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Some Haiku For You, San Francisco

If you’d rather bypass my ridiculous attempts to amuse you with really ridiculous witty San Francisco and BlogHer related haiku, then may I recommend heading straight for the good stuff full Flickr set. (Run! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.)
(Seeing as I took my characteristic fifty gazillion pictures over the course of the trip, I will be [...]

July 23rd, 2008 · 16 Comments » · Also filed under copains, how festive!, i am a visual learner

Wherein Fireworks Become A Bit Anticlimactic

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Exhibit C:

Exhibit We Decided We Would Rather Watch A Scorsese-Directed Biography On Bob Dylan And Anyway, Iggy Was Trying To Eat Slugs In The Rose Gardens Where We Were Standing To Watch The Fireworks:

(Though I would argue we weren’t really “free” until hundreds of years after 1776, and we as a country are [...]

July 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments » · Also filed under how festive!, i am a visual learner

Because My Office Mailed At Least Two-Hundred This December, And The Guilt, It Was Instant And Hearty

I know the winter holidays are probably officially long over, but I (already bought all of my cards for next year, yes, and) came across these while I was researching green alternatives to corporate holiday cards for work, and was instantly smitten:
Grow A Note holiday cards via Great Green Goods.
“Only recycled post-consumer pulp and cotton [...]

January 19th, 2008 · Also filed under eco-friendly, how festive!, smitten

Resolute

Ah, yes, now! is the time of year for being exceedingly determined about accomplishing the previously unaccomplished, about completing that which seems impossible without the gentle poking and prodding of goals staring us in the face via our own handwriting written decisively on carefully selected paper once every year.
Lofty ambitions like say, for example: eating [...]

December 31st, 2007 · Also filed under how festive!, lists!, motley

Is That You, Santa Claus?

Some of my favorite pictures of me as a little girl are of one of my very first Christmases, wherein I seemingly snuggled with and ate the newspaper in which some of my gifts were wrapped. I didn’t care so much about the gifts the various paper were hiding, but I LOVED the paper, and [...]

December 28th, 2007 · Also filed under how festive!, i am a visual learner, i like movies

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, How Lovely Out Of Reach Are Your Branches

Last weekend Chris and I donned our gay apparel and bought and decorated our first marital Christmas tree. It’s a wee Doug Fir (named Dominic), and we chose him because he was the biggest of the littlest of the bunch, and because five-feet tall sits conveniently on our corner-located console table, thereby preventing an even [...]

December 3rd, 2007 · Also filed under how festive!, i am a visual learner