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vegan. teacher. opinionated. loves books, shoes, hanson, ‘the amazing race’, the 80s, ‘waiting for guffman’, mid-afternoon naps, musicals and breakfast cereal. four cats. one redhead. hi.

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I don’t think I can say it enough. I love Ikea. With the exception of about three things, our entire house is has been furnished by the good company of Sweden. Some of my favorite new purchases include this lamp and these chairs. In red, of course.

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I bought this book: Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional by Simon Collison with a gift card over the summer. It’s fantastic! I am a complete novice with this sort of thing, but I’m learning quickly thanks to this book. Thanks to Collison, I’ll never forget to top center my background image again.

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If you like playing with color and color palettes, you’ll love this site - Colour Lovers. I’m playing with a blog redesign right now and it’s the perfect place to create a palette. Fun!

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My friend Chel’s Gus and Stuff website and blog. “It’s all about being creative.”

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Watch Penn Jillette share his thoughts on topics from Garth Brooks to atheism to freedom fighting princesses. Excellent stuff, here.

From the entry 'Resolutions for 2010', Karen Hutson said:

Danielle and Tony:

Happy New Year! I think of you both often. Have made the transition to vegetarianism. Maybe vegan one day. It’s a process. I love the challenge to be creative and the health benefits as well. Come to Austin and visit me sometime.
Karen

From the entry 'Just Say No', Fran said:

Regarding “sleeps,” is “1-2-3 seepies”
still okay? I am going to keep saying it
no matter what!

From the entry 'An Update!', andrea said:

Okay, so I am coming to this way late, but I just wanted to commiserate on the Money Pit situation. We are considering selling our house next year just to avoid putting in a new roof and furnace. I know I don’t want to stay in this house for another five or so years, so I know we’d never get our money back (we’d have to finance those repairs). Well, there are other reasons why we want to sell but those are big ones. As it stands now we have a huge To Do list just to get the house ready to show. Ugh.

Congrats on the new job too.

From the entry 'My Letter to Ralph Macchio', Fran said:

Hey, Deebers,

GREAT letter! But I was shocked to see the notebook paper with FIVE HOLES! At a Catholic school? No wonder you Mount Saint Joe’s/Joe Paradox chicks were completely out of control!

I would still love to do a little “wax on wax off” with Ralph Macchio.

Fran

From the entry 'My Letter to Ralph Macchio', Anita said:

^what he said!

I want an Adipose. I can’t stop looking at pictures of Adipose. I might need an Adipose intervention.

For those unfamiliar, this

is an Adipose. A marshmallowy creature who survives and spawns in a human host. I would totally host an Adipose and put the human race in danger if I could have one of these little snaggletoothed blobs walking around my house, squeaking.

Since Adipose aren’t real, I will have to settle for any or all of the following to satisfy my Adipose obsession. As you peruse, please imagine me screeching “I want an Adipose! I want you to get me an Adipose right away!” in my best Veruca Salt twenty or thirty times in a row and see how fast you get me an Adipose just to shut me up.

The action figures

Looks like I won’t be able to make my own knitted Adipose - apparently the BBC wanted to keep them on their home planet.

Shhh, don’t tell the BBC. OMG WOULD YOU SCROLL DOWN AND LOOK AT THESE!

AND THIS FELT GUY

If you’re not completely convinced by now that Adipose are the cutest things in the whole wide world, there must be something very wrong with you. Stand close and I’ll use my sonic screwdriver to try to fix you.

I TOTALLY want one, too!

Posted by Melissa on 07/09 at 12:00 PM

Ooh, the Doctor with his Brainy Specs *and* wee Adipose? Too cute!
I have considered trying to knit one by looking @ photos and guessing at pattern (shouldn’t be that hard) and figure as long as I don’t sell it or pattern the Beeb won’t come after me. It’s on the (very long) to-do list.

Posted by Kanuck on 07/09 at 02:10 PM