But it will also let you search for a specific color — I use the sliders to match up with beads:

And it’ll offer up a palette that matches your chosen color!

Your palette also has a Pin It button that’ll let you pin some pretty color in the hopes that we can drive out the usual denizens of Pinterest…pictures of impossibly fit/skinny people tagged “inspiration” and pictures of poor newborns smushed into unnatural positions or shoved into cowboy boots.

(Return of the ax murderer handwriting!)

Oh, the ring will come eventually, when I decide what the heck I want. But we’ve been wanting an iPad since the first one came out and even though we seriously, absolutely do NOT need one, I got tired of drooling for an object that people buy for toddlers.

The iPad is sweet. Oh so sweet. This is our Christmas gift to us.

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Anyway, I’m off from the sloggy job today. Here’s the plan…

1) Vaccccuuumm*
2) Make cookie dough for Kristen’s cookie swap tomorrow.
3) Head to Best Buy and maybe Wegmans for lunch and eggnog if it’s not too crowded.
4) Bake six dozen cookies
5) Complete 2 loads of laundry.
6) Find a cute and jaunty way to print out the cookie recipe for the swap.

My “extra-credit” items –

Extra credit 1) Bake the sugar cut-out cookie dough that I have frozen.
Extra credit 2) Find a Christmas gift that’ll get to my Dad by, you know, Christmas.
Extra credit 3) Pick up the family cards at Hallmark. It’s in the same center as Best Buy and Wegmans.If I do this, I’ll reward myself with something at Starbucks.

*If you don’t know how to spell it and are too lazy to look it up, may as well make your mistake with wild abandon, right?

Secular, for those who Deck the Halls with Silver Bells but don’t much care what happened in that Little Town of Bethlehem.

Religious, for you “o NIIIIGHT DIVIIIIIIIiiiiIIIIIIIiiiiiNnnneeee!!!!” types

And both combined into one playlist!

And after listening to the Glee Holiday album, I’ll reiterate my opinion that these Glee albums are KidszBop for grownups.

But I can finally afford to take a class at Temple!

I’m playing with my theme today while I learn, so you’ll be seeing weirdness here today. Well, more weirdness than usual

But for every professional, dedicated web comic artist there are hundreds who call themselves comic artists but fall short on the dedication scale. For example, there’s a weekly webcomic that I used to follow that lets weeks go by without updating. It hasn’t been updated since August 8th and there is always a comical excuse for why it hasn’t been updated. (Yet, the tip jar remains open).

Anyway, I found a site called stripgenerator.com which let me create this tribute to the lazy webcomic artists everywhere…

I’m an artist!! by lazyartist

Today: raining. Blah, but expected.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny. Okay.
Sunday: Sunny. Great!
Monday: Cloudy. Eh.
Tuesday: Rain. Good. If not the 823 mushrooms that have sprouted around our apartment will surely die.

Saturday. Saturday…what’s that? No. Can’t be..

Dandelions! Yes…HAS to be dandelions.

(re: my last post — you guys are great. <3 )

September 5, 2004

Because of that time I spent with Steve’s Apple II…

10 PRINT “I learned to flood a screen with my name which eventually lead me to flooding the internet with my words and leaving a secretary’s job to become a web designer.”
20 GOTO 10

>RUN

Because of that computer, I played Oregon Trail and died of dysentery more times than anyone ever should.

And so because of Steve Jobs I grew up unafraid of computers.

Because I grew up unafraid of computers, one day I had the courage to crack open a PC and look inside.

Because of Steve Jobs I can hold more music than a girl should ever own in the palm of my hand.

Because of Steve Jobs I have 2 years worth of photographic memories IN MY TELEPHONE.

Thank you, Steve Jobs. The world is a less creative place without you.

1) Make two doc appointments: one for the eyes and one for the neglected thyroid. About the eyes: I think I haven’t had an eye appointment in 2 or 3 years. About the thyroid: I feel fine..light-years from how I felt on the levothyroxine last summer. But the worry of something being wrong is still in the back of my head. Could I feel even better than what I consider fine? I’m skipping my primary physician for this and going to a local doc that was recommended by two completely different people. I’d like to schedule both appointments for one day and just take off of work.

2) Wash, dry, fold AND PUT AWAY 2 loads of laundry.

3) Take two 20 minute walks.

4) Read up on data integrity. It’s been a while since I’ve dealt with databases. Time to brush up again.

5) Eat a salad every day. Not for the nutritional benefits, but to fill up on stuff other than Entenmann’s.

6) Figure out how much it would cost me to package and ship a pair of earrings to someone here in the US. This is the next step of my loooooong trek toward opening an Etsy shop. Pricing is my downfall. I never kept track of how much my beads and wire cost so it’s hard to approximate how much I should charge for things. But envelopes & shipping are pretty concrete costs.

What’s on your list?

This is the official AP headline for the story about Taylor Swift’s quest to win as many awards for “smooching on the porch swing” songs as she can. I know this because many news outlets kept the same headline.

My list of grievances is only five bullet points long.

• Believe it or not, Taylor Swift is 21 years old. That makes her a woman.
• Jason Aldean is 34 years old. Very much a man.
• Blake Shelton is 35 years old. That makes him a man, not a boy.
• Brad Paisley is 38 years old. Man!
• Keith Urban is 43 years old. That makes him a man.

What’s wrong with calling ourselves by the adult terms we earned? I have no problem calling myself a woman and I’d hope that Keith Urban would call himself a man.

Tonight we’re converging upon a little Italian joint in Marlton to celebrate the beginning of year 39. /jackbenny Thirty-nine isn’t bugging me 1/10th as much as 35 did. I think I’m just coming to grips with windows closing and other ones opening.

For my present from WM I can choose either a Dremel for jewelry making or a Figureprint of my favorite World of Warcraft character. I’m on the fence, as always.

My year 39 resolution is to get back to writing and get back to the social media juju that I love, including this blog and Twitter. To that end, I signed up for an SEO class tomorrow night after work, and I’m going to WordCamp Philly 2011 on November 5th!

In other FANTASTIC news, WM finally got a teaching job! In a public school! Teaching social studies! For real, American money! This job came through just in time for us, because his 99 weeks of unemployment ended 2 weeks ago.

And that’s what I’m learning as I get older. That things don’t happen when I want them to happen, but they always happen just in time.