Is your life ever too quiet? Your time at home too peaceful? Now you can recreate irritating situations without ever leaving your room! The Black Noise Machine 2000 comes equipped with the most popular obnoxious sounds that will keep you up at night. Everyone in the family will want their own! Don’t worry, just like …
Went to Spudnik Press‘ bi-monthly Drink and Draw event Wednesday with my friend Devon. Much silliness ensued, this drawing being a good example (Devon and I picked one noun, verb and adjective: in this case they were animal, sparkly and sitting). Later everyone there tried to draw the continental United States from memory- it was …
I’ve been doing yoga for 4 or 5 years and I recently bought a Groupon for hot yoga. Before now I’d only taken two hot yoga classes and wasn’t sure I loved it, but I figured it would be nice to have a sauna-like environment in the middle of the winter. Plus, yoga is expensive, …
Chair I saw at the Millionaire’s Rejects consignment store. I’d take it!
Wicker Park Characters.
At all three jobs I currently hold, the skill of smiling is essential. I am paid to smile, to look friendly, (pretty), open, and helpful; usually the goal of selling something. David Foster Wallace describes this as the “Professional Smile” in A Supposedly Fun thing I’ll Never Do Again. I find that smiling professionally can …
When I was at home this summer, we laid out every last piece of my favorite childhood toy across the kitchen table. My sister and I played with Playmobil constantly from the time we were old enough not to swallow it well into middle school. We would build Playmobil tree houses in our Christmas trees …