tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82258223103976414862012-02-14T08:43:04.217-07:00Rhiannon Admidashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08767455959590619526noreply@blogger.comBlogger2791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225822310397641486.post-55213011485607925792012-02-07T12:42:00.005-07:002012-02-07T13:34:14.584-07:00

On Sunday Kiah and I had our friends over for a Super Bowl party. We had so much food and so many great friends in and out of the house all night. Besides the extremely awesome Dance Central showdown after the game, my favorite part of the day was this baked potato soup I adapted from Skinny Taste. I will not eat a potato soup from a can or a restaurant, but this homemade stuff was so good.

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I was never a big Archie reader until I moved in with Kiah. He likes to keep a few issues on hand in the bathroom. They're perfect toilet reads: short, light, and fun. What's really interesting is that some of the new issues have been controversial. With story lines about gay teen Kevin Keller and even a storyline where Archie dates black Pussycat Valerie, things in Riverdale have gotten

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Yesterday I finished reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson for the second time. I love this book. I wouldn't want to say it was my favorite, because I have loved a lot of books, but this one is special.The story is about two sisters, an invalid uncle and a cat who are living a very secluded, scheduled life several years after the oldest sister, Constance, is acquitted of

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I wrote a story. I don't love it but this is actually the second piece I've written this month which is more than I've done in about a year or so. Feels good. Anyway, I think it deserves the song that inspired it, so it's there at the bottom.It was late May and finally turning to Summer and all the mud from the snow that melted in Spring was finally drying up. I was seventeen and school was out

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Sorry for the lack of posts! December 31-January 1 were spent as best as you can imagine. I wore a glittery crop top and woke up crying. Happy New Year! On the 3rd, Kiah and I flew down to Colorado to visit my family. We just got home four days ago and I've been busy cleaning up the house and getting things back in order.In the background of all this celebration and traveling, I decided to apply

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I could sum up this year with anecdotes and images and my hopes for next year, but today for the first time all winter there's a thick layer of snow on the ground. It took me three hours to get out of bed, and of all the people in the house right now, I'm the only one who's awake, and only barely. We got to have summer extended all the way to Christmas, and now it's winter, and now I feel that

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It's Christmas and we've been doing nothing but being hideously lazy and watching Christmas movies and drinking and eating. Here are our first annual Christmas Eve pizzas! I used this recipe for the dough.Christmas Eve pizza has been a tradition in my family since I was very little. My mom came up with the idea because apparently having two children on Christmas Eve can be a little stressful. To

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Cosmetics companies will sometimes create special edition product lines that center around a certain series or character, for example Tarte's True Blood line and MAC's Wonder Woman line. Or, sometimes a brand-specific line will spring up that centers around a character, like Hello Kitty at Sephora. The products in these lines will be based entirely around their theme, from the color palette to

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I made a joke yesterday about starting my own YouTube show about asinine things like movie trailers and food reviews. I'm trying to avoid writing to some old professors to ask them for recommendations, so of course I've started said YouTube show. Enjoy!

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First order of business, I quit my job! I'm going back to school! I promise not to neglect this blog anymore!Second order of business, Chrimbo! Kiah and I got way into Christmas way too early. Neither of us is religious, but we both love themes and holidays and celebration. We set up our tree before Thanksgiving and have spent the last week making decorations for our first ever Ludachristmas

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If I were the subject of a documentary it would be about how I work 40+ (this week was about 53) hours a week for a globally renowned company and it's completely and utterly devastating my home and social life. I don't want to say I hate my job, but I hate how little time I have to do all the things I love doing, including posting to this blog.I can't tell if I'm just being whiny or if it's

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I started a new job in late October and the first two weeks of training were terrible and awful and I just sat around reading about monkeys and drawing pictures of my outfits. I feel like there's probably some really personal information or some top secret internal stuff scrawled on one of these drawings but I don't care enough so I'm going to post them anyway.

