A Friendly Reminder to Discard Old Cosmetics

Sure, you'll want to see if you can still pull off wearing Maybelline's "Tart," found in the back of the closet, but it will just stick to you like a melted crayon and you'll wind up scrubbing it off your lips with a fingernail brush.

Ahhh Yeah

New water heater. Maybe my gas bill will even decrease, now that I'm not keeping a barrel full of lime at 130°.

In other news, I totally forgot over the last week that I'm a student, and I have a quiz today and assignments due this week. I'd love to stay and chat, but I have to go learn propositional logic now.

Traveling with Everybody Else this Weekend

Be thankful.

Why da U.P. Doesn't Make the Best Cookie

1. The Keweenaw Peninsula sticks to the cookie cutter.
2. Da U.P. burns quick, eh?
3. No one recognizes it unless it's shown in relation to the mitten.



But they're still delicious. :-P

Prison Break

The upcoming holiday weekend has me shackled to the desk trying to Get It All Done. This not entirely unpleasant, as today I only had a bra on for just as long as it took to pick up kitty litter at K-Mart.

When I look out the window, there's one narrow scrap of a view with no visible power lines, cars, brick duplexes, or Little Caesar. Here it is, complete with snow flurries:

Nine West Tote Bag: LIke a Clown Car!

When you’re stuck writing, you’re supposed to do silly exercises, like itemize everything in your purse.

November/December issue of Layers: The How-To Magazine for Everything Adobe
November/December issue of Audubon
September/October issue of Audubon
Manila folder containing assignments and hand-outs from Imaging and Illustration class
December issue of Harper’s
2006 calendar
Wallet containing:

One five dollar bill
Fifteen one dollar bills
Six quarters
Five dimes
Two nickels
Six pennies
Expense reimbursement check from work
Driver’s license
Two debit cards
Two credit cards
Washtenaw Community College ID
Ann Arbor District Library card
Dad’s business card
J’s business card
D’s business card
Business card from date who never called again
20 minute long distance calling card
voter registration card
medical insurance card
Frequent buyer cards for Afternoon Delight, Cranesbill Books, Beaner’s Coffee, and Bombadill’s
Blockbuster membership card

Ticket to Friday, December 1 Detroit Pistons game
Hefty One-Zip bag containing Whole Foods organic pretzel sticks
3.5“ x 5.5” Moleskine notebook
Scünci hairbrush
Headset for cell phone
Box of 2“ x 2” origami paper
Bic mechanical pencil
Barrette
Four quarters
One nickel
Two pennies
Pen with purple ink
Set of three computer back-up tapes
Cell phone
1.0 GB USB flash drive
Badger Ginger and Lemon lip balm
iPod Nano
Straw paper
Kroger Plus shopper card
Doublemint mints
Victory Lane Quick Oil change card
BreathSavers mints
Two bobby pins
Hair band
Two paper clips
Five of my business cards
Note to get P. a crispy chicken sandwich and C. a grilled chicken sandwich and a baked potato at Wendy’s
Granola bar wrapper
Staples tax-exempt customer card
Cosmetic bag containing:

Two panty liners
Sewing kit stolen from Crowne Plaza Hotel in Anaheim, California
Compact of four lip glosses and lip brush
Compact of face powder
Tube of Maybelline shiny•licious lip gloss, Sugar Plum
Emery board
Visine for Contacts
Contact case
One tampon
Four bobby pins
One moist towelette

Pencil case containing:

Retractable Hi-Liter
Pencil sharpener
Kneaded eraser
Post-It Note flags (green)
Two paper clips
Black roller-ball pen
Two miniature scotch tapes
#2 pencil
2B pencil
4B pencil
6B pencil

And! Get this! Another purse! Inside my purse! With a change purse inside that...so I can stick the cash and the cell phone in something more portable and stick the big tote in the trunk before going to meet dates who never call again, but whose business cards I’ll find three months later.

But I’m not officially my mother yet - no Heinz ketchup packets.

Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Girl

I need to talk to my parents about these high-waisted, satiny-shiny pink pants...



No date on the back of the Polaroid. I'm guessing circa 1975.

We still have the paneling.

Annual Holiday Gift Guide

The Assault of the Christmas Carols has begun, and that means one thing: It’s time for the second annual Hawk in Rain holiday gift round up.

The God Squad pajamas have already received quite a bit of blogular attention round the ‘sphere, and I am growing closer to someone who, sadly, actually already has this. But I scoured the Internets high and low, though my eyes were weary and my fingers sore, to bring you, my loyal hawklets, my top three selections for those hard-to-buy-for loved ones.

Look no further
Web special only
As original as fingerprints

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

The feeders have been up for nearly four weeks now, and still no birds have visited Cafe Chez Kim Deux. I see blue jays, cardinals, and flickers around. Perhaps when the snow comes they'll stop by for some seeds.

While I sit and wait and wish for the colorful anti-depressants that are the birds, I have this wet sciurid to entertain me.

Quote of the Day

"Nanotechnology is really huge."

A Thousand Cranes

The colored papers fluttered about like trapped birds. The raw wind and naked trees kept the real birds from venturing out from nearby deeper woods. One of the iridescent paper cranes reflected the scudding gray clouds, the twitching branches and waving dead grass, splintered images like shattered glass. I felt like my bones were stitched to the outside of my skin.

There was no grave stone yet, just a brass marker with his names and dates on it, cold and square. We all looked at each others' shoes, chilled by a force that might tear us asunder if we looked at each others' eyes. I pushed a dowel down into the soil, careful not to loosen any of the long strands of origami cranes tied around the top.

I stepped back and watched as they strained against the twine, as tethered as souls to earthbound bodies.