tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79961048579742068302024-02-22T16:18:12.559-05:00The Joy of Doing Things BadlyAnnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-56728984119409102552015-03-18T12:59:00.001-04:002015-03-18T12:59:16.436-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Everyone hop on over to <a href="http://thethirtybythirtyproject.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Thirty by Thirty Project Blog</a> and check out my newest project as I stare down 30 and try to get a grip!<br />
<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-24586581446411822282012-10-05T12:48:00.000-04:002012-10-05T12:48:04.057-04:00F**k CancerAs you know, I am a well-known hater of cancer. I know this is a controversial opinion, so in my defense I will say: cancer is awful and sucks. You know who gets cancer? It's exclusively bad guys who are super old and did horrible things like say close down an orphanage to build a shopping mall or something, right? Wrong. You couldn't be more wrong. Geez what is wrong with you? You're so stupid. People get cancer who are perfectly nice and wonderful friends and family members who have always been great. Sometimes those people are only 26 and they have already beat cancer one time. <br />
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Also, another thing about cancer is that it is very expensive, even if you have health insurance you still pay thousands and thousands of dollars out of pocket which is super cool right? I love this healthcare system we have now and it definitely does not need to be changed or anything at all. So first you get cancer, then you get slapped with a whole bunch of debt, then, hello, you have to have even more radiation later on which, great, also costs money. Plus the whole having to have radiation thing. <br />
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This is what happened to Liz. Because radiation is awesome, she wanted to have some more, which is going to cost $7000 just in deductibles alone, plus she will have to miss a bunch of work. Oh, and she's also trying to get married on top of all of this. And did I mention she's only 26? <br />
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Here's a link to a fundraising page Liz's friends set up for her:<br />
<a href="https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/2N1H4">https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/2N1H4</a><br />
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It's been up since last night and already over $4000 has been raised by friends and strangers and it's really touching. If you scroll through the comments, it's amazing to see the outpouring of love and support. It really makes you feel good about humans again, especially after your grandmother told you that she no longer is interested in helping orphanages because they just take anyone these days and some of these kids have parents they're just in jail or too addicted to drugs to take care of them. (The nerve of these fake orphans!!!) This is just an example of course, not something that happened to me.<br />
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Anyhoo, if you are someone who has a little spare cash laying around and you'd like to throw it Liz's way, that'd be excellent. Like, maybe the money you had earmarked to give to an orphanage before I just opened your eyes to the ugly truth of orphanages.<br />
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Another cool way to help would be to head over to reddit and upvote this:<br />
<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10zw2p/my_friend_liz_26_year_old_redditor_beat_thyroid/">http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10zw2p/my_friend_liz_26_year_old_redditor_beat_thyroid/</a><br />
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Upvoting turns out to be fairly easy once you figure it out, I guess. Not that it took me a long time or anything. The internet is hard, guys.<br />
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A third cool way to help is to share both of these links and get the word out. You have facebook. You have a blog. And I know you tweet.<br />
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And finally, if you are someone who prays, then think of Liz. If you are someone who meditates, think of Liz. If you are someone who sends vibes, think of Liz. <br />
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And my aunt Susan. And my friend Jen. And the thousands and thousands of people beating cancer that need our help and support and care. Because cancer really sucks and we love brave people who are fighting it.Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-30758624202155628152012-10-02T13:43:00.001-04:002012-10-02T13:45:34.246-04:00Tutorial Tuesday: Fall WreathI would wish everyone a happy Fall, but let's get real, no one is happier than I am that it is fall!!! There's maybe 1.5% of me who is sad the vegetable gravy train is coming to an end but other than that, I am ALL ABOUT FALL. <br />
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Also this Fall, I have challenged myself to do one activity from my Pinterest "I Could Make That..." board seen here: <a href="http://pinterest.com/anna_girard/i-could-make-that/">http://pinterest.com/anna_girard/i-could-make-that/</a> each week.With 639 pins, I should have plenty to choose from. The idea is that I can do these projects during while I watch Sunday football, and then blog about them on Tuesday! But the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and full disclosure, I am already a week behind. And also this one was pretty simple and probably doesn't warrant a tutorial. But hey, I'm trying.<br />
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So, ta da!<br />
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I didn't really have a direct inspiration for this one, but it's more of a conglomeration of wreaths I saw on Pinterest, and my neighbor's wreath which is clearly Pinterest inspired. I do not have a picture of that because I feel like that'd be creepy and I already recently took a pallet from their garbage. And some shelves. But this is pretty close: <a href="http://boutiqueginabeana.blogspot.com/2011/03/birthday-gift.html">http://boutiqueginabeana.blogspot.com/2011/03/birthday-gift.html</a><br />
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First, I gathered some supplies. A grapevine wreath from Hobby Lobby for $4.99, Wooden Letter $3.49, small project can of spray paint in sun yellow which was $3.27 I think, and some various fabric remnants from the remnant shelf which is nerdily one of my favorite places in the world. <br />
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I spraypainted the letter yellow. It was a bit more yellow yellow than I was anticipating but I liked it. The fabric flowers I made following this fabulous tutorial: <a href="http://www.weddingwindow.com/blog/diy-fabric-flowers/">http://www.weddingwindow.com/blog/diy-fabric-flowers/</a> which I found by searching for "diy fabric flowers" on Pinterest! Then I just hot glued everything to the grapevine wreath and suddenly it's Fall on my porch! And also everywhere else. Especially my heart.<br />
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Here's a sneak peek at next week's project, which is really last week's project so if you're my facebook friend and you've already seen the final result, don't tell anyone. Snitches get stitches. And I have a sewing machine.<br />
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P.S. Want to go on the Pinterest Fall Challenge either along with me or actually with me?? That'd be great!! I generally require accountability buddies to get things done. Just let me know you're playing the home game.<br />
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<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-45691023639968117272012-09-28T23:08:00.000-04:002012-09-28T23:08:52.668-04:00An Open Letter to Those Who Failed the Bar Exam<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am a bar exam failer.
