books (since closed), met Jim in a Border (after going to the Barnes and Noble across the street) and have an Amazon wish list larger than most peoples collection.

I've always loved bookstores, but for me the first was ( Read more... )

I put up my tree today... it's beautiful.

Except that I hate the topper. A topper should be glorious, this one just lacks OOMPH. A mesh star with a few rhinestones and some embroidery is anticlimatic on a tree covered in sparkles and jewels.

Amusingly, the tree topper pisses me off more than my crunchy foot.

The other night I was going about my buisiness and I suddenly fely/heard a crunchy grinding in my foot. I'm pretty sure I didn't drop anything on it, as proven my the fact that it's still frog-belly white rather than technicolor, but it is swollen around the top of the arch where the pain is. I have NO idea what I've done.

I was thinking about how video games can actually teach skills, and how, once turned into a competition, almost ANY endeavor becomes infinately more interesting. And I was thinking about ways to use this for good, not evil.

So. What if one could take one of those latex models of some pornstars undercarriage and create a videogame out of stimulating ( Read more... )

OK, I know you expect sex toys when I post about toys, but this may be even hotter.

7 quart 1000 watt Cuisinart mixer. No more smoking hand mixer when I make bulk dough.


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Jim's office holiday party is coming up in a few weeks, and I may actually get the evening off. (If I don't a friend will be going with him). So... I went to my closet in hopes of finding something to wear and discovered that my beaded coctail dress still fits. I have shoes to match, earrings, and a braclet. No necklace, it's extremelt low cut and ( Read more... )

I'm one of the top servers at my job right now, so I usually bring home decent money. Tonight I didn't because our banquet coordinator booked a party of 40 and put 3 servers on it. Two would have been plenty, and one could have done it at a dead run. We each made $38 in tip for tonight, I was there for 6 hours ( Read more... )

Jim and I have been together since April 19th of 2003. We've lived together (officially or not) for almost all of that time. We've been enganged for almost 3 years, and half the time we refer to each other as 'my husband' or 'my wife'. Some of our friends and most of our casual aquaintances assume we've actually gotten married at some point.

We ( Read more... )

Waiting tables can be fun if you go in with the mindset that it's all performance art.

Today I took a womans order, she asked for corn as her side dish. When I brought out the food it went like this:

HER: I wanted the corn on the cob!
ME: I'm sorry, we only have the cut corn, can I get you a different side dish instead?
HER: You used to have corn on ( Read more... )

One of the joys of living in an apartment is the connection you feel with the people who live around you. This morning I got to listen to my neighbors connect in the bedroom above me via a squeaky, creaky bed. Iy happens mostly on weekends, usually late at night and early in the morning, and is loud enough to wake me. Last night at 2am and this ( Read more... )