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A lot of people think it's rude and gross to share what you've received as gifts. I don't care about that at all. I love seeing people's Christmas and Hanukkah presents. Maybe it's not very humble but whatever. We're all on the internet divulging too much information about ourselves anyway, why on Earth do we need to pretend to be humble? Anyway, here is what my awesome family and friends have

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Today is my birthday, so I thought I'd share my favorite birthday jam with my readers. Happy birthday me!

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Halloween is over! And I couldn't be happier. Between getting my costume together, decorating our house and my friend Mike's house (which can be seen in the background), and Kiah's shenanigans and near-constant horror movie watching, I'm done. I'm over it. Thankfully it only happens once a year.I was a lion tamer with see-through pants (they were a lot more substantial without the flash of a

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These are the silhouette's Kiah made a few weeks ago all lit up. We bought a whole bolt of muslin and he went to town for a couple of days painting these. Totally worth the $50 of fabric. Our house looks awesome! They've all been up for a couple of weeks but, for whatever reason, tonight was the first night I saw them on full display. We totally have the best and scariest house in the

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Last Friday was my last day working at the Chinese restaurant. I came home from work and took off the near decade old Converse I'd been wearing as work shoes and realized it was probably the last time I'd ever take them off. Restaurant jobs are tough on shoes; they get stinky, worn out, and worst of all, caked in food, scum and kitchen grease. There was no saving them. The Chucks I bought when I

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It's not even 2012 and the DNC has already pushed me over the edge. E-mail should be used to send nice messages and important documents and invitations to parties, not to beg for money!

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My friend Mike and I are throwing a pretty elaborate, probably out-of-our-league Halloween party and decided to be fancy and make invitations. These are the ones I made. I am so sick of crafting!!! These really sucked the life out of me for some reason. I think I just need a night off with a book and I'll be ready for more.My favorites are the lagoon creature (green and blue, furthest left on the

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I'm the kind of person who loves a good theme and October is the perfect month me and others like me. All of my projects this month are focused on Halloween costumes, I'll be doing a Halloween-themed guest post on another blog, I'm Halloween party planning with my friends, and my stack of books to read this month is nothing but spooky.For book club we decided to read something scary so we picked

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Last night I began reading The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle and I got a little verklempt by how beautiful the writing was. I grew up loving the film version of the book but had never read it, and now the movie seems so vulgar and clumsy compared to the novel even though Beagle himself wrote the screenplay. I can't imagine any adaptation ever capturing just how gorgeous the world Beagle creates

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I've gotten way into paper crafts lately! Aside from the things here, I'm working on another garland and have ideas for more. I can't wait until Christmas, my house is going to be insane.My friends and I had a potluck birthday party last week and I thought it would be nice to make the birthday girl a bunting. Be warned: If we are friends and there's a birthday party for you, you will be getting a

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I am woefully unphotogenic so this is the only photo of the Ren Fest that I'll be posting here because, well, it makes my case. Despite my inability to look human in a photograph, we had a great time shopping, eating, people watching, everything. I'm sad to have missed the jousting but we got there late and then had about 8 people in our group plus meetups with others and a lot of the day was

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Our trip to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival was excellent and I am so itchy to start sharing my Halloween themed crafts here, but I am pressed for time since we got in late last night and then of course I have to go to work this morning, but I wanted to quickly post what I made for Tanie for our Sailor Moon swap since she finally got my end of the deal.Here's everything: a Luna necklace, some

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On Tuesday I tried to do a photo an hour to document my day, but I did it with my phone and I had to work at one point and I kept forgetting so it didn't turn out very well, but I took the time to do it so I'm going to post it anyway. I think I'll try again for real with a real camera on Friday when we go to Minneapolis for the Ren Fest.Rolled out of bed around 10 and decided not to take a

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Last night we had a book club meeting and then decided to have a million and one cocktails because the next day would be Labor Day (today) which is generally considered by all Americans to be the end of summer. It turned into a fun hat dance party in my living room (see above), the perfect way to close out Summer 2011: the summer I finally got to be married, the summer I moved back to Grand Forks

