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I was playing around with my WP theme and came up with a new one with blurry blues, black background, and a white content area - now available for download: nytewurks (I’m currently using).  It has the nifty featured section - just label a category as “Featured” to have it automagically show up in the sidebar.  [...]

Since I have so much to be thankful for, and since it is Thanksgiving, I wanted to do a stream-of-consciousness post on 101 things I’m thankful for.  I thought about ordering them at first, but that just didn’t seem right somehow. 1. Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha; my sweetest of sweets daughter.  I’ve been ‘in love’ [...]

10 Wolf Parade + You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son 09 Wolf Parade + Grounds for Divorce 08 Sunset Rubdown + Us Ones in Between .:*Spencer Krug gently singing in the lamplight*:. 07 Sunset Rubdown + For the Pier (and Dead Shimmering) A great glimpse into Spencer Krug’s show intensity! 06 Wolf Parade + This Heart’s on [...]

I couldn’t sleep this morning - I was wide awake at 4:00 and couldn’t get back.  I tried the usual plane crash daydreams but to no avail… so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to start my new regime. I’d been planning to make some changes this week anyway and was falling behind, so really, [...]

if you’ll believe in anything. I took a rare week night out with my sis and her husband to go see Wolf Parade at The Marquee in Tulsa tonight - it was the best show I’ve seen in years. First we stumbled out of the T-storms & tornadoes into “Lola’s,” a dia de los muertos themed tapas bar [...]

It felt like my family and I spent the whole of October celebrating Halloween; or at least celebrating the cool weather and the orange backdrop of fall, as well as out-of-town family & friends coming and going. Our family loves fall anyway and we always get an early start on the festivities… this year it started [...]

Well - I may not have produced the world’s greatest modern mosaics, but I did end up with three little pieces of color and awkwardness that I like enough to display in my decor. Plus going to art class was really a nice segway from the office. So here’s what I made - three tree-themed smalti [...]