grateful for halloween

Because otherwise I wouldn’t be searching for professional face paints … and I wouldn’t have checked the hours of Krylon (company based in San Francisco)… and I wouldn’t have discovered it’s not open on the days I’m going to be in SF … and I wouldn’t have double checked my flight information from SoCal to…

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taken in again by the fabness of it all

This season of Project Runway is very, very good. There was a period of time where I doubted it would ever be satisfying watching, ever again. So kudos to whomever that pulled their shit together to bring it back and make it completely compelling TV. I watched the latest recent episode with the most delicious…

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another phone post!

I fished my phone out of my purse last week. When I did, I realized the phone had just dialed my bosses’ boss (the Big Boss, oh dear.) I hung up, mentally reviewing, with clammy brain, what I had just been talking about with friends. I saw the BB the next day and apologized for…

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oh well, how about designing a pergola then?

On my phone, I Google Architexture, my hair salon. Him, very professionally: Hello, Architexture.* Me, a little frantically: Hello? Do you know if Stacy has any time today? She cut my hair last week, but now my bangs are being weird? There’s a 70s flip thing that’s making me bonkers. I can come in after…

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roscoe, delicious

About to get my Roscoe’s on for the first time ever, which is a crime, because A. I live in so cal; B. fried chicken is my favorite food; C. I am a fan of the American/cana eating experience. Aaaaaand, my food came while I was writing that and holy SHIT that chicken is good.…

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a little rundown

There are NEFARIOUS forces constantly attacking my website. You have not a clue, or maybe you do. *glare* Fortunately, my various anti-spam bots battle the spam bots pretty successfully. Until, of course, some evil wormy thing gets unleashed and erases my wp-config file or spam filter settings. Excellent is the day when I wake up…

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rants on a blog

Hoo boy, slam, pow, did the rain come last night. It was delightful to wake to the sound, to smell the cool damp, to pull out the rain gear. Quick transition to abject terror trying to maneuver my elderly car through flooded streets, psychotic drivers. Another quick transition to pure aggravation at how hard it…

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in which i say hooray hooray another birthday

We’re blurry here! Blurry from the having of the fun this past summer! Revisit this blog post from (holy god) 4 years ago, in which I celebrated the singularity of Miss Spark, AKA Miss Violet. Well, here it is, four (holy god) years later, and I’m still celebrating her. Celebrating the HELL out of her!…

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flashback

I’m having trouble getting past the potato bug episode. That thing really pushes the hard-wired revulsion buttons. I’m not afraid of snakes nor spiders, but I’m sure afraid of the potato bug! And vermin, not a fan of vermin. I remember when we had a mouse problem in a flat I lived in in San…

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bugout

Perhaps I should’ve seen the foreshadowing — one of the earlier scenes of last night’s improv show involved two entomologists. And so it was that I was completely unprepared for what went down about halfway through the show. I was at the piano, soundtracking a scene as I tend to do when we are light…

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