Gifts you don't need

Smoking Mittens

Cool affordable art

The site 20x200 is a pretty cool idea. Each week they offer original art work at an affordable price. The 8 X 10 prints are always $20 but there are only 200 of them (hence the name).

A while back I ordered mushroom man (real name: manshroom) and he arrived recently.



New art goes on sale every Tuesday and Wednesday, but looks like things sell out quick. Yay for affordable art.

Now I just need to matte, frame and figure out where it should go in the house.

Grading Music

I'm immersed in the end of the quarter task of grading, grading and more grading. I'm annoyed at all my music and feel like I just keep hitting next on the old iTunes. The only thing that makes me happy at the moment is the Mountain Goats. For example, The Monkey Song makes me disproportionately happy.

Experts letting me down easy

Over the past couple of weeks, I've had two instances of experts putting a gentle and seemingly complimentary phrase on a less than flattering physical condition that I didn't even know I had.

Exhibit A: At the hippie shoe store last week in downtown oly, I tried on 15 pairs hoping to find the perfect comfie, water proof, dog walking shoes. My search was futile. Nothing really fit. I tried my shoe size in plus or minus a half a size of many, many cute and appropriate shoes. But everything was too tight or too loose. The very nice and patient (and probably tired of hauling shoe boxes out of the back of the store) gently informed me that this was probably due in part to my narrow instep. Makes me seem petite and graceful huh, having a narrow instep? Actual translation: You have flat feet.

Exhibit B: At the dentist today, I was subjected to hours of torture from what I assume is a dental assistant who ended dental school yesterday. I had to get a hideous dental dam for some of the work, which is kind of like being smothered by latex with your mouth open. On her (no kidding) 12th attempt to get that thing hooked on my tooth, she gave up and called in the dentist. He had no problems, getting in one try. But he did remark: Well, it might be because your teeth are so nicely tapered. Actual translation: You have fangs.

Centralia looks like New Orleans

Centralia is a small town located at the midpoint between Seattle and Portland. After the rains earlier this week, it's currently underwater. It's also the birthplace of husband jeremy and home to much of his enormous family.

More pictures from the Seattle times of the aftermath of flooded Centralia.

Jeff on our road trip

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Originally uploaded by emjanero

this is from when jeff and i were road tripping to the oregon coast last summer. yee-haw