Nearly two years ago, I, like you, fruitlessly scanned the list of
numbers to find that one had been omitted. Mine. 364. </span>
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“Maybe I had the wrong number!” I thought, as if I could
possibly have somehow mistaken the number that appeared in literally every form
imaginable in my dreams for the last 2 months. I, like you, frantically
searched through my bar exam book box on which I had unceremoniously scrawled, “see
you in hell” at the end of July.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pulling
out my plastic baggie with my timepiece, a thousand pencils, a small lucky
rubber coyote (obviously), and a gigantic white label with my number clearly
printed on it. 364. </div>
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So it was true, I had failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If your day was anything like mine, it started with stress
baking 5 dozen zucchini muffins and ended with lots of vodka and possibly a
little vomiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t tell my mom. In
the middle there may or may not have been a part where you cried for an hour on
the floor of your kitchen, then spent the next two writing back to all the
inquisitive and then awkwardly encouraging texts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I personally chose to go with the thumbs down
emojii.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or the skull.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or the alcohol bottle. People got the
picture. They stopped texting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one
knows what to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Because what can you say?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here’s how you feel: this is the worst day of your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing worse can ever happen to you. This is
not correct, obviously, but it’s all you can think about right in this
moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a total disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How will you ever recover from this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can never go on. </div>
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But of course you will go on, you can go on, and here are
some things to keep in mind: </div>
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1. <b>This is not about you</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are lovely, clever, smart, and interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have hobbies and interests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you like sports.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or you have a really nice garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or you are an excellent chef.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or you are very well-read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or you’re big on twitter. So you had a
miss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bad day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An arbitrary number does not change who you
are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are not "the girl who failed the bar exam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">" </span>You are not your score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are a person who struck out the first
time at bat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You studied and wrote
practice essays and stayed up all night making flashcards and some yayhoo who
told you at the hotel that he just hadn’t had a chance to look at Contracts yet
is getting sworn in next month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
spectacularly unfair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are right, and
this brings me to my second point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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2. <b>The Bar Exam is spectacularly unfair.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span>You’ve been saying it all summer, and you are
not wrong: why do we need to memorize this when at work I will have books and
google to find out what I need to know? (If my boss is reading this, just
kidding, I never google legal terms I can’t remember.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bar Exam is a terrible horrible right of
passage thought up by mean horrible people who do not have your best interest
in mind and merely want to torture you as they themselves were tortured by
multiple choice questions with four wrong answers asking you to choose the “most
correct” or an essay on corporate voting (still mad about that).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bar Exam has absolutely no bearing on
whether or not you will be good at being an attorney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have many other qualities and
characteristics that will make you good at your work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are caring, conscientious, tenacious, and
thorough and no multiple choice question on the difference between robbery and
burglary can discern that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the
people you help will know that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they
will never care if you know the difference between robbery and burglary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless they are burglars. </div>
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3. <b>You have not let anyone down.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You haven’t even let yourself down because you
tried. You took the chance, you put yourself out there, and you weren’t afraid
to fail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You suffered and succeeded
through three long years, culminating in the worst summer of your life (good
news: next summer will be the best by virtue of sheer comparison), because you
aren’t afraid to try to do something hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You know how many people don’t even try?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thousands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Millions maybe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And you know what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone is
proud of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many of your friends
and family members cannot even fathom doing what you’ve done and you did
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bar Exam is hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one doesn’t believe that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your classmates that are celebrating right
now fully believe, and most are correct, that they passed by the skin of their
teeth and are shocked they did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one
thinks badly of you because you failed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No one is upset.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your friends are
still proud of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your mom still loves
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the good news is that for the