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A few years ago a girl I had recently met from Portland said something about how great the second hand shopping in North Dakota was. I couldn't even find the words to tell her how dead ass wrong she was and I still can't. I miss my family, my friends, the mountains, etc., but I miss the second hand shopping probably a lot more. Which is bad, but it was so good in Colorado. Anyway, since we've got

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Last month I cast a little bait on Craftster.org to see if anyone was willing to participate in a Sailor Moon themed craft swap. Craftsterers are notoriously geeky, (I've done Pokemon, Wes Anderson and Adult Swim themed swaps in the past) plus with the re-release of the manga coming up I thought it was the perfect ruse to get someone to make me moonie presents, but very few people were biting. So

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I'm being very bad about stories! I found an old one and will mess it up a little. That counts! Editing is an integral part of the writing process. We courted one Spring when we were young, very young. It was hard, very hard and rough. I'm still too unsure to call it love. We fought often and she cried often and it was hard, very hard, so I left. So I left. I still see her, here and there,

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Last night I came home from work and my house was full of people and beers and Kiah was running around being demanding. Apparently in the 4 hours I was out of the house he managed to get inebriated, write a script, build props and enlist all of our friends to make a movie. He got it all edited and put together today in addition to scrubbing our house of fake blood and convincing the Grand Forks

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I have the awesome skill of being able to pick up all sorts of art and craft projects and somehow make them work. That's totally a brag, but it's true. I have the most fundamental sewing skills and one Halloween, the day of Halloween, I made a whole entire Sailor Moon costume with a v-neck t-shirt and a yard of blue ponte. I'm amazing at pulling projects out of my ass, but the thing I've tried

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The last couple weeks have been a bit crazy. First, I finally got a job! It's not that exciting, actually. It's just a serving job, but it's something, and I do like coming home every day with a big wad of money in my pocket. Second, some of our friends were in a bit of a housing pickle, so we invited them to stay over until they found a new place to live. Our guests also brought along their pets

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My first wife, Beth, is a simple woman. She is calm, frugal and gentle. My second wife, Mimi, is a bit more spirited. She loves the finer things in life. Our family was growing rapidly when both of my wives became pregnant in August, so I sought a new way to get everyone around town that didn't involve multiple vehicles (Beth does not drive). After a few weeks of searching I found the perfect

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I know this sounds crazy, especially considering where I live, but I'm over summer. I miss my sweaters and boots and pajamas and all my fluffy blankets and snuggling with my family. I miss using my tea pot and wearing fuzzy socks. I miss hats! If I could live in a perpetual state of autumn, I would. It's the perfect season: crispy and cozy and festive. Plus I get to wear all of my favorite

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Before little Mary Morris was born, Mrs. Morris spent her days with Tate, a fawn colored pug whose ribbon collection rivaled that of own. Tate was, of course, procured first as a fashion accessory, as the animals were so popular among the ladies in her circle, but very quickly Tate worked his way into Mrs. Morris' heart. The two were inseparable, and even shared a bed, until Mrs. Morris finally

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Please note that most of the links in this post are not work safe. There's no nudity or anything scary, but they are definitely rated R. If you're easily offended or are concerned about your boss checking your web history, maybe don't click anything.Last night Kiah asked me, "Did you come up with 'Home is Where You Keep Your Dildo' or is that something you saw somewhere?" I told him I was pretty

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I've posted these before, but I was just going through my old Craftster posts looking for something and came across them. I forgot how much I loved the way these all turned out, and how much I enjoyed making them. I don't hang or do anything with my artwork once it's done, so I let my brother purge my stash and I'm pretty sure he took all of these, so I'll have to make some more. Series 2!From

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A few people in my life have been very lovingly prodding me and telling me I need to write more. And after sighing and grumbling and having 20 excuses as to why I'm not, I agree, "But no, you're right, I do need to write more."So I'm going to try to get back into it with an exercise. Once a week I'm going to write a piece of flash fiction just to keep those cogs turning. Some of them are going to

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This song is more poignant for me than I'd like to admit.I wake up a lot lately with the refrain stuck in my head. I don't know why it's so deeply rooted in my subconscious mind, but I think it has something to do with my brief stint as a gymnast in preschool.Over the weekend I got sucked into this really cute show called Kuragehime (Princess Jellyfish in English) and this is the closing song.

