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and it's spring.

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so it seems that my long-running (LONG-running) car issues have come to an end. what does this mean? i will no longer have to restrict my post office trips to only fridays. woo hoo! it means other things too, but, well, we'll talk about that later. some other 80s toys and stuff in the shop right now, strawberry shortcake and my little pony! more on the way. still a little hard letting go of ponies, dude... part of my collection. these ones aren't going anywhere. (: especially my fave, bowtie. one day i'll have space for a whole bookshelf of awesomeness. ( goals... )

the knit is back

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so.. i don't really watch much tv. (no superiority here - oh, you'll see) we don't have cable, though we do have netflix and a stack of series on dvd and recommendations from friends, etc. i just really have trouble sitting down and just watching something without thinking "oh god i should be washing the dishes or finishing this or that project". but this winter, i did get into... celebrity big brother. look. if you're going to get into reality tv, there's no point unless it's trashy and over-the-top. no pretense of a higher purpose here. yes, vh1 celebreality was my shit at the time. i have been lamenting new york's absence from the airwaves for some time now. so when i found out she would be on this season... #hbic i'll refrain from discussion of the show for the disinterested (but if you want to chat...!) and i was actually glad when it was done.. damn, this thing's on every day? with after-shows? but i realized that th

toys of the 80s

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hello hello, 2016! getting into cleaning, sorting, downsizing, and decluttering mode. i have such an 80s toy horde that i don't really need to keep. there's only so much space in one house, so why not keep just the favorites? there's only so many collections one person can have, you know? i think the first real collection i started was strawberry shortcake. i always loved the book illustrations (see "the winter that would not end" here.. i need to get that one back from my mom's house!). at some point i started re-collecting the dolls of my youth. (cafe ole was always a fave...) i spent a lot of time on ebay back in the day when i had some actual disposable income, seeking out cheap incorrectly-named lots of vintage dolls. i had a thing for my little pony too, but luckily still had a lot of my originals and it also seemed easier to come across ponies in secondhand shops and such. along the way, i would come across all sorts of sesame street, ba

2015 in tweets

some of my favorite moments of 2015, on twitter and the world in general. my favorite favorites, i guess. MusicNotes from the XPN Morning Show: Watch @jmascis & Fred Armisen cover Mazzy Starr. http://t.co/3ZfbnlOYaA pic.twitter.com/ukqUduiSIn — wxpnfm (@wxpnfm) February 5, 2015 Wife dabbles in art. pic.twitter.com/SJlhHXlrTF — Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) March 15, 2015 America, we need to have a talk about our laziness pic.twitter.com/GCpNCpT0yD — Roman Mars (@romanmars) March 31, 2015 Does anyone else think "don't be a weirdo, don't be a weirdo" over and over when entering social gatherings? Cause I don't. — Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) April 8, 2015 Definitely worth the read 👌 pic.twitter.com/mkuzKa5jFA — Calvin and Hobbes (@Calvinn_Hobbes) May 11, 2015 The Low Anthem playing me a song at their recording studio inside the stunning Columbus Theatre in Providence pic.twitter.com/i2FpdXKtRG — kristin hersh (@kristinhersh) May 15,