next sixth months, people are going to continue to go out of their way to be
really nice to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of those are
because they saw you have an absolute crying breakdown over a compliment one
day this summer, or they ran into you at the library and you had eight pencils
in your hair and your sweatpants were covered in highlighter marks. But all of
those are because they love you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
now, two years later, finally to the point where I can crack a joke about
failing the bar, and you know what my friends do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They feel awkward and smile encouragingly and
fall all over themselves to be nice about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone loves you and no one
sees you any differently today than they did yesterday. </div>
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4. <b>There will never be anything worse than failing the Bar
Exam.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bar Exam is easily without a
doubt the most public way you can fail at something everyone knows you were
trying to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your facebook statuses all
summer have been about your horrible miserable exam anxiety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You went the whole month of July without
seeing another human being that wasn’t delivering a pizza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Can’t do (insert awesome fun activity), I’m
studying for the bar,” you told countless numbers of people this summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then they go and post a damn list on the
internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even your grandma can read
that, if she’s particularly good at computers or you have a mean cousin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the good news is, this is the worst that
can happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s face facts, for a lot
of you, this is probably the first time you’ve really failed at something. You’re
probably going to be pretty gun shy and the idea of trying things is not very
appealing to you right now, I get that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But when the smoke clears you’ll see that, why the hell not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you try something (a job, a relationship,
a new city) and
it doesn’t work out, so what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve
failed before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can handle this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will not die because you failed the bar
and you will not die if living in Trenton,
New Jersey doesn’t work out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which, let’s just face it, it’s Trenton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe give that one a pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try and succeed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Try and fail?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Move onto the next plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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5. <b>There will be many many things worse than failing the Bar
Exam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>I know it's impossible to see right now, but at the end of the day, it is just
a test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A stupid, horrible, evil, dark
test, yes, but a test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In life, awful
things will happen, sad but true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your
marriage may end, you will lose beloved family members and pets, you may have
an illness or an accident, your house may burn down, they may cancel Mad
Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most if not all of these things
will be worse than the day you failed the Bar Exam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will get through those, and you will get
through this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Mostly anymore, I don’t even think about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have given up glazing over the details of
why I didn’t get sworn in until the Spring after I graduated instead of the Fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not even upset when I’m facebook stalking
and see pictures from the swearing in that should have been mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stopped wondering if things would have been
different if I passed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I’m
even glad that I failed the bar on my first go round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not a wake up call or a warning sign or
any cliché people will throw at you in the next few days and weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All it is is something that happened to you
once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A small glitch in your life plan
that was undesired and unanticipated, but ultimately overcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s winter, so no one will be
tempting you with fun activities, and if you get snowed in, it might as well be
with a day full of barbri lectures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
hard sure, but you’ve already proven that you can do hard things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And ironically, when you do pass, you’ll
probably end the day with lots of vodka and possibly a little vomiting. </div>
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So wallow this weekend, then put it behind you and onto the
next one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because what’s the worst that
could happen, you could fail? Please.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bring it on. </div>
Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-29991666918044973152012-08-15T11:44:00.000-04:002012-08-15T11:44:38.216-04:00Summa Summa SummatiiiiimeWell, summer was upon us. But as the mornings have gotten colder and the nights darker, and we are all once again forced to share the road with the horror that is school buses (busses?), it's hard to argue that it's fading quickly. With Labor Day right around the corner, it's undeniable that 2012 is on its slow death march to winter. Soon we'll all be over raking leaves like we're over the heat now or we were over spring rains. Hell, I'm already over snow. I'm kind of a seasonal affective hipster like that. "Oh... wintry mix? Yeah, I was really into that in like June but it's so mainstream for November. I'm getting pretty into tornadoes and spring flooding these days." <br />
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I know what you're thinking (other than, "wow, that weather hipster joke went on pretty long") "But Anna," you're saying to yourselves, which is arguably a little weird since you're alone in front of a computer screen, "you love Fall!" And to you I say, "Well, you, friend, are right. And please don't forget that I am still trying to make A-boogie catch on as a nickname."<br />