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Yesterday a friend of mine had a cat-related emergency when her tomcat, Leo, was arrested for being a cat-at-large and thrown in jail. After she bailed him out, she asked me if I wanted to go with her to pick out cat leashes and yes, of course I did. I bought a little $4 string number just to see if Harley and Neil would like it or not. I brought Neil out first and he hated it. He was yowling and

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I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so when baking cookies and cupcakes and pies became popular, I was a little resentful. I like to bake, but I hate having baked goods around the house. I'll either get PMSy and binge on them and feel terrible, or they'll go bad and I'll feel terrible. There's no winning.Until now. I made meat cupcakes! Okay, that sounds gross, they're really turkey meatloaf

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Have you seen any of the Penguin Clothbound Classics in stores yet? A few months ago I found Great Expectations and nearly died, it was so beautiful. They're the creation of senior cover designer (Coolest job ever!!) Coralie Bickford-Smith and run about $12-$20 a piece, depending where you buy. I'm really, really happy I already have copies of the books I would buy because I hate buying books new

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There's been some rabble about the Beyonce song "Run the World" and I've decided it's entirely up to me to rebut. First there was a YouTube video, then a Jezebel post, and while both of these bloggers bring up valid points and are merely using the song and music video as a jumping-off place to bring up larger points, which do matter, I think it's a bummer that it has to happen at the expense of

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Nothing makes me feel more patriotic or American than Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. It's pretty idealistic and breathy and vast and it's irritating that he kept changing it all the time, but if you think about it, that's America. Tomorrow I'm going to a barbecue at a friend's home to celebrate with beers and fireworks and soul pleasing, but for today, in honor of my nation's 235th year of

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I've been on the internet since elementary school, which was a long time ago. I remember dial-up AOL Kids Only and even before that I remember this strange text-based thing called The World Wide Web that I wasn't interested in, I just wanted to listen to my Lion King CD and do hoodrat stuff with my friends (build forts, collect sticks). Being connected and interactive with the internet for well

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Everything! I am doing almost all of the things!I've been meaning to make some bunting for a while now and finally got around to it this week. These seem pretty popular with everyone lately, but I'm chalking my inspiration up to Tanie, who is the OG of bunting as far as I'm concerned. I like the way they turned out and hung them both in the dining room above doorways (you can see our cavernous

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Beyonce vs. Mohammed Rafi from Rhiannon on Vimeo.A few months ago it dawned on me that "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" by Mohammed Rafi would be amazing over the "Single Ladies" video. I've never used any video editing software, though, so this revelation just sat in my brain for a while. Yesterday I synced up the video and the song on YouTube and showed my husband. He does know how to use video editing

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I've been cooking a lot of really awesome stuff lately! Yesterday I had three solid, home-cooked meals, including this really yummy two egg open omelet. I also made an amazing potato salad the other day, and I've been getting jazzy with sandwiches again, too. This morning I just had a quick bowl of cereal, bleh, so I'll do it up for lunch and dinner.A few years ago I bought a weird 1970s book

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This is a quote from Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners. It's a short novel about a group of young men from various Caribbean islands living in London in the 1950s. Here is described how Moses, the main character, has been in London for 10 years, has nothing to show for it and is always planning to leave. But there's something about London that keeps him from taking off."Every year he vowing to

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On Sunday night some friends and I got together for the inaugural meeting of The Book Club. Our Book Club. I don't know, it doesn't have a clever name, we just wanted to read a book together. We all made 2 suggestions of something each of us has been meaning to read or absolutely adored in the past and has been aching to read again, threw the suggestions into my bear hat, and drew blindly. The

