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i was blessed with good hair and a bad scalp. my scalp gets so dry in the winter, it's terrible. but, i think i've found something that seems to be working. i've been taking iron, along with my one-a-day, at lunch.. but without the consistent routine over the holiday, i stopped out of forgetfulness, and it seems to be affecting my scalp's temperament.

skin issues run in the family.. all my aunts and my mom (i think) have rosacea... we also, most of us, have a prominent mole on our face. mom's is on her forehead, and aunt sue's is on her nose. i have one on my left temple. i don't know about the other aunts (or uncles, for that matter). weird.

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i dumped my stash onto the carpet early this week, in order to refresh my mind as to what's in the huge rubbermaid bin; and to see if any combos jumped out at me... unfortunately, i have little of anything that matches and if it does match, there aren't enough yards to do anything with. and why did i buy so much sugar 'n cream when i started knitting? i h8 cotton. i also have this weird green ribbon yarn that i got from st. vinny's. i think i just bought it because it was yarn and it was cheap. then there's a couple balls of ggh esprit that i suppose i could use as cuffs for my bittens. a ball of some yucky-to-knit-with suede yarn, also from elann. maybe this experience will disuade me from buying yarn online unless i've seen it irl first. like my favorite, old standby, brown sheep lamb's pride worsted. i <3 that stuff. off to experiment!

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i've had this skein of colinette point 5 for over a year. i got it on ebay because i loved the colors, and it was cheaper than retail. i tried making a scarf out of it on 5 different sized needles yesterday, and none of them were cooperating. i've never had this hard of a time with any bit of yarn until now. i finally had about 2' done on US15 needles and decided to frog it. i said, outloud to no one, "maybe this yarn doesn't want to be a scarf. maybe it wants to be a hat.

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ignore the hilarity of this website and click on the blonde girl on the bottom left. hip star hair styles.
that's how i'm getting my hair cut on tuesday. i was scheduled for a cut on jan 6 but there was no way i could wait that long. i can't handle how long my hair is in back; let alone for another 2 weeks.

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t-4 hours until i don't have to set foot in middleton for 10 days.

something to look forward to, though, is that we'll be very busy when we get back.

on another note: i placed an order on amazon on wednesday and they still haven't charged me. i think they're ignoring my order because i didn't choose 2-day or next-day shipping.

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if you can get this to work (it's a windows media file), it's worth watching.
Compfused.com - Sand Art

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i just stumbled upon this handy website with videos of knitting techniques!

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i made the horrible mistake of watching dr. 90210 last night because meet the feebles wasn't cutting it. the shallow, self-centered idiots that get fat sucked out of them, and plastic things inserted into their cheeks, and bubbles of silicone inserted in their chest lessen my faith in humanity tenfold.

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i can't f*ing believe it's december 21st already. happy solstice!

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it didn't go so well last night. you know the kind of nights where you fall asleep at 10:30, wake up at 1, fall asleep at 1:30, wake up at 3:17, fall asleep at 3:45, wake up at 5:18, happy that your alarm won't go off for another hour and then at 6:15, you snooze and then decide to reset the alarm for 7, forgoing any time for a shower? that's what i did last night. the worst part is that most of the sleep-time was taken up with work-stress dreams. i'll tell ya, the week-long holiday i'm about to have can't come soon enough.

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for a couple years now, gramma gets $1 scratch-off tickets for everyone which she hands out at our holiday get together.. well last night, i thought we won $1,058 but the instructions were less than clear and it turns out that it was completely backwards; we didn't win anything.
but the second ticket was a $24 winner. which kurt thought would be good to turn into powerball tickets for this wednesday's drawing. he says we're due.

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i have "luckenbach texas" in my head.

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an oldy but goody. this is, and always will be, hilarious: this is fun to make a blog on the computer website

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bob, you'll like this: A Japanese Tradition

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i don't remember a whole lot of it, but i do remember that i was in my hometown of oregon, wi, walking around where i used to have the majority of my paper route and someone was having a garage sale in their living room (?), so i went in and discovered that they had an old atari 2145 (this model doesn't really exist) and it was all silver and shiny instead of being made of black plastic, like the atari 2600. and it was going for $10 but i didn't have any green money on me. then i woke up.

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9 business days until a week-long holiday... i will have a hard time sitting still for these next two weeks.
check out this awesome website w/ printable holiday cards.

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to bust out a bunch of the new knitty's pocket creatures for gifts around the office. we'll see how long one takes before i promise too much; plus i have to find dried lavender. and cotton? maybe i'll just buy some cheap socks.

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i've stopped carpooling. i'll bet that sounds weird; kinda like, "i hate the earth and i will pollute more now!1"

we're doing a trial run to see if my panic attacks are caused by my feeling like i can't leave when i want.. if i needed or wanted to. even on the days that i drive, there would still have to be coordination around who's going to get him home. i think it boils down to me having very little patience. this is a fault of which i've known for several years but can't seem to shake it alltogether.
regardless, i haven't even felt slightly panicky at all this week; even if it's placebic*.
i just discussed this word-use with coworkers, and they wanted me to use "placeboesque" or "placebo-like" and i said no.

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i don't get as many creepy search engine referrals since 3 years' worth of entries are no longer out on the internets. i do miss going back to see what i was feeling/doing a year ago, though.. but we might have some good news, apparently my webhost upgraded my account last month to include a mysql database, so i might have better luck importing entries into that. i really don't like sitting in front of a computer when i get home, so this transition will have to wait until either the weekend, or our holiday.

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somehow, the manner of living to which i have become accustomed has been costing more, leaving me with less. i'm not exactly sure what habits i've changed that have resulted in a tiny wallet, but i wish they'd go back to where they came from.

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