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But. I DO LOVE FALL. Seriously, what's not to love? You get to drink beer that tastes like cinnamon, everything is made of pumpkins, hayrides are real, sweaters exist, and on Sundays you get to watch football. All day. Fall.<br />
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I don't love summer. Don't get me wrong, we're on speaking terms and all but on the whole it sort of blows. Who wants to be hot all of the time and then suddenly freezing when you enter any public building? Masochists, probably. Definitely Nazis. Most noted Racists. If you love summer and you're still reading this, you may or may not be a communist. Summer.<br />
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That being said, this was a great summer. First of all, the OLYMPICS happened. I was pretty subtle about it while it was going on, but I truly and deeply with every fiber of my being love the OLYMPICS. The worst thing about the OLYMPICS being over is everything. The best thing about the OLYMPICS being over is that it is a mere seventeen months until the NEXT OLYMPICS.<br />
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And how about America, amirite? We've had the best summer. We kicked ass at the OLYMPICS. We landed on MARS and our spaceship (rover? Marscar?) is live tweeting. Tweets in space. 2012.<br />
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Ladies are having a great summer too. We won something like all of America's gold medals (no need to fact check, I'm sure this is right). Plus many of us went on vacations and most of us got tans. Sure, we can't be president, but we did all get to read erotica about kinky sex and we didn't even have to go to literally any website to do it. No no, we made them put it in a book. Because we like our bondage porn with a side of classy.<br />
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But more importantly than that or any of your summers, I've had a great summer. I've wiled away many a crafternoon. See below:<br />
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And I've canned vegetables like it's going out of style (40 years ago). <br />
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I also took the opportunity this summer to get really snobby about community supported agriculture and Farmers Markets. I have eyed many a Kroger tomato with disdain, and I went through a pretty sizeable cabbage phase.<br />
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Now sure, my own garden was sort of a disaster. My plants got very tall. But as many among my vast readership are gardeners and surely know, tall wasn't really what I was going for. Yes, I was in fact hoping that these plants would produce vegetables. For eating. But this was not to be. In a strange turn of events, those plants I was sure were bell pepper plants even turned into zinnias. Ever the experienced gardener, I waited weeks for peppers to grow from the fist sized orange and pink flowers. "Maybe it was just a new type of pepper," thought I. Spoiler alert: it wasnt.<br />
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So yeah, I didn't get to go on a vacation or buy any fancy new things, and I worked some long days, but among the weddings and the cookouts, to the glow of the fireflies and the beauty of my favorite wild orange tiger lilies, I was open to new experiences, and since this blog is your life advisor, you should be so this fall. Just say yes. Even if it's to something as trivial as trying all the types of cheeses at the Farmers Market or something vastly important as getting together once a week to play a children's recess game.<br />
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Change is scary but the excitement is greater than the fear. And sometimes, if you're very lucky, you get zinnias where you're expecting bell peppers.<br />
<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-85661202341189492672012-06-14T01:05:00.000-04:002012-06-14T01:05:47.883-04:00DIY Lamp Makeover!Saturday morning, I picked up this gem of a lamp at the local Habitat for Humanity <a href="http://www.habitat.org/restores/default.aspx" target="_blank">ReStore </a>for a mere $10.<br />
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It's not exactly... modern. Yes, that's orange glass. The good news is, only place to go is up, right?<br />
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So how did we get here?<br />
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<u>Materials</u>:<br />
Lovely Lovely Lamp <br />
Spray Paint (I chose Krylon Gloss White) <br />
Fabric<br />
Ribbon<br />
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Iron<br />
Hot Glue Gun<br />
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Step One: I started off by feeling slightly remorseful about painting over the colored glass, because it was fairly nice. But then I thought, hey, this was $10 and from the condition it was in, it was clearly being stored in someone's garage before it came to the ReStore, so I made my peace with it. I really appreciated everyone who supported me through that difficult time.<br />
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Step Two: Spray paint. Eat delicious salad of CSA lettuce, bleu cheese, walnuts, and craisins. Yum. And paint. Eat Ben and Jerry's Frozen Greek Yogurt. Yum. And paint. It took me 4 coats, with a bit of craft paint touch up. For you, I will only post the final coat picture. I am really impatient and like to shortcut so I didn't prime it. It probably would take less coats if you primed first. But then that's a whole other step. Yikes. <br />
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Step Three: Shade time! It could be argued that you could work on the shade in between coats of spray paint, and while that is technically true, eating the frozen yogurt is a very integral part of the process and you have to allow time for that. Also, if you fully coat then work on the shade, it gives the spray paint time to dry. But it's up to you. <br />
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This is the shade. It's not special. It came with the lamp. First I ironed the fabric, which is weird for me since I hate that part, like to skip steps, and basically everything I make with fabric has big creases in it. BUT I ironed this. I really needed to tell everyone that because I'm pretty proud of myself. Then I used the glue gun, pulling the fabric taut and gluing it to the actual shade. I didn't take any pictures of that. Sorry. Please try to get over it someday. I understand if you need time.<br />
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When I was done, it looked like this.<br />
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A note about the fabric: It came from Hobby Lobby and was $8.99/yd (don't forget Hobby Lobby has 40% off coupons on their website) and I grabbed the last yard and a quarter. I have been eying this fabric, because it reminds me of the Blue Willow china pattern.<br />
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I am glad to finally have a reason to use it. It took me slightly less than a yard. I added a teal ribbon, also from Hobby Lobby, for $3.99/4 yards. As you can probably see from the background in these pictures, teal is a theme in my living room, and adding the ribbon tied the lamp into the room. I also attached this with hot glue.<br />