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Because I eat most of my meals alone lately, I've been reading a collection of poems gathered by Garrison Keillor called Good Poems. I read this one just a few minutes ago over a bowl of Cinnamon Cheerios. It hit me exactly where anything poignant hits you (Heart? Butt?), though I think a few months ago it would have felt more hopeful. I'll read this poem again when my life is different and the

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There's been a fresh, new shine put on housewifery that many young women are super excited about. The shine comes from the innumerable blogs where cute, creative young ladies take photos of their day-to-day projects, their adorable pink babies and their ever-changing, but always perfect households. And people are excited about this because it looks awesome on paper. Basically it looks like you

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I'm way late on the Nicki Minaj train, but I've been playing the ever-loving crap out of this song and "Did It On 'Em" which, if you're at work or near small children, I don't suggest you listen to it right away. It's my new "Bossy."I saw Yelle in Denver a week or two before I left Colorado and they were AMAZING! Easily the best concert I've ever been to. The energy was amazing, the band was fun

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I haven't been on the Internet much, even just to check my Google Reader account (300+ unread posts!), but I'm mostly settled in my new home in North Dakota and I've finally got time to start updating regularly again.During the drive up I kept a list of things I thought would be worth talking about here as a return entry, but I realize now that a lot of it was me just being delirious from the 20

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Today I took my last exams (The feminist structure vs. the patriarchal structure in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and London as a "nightmare world" in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners) and last Thursday I wrote my very last sources cited page and this morning I noticed how second nature quoting sources in papers has become and as of right this very minute I am no longer an English

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My goals for this blog never included any sort of a political slant, and in fact I generally shy away from political discussions in my everyday life. I just do not feel comfortable wearing my politics on my sleeve. I think politics are dirty and volatile and I’m more likely to talk to strangers about sex than I am to talk about how and why I voted last term. One thing I have no problem with

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I finally finished my commissions. Something about the coloring of these dogs made it really hard to paint them. I think they turned out okay but I really need to work on sketching some animals in the coming months.My sister made this in art class and gave it to me! She said when she started out she wanted it to be Gir (she's 14), but it didn't work out and so she made it into a bathtub. I can't

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It's been a very busy week, and this month is going to stay busy, so probably not a lot of updates until June.My last week of regular classes as an undergraduate student is this week and this weekend I'm going out of town, then next week is exams and my husband and lots of friends are coming to town to help me celebrate graduating. After that, I'm moving back up to North Dakota.I'd like to get a

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I just read this post on Geek Girl on the Street where the writer, Sarah Elliott, discusses never seeing Star Wars and finally sitting down to watch the three films. Until last January, I too was a member of this strange group of people who have somehow grown up managing to never sit through any of the three original movies.The main reason I never got around to seeing them wasn't because I was

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There's been a lot of genuinely bizarre Lady Gaga news lately (as opposed to the contrived bizarre that is her usual schtick) and it's perfect timing as I just started watching Hyperdrive on Netflix Instant and it seems one of her stylists may be of Queppu descent.Shame she didn't wear the hat.I'm really excited for it to be 10 years in the future so an older, wiser, stable, rehabbed Lady Gaga (

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This is from a movie called Junkers Come Here that I've been meaning to watch. I thought of it because the picture I use for my Google profile is a picture of the Miniature Schnauzer, Junkers.I miss Snuggles. She didn't fly or talk or grant wishes or anything but she was still really great.

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I woke up this morning with this song in my head for some reason. (I guess it's better than Wang Chung which has been in my head for weeks.) The first cognitive function of my brain was this joke. I wasn't going to draw it, but I don't feel like going to the library or watching anything, plus I haven't made a legit cartoon in a while so I figured why not. The hooker munchkin was the funnest to

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I've haven't had a lot of energy or positivity lately, but I woke up pretty cheery this morning. Natural cheer plus a huge cup of coffee and a really encouraging e-mail from a professor and I'm pretty much back to feeling like myself. So I got started on a commission for one of my favorite ladies. I'm not sure how I feel about it and might try again, but it's not bad. I just don't know if it

