Virtual graffiti. I wonder what the technology is that allows stencilling.

Typographic portraiture.

Those are cool -- and make me think of Al Hirschfeld's NINA, which he put in all of his drawings.

Oh man... the catalog gremlins found out my weakness.

Stationery and journals and nifty jewelry and pretty soaps, all in one place. Plus! Chocolate!

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And OMG yes, THIS... [link]

And... oh, just one of every damned thing.

Lewis would no doubt be most upset if I ordered the contents of the catalog. But... WANT.

Co-worker got a promotion, or at least a new title, hopefully it comes with a substantial raise and not more responsibility. Or, not more responsibility without extra pay. Lord knows the woman juggles far too much and is damned good at her job. I am sincerely happy for her, especially as she's in a worse boat than I am, being a single mom with three kids.

And yet, I am also depressed, because I am not management material, I am not a juggler. I am not phonecalls and paperwork, and I'll never get ahead in this field unless I am, which means leaving what I love doing, which is the design and installation and maintenance of the grounds. The idea of trusting others to do what I love while I do the boring political paper shuffling and compromising that is the director's job makes me want to cry.

Yes, it's all about me.

(I really do hope that she's making director's salary now, and give her a freaking staff of at least one!)

I just got the Cambria Cove catalog in the mail yesterday! It's a plot!

The font portraits are awesome. I'd like one done of me, but I'm vain like that.

Things I should be doing:
boiling eggs
folding laundry
putting laundry away
moving clothes from washer to dryer
eating lunch
vacuming
getting ready for occupational therapy

Things I am doing?:
tiptoeing around the house trying not to wake up a sleeping baby.
looking up stuff on etsy

OMG, this is cool. If ita ever gets a dog, she should get this one....

Incredible journey of a dog called Sophie Tucker

A canine castaway lost at sea has been reunited with her owners after spending more than four months living off goats on a Queensland island.

wner Jan Griffith said her family were devastated when their cattle dog, Sophie Tucker, fell off the side of their boat in choppy waters off the Mackay coast in north Queensland in late November.

But unbeknown to them, their hardy hound swam five nautical miles to St Bees Island, where she survived until last week by hunting baby goats.

She was last week returned to her family after rangers captured what they believed was a wild dog.

Ms Griffith said she and her husband had contacted rangers after friends suggested the dog - who had earned a name for herself on the island - might be their long-lost pet.

Last Tuesday the couple met the rangers' boat as it ferried the dog back to the mainland and were blown away to find Sophie Tucker on board.

"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Ms Griffith said.

"She wriggled around like a mad thing."

But even more unbelievable was hearing how their domesticated "inside" dog had survived, she said.

"She had looked really poor (on the island), the story was, and then all of a sudden she started to look good and it was when the rangers had found baby goat carcases so she'd started eating baby goats," she said.

"We think she'd swum close to five nautical miles from the boat where she went in and then some people believe she went backwards and forwards from Keswick to St Bees (islands)."

Ms Griffith said their pet had been quick to embrace her now easier existence - complete with air conditioning.

Someone has posted my Grade 2 class picture on Facebook:

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Adorable!