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Monthly Archives: January 2010

2010-01-29: this is not the picture i wanted to post today

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2010-01-29: this is not the picture i wanted to post today, originally uploaded by octette_stars.

the picture i wanted to post today was a picture of queenie and shiksa sleeping on my bed together. adorable!!! but [...]

2010-01-28: photoshop never changes

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2010-01-28: photoshop never changes, originally uploaded by octette_stars.

i have photoshop again (and can use it without my computer crashing!) for the first time in many many years. like, at least three or four at this [...]

2010-01-27: gus, don’t be this crevice in my arm

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2010-01-27: gus, don’t be this crevice in my arm, originally uploaded by octette_stars.

mom slept through most of psych, but queenie was captivated. she loves dule hill, like all right-thinking people and cats.

2010-01-26: taco bell.

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2010-01-26: taco bell., originally uploaded by octette_stars.

taco bell, oh my god, i love taco bell so fucking much. there is no reason why taco bell should be so delicious when it is so disgusting. and [...]

2010-01-25: daddy and his pickaxe fixing the flooded driveway

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2010-01-25: daddy and his pickaxe fixing the flooded driveway, originally uploaded by octette_stars.

on monday, the driveway flooded, and dad used this giant pickaxe to divert the ocean into the woods. it was really cool.

2010-01-24: burning the composition notebook from 2009 in our sunday evening fire.

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2010-01-24: burning the composition notebook from 2009 in our sunday evening fire., originally uploaded by octette_stars.

i am going to pretend 2009 never happened. usually i send my composition notebooks to moose, but i couldn’t even [...]

2010-01-23: butler family restaurant and diner

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2010-01-23: butler family restaurant and diner, originally uploaded by octette_stars.

supper with dad and nancy saturday night at the local, family-owned diner. they made my egg salad fresh when i ordered it, and it was delicious.

2010-01-22: mmm eggplant.

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2010-01-22: mmm eggplant., originally uploaded by octette_stars.

uncle jeff likes eggplant parm. i hadn’t made it in, like, ten years — but it was really easy. it came back to me with no problem, and the [...]

2010-01-21: cheese crackers

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2010-01-21: cheese crackers, originally uploaded by octette_stars.

i made these using the smitten kitchen’s recipe for cheese straws. the last time i made these, i made straw-shaped ones, and this time they were cracker-shaped.

2010-01-20: they call kids like us vicious and carved out of stone

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2010-01-20: they call kids like us vicious and carved out of stone, originally uploaded by octette_stars.

this is two sticks of butter, 2-1/2 cups of flour, and 1/4 cup of sugar, before i stuck my fingers [...]