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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
Julie: You can’t start that sort of thing with people who work in libraries unless you want to finish it!
Jen: That’s what you get w/ library people.
Some of my favorite songs from the 80s got very little radio play, or at least I thought so because they didn’t play them 24/7 on an endless loop. I remember sitting in front of the television for hours, watching MTV and waiting for one of these videos to show up.
Howard Jones, New Song
My favorite song from the 80s. Happy, upbeat, fun.
Icicle Works, Whisper to A Scream
I adore this song. To a ridiculous degree.
Aztec Camera, Oblivious
Couldn’t find the original video to this song, but this is an amazing acoustic version. With Neil Finn. YES.
Big Country, In A Big Country
Love this video from Top of the Pops.
The Psychedelic Furs, The Ghost in You
Really, one cannot go wrong with Richard Butler.
Depeche Mode, Everything Counts
The grabbing hands grab all they can. I defy you to rid yourself of that earworm.
Duran Duran, New Moon on Monday
My favorite of all their songs.
When In Rome, The Promise
Completely underrated song.
What are some of your favorite “underdog” songs?
So my parents were here for a visit last week and my dad pretty much spent the entire week making up nonsense songs and singing them on repeat until we were either laughing tears or ready to punch him out.
Now I know where I get it.
Tap. Tap tap. Is this thing on?
I can’t remember the last time I wrote something here. I used to feel pretty comfortable writing all sorts of honest things on this blog, but now it just seems like an exercise in narcissism. Or something. I guess I just don’t feel like pouring the details of my life into a public place anymore. I’ve got to figure out what this space is supposed to be now, because I’m certainly not getting rid of it.
Maybe I’ll go back to my pop culture roots and make this a place for trivia and other such ramblings.
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!