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Looks can be deceiving. For example, that looks like a lovely pile of ceramics, doesn’t it? Like a perfect kiln firing? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Both the brown and red yarn bowls need to be reglazed on the inside, and then re-fired; apparently I only put two coats, not three coats, on the inside and there are spots [...]
Remember back in February when I wrote this? Well, hilarity continues to ensue, and here are more reasons why even just the idea of flying makes me want to bash my head into a desk. — Here’s one about a TSA agent, caught with someone’s iPad, who allegedly took another $50,000 worth of goods from [...]
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Rabbit hurries on and arrives at Christopher Robin’s house. He knocks on the door and then calls out, but there is no answer. Christopher Robin is Out, and just as Rabbit is about to leave he spots a piece of paper on the ground, with a pin in it, as if it has fallen from [...]
Recently, I was in a situation where (and I hope/know a few of you will be shocked on my behalf) someone insulted my soap. It’s kind of a convoluted story*, and I’d like to be rather vague about the circumstances, but it resulted in an email back-and-forth between a friend and I wherein she asked [...]
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OK, so back around Thanksgiving or so, I thought “wouldn’t it be great if I knitted special unique snowflakes Christmas stockings for everybody in my family for Christmas?” If I stuck to the people who come to Christmas morning that would mean I’d need… like… nine. Tops. And then I showed *remarkable* restraint by not [...]
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As I’m putting this together from so many tabs I have saved, I see there are many more than ten reasons. Also, since I’m posting them all in one place, I may not be ALLOWED to fly anywhere in the future. Big Brother is watching, right?! — Maybe this bothers me so much because my [...]
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Oh, ow, I think my head just exploded. So. I THOUGHT (hahahahah!) that I’d told you the whole story back in December; turns out there was a minor addendum last month that almost made me find a baby to punch in the face. We had about a week to get all the vegetation away from [...]
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The title really does say it all. Other people are a constant lesson in frustration. “I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.” — Charles M. Schulz At one of the bookstores where I used to work, I had a district manager who used to pop out such gems as “my perception of you is [...]
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A few months ago, we got a notice that the company with which we have our homeowners insurance was randomly dropping about 50% of the homes it has in Florida. Something about hurricanes, which apparently destroy homes, and insurance companies don’t like to pay for? Hello, isn’t that why we have insurance? Fuckity fuckers. Here’s [...]
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