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Yesterday in the mail we got a note from the USPS, saying they'd tried to deliver a parcel but couldn't, since we weren't home.
Yeah, I've been a slacker lately. (Can't imagine why. ;))
I have a sketchy habit: looking through people's Facebook pictures. I suspect I'm not alone. ;) (Disclaimer: I am not a stalker.)
So, the left hem on my new dress pants decided to come down a few days ago. I guess it just couldn't hold on any longer, poor thing. Since the trailing hem was getting in the way of things, and since I'm not exactly adept with sewing needles, ...
I know it's a little early for New Year's resolutions, but I've already decided on one of them: in January I'm going to go classical. I'm only going to listen to classical music, and I'm leaning towards only reading books written before 1900 as well.
Why? Just because. :) ...
Indulge me in a little bit of arcane geekery here. When writing emails, I used to interleave my responses with the original email, like this (this is made up and not a privacy breach of any existing email conversation, FYI) (this is also a rather pathetically lame example; I ...
I try not to get grossed out when guys walk straight out of the bathroom without washing their hands, but it's hard. It's not like I'm OCD about germs or anything -- two years in Thailand cured me of any tendencies I might have had in that direction -- ...
As I've been slowing getting back to inbox zero, a remembrance of things past has shimmered up to the surface: I love long letters. When I was younger -- in my heyday, if I can call it that :P -- I had tons of pen pals and would write ...
I am a chameleon. When I chat with people online, and to a lesser degree when I text them, I find myself mimicking their capitalization and punctuation. If they don't capitalize at all, neither do I. If they do, I do. If they don't end their ...
Monday night for FHE we made flamethrower pumpkins, and I decided to film it with my Flip Mino:
I'd forgotten how fun it is both to film (I love how cinematography is photography in ...