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Painting by Andrew WyethOnce I read a blurb in a fashion magazine that said sleeping in the nude was good for you. It's comfortable, allows your skin to breath and totally rest, and supposedly it's good for your self-esteem. I believe everything I read in fashion magazines so I immediately adopted sleeping naked as a fairly regular practice. It's finally been warm enough to go to bed without

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The Manic Pixie Dream Boy is a close relative of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. He is quirky, brash, a little reckless, and his ideas about romance are unconventional. The MPDB will never buy you flowers or chocolates. A romantic evening for him is fun and exciting and climaxes with a kiss on the top of a roller coaster or in the middle of a game of laser tag.The MPDB doesn't take anything very

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Like I said, I made a few skirts last weekend and then wore them all this week because I was so excited with my fake sewing skills. Here they are in action. I apologize for looking like I do, I'm horribly unphotogenic and it's been really windy here. I also got to include some "detail" shots because I'm an idiot and I forgot to turn on the timer and got a dumb picture of me leaning over the

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(Sailor Moon image found thanks to the amazing ladies and dudes at SailorMoonFans on LiveJournal.)Two things I loved when I was a preteen and never really grew out of are Sailor Moon and the Spice Girls. I can still tell you almost anything about any senshi (Yeah, I even say "senshi" instead of "scout." My SM knowledge is even pretentious.) and draw all of them straight from memory, I still know

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I always love when people do What's In My Bag? blog posts. I don't know why it's so interesting to look at all the bullshit that other people tote around on a regular basis, but it is, and I'm not the only person that thinks so. Google it. People everywhere are fascinated by the crap in other people's bags. There are blogs, thousands of YouTube videos, and a Flickr pool dedicated to the practice

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I'm a member of an internet girl's club and lately everyone's been obsessed with manicures, not to mention my little sister does her nails weekly. I resisted getting into it for so long because it's time consuming and kind of spendy, but early last month I finally broke down and bought some new polishes. I may never be able to shop again without wanting a new color. Unfortunately my personal

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I saw this awesome Krisatomic illustration the other day and it really moved me because I, too, suffer from Chronic Bitch Face. The other night I was talking with a friend about how I've had a difficult time making friends, something she herself has been going through. She pointed out that her not making friends was strange because she's charming and approachable, but it made sense that I had no

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When I wrote my post earlier today I was reminded of two poems I read last year. I didn't post them right away because I couldn't find the book and was afraid I'd packed it away, but I just found it on my shelf (who knew?) so I thought I'd share.They are both collected in A Book of Luminous Things: A Collection of International Poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz. It's a really, really beautiful,

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Last night I returned from two very busy and extremely short weeks in North Dakota with my husband. I didn't take any pictures of our new house or the bruises I got or the massive amounts of empty beer bottles that filled our kitchen after St. Patrick's Day, but you'll be seeing plenty of that in a few months. For now I just want to share a bit about the town I'll be living in. Again.Grand Forks,

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Something I've been thinking about lately are Jake Ryans. A Jake Ryan is a completely unattainable crush. He's the cutest boy you've ever laid eyes on, the coolest girl you've ever known, and they either have no idea you exist or just don't really care that you do. Everyone has a Jake Ryan in their past or lurking around their high school, and years later, when you're not even really sure what

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It's March now and I'm already complaining about the lack of good new music in 2011. A lot of anticipated stuff has been released but a lot of it also has not been up my alley. For the most part I've just been listening to Beyonce and The Gaslight Anthem lately. Nothing is really doing it for me, but here is some new or newish or new-to-me stuff that I have been enjoying.Can someone please take a

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Today is International Women's Day, a day to celebrate women. Any woman. Your mom, your friend, your sister, your teacher, your boss, you girlfriend, your wife, your cousin, the gal next to you on the bus. Those are all women, and this is their day.Here are three women that I would like to celebrate today: Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Lohan and Beyoncé Knowles.

