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Strange Self-Portraits: Week 6 of 2012 in photos
This week I seemed to take a few random self-portraits that kind of capture what I was doing better than anything else. So here we go! 2/6 On Monday I got my hair done, and this was one of my retouching-highlights appointments so I had lots of foil on my head. I kept wondering if…
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I broke the grocery store.
For years my mother has teased me (in a good-natured manner) about having a metal plate in my head. This is because a seemingly large portion of the time electronics (especially cash registers) are, well, screwy around me. Screwy? Yes. They freeze, they jam, they just don’t work and no one knows why. I also tend…
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Bookshelf Shopping: Take 1
Actual Conversation I just had with Furniture Store Employee: I went into a few furniture stores today to look at bookshelves. I’ve reached the point where I can no longer squeeze all of my books onto the shelves that survived the move– two broke, and I gave away enough books at the time to be…
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Revisiting Childhood: The Valentine Ritual
Just a little memory I had tonight… When I was little, my grandparents came to visit us quite often. Thinking back on it, they were probably at our home every other month. It certainly felt like that, anyway. Because of this, they would always come visit for Christmas, and then be back sometime around February.…
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The places my feet take me: Week 4 of 2012 in photos
I did a lot of walking in the past week and had many encounters with wildlife, some nice and some not so nice. Here are the photos that document my week. 1/23/2012 Last Monday was the start of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar. This was the first year since moving here…
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Cleanest toaster oven EVER: revisited
So, if you’ve been reading my blog a while, you probably remember the Lizard Sandwich episode. If not, well… Here. Go read. So tonight I reheated some leftovers, went into the den to watch “Once Upon a Time,” and then when the show was over I came back into the kitchen with my plate… to…
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Week 3 of 2012 in Photos
I don’t have a clever caption for this week, and the first photo is of my supper on Monday 1/16, but after eating camp food (i.e. hot dogs, etc) all weekend, I was very excited to cook something nice and fresh.
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Sometimes settling in takes a minute
And sometimes settling in takes, oh, almost two and a half years. Today I finally found the last piece I wanted to go in the weird wall space above the stairs. It’s been bothering me ever since we moved into the house in October 2009. During the holidays, it’s all right because I can put…
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Winter Beaches — 2012’s second week in photos
It’s the end of week two of 2012 and I’ve got another week in phone-photos for you. ^_^ The first one (above) is from 1/8/2011 and is the ceiling at the Exchange. The mural is by Wyland, and I realized I’d never taken a photo of it. Now I have.
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Thursday Treat: Cupcakes!
Today was a long day, and I decided to treat myself to something sweet at the end of it (and after I’d had supper). Unfortunately, all I had in the house were some box cake mixes that I not only was saving to turn into other things (they make good bases for stuff), but make,…
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