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Theorems of Scrapbooking
February 28, 2005 18:00
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Mike is back! And back with a vengeance. His first “real” post back is about his trip to the scrapbook store, which he calls the Temple of Doom.

Then I walked in. At least 20 curious eyes turned to me and the store fell to a hush. The music stopped… It was like the old west, when the outlaw walks into the saloon.

[…]

As I’m checking out the counter lady smiled as my predicament once again. This time she happily stopped cat blogging to return to torturing me. “Do you think your wife would be interested in any of our classes or crops?” she asked. A sick smile settled over her face as waited for confusion and panic over the word “crop” to set in. But oh no, not this time you frumpy mistress of pain…. ShishSha! I know that word. Thanks to the sweatpants wearing queen of all things scrapbooky (…) I have a scrapbooking vocabulary not even a guy with a Queer Eye could match. That’s right evil cat blogging scrap nazi…your dragon style kung ...
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Mini Albums on eBay
February 27, 2005 18:05
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Tags: scrapbooking

I’ve been doing a lot of mini-albums lately. I tried for awhile to sell them on eBay, but I’m not willing to sell as low as you have to before you build a following, and I’m not willing to stick it out long enough to BUILD a following. The pay just isn’t worth it. So instead, I’m making them as gifts. It’s tough to photograph them well, though, I’m finding.
Guns don’t kill people, microstamped bullets do
February 24, 2005 18:08
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An IM conversation I had tonight with a friend:

Steve: Latest gun law silliness here: same guy that authored the .50 BMG ban wants to require semi-auto handguns to have the means to microstamp the gun serial number and other info on the bullet each time one is fired.
Dana: Oh for fuck’s sake
Dana: Are you serious?
Steve: Yup.
Steve: It’s no wonder I keep buying guns. Buy ‘em before I can’t anymore.
Dana: Indeed
Dana: That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard
Dana: (re the microstamping)
Dana: Has he ever actually SEEN a gun?
Steve: Or, has he ever heard of a file?
Steve: Though I imagine the law isn’t about helping police to identify handguns. I think it’s more about whittling away gun rights. Create too many hoops for people or gun manufacturers to jump through.
Dana: Yup
Dana: And these are the same pe...
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On Why I Love My Margi and My (Other) Mike
February 21, 2005 18:10
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It’s a “spread the love” kinda day here at Note-It Posts. In addition to a most wonderful husband, I also have a terrific bunch of friends, who offer me alternately (according to my needs) a kiss on the cheek, a pat on the back, or a kick in the ass. They also lend me love and support in far more abundance than I deserve. There are several (and you know who you are), but I wanted to especially thank Margi and Mike.

Mike (who is not SexyHusband, but who is, in his own right, sexy) endures countless hours of instant message conversations with me about a range of topics from parenting to programming to scrapbooking to sex, and never fails to offer me his honest assessment of the situation, even when it may not be what I want to hear. He is critical (in the best sense of the word) without being judgmental (in the worst sense of the word), and I can always count on him to be there for me. Thank you for being you.

Margi is the funny, smart, sweet, lovable, ironic...
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My Husband Rocks
February 21, 2005 17:11
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Let it be hereby known that I have the most amazing husband in the whole, wide world. No offense intended to any of my married male readers, but SexyHusband is just TheShit™. He keeps me loved, happy, healthy, and cared for in every way, and he is – hands down – the greatest father who ever lived.

I know I come across as a cynical, complaining bitch much of the time (but only because I am), so I don’t want to let the good times go by unremarked. I have a friend going through a very, very rough time right now, and her misery has helped bring home to me just how blessed I am.

Mike, I love you.
If I were a Sim...
February 20, 2005 18:14
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Tags: games

I’m so very NOT surprised. (shamelessly scammed off of Margi):


You’re a fortune sim, you greedy bastard you.
You’re obsessed with doing well with your work
and making as much money as simly possible.

Good for you…you allow capitalism to succeed.

