Jan
18th
Wed
18th
Jan
15th
Sun
15th
A conversation with my husband about madonna’s boobs.
Jan
11th
Wed
11th
Item #7 on my 30 before 30 list, get 100,000 points on Millipede was completed today!
My wonderful, curly-haired husband and I gifted each other with the greatest gift we’ve ever gifted this Christmas — a full size, cabinet arcade game. But not just any arcade game. MILLIPEDE. Ever since we brought this glorious electronic angel into our homes, it’s occupied a lot of our time. But today, I finally bested my goal of hitting six digits! Which is pretty impressive until you find out that the world record for this game is 10,627,331.
Feels good to tick something off the list! One down, twenty-nine to go!
Dec
22nd
Thu
22nd
30 before 30
Oh hai. I turn 30 on May 2, 2012. Here is a list of things I’d like to do before that happens (in no particular order):
In no particular order:
1. Build my gd website/portfolio/blog
2. Finish the basement
3. Do something with the canvases in the basement
4. Arrange our living room
5. Make a short film
6. Make a perfect pie crust
7. Get 100,000 points on millipede COMPLETED!
8. Teach both dogs to roll over
9. Lose 10lbs. and keep it off for all of eternity
10. Ride a tandem bike with Nate
11. Write a letter to Nate’s aunt Connie & grandma
12. Finish sorting/purging the tubs of my past
13. Babysit Oskar
14. Find my perfect shade of lipstick
15. Go snowboarding for the first time and don’t die/break anything
16. Learn at least 3 hustles well enough to be able to bust them out at any given time.
17. Treat myself to a spa day
18. Buy a fancy bottle of booze
19. Have a video chat with all of my siblings at the same time.
20. Take a family photo. Yes, this includes all five pets.
21. Try an aerial yoga class
22. Send my aunt flowers at work
23. Go to the drive in
24. Go to the shooting range
25. Do at least one winter bike commute to work
26. Gather some people and try out proving grounds at go comedy improv theater
27. Make homemade marshmallows & use them in s’mores
28. Craft something crafty & mail it to a friend.
29. Invest in a nice, versatile, grown-up purse/bag/handbag/whatever
30. Sing a song/perform with a band (non-karaoke)
Dec
6th
Tue
6th
My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, “Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.” And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.
— Tom Waits (via singforyourlover)
(via huckabeast)
Nov
30th
Wed
30th
Art. Not even once
Made by Team Detroit for College of Creative Studies (via)
(via fuckyeahdementia)
Nov
22nd
Tue
22nd
Top 5 Words People Use When They Want To Feel Fancy
1. Embolden
I remember when I first heard someone use this word. I said “HA! EMBOLDEN?! THAT’S NOT A WORD!” And they said “Yes it is.” But I still didn’t believe them so to the internet I went. Turns out they were right. Boy, did I feel sheepish.
2. Sheepish
“Resembling a sheep in timidity or lack of initiative” - Initiative?! What the hell kind of initiative is a sheep supposed to have? Fancy people like this word because it insults both the person they are talking about and all sheep-kind.
3. Curmudgeon
If you want to call someone a crusty old man, you should just have the junk to say so. Don’t use a fancy word with far too many u’s for its own good.
4. Foliage
Them just be plants, sonnnNNNnnNNNNNnn
5. Snafu
There is a much simpler way to say this too:
Nov
21st
Mon
21st
SO IMPORTANT.
Nicolas Cage Head is the most important website you’ll visit all day.
Not untrue.
(videogum via gregrutter.)
