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Story of my life. (via JPG Mag)

Story of my life.

(via JPG Mag)
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Am I crazy, Art History students, or does this Sotomayor portrait look like it was done by Chuck Close? Either that, or she has a lot of face fuzz.  (via chaztoo) Am I crazy, Art History students, or does this Sotomayor portrait look like it was done by Chuck Close? Either that, or she has a lot of face fuzz.  (via chaztoo)
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These little guys stuck out through some crazy weather. Follow the link to look at the small set of photos of my first little tomato harvest. So juicy. (via chaztoo) These little guys stuck out through some crazy weather. Follow the link to look at the small set of photos of my first little tomato harvest. So juicy. (via chaztoo)
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Today I have been married to my beautiful wife for 7 years. She is a saint, and I love her. We have these two to show for it.

Today I have been married to my beautiful wife for 7 years. She is a saint, and I love her.

We have these two to show for it.
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andreasjp: last night i hosted my first couchsurfer! (for those of you who don’t know what couch surfing is, you sign up on couchsurfing.org, and you can either host people, or ask to be hosted when you’re traveling! it’s a great thing.) anyway, i’ve been signed up for awhile, but there’s really no reason why anyone should ever have to stop where i live, ha. i got an email wednesday from David (the couchsurfer guy) asking if it was to late to stay at my place thursday night (last night). i told him that it was perfectly fine, and cleaned the house and got everything ready for him. i can’t imagine a better person to be my first experience hosting.  he was incredibly nice and friendly, and picked up the tab at dinner.  i showed him around town a bit (there’s not much here) and we hung out at my place and watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith. i’m so glad he was able to come, best night in a long time. I’m looking on the Statistics page of their site and I’m having trouble finding the graph for the number of hosts murdered with an axe. I bet they could sell a lot of mommy blog ads on a page like that.

andreasjp:

last night i hosted my first couchsurfer!

(for those of you who don’t know what couch surfing is, you sign up on couchsurfing.org, and you can either host people, or ask to be hosted when you’re traveling! it’s a great thing.)

anyway, i’ve been signed up for awhile, but there’s really no reason why anyone should ever have to stop where i live, ha. i got an email wednesday from David (the couchsurfer guy) asking if it was to late to stay at my place thursday night (last night). i told him that it was perfectly fine, and cleaned the house and got everything ready for him.

i can’t imagine a better person to be my first experience hosting.  he was incredibly nice and friendly, and picked up the tab at dinner.  i showed him around town a bit (there’s not much here) and we hung out at my place and watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

i’m so glad he was able to come, best night in a long time.

I’m looking on the Statistics page of their site and I’m having trouble finding the graph for the number of hosts murdered with an axe. I bet they could sell a lot of mommy blog ads on a page like that.
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Tonight I’m trying out big hair. I’ll let you know how it goes. Tonight I’m trying out big hair. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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Twice on the Leaderboard today, and my first time getting five stars. Interesting that my denouncing the truth of my previous Eddie Murphy joke was funnier than the previous Eddie Murphy joke. You never know, I guess. Twice on the Leaderboard today, and my first time getting five stars. Interesting that my denouncing the truth of my previous Eddie Murphy joke was funnier than the previous Eddie Murphy joke. You never know, I guess.
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Spoils of the Storm Part 2 Fried. Spoils of the Storm Part 2 Fried.
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Spoils of the Storm Part 1 The storm knocked a little green tomato off the vine. now we fry it.

Spoils of the Storm Part 1

The storm knocked a little green tomato off the vine. now we fry it.
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I guess I just assumed “No children dying in a house fire” was one of the rules of writing children’s books. Next in the series is, “Clifford Investigates That Brother-Shaped Shadow at the Bottom of the Pool.” I guess I just assumed “No children dying in a house fire” was one of the rules of writing children’s books. Next in the series is, “Clifford Investigates That Brother-Shaped Shadow at the Bottom of the Pool.”