general On FIRE, I tell you

Posted May 12, 2007 • Comments Off on On FIRE, I tell you

I’ve gotten so much done today. Cleaning out the guest room in preparation for getting rid of my old computer desk, putting things on Freecycle, making room in the living room for my new drop-leaf table, and so on. Threw out tons of magazines after speed-reading them. Put some books away. Sorted out the silver I inherited into keep and maybe-don’t-keep. Just good work all around.

I even filed my 2002 tax papers in the right place. As opposed to where they were, which was in a giant completely random box of papers I packed in a frenzy when I had to unexpectedly move in late February 2003 due to my old apartment getting flooded with poo. Ah, nostalgia.

That box contained lots of great stuff, including the great stuff referenced at the end of this post. Also all the postcards and letters Lisa sent me from Florida in the time between when they moved down there and when I did. Much of this is addressed to Lainey Burdine. There are several cards made at those wonderful American Greetings kiosks they don’t have anymore. We loved those, back in the day. I think they were called Creatacard, the same as the software. The software unfortunately displaced the kiosks, which is teh suck because the machines had plotters, not printers, and would draw cartoons, a color at a time, while you watched. Marvelous.

I even found the photos from the summer of 1993 that I’ve been looking for since roughly September 12, 2001. The ones that document my last, and David’s and Lisa’s only, trip to the top of the World Trade Center. You have no idea how dearly I wanted to find these pictures, and now I have.

…also I made my very own Pirates of the Caribbean flag.

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That’s what I’m talking about. Make yours here.

In other news, I did something I’ve been meaning to do for ages and photographed some of Arwen’s old handmade Christmas solstice/new year cards, which were always too pretty to throw away. I’ll post those toward the end of the month on the photo site, with comments. Have you seen the photo site since I revamped the template? It’s awesome now. The link is always at the top of this page.