What Sim aspiration are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

Fradnabba!
This is That
February 20, 2005 17:18
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Tags: politics

I was driving around town the other day, and I noticed a bumper sticker on the back of some little Hippie-Mobile. It was a goofy little half-assed attempt at pithy wisdom that read, “War Is Terrorism.” Trés original, no? Anywho, it got me thinking, and hubby and I started playing a little game where we came up with other equally.. uhhh… “englightened” pithy slogans. Here are some of the ones we came up with:

Liberalism Is Fascism
Communism Is Slavery
Pacifism Is War
Education Is Ignorance
Religion Is Science
Order Is Chaos
Hope Is Despair
Health Is Sickness

So what do you think? Have some of your own? Leave them in the comments. :)
Croppin'
February 18, 2005 18:19
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Tags: scrapbooking mike

I’m getting ready to go to an overnight crop at a friend’s house in town. I was just packing the stuff to take, and SexyHusband came by to look.

SH: So, did you decide which rubber stamp you’re not going to take?
Me: Ha-ha.
SH: Want me to sit on it so you can fit a little more in?
Me: No, I think I got it. See, the problem is I need to take this whole drawer full of stuff.
SH: (chuckling) You’re so cute.
Me: What? What’s cute? It’s not that much.
SH: Uh-huh.
Me: Really! I just need to take this and this, that, that, and that, and that stuff on the bed.
SH: (eyeing the thises and thats, amounting to about six carrying loads of stuff) Is this an all weekend crop or an all week crop?
Me: (sheepishly) Um. It’s an overnig...
ABC - Book of Me
February 10, 2005 19:19
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Tags: scrapbooking quilting

A friend of mine emailed me tonight, and reminded me that I never talk about quilting or scrapbooking now that my sites aren’t daily journals anymore. This is really quite ludicrous, since at least a third of my waking hours are probably spent scrapbooking. Quilting, sadly, has fallen by the wayside, though I still intend to finish my niece’s double wedding ring quilt this year. So, I thought I’d start posting some of the layouts I do here on the site.

One project I’m working on now is called a “Book of Me” – a scrapbook all about ME. There’s a trend in scrapbooking to do ABC books – “A is for ambitious, B is for brave, etc.” – so I decided to combine the two: an ABC Book of Me!! My goal is to do at least one page every two weeks, so I should finish this project in a year or less. I’ve done A, B, and C so far. Pictures are in the extended entry, for the bandwidth-conscious.

Update...
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Happy biiiiiiiiirthday…
February 10, 2005 18:23
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Happy 40th to Dame Margi. I hope you have a fantastic day, girlfriend. Wish I could be there! Love you!

Federal Customs
February 08, 2005 19:25
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I was driving through town today, when I noticed a funeral procession. There was the hearse, followed by a motley string of cars and trucks with their lights on. Once I realized what it was, I pulled over to the side of the road because – of course – that’s what you do! I watched the cars pass by, and turned the radio down. I shushed my daughter, trying to convey to her by my actions the appropriate sense of sobriety and respect. Then I realized – I was the ONLY one who pulled over. Other cars – on both sides of the road – continued to drive along normally. Some passed the procession, and some (sacrilege!) actually turned in and out of the grocery store parking lot during gaps BETWEEN procession cars.

Now, I’ll admit – before moving to the Great White Northwest, I lived my entire life in Dallas and environs, so I’m not exactly the most well-traveled person on the Internet. But I’ve <...
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Rant
February 08, 2005 18:26
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Tags: web development

If you don’t like cussin, and you don’t like bitchin, just move along.

I’m SO FUCKING SICK of the lack of bandwidth here where we live. I love living in the country – fresh air, no traffic, friendly people – but the shitty connectivity is driving me to distraction. You KNOW it’s bad when I can’t even upload a goddamn 97KB image file without the son of a bitch corrupting TWELVE DIFFERENT TIMES before it finally decides to fucking play nice. I swear to God, the fact that I haven’t taken my gun out and unloaded the bastard into my monitor is proof positive that I have the patience of Job. But it’s WEARING THIN.
Trying to maintain
February 08, 2005 17:27
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Thomas has by far the most annoying cry of any of my children, ever.

Oh, and guess who’s teething.