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THEN, the best part. I brought in the lamp, I added the shade, I took 1000 pictures, and then I rested on my laurels. <br />
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And no, I can't explain the weird bird collages in the background. I put a bird on it! Just accept it. <br />
<br />Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-26584169257029197502012-01-23T17:56:00.001-05:002012-01-23T18:18:54.836-05:00The TV Land DebateOkay, it's no secret to any of you that I am a democrat. I make no apologies about that, and it will probably turn up in my blog from time to time (now that my Chinese New Year's Resolution is to blog more). Hey, what do you know? It's turning up today in fact.<br />
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What network hasn't had a debate yet? I wondered to myself in the shower this morning. (It's this kind of mind-wandering that was also responsible for my later pondering: Have I shampooed my hair yet?) But the answer is, obviously, TV Land, or what my father considers to be the only channel on television. That's right, TV Land is the only network that has not held a debate yet. Just go with me here. What would it be like if TV Land had a debate? What would it be like if the remaining Republican presidential candidates were classic television characters? <br />
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Okay, so the premise is weak, but the analysis is solid. Read on. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">“Aaaaaaay”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Fonz is so cool that even the term for when things stop being cool is named after something he did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much like his television icon, and childhood best friend, Mitt Romney is also just cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other ways Mitt is like the Fonz?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His office is in a bathroom and he lives above a garage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Facts.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>Though he’s initially a rebel, and Mr. C is right to fear his influence on his children: the impressionable Richie, the lovestruck Joni, and of course the mysteriously absent Chuck, The Fonz is a family man at heart and ends the series with adopting an orphan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or so I read on Wikipedia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did anyone know that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Must have happened post-shark jump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much like Fonzie, Mitt Romney has undergone a transitional arc of his own, from New England liberal to viable Republican candidate for president.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Fonz liked Ike, the Fonz’s bike liked Ike, and so did 2012 Mitt.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>Unsurprisingly, when you run a google image search for Romney (with or without the intent of photoshopping his head onto the body of Henry Winkler), there are a number of pictures of him throwing his thumb up and also once Mitt Romney started his stalled campaign bus by punching the hood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, is aligning yourself with the Fonz really a good campaign strategy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, the man jumped over a shark with a motorcycle… okay, actually, yes, I would vote for Mitt Romney if he jumped over a shark with a motorcycle, and the way things are looking after South Carolina, he might just be that desperate for votes. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div>Okay, so I can only conjecture that they were because I’m not one of the few still alive who remember when the iconic, inexplicably beloved, ethically questionable, and uncontrovertedly racist blowhard Archie Bunker reigned supreme as tv’s biggest asshole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately for Newt, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>however, I am one of many still alive who remember<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> when the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>iconic, inexplicably beloved, ethically<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>questionable, and uncontrovertedly racist blowhard Newt<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reigned supreme as Congress’s biggest asshole. <div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>“That Newt, he is incorrigible!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>exclaim his legions of followers as they tune in week after week to see what stereotype he’ll perpetuate next!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether it’s blacks and their church “habits” or women and their work-prohibitive propensity to get infections, Newt just tells it like it is and can’t no one change his mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s not going to let liberal journalists con him into answering questions in a debate, and he’s not going to rest until children are back in the workplace where they belong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.” – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that one is Newt Gingrich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I have no comment. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style> <![endif]-->“Nip it in the bud!” by which you’d think I’d mean Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, but no, I adore his zany antics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, like the fans of Mayberry’s wacky deputy sheriff, tune in each week to see just what Ron Paul will do next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barney Fife, seen here once again misfiring his gun, and Ron Paul have a number of things in common.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though presumably after firing the gun, Ron Paul would have said something like, “Why do police officers carry guns?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do we even have police officers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government should stay out of our law enforcement!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strict construction!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gold Standard!” (fairly accurate summary of Ron Paul’s platform) <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 3.0in;"><br />
</div>With their eyes bugging out in identical shows of fear and rage, both Barney and Ron Paul are, while trying to be helpful, engaging in plans that would ultimately result in the end of government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though, of course, Barney’s is purely accidental.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Paul presidency would look a lot like Barney in charge while Andy’s away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d dance about in a panic, then accidentally end up locking up everyone in town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Aunt Bea can’t go through that again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -4.5pt;"><br />
