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Happy Valentine's Day. Much lurve to all of you!

Leave a comment if ya want one of my Valentine's Day music mixes!

two-thirty

The husbandman likes to often tell the "two-thirty joke". It is a lame and ridiculous play on sound which gets a groan from me every time; which I just noticed right now it actually is 2:30! How serendipitous.

The joke goes something along the lines of

"What time is it?"
"2:30"
"I't's time to go to the dentist!"
"What?"
"Tooth Hurty?"

Get it? Get it? Hahahahaha....

Speaking of which I had a date with the dentist this morning that I was not exactly excited about...I have two more dates too...Lucky me! It went okay you know, except for the bzzzz of the drill and all that cold, cold water dripping down my face. Every time the tiny drill would start it sounded like a bunch of cartoon fleas on a party line in my mouth. Do you remember that old cartoon with the flea on the dog and he sings "Food around the corner...?" We here at the A-go-go household often sing that song. I think I giggled everytime the drill went on.

I had a bite block for the first time and why oh why had that never been introduced before? Sheesh, people. Hello? Have you seen my mouth? You are a dentist after all, could you not tell that my jaw tends to lock when it is open for a while? Did the tears that slip out of my eyes not clue you in? Thank you to Dr. Shaw and Gentle Dental Office. The bite block helped immensely. I still hurt but it was not nearly as agonizing as my other experiences. It didn't hurt that you had ReadyMade in the waiting room for me to read. It didn't hurt that you let me take home a cute, tiny sample of citrus mint chap-stick. I guess it was th least you could do after I wrote away my paypal savings to you and to think you get a kidney next week for the next filling. Lucky you!

Is it a bad thing that I desperately want to bake something sticky sweet?

**the picture has nothing to do with anything but I thought the blue sky was pretty...

Addled....

I like this picture. It makes me smile. the fabric is so happy and the blue ribbon looks as if it is smiling at me. I stamped the tags for an faa swap. It was a scavenger hunt theme and I'm hoping the tags fulfill the "something with wings" criteria.

I didn't make it to yoga this morning. I did something to my left leg and it hurts when I reach out to touch my toes, or kneel, or stoop. Weird. I did however put the ironing board away. I put the ironing board away! This is so exciting to me. We have limited, limited space here in the tiny casa so an ironing board out in the living room made it even more crowded. It's already crowded what with all my fabric piles and book piles and piles of piles...the poor mister, he is most definitely NOT a pile person. I'm trying. I'm trying to wrap things up and develop a calendar of what I need to work on and when so that I can keep it all organized (stop laughing!). It will happen, it needs to. I want to host a Hat Making Tea in March, Who wants to come? I'm thinking Saturday March 15th.

I also managed to overbrew my tea...again. I do this on a regular basis. I pour the hot water in and step away and then completely forget I had tea brewing. I hate wasting it so I drink it but man is this cup bitter. I make a face with each drink. I also have a bad habit of doing this when making rice and baking. Many a pan I have killed because of this. Let's just blame it on the pisces in me. I'm a daydreamer and a whole lot lackadaisical. It's what makes me creative, right?

Most of my swap packages have skipped out merrily. I hope everyone enjoys their goodies. My brain is working overtime with all I want to create but first I need to finish and tie up these loose ends. Almost done...I will miss the swapping. I'll still be swapping, just not on the large scale I was. I need to fine tune it all; make gifts with purpose and intent and limit what I receive. As I have written before, this casa is tiny and I have no more room....

Happy Monday!

The Week in Review: February 4-10

School, crafting, mailing, project-ing, visiting, haircutting, baking, hiking and laughing. A whole lotta INGS!

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Question:
can anyone guide me as to how to put a button with a link on my sidebar? I have an image and I want to link it appropriately but I have no clue as to how to do it! Help!

Photobooth Friday: Found

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go figure...

I go into Whole Foods for lunchy-goodness and come out with a bottle of their version of Vitamin Water (NOT recommended) and four candy bars. That's me, healthy girl!

Seriously though, only one of the bars was for me. The one up there. For so long I have been a milk chocolate kind of girl. I love me some sweet milk chocolate and never passed up an opportunity to scrunch up my nose at the icky dark stuff. However, I am a maturing woman (snort!) and my taste buds have grown sophisticated...or maybe I have lost all sense of flavor due to my anosmia. Either way, I am beginning to develop a fondness for the dark stuff. I still think I prefer the milk chocolate but the dark is growing on me. I like my cakes and baked goods darker than not and I prefer my hot chocolate to be spicy and bittersweet so who knows, maybe I am actually maturing here. You may still be wondering why I only picked up candy bars at the market of all markets. The candy bars are gifts for long past due swaps I owe. I was short on time and their salad bar had experienced a mishap. The sandwich line was too, too long and the food counter had no sesame tofu, roasted potatoes or corn & arugula salad so I grabbed a bottle of the water, which was/is really , really not-so-good, I got the green tea flavor. Blech! As I got into line I remembered I needed some chocolates to send out and there ya go. Three for them and one for me. I work my way slowly through a chocolate bar. A cadbury creme egg, I will devour in an instant and then wonder why I did that, a chocolate bar I savor...and I like to dance around and sing "I've got a Golden Ticket!"...Truly, I do!