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I finally finished my Snuggles portrait! I like the way it turned out, even if she looks a little super deformed. She kind of acted super deformed so I think it's suitable that her portrait reflects that. I'm going to give this to my parents as a going-away present.Ahaha doesn't this look kind of revolting? WELL IT WAS DELICIOUS. I just ate breakfast and I'm salivating thinking about having it

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I went to bed last night feeling a little sour and woke up feeling even worse. The weather this morning was not helping. We get a really wacky spring time here due to the mountains and it snows a lot. It's not very cold and the snow never sticks around for more than a day, but it's pretty crummy anyway. I refused to be bummed out, though, and decided to get out of the house for a little while. I

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I am crazy about To Do lists and I make about 10 a week, but for the first time ever I made a huge one just for the entire month of February to keep myself busy. When I originally posted it there were less items but as the month went on I managed to add about a billion more things, even some things a second time but, I assure you, they were completely separate tasks. Of 41 items I didn't do the

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It's just about March and I'm getting real itchy for warm weather and sunshine and my usual 3 months of "So I'm Smoking Again. Whatever." Spring time also means spring fashion and Fashion Week and that time of year when I decide I need 100 new articles of clothing because I'm revamping my Image. I do this every single year and by June I'm always just too sweaty and drunk to care, but it's still

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1It was a long time ago when Crab and I were young and we were all together. We were small and then big and things were the same as when we were small until the time when we were big, and I liked it. But things changed.I remember the first one and how small it felt, but how big it feels now. It was late afternoon and we were alone all day. Our man and woman left early, like they always did,

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I know it's only been a month since Snuggles passed but our house was just so weird without a dog. I complained about it every day and a couple weeks ago my stepmom bought this little dog from some guy on the side of the road. It's not my dog but she's pretty neat when she's not being a puppy terror. Her name is Hiccup.I finished reading Maurice by E.M. Forster last week and The Martian

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The Great Scone Experiment was a success! And I had a chocolate chip scone for dinner. Because I'm a terrible cook I deviated from the recipe a little; mini chocolate chips instead of raisins, a bit more sugar than was suggested and I didn't have any sour cream so I used some vanilla yogurt, but it turned out yummy! Not too sweet. If you're scone-curious, try the recipe I used. I am a good cook

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Sometimes when I'm painting or writing I will get into this really strange manic state and start shaking and sweating and grinding my teeth. Usually when this happens, whatever I'm doing turns out really great. It doesn't happen a lot but when it does I'm always like :DA few days ago a friend of mine asked me to paint her dog, Gunner, who had a swimming accident and passed away. I always

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In honor of my finding these awesome Arthur Singer prints the other day at a thrift store I thought I'd show you all what an art collector (ha. ha.) I've become in the last year. This is exciting to me because it feels like I've officially not hanging posters and shit I've ripped out of magazines on my walls with thumb tacks. Now I'm legit. I'm an adult. My art is in frames. I'm also kind of

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A few days after Snuggles died I decided to paint her. I haven't gotten around to it in a couple weeks but here is the sketch. I showed it to my stepmom when we were drunk and she cried. To cheer her up I played some Enrique Iglesias and then got dance fever. Nobody would dance with me, though, so I fell down the stairs. That was about two weeks ago and my butt is still really sore.Every single

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Today my oldest friend is getting put to sleep.She smelled like corn chips and she loved to snuggle and she always had a beard and a weird noise and her stupid little tiny Schnauzer tail. And I loved her every day even when she pooped in the house or ate my curry when I wasn't looking. I'm going to miss talking to her and seeing her wander around hoovering and looking for snacks to eat and I'm

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New year, new stack of books to read! This is what I've picked out to read (and some already started that I'd like to finish...) in 2011. Not included in the photo is whatever I decide to read that is assigned in my classes.The Time Machine - H.G. WellsThe War of the Worlds - H.G. WellsA Little Princess - Frances Hodgson BurnettDandelion Wine - Ray BradburyThe Martian Chronicles - Ray