</div>If there’s one thing that’s for sure: we want Ron Paul’s single bullet to stay securely in his shirt pocket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, he may accidentally shoot his foot, or the ceiling, or another hole through his economic theories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIB4AjHmnzdD7TbD-nDysJwisypOhBIa0CvQFmjMMPfy-AshZ5AAqnd63EzNZBuhIzPfSV_WMnoMZbuRWxE3bKYPnjtRPxE6TK1Zo0Fv6h7f5hDPV3uxDQIL675j9zQr7N3b9bCwsX-L5A/s1600/santorumgilligan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIB4AjHmnzdD7TbD-nDysJwisypOhBIa0CvQFmjMMPfy-AshZ5AAqnd63EzNZBuhIzPfSV_WMnoMZbuRWxE3bKYPnjtRPxE6TK1Zo0Fv6h7f5hDPV3uxDQIL675j9zQr7N3b9bCwsX-L5A/s320/santorumgilligan.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I cannot stop laughing at this picture.</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>with LITTLE RICKY SANTORUM as GILLIGAN</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>The “Little Buddy” of the presidential race, Rick Santorum is our happy-go-lucky friend who is always foiling Romney‘s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attempts to lock up the nomination by still being in the race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just when Mitt was sitting back, counting his primary wins, along came Santorum and knocked him on the head with an Iowa Caucus Coconut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gingrich has sent in sexy movie stars, generous millionaires, and more coconut crème pies than you can count, but Santorum resolutely refuses to leave the candidate island, no matter how many anchors he has to throw overboard, tree rafts he has to accidentally send to sea, and coconut radio signals he has to jam.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span></span>The downside to a Santorum presidency is he’s always going to be the first one captured by tribesmen somehow visiting from neighboring islands, and the whole gang will have to work together to rescue him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Awwww, Santorum!!!” </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><b> </b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b></b></div>Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-48179184151669174992011-11-02T00:56:00.000-04:002011-11-02T00:56:00.621-04:00Tutorial Tuesday- IKEA Rast Hack Sideboard<span id="internal-source-marker_0.12327038762155584" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ve been looking for ages for a large sideboard to fill the space between my living room and dining room in my open floor-plan house. Though I’ve been on the hunt for the 4+ years I’ve lived there, I never found anything that was quite right, and anything that was big enough to fill the space was over $600 at least. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On pinterest I came across some ikea hacks, which led me to ikeahackers.net, where I stumbled upon this gem: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><img height="180" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BX3SGXJRBS2Ap0FiIoJIktk7yTjimHCRp4hL_tKtYbF6NHv1vj4Lkwp6c1HZk5P93nMb5MytxFfd0S2n_t9cD8YtQjYIO6gQekJpFojTI6g5Su84VFQ" width="320" /><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I loved the idea, though I do hate the color because it makes it look really industrial, and with the globe and the books the whole thing just feels like a middle school classroom. So I did a little improvising and a lot of cursing and very little sleeping and over the course of the one week off I get all year, I made this: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><img height="299" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_iwK7hlgLRHMQgUNjEqeyLfv1HGoW0JLmQEkjT0Dg_1HwRv4oLZV3OeK-lv9VBObbMmcmfCSxo1hu6ufDkRsixkPppAKuHUkKn-7yF35kF8yWEYBBLA" width="400" /><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Materials needed: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 Ikea RAST 3-drawer chests ($34.99) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wood for shelves, wine rack, side supports, and top shelf (I used 11 & ¾” x 12” boards for the in between shelves, 12” x 12” squares for the side supports, and a 6’x1’ board for the top)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wine rack- 36”x1” dowel rods cut down to the length you need (I used 11 ¾” x 11 3/4'” but measure twice, cut once) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lots and lots of screws</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L-shaped shelf brackets</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Straight brackets for side supports</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wood glue </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wood putty </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drawer handles </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stain (large container) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Polyurethane (I used a spray) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tools needed: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Screwdriver</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drill</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hammer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paintbrush and stain sponge/cloth </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tape Measure</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Level</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Saw (optional- I had the guys at Lowes cut mine for me) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First things first, I made a pilgrimage to Ikea in Cincinnati where I spent tons and tons of money on things I absolutely totally needed. Like a wok. Which I have yet to use. I picked up two of the Rast dressers, which are $34.99 a piece, but incredibly basic and super ugly. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><img height="248px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/6VKZbWdZXBr2LEFUh2CJOUvzm28iyCN7ad_0FnlEKXJ99-b7Z_G6Xkr-xzCfM_ncxFUBIYHlnneJpQJw8X3UXFwlpURy88wZQYPXIMo8Hc6fDss5PxE" width="248px;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Especially those wood knobs. Yikes. A follow up trip to Lowes netted me the remainder of my supplies. Okay, I’ll be honest. It took four trips to Lowes total. The project kept evolving, and I am not great at doing math and needed to go back for more wood. Twice. All in all, I spent about $150 on this project, which is certainly a far cry from the $600 or $700 I would have spent at my Mecca, Pier 1. Plus this way, I got to put in absolutely everything that I wanted. Win win! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Once I put the Rast dressers together and put my top board down on top to get sort of an idea how it looked, I noted that it was really really short.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><img height="265px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/2bFI26VM-aNQl64a0O6DzZ-1JRAjZelBrCZ2FQR9-kKjInVCvI3ajvWr5p2DylPTjnRl4He-g34dxJsJZVta2N8F-6Me4mb0gVl_OfcOwtTzyDJRr4Q" width="199px;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So I brainstormed some ideas on making it taller. First, I considered just adding legs to the bottom, but that’s kind of expensive, so back to Lowes I went where I came up with the idea to add a shelf on top of the dressers. I got wood for the side supports, headed back home, and installed first the spacer shelves between the two dressers and then the side supports.