Just thought you’d like to know.
Finding Love on al-Internet
February 07, 2005 19:28
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A budding romance between a Jordanian man and woman turned into an ugly public divorce when the couple found out that they were in fact man and wife, state media reported.

Separated for several months, boredom and chance briefly re-united Bakr Melhem and his wife Sanaa in an Internet chat room, the official Petra news agency said.

[…]

Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: “You are divorced, divorced, divorced” – the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam.


People who fall in love on the Internet are weird.
Quote of the Day
February 04, 2005 19:28
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Tags: quotes books

“It may be relevant here to add that I hold no religious beliefs whatever. Roughly, I cannot imagine any omnipotent sentient being sufficiently cruel to create the world we inhabit.” – A Severed Head, by Iris Murdoch
Why I Love Him
February 04, 2005 18:30
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Tags: mike food tv

I haven’t really felt that well today. I’ve been catching the baby’s cold, so he’s been clingy and needy at the same time I’ve been grouchy and wanting space to myself. In that climate, this conversation ensued.

SexyHusband: Kids are all asleep, dear.
Me: (shoots a “don’t even think about it” look) Yeah, they are.
SH: Wanna nap?
Me: Heh! It’s almost time to go drool on Morimoto.
SH: Heh. Yep. Battle asparagus.
Me: You’re so indulgent of me!
SH: I am?
Me: Yep. You put up with shit from me that I’d never put up with from you.
SH: You don’t give me anything to put up with.
Me: If you drooled over Takata-san the way I drool over Morimoto, I’d give you a ration of s...
Co-hostessing
February 03, 2005 19:33
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Last night I co-hostessed a meeting of my town’s women’s civic group, BETA (Bettering Endicott Through Action – isn’t that cute?) but in hindsight, this wasn’t a grand idea. Since I’m remodeling, having people at my house was a non-starter. I had originally planned on holding the meeting at “The Depot” (an old train depot, now partly grain storage, and the closest thing my town has to a community hall), but their furnace wasn’t working and someone had stolen the tables, so that idea was scrapped. Enter the co-hostess. The deal was people would meet at her (newly-remodeled) house, and I would furnish refreshments.

Now, I like this person very much. She’s considerate and nice, and she has a beautiful home. The downside is that she takes a much more laissez-faire approach to party-planning than I do. When I called to talk to her about logistics (when to arrive, where to set up, etc.) she was very, “Oh, just show up 10 minutes – if that...
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Potty Etiquette
February 03, 2005 18:35
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Adam and I were at Subway on Monday, having lunch. He noticed the Men’s restroom and read the “Men” sign. The Women’s restroom was around a corner, so he hadn’t seen it. The following conversation ensued:

Adam: Mommy, that says “Men.”
Me: Yep, it sure does.
Adam: Are there men in there?
Me: I don’t think there’s anyone in there right now. That’s where men and boys go to potty.
Adam: (careful thought) Boys can go potty in there?
Me: Yes.
Adam: (more careful thought) Girls can stand outside the door.
Not Fair
February 03, 2005 17:37
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Tags: music

How can such a sexy voice reside in such a dorky body?
Self-examination
February 02, 2005 19:38
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Here comes the part where I bore you with an explanation of why I left, why I’m back, and what to expect in the future. Think of it as public mental masturbation.

Why I left:
Blogging wasn’t fun. It was too much work, for too little return, and I felt like I wasn’t doing very well at it. I had stopped reading blogs, and I felt guilty about that. I woke up one morning to over 200 spam comments, and they didn’t stop until I disabled comments on each and every post. (Why, oh, why, can’t WordPress automatically delete comments with the words “poker” or “cialis"?) That wasn’t exactly the reason, but it did clinch the decision.

Why I’m back:
I missed sharing things here that I thought were funny, or noteworthy, or cute, or absurd, or some combination of those things. I missed my platform. I thought too often, “I could post about that!” only to realize that I had taken a leave of absence.

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Snark
February 02, 2005 18:42
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There’s a special kind of hell for people who write children’s software with insipid instructions on a 15-second loop.

Oh, and I’m back.
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