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It's the last day of the year again and the third year in a row where my New Years Eve plans involve hanging out with my parents and little sister, not wearing anything sparkly or fun and going to bed before midnight. I don't really mind, though. We finally got some winter weather (Snowww! So nice in theory, so ick in real life.) yesterday so spending a night out seems like it'd be really cold

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I fucking loathe breaks from school. I haven't had anything I really needed to do since the 16th and I'm starting to get really testy and cranky. I guess Christmas happened but whatever. I keep thinking I should go find a job but I'm studying for the GRE (I'm taking it mid-January) and I know if I have to be somewhere making sandwiches every day or serving people steaks I'm not going to come home

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I keep getting pretty bummed/skeezed out by things lately so this week I'm going to be as whimsy as humanly possible and watch quirky/French films and drink a lot of caffeinated things and paint and read classic childrens literature because my brain needs to be reset. Here is my obligatory whimsy shot. It's not great because I'm lazy so I'm not going to take 30 pictures until I get one where I

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...you know, while I should be studying for final exams and what not.. But who cares about that! A few months ago I bought this weird Christian 1960's book about puberty because I'm 24 and I still do not have a very good idea about how menstruation works except that it means I'm not pregnant. This book taught me nothing, literally nothing, that I didn't already vaguely know. I still have no idea

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It's December so I'm making cards again. I will post them all once I get them in the mail, but they are very different than last year. Primary reason being that I'm too content with my life to even pretend to be snarky, so all cards are adorable and sweet and lovely this year because that's how I feel.I wanted to show some things I've added to my collection of odd shit. The tiger I bought at a

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Has it really been 2 months? I'm sorry!This semester is killing me. This whole year, academically, has been rough, but 18 credit hours in nothing but literature and writing classes wasn't exactly the best idea I've ever had. One more week, then a probably not very fun week of exams, and then I'm on to a very cakey (12 credit hours! I can't even imagine!) final semester as an undergrad.I am

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Today is my mother's birthday. She would have been 50 years old today. That number makes her death feel remarkably unfair, but today isn't about feeling sad. On her birthday, I like to do something to celebrate and remember her, something that usually involves baking. You'll see why.My mom was and will always be the coolest, smartest lady I know. She taught me many things. Like most moms, she was

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Growing up, my best friend's dad, Mr. Martin, was kind of a huge nerd. You wouldn't peg him for it, he was a very gentle, soft spoken man, called all his daughters and even me "mija", worked hard all day and he would come home and watch movies. He loved horror movies, science fiction, classic black and whites, and rummaging through his tape collection and rental selections slumber party after

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From time to time, when I get bored, I like to troll chat rooms on porn sites. It's really childish but it's also really funny. These are some gems from 2008. I'm applesweet or tinypinktaco.[20:08] []~Spanks~[]~Male: Hey Sexy ;] Hows you? Wanna have some fun?[20:08] applesweet: yeah i wanna ur butthole[20:10] []~Spanks~[]~Male: asl?[20:10] applesweet: 12/f/fwb florida[20:10] applesweet: oo[ps i

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Ahhh I've been wanting to make this post for like an eon. I did a Pokemon themed swap on Craftster.org and this is the stuff I made! I couldn't post it sooner because I didn't want to spoil my partner's surprise, but she got her package today so I can show youuuu what I made. I embroidered a Pokeball and attempted to make an iron-on patch situation, I made a little book with a Cyndaquil on it,

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When I was very young, 6 or 7, I had a friend who lived a few houses down. Her name was Savannah. We lived on a military installation; all the streets were named after dead men. We lived on Blessinger Drive.I liked her, she had good toys and a swing set in her backyard, but I remember she wasn't one of my best friends. We just played together sometimes. I think the reason was that she was younger

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I used to be in a relationship with someone that sucked so much, whenever he actually managed to put his ego aside for five minutes to apologize for anything it was such a monumental event that I would write it down in my planner.For the first time in my life I've managed to build a kind of happiness that doesn't hinge on other people. I'm not concerned about spending weekends alone or having

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