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><img height="313px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ouIRjgMcuzX2LK4lUAzmG9d9FyMQpW0anF-b-fkGS83Dgq9uLhzP_KN0MoPQ6pT7FXDqvyfz7-nxYG5kagKCbAGJb5MJHBSHbRvxORfdtBn8y36NKjE" width="235px;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For the side supports, all I did was screw a plain bracket into the back of the RAST and the back of the side support, then I used wood glue all along the edge where the two pieces meet. Finally I drove screws through the top piece into the side supports. This really, honestly, did not work that well. It was pretty shaky, and if I had to do it again, I would drill holes in the bottom of the side support/top of the RAST and use small dowels to hold them together. Those pocket screw things were too expensive and required too many tools I didn’t have access to, or else I would have gone with those, but alas, the problem gets solved in a later step. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing I also did that I recommend but is very optional is take the bottom out of the upper lefthand drawer and bracket the two drawer fronts together on the inside. This made a double drawer for tall things, which has really come in handy for storage. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then, I put wood putty in the screw holes on the front of the RAST where the drawer knobs were supposed to go and in the screw holes all over. Then I attached some drawer handles that I got at Lowes. I think they were only $1 a piece. Okay, they’re pretty boring looking, and I may change them out later, or paint them, but for right now they work and are really functional. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here she is, all ready to stain:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You may notice that I’m staining this in my dining room on my nice hardwood floor without proper ventilation. This was incredibly stupid, and I don’t recommend it. Did I get stain on my floor? Yes (got it off thankfully). Did I spend 10 days high on stain fumes? Yes. That part isn’t so bad. You may also notice that the wine rack isn’t in yet. This comes later in the third phase of my project’s life… though let me say it would have gone a lot faster if I’d had all these ideas before I started. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After a healthy amount of patting myself on the back for a job well done, it became apparent that this job was not, in fact, well done. In that the top kind of leaned drastically one direction or the other. Coupled with the fact that no matter how many home stores I went to, I could not find a wine rack to go on the shelf that I thought was decent looking. Then I thought, hey put these problems together and make one big problem. And that’s how my wine rack was born. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I googled “DIY Wine Rack” for a really long time and eventually came up with this design which encompasses a lot of different things that I saw. In a nutshell, I made two rows that hold 5 bottles of wine each. The middle section is a little wider to hold large bottles of wine. Everything I read said that you should not do this because true wine collectors do not have large bottles of wine for some snobbish reason that I don’t remember. But since I am less an avid collector and more a passionate consumer, I saw no problem with having a larger area, but to each his own. The space between the two dowels needs to be about 3.5” apart to hold your (regular sized) wine bottle. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I screwed the upright dowel rods from the top only, because once the horizontal pieces are in, they will be set in place. I probably should have also used wood glue, but I didn’t. If there’s one thing you’re learning about me, it’s that I am impatient and like to cut corners. I screwed the first level to the shelf and the middle level to the upright dowel rods on each end. Then I added stain and went to bed because it was really really really late, but I was a woman possessed. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The next day I did 3 coats of a spray glossy polyurethane. This is important to seal and finish. Then I sewed a runner, made some decorations, added an undercounter wine glass rack, and voila! A very functional and nice-looking piece of furniture for a fraction of the cost! </span><br />
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Even though Scooby Doo taught us that all real-life haints are merely disguised adults with property rights disputes, there are several distinct horror villains. In the type of gross generalization you can expect from this blog, every horror movie in the world falls into one of these categories, and every person in the world prefers just one over all the rest. What does your horror movie choice say about you? Read on.<br />
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Vampires<br />
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First, it is important to make the distinction between horror vampire movies (see: Dracula, Nosferatu) and vampire comedies (see: Dracula: Dead and Lovin’ it!, Twilight… seriously, those Twilight movies aren’t comedies? I mean, a vampire baby is literally eating Whiny Pasty alive in the recent preview. Comedy gold.) Unique to this genre (thank god) is that people ACTUALLY THINK THEY ARE VAMPIRES. That’s right, people truly believe themselves to be “mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures” (Wikipedia). There’s even a whole subset of the plastic surgery/cosmetic dental industry devoted to vampiring people. Because, as it turns out, some people don’t have the hallmark fangs and pale skin typical of vampires. Because, as it turns out, they aren’t actually vampires. Because, as it turns out, vampires aren’t actually real. Go figure.<br />
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Who likes vampire movies? Sex freaks, mainly. I mean, Dracula’s main move is biting the necks of strange women. Hott…? All I’m saying is, people ACTUALLY WANT TO BANG VAMPIRES. No one wants to do the nasty with zombies and yet they are just as undead. Twilight has made somewhere around 85 bazillion dollars off these degenerates. Because there are no bigger sex freaks than teenage girls. <br />
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Ghosts and Things Unseen<br />
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Okay, I’ll give you that there’s very little that’s scarier than not seeing what’s attacking you (except for maybe the decision to cast Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy). I get that. But can I urge you, people of the blogosphere, to band together and stop going to movies where the villain is the house? I mean, come.on. “Our house is attacking us! There’s nothing more terrifying!” “I know, let’s move to a new house.” Roll credits. People who like these movies tend to be boring and not have nearly enough real problems to worry about.<br />
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Witches<br />
