hideous trend alert

just click. don't puke on your keyboard.

http://www.shoes.com/product.asp?p=5055722&variant_id=EC1074390

my fish finnigan, whom i love

i'm still in love with linoleum, and have been sighting it all over the place. just wanted to add a link to a particularly good example from domino magazine's website....

notes from the strike zone

i love television. i fell victim to its hypnotic pull at an early age. and now, grown-up with my own home and my own cable bill, i am free to watch whatever i want whenever i want. but, there is guilt. how many evenings have i spent vegetating, when i could have been out curing cancer/climbing mount everest/negotiating world peace? not that i would actually do those things, but tv provides us all with a ready exit from reality, one that i am often willing to take in lieu of enrichment or quiet reflection.

in november the writers went on strike, cutting short what was a very engrossing fall season. now i find i really don't give a damn about all those made-up people whose fictional lives were previously so entertaining. and i'm liking my life better without the eyeball dehydrating nightly dose.

first post of 2008!

my mega-talented cousin alex made this sleepy owl. it was one of a extensive menagerie she stitched as christmas presents for the whole family. i especially like the eye lashes on my owl.