PullAnyWordOutOfYourAss Scrabble.

Nic and Mils,
I don't care what any dictionary says.
These aren't real words.

happy hour(s) friday.

something apropos.

Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters (1971)

I have yet to hear a female voice more beautiful, pure and controlled than Karen Carpenter's. I saw a made-for-tv movie about her life when I was about 9 and it was one of the most inspiring and moving things I'd ever seen (still to this day). My mom had us tape the movie the night it aired and I swear my sister and I played it back so many times we wore the VHS tape right out. I've been searching the internet for a copy of this movie for a while now. I think I may have finally found the real one. Yay.

Note to Claudia: Karen had a passion for the drums at a young age, and when everyone told her to just hold the mic and sing because a drum kit wasn't lady-like, she told them to eat it. Pretty bad ass for the time huh? ;)

busted up mac.

My mac laptop is broken and completely useless forevermore (i think).
I woke up on Saturday morning, pressed the space bar to 'wake it up from its sleep' and everything froze.
Hmmm.
I restarted the only way I really could. I pushed the button and held it until the screen went black and all sounds were nulled to complete silence. When it started up again, it took about 1 hour to call up the desktop screen and the only thing that loaded up was my background photo. W T F ?
Packed her up, got into my car and brought it right to the Geek Squad at Best Buy. Three dudes told me that they were sorry to say that although files could be backed up one way or another, there was NO hope for fixing it. The data processor motherboard thingy was all ruined and worn out and I'd just have to buy a new one.

PARDON???

I waltzed around the store in a daze glancing at the new shiny laptops with their insane pricetags. I'm envisioning having to pick one up this week, but I still want to get a second opinion from some mac nerds tomorrow. I'm using a PC for the time being and it's a very uncomfortable feeling.

melissa. says:
what are u even doing on the pc right now?
lins says:
ohhhhhhhhhhh just database coding and WHATNOT...
lins says:
updating my excel spreadsheets
melissa. says:
lol serious?
lins says:
what do you think?
lins says:
im using the pc to Google deals on macs.
melissa. says:
lol
lins says:
so i can get off the pc.
lins says:
i'm gonna blog this for lenny.
lins says:
i think he put a spell on my mac. fuck.
melissa. says:
he talks a lot of mac smack
lins says:
lol

If you keep losing sleep...

District Energy Solutions//rebranded.

crayon angels.

Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold; performing his cover of this beautiful Judee Sill classic.
God, I love this bearded creature.

highly addictive chocolate.

Tania brought in a big box of chocolate today to sell for the children of Jane & Finch or Rexdale or something like that. We pretty much savaged through most of the packs already; all for the kids, of course.

The Red Cross will be here all day tomorrow. The last time they set up at this location I wanted to give blood but was unable to because I recently visited the Dominican Republic and that's a BIG no-no for them. Mosquitoes and malaria don't jive too well with Red Cross folk. I was slightly sad and slightly relieved. They were still super cool about me showing up and gave me cookie and an apple juice all the same. I'm thinking about giving it another shot tomorrow.

for marie.

5/81.

Mom and sis, May of 1981 (according to the faded blue ink on the back of the photo).

I came across this last night for the first time while flipping through and old album. I don't remember much about the first house we lived in. I can vaguely remember the main hallway/stairs and maybe a few pieces of furniture, but the avocado-green tiled walls and red prints that make up this bathroom seem completely foreign to me. My mother looks shy and proud. I associate nothing but simplicity and innocence with this photo and time.