Blood diamond vs. Moissanite, what is the big deal people?

So recently I have been learning about Moissanite. I have been trying to figure out why jewelers look down on it so much. I looked up this question and was stunned to see how many jewelers still value diamonds as "Old money" regardless of where they come from. This is the scathing article I wrote back.

Yes, Moissanite is man made but it is still the second strongest stone on the planet. Naturally, it doesn't even come from this planet! There is no way to naturally mine it!
I think that the snobbery associated with diamonds is the only thing that keeps their value up. We are too well educated to pretend that we don't know where most diamonds come from. If you could see who was mining for those diamonds, would you really care that yours was made in a lab?
Don't pretend to be naive. No jeweler can absolutely guarantee that they aren't purchasing blood diamonds unless they have mined the diamonds themselves.
Yes, diamonds are associated with old money. So is inbreeding, slavery, and mental illness. If you can prevent at least one crime against humanity, why not take it? Moissanites don't have the same value as diamonds, but that is just it. Diamonds only have the value we give them.
Source(s):
http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.h…
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pdabt690.p…
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updat…
http://www.ipb.org/i/disarmament-and-dev…

Vintage clothing sites worth seeing

I don't know where this store has been my whole life!!!! I am so in love with this clothing! I love vintage clothing styles that actually flatter curves! And they are surprisingly affordable! Check it out!!!!!!!!! http://www.chinatowner.com

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Ipod fix it help-the other guys are rip offs

Wow! 4 followers! Its like some kind of fairytale come true!!!
So to celebrate my 4 loyal followers, I took a job writing for our University newspaper and broke my iPod! Hazaa!
I didn't break my iPod on purpose, it got drenched in my backpack on my way to work. I didn't notice its passing until I opened a backpack full of water. I did what I could. I cleaned it, I put it in a bag of rice and let it sit in the sun for 2 days. I cried and I yelled at it. In the end I had to face facts, it wasn't working and I was all alone!!!!!
So I started comparing prices and looking up online what to do and where to go. Lucky for me my year warranty had ended about 4 months ago! The pain has been terrible, but I did find some answers. For one thing I learned that places like "Best Buy" are a total rip off when it comes to iPod repair. You can pay about $60, to get your iPod shipped and "diagnosed" by a professional, but this does not include ANY actual repair.
I did find an incredibly helpful site with many wonderful iPod angels! They will email and answers questions and actually encourage you to fix it on your own!!!!! I'm not making that up! They have great videos and tutorials to show you what to do and they sell the parts, just the parts, to you, the consumer!!!!!!!
http://www.ifixit.com
Bless you ifixit.com

Single greatest band ever! Du Jour

nursing student= NAZI

WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH NURSES and/or NURSING STUDENTS!? I have dealt with a lot of nurses in my time. A LOT! I'm from a family of nurses and we have loads of health problems. So here is my problem, ladies and murses, CHECK THE ATTITUDE AT THE DOOR!!!!!!!! I can say this because I have tons of experience with this and so does my family. Yeah, your job is hard, very hard! Nurses can be saints! I personally believe that nurses do way more work and are way more qualified then 90% of doctors. YOU DO THE REAL WORK, I GIVE YOU PROPS!!!! But A BAD NURSE IS LIKE A BAD LIBRARIAN, ITS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SALVATION AND DAMNATION! I know very well that if I don't do my best to help a student I am screwing up their grade, wasting their money, turning them off to books, turning them off to education, ect........
Nurses, this is our life! Maybe you don't have pain you live with everyday, but a lot of us do. We expect doctors to be jerks but I'm always stunned when the nurses have way more attitude! If we can muster a good attitude while you poke the needle into the wrong vein 7 times and still smile while being poked and prodded in stirrups in front of a live audience:LADIES YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR ATTITUDE AT HOME! You are there with us at one of the most stressful, horrible, painful moments in our lives, don't use it to be smug! If you do, you will get smitten!For those nurses who are saints and keep us going, we love you! As for you stuck up 20 year old nursing students who are already giving me attitude when you need my research help, don't let the library door hit you too hard on the way out, and if it does, I hope you get an evil nurse!

Utah Drivers-hooray, now everyone knows how bad our driving is!

I just returned from Yellowstone National Park. It was awesome!!!!! What I noticed while in the park is that even in a National park UTAH HAS THE WORST, MOST AGGRESSIVE, STUPID DRIVERS!!!!!!! Why do I say this?
The only license plates that passed us, almost hitting majestic buffalo, elk, and other wildlife, while trying to text & take pictures with their cell phones going 65 were....... UTAHNS!
For your information the 2nd worst was IDAHO. They tried to kill, I kid you not, 2 Female Elk and their 3 babies as they tried to gently cross the road. The rest of us had pulled over and made a kind of blockade and were cheering the elk on. The Idaho driver came blasting through flashing their lights and trying to kill the baby elk. Finally the ranger had to make a blockade with his car lights flashing to stop drivers from killing the baby animals. Way to go Idaho!