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Witches are, by and large, very misunderstood. Typically, witches have some sort of vendetta. To break some new philosophical ground here: was the Wicked Witch really wicked? I mean, you’d be mad too if a house fell on your sister, presuming you have a fair to good relationship with your sister. The Blair Witch probably had some reason for her killing spree. Maybe. I don’t know. My mom picked me up early from the slumber party. Most fans of witch-based horror are old maids and widow ladies who told those meddling kids 500 times to stop eating their candy house and they just wanted to teach them a lesson.<br />
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Evil Demons<br />
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Little known facts that are completely true and not at all madeup: the Catholic church is responsible for funding over 99% of movies where the solution is exorcism by an ordained priest. It was decided in the early 1970’s that the best way to get people back to the church, other than mass in English, was scaring them shitless with the power of the devil. Like many plans of the Catholic church, this kind of backfired, because it turns out that you can engage the exorcism services of a priest without actually attending mass regularly. And adults quickly noticed that it was mainly innocent little children who were getting possessed anyway, so really what was even the point? Fans of this genre like simple hands off solutions to solve their problems. If they can’t hire a priest, get a vial of holy water, and send their pea soup stains out to a good dry cleaner, then they will just watch Mean Girls for the thousandth time instead.<br />
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Good Old Fashioned Slashers<br />
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Based entirely on the premise that evil people can really be anywhere, but mainly lurking in closets, under beds, and especially old abandoned barns that you should definitely not enter, but for some reason you do anyway, slasher flicks (think: Halloween 1-80) are pretty great. Though simplistic in nature (all it takes is a mask and a big knife and hello, you have a movie!), these movies prey on the fear we all share of being brutally murdered by an actual human person. All I’m saying is, you’re walking alone at night in a dark parking garage. You hear footsteps behind you. “Ohhh no!!! It’s a werewolf!!!” is not your first thought. Fans of this genre are tough, know never ever to have sex if a crazed serial killer is on the loose, and okay maybe jumpy and a little paranoid that they saw movement outside their window after watching 6 hours of the AMC Halloween Marathon yesterday. That didn’t happen to me of course, but to a very close friend…<br />
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And finally, Zombies.<br />
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I heard this week that Zombies are something like a billion dollar industry in our country. Which I think is a sign that we’re finally back on track as a nation. Praise be to Obama for making America #1 again! Fans of this genre have both a strong respect for and a healthy fear of George Romero, and are united in their belief that zombies do not run. If there were a zombie apocalypse, you would want these people with you because they are smart and resourceful and would know exactly what to do. (i.e. stay in the house with the doors locked, not run out into the street panicking about zombies.) Unfortunately, it seems that all these zombie movie fans must be the first to go because in a zombie movie it is painfully obvious that no one has actually ever seen a zombie movie. “I bet if we just cut off his legs that will stop him!!” No. No, it won’t.<br />
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And sure there are other horror movie villains: mummies, werewolves, possessed vehicles, large dogs, socialism, etc. But those are too boring to mention. Mummies are no zombies.<br />
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Be safe out there tonight trick or treating because drivers are just supposed to keep an eye out for children in the roadway not full grown adults with no reason to still be begging door to door for candy. And please remember that the threat of tampered candy is totally 100% real, always happens, and it’s best if you just drop your candy off at my house to be checked. Text for the address.Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7996104857974206830.post-15638330502986385152011-10-26T17:06:00.001-04:002011-10-26T17:07:08.026-04:00No Turning Back NowThis is the moment you've all been waiting for. Your whole lives have likely been leading right up to this point. The point in which you, soon-to-be very loyal reader, experience this blog for the very first time. Take a minute to drink it all in because you'll never feel this way again. <br />
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"Where were you when Anna's blog launched?" your grandchildren will likely ask you someday, when they are visiting you in the nursing home for some school report on the Olden Days. "What is an iPhone, Grandpa?" is something else they will likely ask you, just slightly before they laugh themselves silly at the idea that we used to hold small electronic devices up to our ears to talk to each other. Probably they will press the button implanted behind their ear to buzz their friends to tell them to get a load of it. They will not believe it. And you will chuckle quietly to yourself as you go back to your tapioca pudding. Because even in 60 years, old people will still be eating tapioca pudding. Old people are crazy, man. <br />
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But look around you, folks. This is where you are when Anna's blog launched. Are you sitting at a coffee shop on your iPad because you are an ultra trendy hipster type? Right... me either. You've probably never even heard of the kind of iPad I have anyway. Are you in the presence of your friends and/or family members and are neglecting them to be on the ground floor of the blog that will change our generation forever? (If that is the case, you are right to do so. In 10 years, they will understand. Wait it out.) Are you sitting at your desk with your mouse hovering above the minimize button so just in case anyone walks by you can switch immediately back to your safety spreadsheet? Are you in your car? (Look up, idiot, the light is green and that honking is about you.) Are you naked? (Pics or it didn't happen.) Where you are now is where you will be when you tell this story over and over and over and over again. I hope for your sake, you're not on the john. "Yes, kids, I just sat there quietly shitting while the world changed." <br />
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What can you expect from me? I am a 20-something lawyer-by-day, avid crafter, occasional musician, urban farmer, aspirational painter, amateur arts critic, general self-proclaimed expert on the art of making things up as you go and hoping it turns out okay.<br />
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What can you expect from this blog? What a great question. To it, I say this: Excellence.Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16328447159404156311noreply@blogger.com6