another dollar for the therapy jar…
So do you think it would scar my children too much if I bought them this Marshmallow t-shirt from Threadless?
maybe… but it would be totally worth it.
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Add comment July 30th, 2007
Archive for July, 2007
hooooo boy!
Here comes The Darjeeling Limited.
I do *heart* me a Wes Anderson film. Especially with a Wilson brother. And the Kinks!
2 comments July 28th, 2007
and speaking of cheesy “art”…
Sara brings up a good (if embarrassing) point about Missouri being the home to one of the all-time meccas to cheesiness. Precious Moments. It makes my mouth go dry a bit just to type the name. What is it with those things? Those crazy teardrop eyes and the utter sacharineness of them just drive me up the wall. What makes grown people collect these things?! (Surely not the same thing that makes this grown woman collect vintage Fisher Price Little People. Heh.).
I can’t imagine sitting in my house with thousands of those freaky sad, sad eyes staring at me. I’d likely snap one day and bash them all to bits with a baseball bat, screaming “take that, Little Miss Sisterly Love!” and “Ha, little moony girl! now you’re REALLY an angel — and it’s not so effin’ sweet after all, is it?!”
It just so happens that I was in that part of the country last week and found myself in Carthage, Mo., within six miles of the fiery hellmouth Precious Moments Chapel. Yes, there’s a chapel. Supposedly it’s a big draw. People even get married there. Real people, ones who look fairly normal on the outside.
Me? it made my skin crawl to be that close to it.
yes, literally.
Add comment July 27th, 2007
and finally she was quiet…
Ok, I would never, ever, in eleven bazillion years have the guts to wear this shirt around this small town of ours (why yes, I *am* a wuss), but it completely cracks me up!
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Add comment July 27th, 2007
it’s sweet corn season…
and, if you ever eat corn on the cob, you must — MUST! — buy a set or two of these corn on the cob holders.
“But I have some of those little plastic yellow ones that look like tiny ears of corn,” you say.
“Buy these,” I say, “they interlock.”
“They what?”
“The prongs lock together. So when you’re reaching into the drawer the other 362 days of the year that you don’t eat sweet corn, you won’t get a sharp prong jammed up the underside of your fingernail.”
“Ohhhhhhh. Sold.”
and always remember… Chew yer corn well, or you’ll see it in the morning!
Add comment July 26th, 2007
please excuse me while I hurl…
You might want to stick around and watch though, as I’ll be spewing beloved bits of Lightâ„¢ all over the place. Let me explain…
I’m a Mizzou graduate. The husband is a Mizzou graduate. Many in his family are Mizzou graduates. We live fairly close to Columbia. Big fans, get the picture? That’s why it made me throw up a little in my mouth when I read that Thomas Kinkade, the “Painter of Lightâ„¢” [gag] and “America’s most beloved artist” [urp] came to Columbia to paint the columns on the University of Missouri campus. (Ok, he didn’t actually paint our columns. He painted a picture of them. I wish he would’ve vandalized them though, then we could lock him up for good.)
Anyway, you know what really made me toss my cookies? When I read that they’re building a housing development based on Kinkade’s art (I’m trying my best not to put that ‘art’ in quotes).
“It will feature cozy tree lined streets and a communal atmosphere,” and will “bring to life what Thomas Kinkade tries to capture in his paintings, beauty of nature, and a simpler way of living.”
Can you imagine living in such a place? Can you imagine the dreadful nightmares you’d have? Can you imagine living in a real-life Twilight Zone episode?
See? Makes you want to barf too, right?
yep. now go buy yourself a new keyboard.
5 comments July 25th, 2007
I need this book…
like I need a hole in my head, and yet still I *need* this book. Who of us has any time to kill? (But then, you’re here, so you must.) So, for those of us who cherished their activity books as children, you can now kill time with the Kill Time book.
But wait! I think I might need a Crayola executive pen to go with it…
doodling. in style.
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Add comment July 25th, 2007
make it vs. buy it…
Finally, a “make it vs. buy it” that is a no-brainer. What could be easier than making your own chalkboard vase?
- Find a cheap vase that’s the right size and shape
- rough up the exterior a bit if it’s too slick
- spray with chalkboard paint
- scribble
- spend your leftover $32 elsewhere
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Add comment July 24th, 2007
Look! We’re Simpsons!
Now, head on over to the Simpsons Movie website and make your own Simpson avatar.
Add comment July 12th, 2007
like, gag me with a spoon…
What in the hell is Simplicity thinking? Ok, fine, all the magazines are telling us that the 80s are back, but what exactly is the market for this pattern? Because all the people that I know who can sew WOULD NOT WEAR THIS. Ever. Never. Even to a costume party. We’d go raid our own damned basements for that.
Doesn’t that model look pissed? You would too if you were dressed like a shiny, Smurfy-blue Valley Girl… and you were two when this look was in. Perhaps her first word was “Kajagoogoo.”
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Add comment July 11th, 2007