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Smilies and Such

I noticed today that Mazeguy has a great new selection of smilies. I don't know if I'll add any of them to Jesser.org since we've already got a zillion or so, but I really do like 'em. But Elmo is incredibly tempting … hmmm … I like the Sponge Bob ones too, but as I've never gotten into Sponge Bob, I don't think I'll add those.

I've been really really enjoying They Might Be Giants lately. They're a band I'd had in my periphery for a long time, but never really listened to a complete album. But a couple of days ago I downloaded Flood and Factory Showroom from AllOfMP3 and I've been playing them like CRAZY. They're so very enjoyable. I especially luv their rendition of “Istanbul (Not Constantinople).” Continue reading “Smilies and Such”

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B'day Update

Well I had a very nice b'day and it's one of those that's going to be prolonged for quite a while. I'm not going to celebrate with my family until they come up here near the end of the month. But when I got home today I had a nice package waiting for me at the door … Mommy sent me Pictures of Naked People (John Stewart's book) which I'm really excited to read. I will have to force myself to not read it all in one sitting as well as The Griffin and Sabine books which are correspondances between two characters in vividly realistic postcards with envelopes and letters interspersed. I'd never seen them before. They kinda remind me of a grown-up version of The Jolly Postman. I'm very excited to read them as well. Last but not least, there was also a very cute pair of flip flops from J.Crew in the package. They have salmon-colored straps with little bees embroidered on them. I love surprise packages … and no one can surprise me quite so well as my mom. She knows just what I like.

Now I'm sitting here very happily listening to some music and getting some work done. Life is good.

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Worth its Own Post

Okay, so Matt and I saw a while back on The Screensavers that there was an MP3 service out there called All of MP3. It's based in Russia and it's border-line sketchy, but maaaan is it cheap!! I've already downloaded two albums and spent around $1 for both!!!

Now, as I said, it's borderline sketchy. But they do accept paypal, though that's down at the moment. So you can also get one of those 1 use credit card numbers for a pre-set limit and pre-set window of activity and use that (which is what I did). If you do that tho, be prepared for your credit card to possibly reject you until they call and assure that you're OK with transactions from Russia going thru on your card.

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Birthday!

Whee!! It's my b'day and I'm 24!! I project it to be a very good year.

It's already been a good b'day. Yesterday evening I got a package from UPS. It had a b'day present from Dorothy (Matt's mummy) and Matt … a very cool Dell MP3 player. I've been wanting one for quite a while now so it was a really great gift. Now that I've had a chance to play around with it, I'm super impressed. Can't say enough good stuff about it.

This morning, Matt took me to Mc Donald's for brekkie, which might sound weird, but I really like to have Mc Donald's for breakfast every now and again, and I hardly ever have brekkie with Matt anymore, so that was really good. Then I got to talk to my lovely family for a while … we'll be celebrating my birthday (as well as my dad's) when they come to help us move … so I get a nice long celebration. And my mom promises a package will come by Friday. Excellent!

This evening, Matt and I are going to dinner at Biaggis, probably my fave restaurant in Madison (and just one of my fave restaurants in general) and that's another excellent thing to look forward to.

And I've had nice cards and emails from friends and family and it's been very nice. Everyone has made me feel quite special. Thanks so much.

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Tosh and Rot

Our apartment is an absolute wreck. I'd forgotten just what moving does to a place. I really did try to keep it as neat as I could (for instance, boxes of books are now in my bookshelves) for as long as possible, but it was inevitably going to get messy. And even though I saved a LOT of boxes, we're still going to have to buy some. I hate spending money on things like cardboard boxes.

Just for fun… how fast do you read? via Wills Thrills. I read between 550 and 600 words per minute, which they list as highly efficient.

Another 'for fun” … turn your backyard into a wildlife sanctuary. Continue reading “Tosh and Rot”

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Schmoing

We've been watching the latest episode of JS2 and as it gets more and more outrageous … we're wondering if maybe Tim isn't schmoing everyone … the audience and the other actors. I dunno… but it really is getting very unbelievable. Hahah. It's funny anyhow.

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Fixin and Packin


Yesterday we spent the greater part of the day cleaning out the sunroom. The sunroom is where I keep all of my art/craft stuff, so it was a huge undertaking. The main reason we tackled it is because we had to fix the cabinet where my craft/art stuff is stored, so it would have been silly to empty it to fix it, reload it and then repack it in a couple of weeks. But crafty stuff is lots and lots of stuff. And it has to be sorted and organized and packed in boxes within boxes and … it took us forever.

It was kinda fun, though. We got to look through some stuff that we hadn't gotten to look through in a while. For instance, we took out our respnse cards from our wedding. They were largely just boring slips of paper that told us who was coming and who wasn't. But some of them had sweet/funny notes on them. So those were good to look at.

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Pietra's Barbequed Salmon

from: 99

Ingredients
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon ground ancho chile powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon sea or kosher salt
4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets
Cooking spray
1 teaspoon maple syrup

Directions
Prepare grill, heating to medium. Combine first 5 ingredients. Sprinkle fish with salt; rub with paprika mixture.

Place fish on grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill 7 minutes. Drizzle fish with syrup; grill 1 minute or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.

Nutritional Info (1/4 recipe(
CALORIES 286 (42% from fat); FAT 13.5g (sat 3.2g, mono 5.7g, poly 3.4g); PROTEIN 36.5g; CARB 2.9g; FIBER 0.6g; CHOL 87mg; IRON 1.1mg; SODIUM 670mg; CALC 30mg;

from: Grandma P

Ingredients
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp minced fresh ginger
1 tsp minced garlic
2 tbsp lite soy sauce
3 tbsp dijon mustard
3.5 – 4.5 lbs salmon fillet with skin
lime slices or wedges

Directions
In a 6-8 ” frying pan over medium, mix the butter, honey, and brown sugar until the butter melts. Remove from heat. Add the soy, mustard, oil, ginger, and garlic to the pan,. Mix well. Cook slightly. Spoon over prepared salmon on foil. Let stand 15 min to 1 hour.

While cooking on grill, frequently spoon sauce over fish. Cook until opaque, 20-30 min.

Serve with lime wedges.

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Last Day

Well its official. I put my one month notice in at work right before I went home this afternoon. My last day will be August 31st. The next morning, it’s off to Colorado. Earlier this week I found out that two of my friends are also quitting their jobs in August and are moving to Golden as well. The fact that three of us are moving to Golden specifically, not the Colorado area, not the Denver area, but Golden in the same month is really weird. Continue reading “Last Day “