This is my lampshade and a curtain.

I think it is pretty cool.

"Lawn Furniture for Literalists"

Oh my word! Build your own lawn furniture?
I think I need to buy a home right now so that I can do this!

How has ReadyMade Magazine eluded me for for so long?

Oooh! Neato Nerdy Stuff!

UNT's CyberCemetery keeps dead federal agency websites alive
by Catherine Cuellar, KERA 90.1 Reporter

or skip it and just go here.

My sister is pregnant. I know, I've told you - but I am so excited. Recently she had what she referred to as "another baby growth spurt."



Wow. She's not due until the end of March.

As a comparison, here she is in October 2006.

I feel the semester creepin' in

MWF - 9-10am Individual Learning Styles
TTh - 9:30-11am Chaucer
(Enough time to finish all of my homework?)
3:30-5pm Contemporary Short Fiction

This is it. I am entering my final semester at UT. Holyfuckingshit!
I haven't quite wrapped my mind around it yet, I probably won't until I have to get a job. I know it is going to fly by. With only 3 classes it shouldn't be too hard to bust ass and do well.

Yikes!

And when he gets an 'F' in Army:

There is a Center for Puppetry Arts? Someone please remind me to go to Atlanta!

Rudolph and Santa, as Good as New
By BRENDA GOODMAN
Published: December 23, 2006

Slow Saturday

I loveGoogle's sence of humor.

It's Edvard Munch's Birthday.

Eau de The Q

Mr. A took this photo with his new camera Friday night. He says this captures my essence.
Kids, I'm a drinker.
He showed it to my dad last night and told him the same. My dad said, "Yeah, it runs in the family."

We were at Star Seeds, I normally love it, in spite of the predictably bad service. Friday it was worse than usually and I was really disappointed. Actually, I was very angry about it. I think that is the only part of my "essence" this photo lacks. How seriously pissed I was. The girl is lucky Casey paid.

Good beer (New Belgium Sunshine Wheat Beer and Pyramid Apricot)
+ Punk Rock (good with lots of beer)
+ Lots of of people
+ fireworks
+ cops

=

bitchen' party at The Metropolis - Yay!

Not doing homework yet today

Things for me to look for at Half-Price Books:

Gray Horses

by Hope Larson

Black Hole

by Charles Burns

MONTHS ago Madge posted about Fingertips, and how wonderful it is. I book marked it and continued my life. Today I explored - actually I didn't spiffy my last post yet because I was finding music. Thank you Madge; Fingertips is glorious!

So the problem with a blog?
=
Something happened last night that I would write about right now because it made my heart melt so that it resembled caramel sauce, but my man and I now have this lack of online anonymity, and it's weird to think of him reading my writing where I gush to the whole world like I would my best friend (who I need to call to tell this to).


This is all I want to talk about today.

*gush, gush, gush*

I have an incredible boyfriend, who makes everyday a good one. I am still always excited to see him and his presence makes me giddy. My family and friends like him and constantly tell me how good he is, and comment on his sweet nature when he and I interact. They can tell he loves me. I am so lucky.


(All of that hair you see on me is no more!! I look much more like this. But shorter, and with long bangs. So not the same at all.)

"She counted the umbrellas. There were twelve."

(Thank you, Madge. You're my favorite Librarian right now!)

For no reason at all, I found myself wondering about the hitory of umbrellas a few minutes ago. There was no rain, and no one carrying one as a parasol, I just thought of how ingeneous they are, and wanted to know who deserves all of the credit. As usual, the Chinese are to thank. As long as 2,400 years ago they were reaping the benefits of an umbrella's lofty canopy. Lucky.

I love Wikipedia, so go check out their entry to fins out more like:
The Umbrella in Antiquity!
The Unbrella in Church!
The Umbrella as a Weapon!

And more exciting events in the umbrella's life.

Casey sent me this saying he thought I'd like it. I do, but it also makes me kind of sad.

Borrowing from Madge who has 'taken' from Kate:
Done
Want to do

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said I love you and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk.
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe.
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an expert
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one important author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

He says something like, "If God is love, and love is blind, then how can God see us kneeling before him in prayer?"

Last night I decided I didn't care if I felt bad. I was going to work out anyway. After all, I've been avoiding exerting myself for over a week thinking I was about to get sick - trying to stop it. Well, that worked.

So I did yoga, I jumped rope for 5 minutes, and then Emma and I went for a brisk walk for a half hour. I felt really good afterwards. I did some laundry and got to go to bed on clean sheets.

Today has been uneventful. I am back on meds, and that 'brightened' my day. It also gave me a headache.

As I got onto the bus for my 2 o'clock class I grabbed a book that has been lurking behind the seat of my truck. It was a $5.oo book at Intellectual Property back at the beginning of the semester when it first opened it's doors. Since 2pm I've read 192 pages. It's a book that mainly addresses the struggle of spirituality. I love books that address spirituality, as I feel I often lack it. Here is a little passage that caught my attention, from Page 83:

"Tell me," you continue in a gentler, more earnest tone. "Do you
believe that a fledgling Buddhist, someone who likes kids and does volunteer
work every Sunday evening and meditates pretty much every day - for the sake of argument we'll call meditation 'prayer' - so he prays every day- he's a
truth seeker- someone who aspires to a life filled with love and patience and
who tries to conduct himself by a moral code that's fairly Christian in
nature - will that person, despite his pursuit of those goals, be condemned to
hell solely because he doesn't believe that Christ is God?"

"Any person who truly loves will go to heaven."

"Who then goes to hell?"

"Someone who imposes hell on himself. Someone who says that he wants
to have no part of God, no part of love, no part of joy. It's all about the
disposition of the heart, Carter. God is, quite literally, love."

ROCK OUT

I came across this on Flickr. Adjust it so that the slideshow speed is 1 second. It's like a photo flip book. Yay!

Adopt a Microbe

Why Adopt a Microbe? They're so cute and cuddly! I brought E. Coli home from work with me.