At work, in an effort to stave off boredom and burn off some creative energy, I decided to try to create an uber-trendy scarf out of paper clips. I had a vision of this glittering chain mail scarf trimmed with black binder clips. I saw myself as the next great thing to hit Project Runway and expected high fashion experts to be flocking to my front door any day now with offers to fund my latest line of office supply daily wear.
Well, there's a little problem with the whole paper clip scarf plan. You see, linked together paper clips don't really know that they are supposed to stay all flat and fabulous. I mean, I told them to do that, and even helped them believe in their potential to be flat and fabulous. And the paper clips were looking kinda cool sitting on my desk all glittery and edgy lying nicely flat in their properly assigned rows.
Then I picked up my carefully crafted creation to reveal... the biggest cluster ball of knotted paper clips I've ever seen.
I cursed under my breath as I untangled some 300 paper clips and gave up on my dreams to be America's next top fashion designer. I couldn't even bring myself to photograph the disaster for your viewing pleasure. Just picture a huge mound of unfabulous paper clips and you've basically got the right idea.
| May 12, 2008 03:36pm | 
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| May 7, 2008 12:35pm | 
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It was a wonderfully social weekend with a great art closing reception Friday night, several friends over for a relaxing garden potluck Saturday night, scoring lots of great deals at the Alameda flea Sunday morning, a brief appearance at San Francisco's bear bar Sunday afternoon before seeing the kick ass Iron Man movie. In the midst of all that was beautiful weather, time with my men and some down time at home. All-in-all, it was a great weekend and I vote we skip this whole weekday thing and have another weekend right away.
| May 5, 2008 09:10am |
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For my birthday Greg went to KidRobot and bought me a glowing Munny figure.
He comes with 4 "secret" accessories. Mine came with goggles, a sword, a spray can and... a cape! This Munny is ready for his superhero spotlight.
The idea is to decorate your near featureless Munny with crayons, markers, stickers and paint. But I'm loving my amorphous superhero too much to change him one bit.
He currently sits on a dresser in the bedroom glowing valiantly as I head off to sleep, protecting me from the evil that lurks under the shadow of darkness.
| May 2, 2008 12:04am | 
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That whole lack of sleep thing the last few weeks totally killed my blogging inspiration. I mean, how many ways can I say "I just want to get some damned sleep!" before I start sounding like a bitch & moan thesaurus? I finally got some sleep over the weekend and was feeling nearly normal again, but the last few days I've been back to pain and not sleeping great again. Today is my Friday so hopefully I'll find some more rest this weekend. Of course on this "Friday" the auditors have arrived to review first quarter financials. I'm so not happy to see them.
| May 1, 2008 07:57am | 
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