chickleta’s Neighborhood

...I would buy everything in this store. I look at their website and salivate. I walk into their store and get weak at the knees. If I found some genie, my third wish would be to get a hundred-thousand dollar giftcard to this store, right after world peace and the elimination of hunger.

Seriously....this quilt? These shirts? This skirt?? To die for.

 

What are the can’t–live–without things on your web homepage?

Sponsored by Yahoo!

Really, Yahoo? You wanna play this game?

I use myway.com so a big thing for me is what isn't there. Banner ads.

That's pretty much it. You gonna do that for me, Yahoo?

Yeah, that's what I thought.

I was at Barnes & Noble today, where my daughter gets her fancy British music magazines, and roamed some of the bargain aisles; there are always twice as many this time of year. Some of these interest me and some amuse me.

First, there are always lots of books on war, for you to buy for Dad. WWII is very big this year, but then it generally is. If it didn't have the benefit of Nazis, Holocaust, fighting in half the world, and G.I. Joe, it still would have been set in the awesome 1940s, which informed the thing highly (and of course were informed by it, as well.)

For the man who is always certain there's more to know. (He is also convinced Kennedy was shot from two different directions. And frankly, I'm kind of on his side, but that's another story.)

For the sort of man who enjoys reading old blueprints.

For the armchair social historian:

For the dad you really don't know very well.

And now here's a fun juxtaposition I felt must have been a source of humor for the person stocking the shelves:

This is something I'd probably enjoy owning; I felt a little sad it's marked down to 14.95:

A threesome from the man who made it safe for Evangelicals to collect "art."

Here's one for the sort of person who likes to start semi-drunken arguments at the Thanksgiving dinner table:

And finally, proof that I flipping love the person stocking these shelves, as all three of these are featured on the same one.
Angels are slightly cheaper to own than information on awkward sex. FYI.

I just came back from a walk. Not too exciting? Well, THIS is: It's the first time since 12/27/08 (when I fell partway down the steps onto concrete and ripped up my ankle) that I took my "normal" walk around the neighborhood.

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. But today it happened.

YAY!!!!!!!

I hope you're all doing great!!!!

So I'm doing dishes, as repsonsible people ought to do, and as I'm finishing up I notice two limes sitting at the bottom of the sink. "Hm," I think to myself, "Ctirus is supposed to be great at making the disposal smell nice." So, I shove down the limes, lean over, flip the switch, a terrible grinding noise ensues and...

Half a shotglass comes flying out.

!!

I guess a shotglass had slipped into the disposal without my noticing, and the disposal shredded it. The entire base and jagged edge where it broke made a giant arc and landed literally six feet from the sink on the floor. O.O

It was pretty hilarious after I was done thanking God that I hadn't been leaning over the sink. Shotglass to the face is not a great way to end one's day. :-)

just a few phone pix :-)

Yes, I know I said I'd be posting more. That was before my laptop gave up the ghost for good. So! Now I have a shiny new laptop, and will be posting more. For real this time.

How old do you think children should be before they join social networks like Facebook and MySpace?

47.

But you're kind of behind the times. The children have been abandoning those networks, as usual, to the old people who took them over. And I won't betray them by telling you where they hang out now, since you'll just co-opt that as well.

And now, here's a song.

Sukiyaki

Kyu Sakamoto

So, my dad had a life insurance policy. But then, too, he borrowed on it at some point, probably because he was no longer able to work part-time, and needed the money. That's cool by me, and I am certain it is by my brothers, too.

There was a little money left on it, though, divided between me, my two brothers, and my six kids so that we each got 350 dollars.

I have purchased things for myself. A new cheap vacuum cleaner to be used until I can get a new fabulous one again. A black and white plaid jacket, flat bronze shoes, brown boots, a purple sweater, purple scarf, sunglasses, and a green dress. I got things in actual colors, so that my dad would like them, instead of being boring and brown, grey and black. And I think there is enough left over for me to get a battery for this computer. But I am also seeing about getting a card reader for my camera card, because the camera has stopped communicating with its software. Tiresome thing.

So I mean, I'd share them with you, but I have to use the phone camera, which isn't nearly as nice. Maybe I will tomorrow. Well, this is the jacket, but it looks better on me, these are the boots, and these are the flat shoes, though in a different color.

It's all kind of weird. The boys are going in on a PS3 together, then they each get a little money to spend on their own, and they will save the rest. And the girls can decide for themselves, though I hope they'll all save some of their share, even though it's not much.

My dad would dig this. But I'd rather just have him back.

Lots more to share, NaNoWriMo to get back to for now.  

This was my first project at uni. Everyone was given colour to research, to be inspired by and to create a piece capturing the essence of. Mine was scarlet and I went down a little red riding hood avenue. I'm getting very into the darker side of fairytales and their prevalence in our culture. This bit in the Guardian about fairytales is definitely worth a read.

Anyway, ironically for a project about scarlet I draw it all in black and white. I carefully cut red riding hood out so that last red page would show through all the way to the first.