New apt, school in a week, ug!

I have been staying with dear friends for about two weeks, but now I am in an apt of my own. It is a great feeling to just fall asleep on the couch and not worry about a thing. Well, I'm not worry free, but I do feel like I've had some good rest.

So we have a new batch of freshman arriving at school. Every year they look younger and younger to me. The worst part of this is that I have been to busy to write this paper so I have two days to write it now. Oy ve.
The great thing about all of this is that I get to me a lot of new people. The hard part is realizing how bug the age difference is between these freshman and I. I probably babysat some of them.

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Monday's are insane!! Hopefully this will make you smile

Batman-you shake a mean cape!!!!

I only got about 2 hours of sleep last night. Which makes this Batman clip even funnier for me. Get funky with yo bad self!!! "My name is ppMolly!"

I'm painting my room green, not with post-its and toenails! So just chill.

So it took about two weeks but I am finally moved out of my apartment! It has been such a mess! I left but now without putting a Jewish curse on the whole apartment complex-T'oey, t'oey!
I am sleeping on my friends couch because frankly, she is the coolest! It is sooooooo nice of her and her husband to give me a place to stay until I can move into my new place.
I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders! No more drama! "t'oey t'oey" knock on wood, sprinkle salt over right shoulder, Lord's Prayer 3 times, crack knuckles, Hail Mary....
I'm priming my new room for painting and every time I show people the colors I get the reaction, "Huh, that's neat", "You are brave" or "Maybe it is different on the walls". I get this comment about a lot of things, especially my hair and clothes. When I get a new haircut and I think I look sexy I get at least 2 people coming up and say, "You are so brave.I've always wanted to do that" , when I ask them why they don't they never answer!!!!
I know these people mean well but it is a backhanded complement. The room is only going to be a light shade of green! I'm not painting it with goat's blood and hair trimmings!

The new unicorn tears diet- Every 3 pounds you loose saves an endangered unicorn! Just send $400 to unicorn4ever at.....

So I come from a family of shall we say, limited health.We are loaded with allergies and diseases. * If you send me healthful suggestions to cure all my health problems,I will send you a bag of gluten-free, raw, free-range, vegan, flaming dog poop.
My body type is the kind that will be used to feed the vitamin enhanced cows, that feed the genetically altered super children or the year 3000.
So it ticks me off that people will preach about these super-fad diets when they can eat regular food! In a year or two, the new fad will be making chromosome-free food , then cooking it with your positive energy because hate kills vitamins!!!
Don't get me wrong, I eat this food, but its because I have to! If I eat food with too many preservatives I get very ill, but its worth it! I like to eat food with taste!! Sugar-free does NOT taste the same!
So people, if you are going to follow a fad at least have the decency to say what it is, A DIET THAT YOU SAW ON OPRAH. If you were really so socially conscious you wouldn't allow reality T.V. on the air, it kills the brains! Also, "Shark Week" would be a week long National Holiday.

The new Yuppie: Gluten-free does not = hippie

I feel it is my patriotic and Generation X duty to reveal you Glutten-free, trend vegans+vegatarians, perpetual texters, tweeters, and facebookers for what you really are. YOU ARE THE NEW YUPPIE.
Really, who do you think you are kidding? The only difference between you and your yuppie forefathers is that you pretend to have a social conscious. Instead of buying chocolate labs, you adopt them. And you aren't adopting the 3 legged one eyed chocolate labs that smell like pee, you want the labs that cost as much to adopt as you would pay retail.
Sorry, but you have been exposed for what you really are, the modern, technical YUPPIE OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM. You are the kind of person that tweets or texts people instead of talking to them. You get really excited every time there is a new version of the iPhone. You like concerts but not the "loud" ones (this is also code for big sell out).You like art but not the "weird stuff", this is also the case for Indie(independent music)You own every Dashboard Confessional album (I love these guys, but I'm sure even they listen to other types of music..)You don't want to have to be around those tattooed liberal crazy's, but you still claim that you are liberal.
Well, I'm not afraid to say it. You are yuppies! You might be worse than yuppies, because you try to hide under the titles of: Emos, Metro-Sexuals, Moderate Liberals, and most blasphemus of all- ARTISTS.

D.J. ing in my pajamas for 100 strangers?

Somehow last night I ended up being the D.J. for an annual Utah Opera Festival party. I came out of my apt to ask them to turn down the music, made some friends, and ended up being the D.J. that really got the party started. Very interesting.

"If it don't matter if you black or white, then why you so white?"

I hate moving! I pretty much hate it more that anything on God's green earth. My one consolation is that Rocky IV is on and I need a break. I've been adding texture and priming my bedroom walls for 8 hours! Apollo Creed and Drago to the rescue! Sorry but Drago could totally kick Sly's butt. He could fit Sly in his bellybutton and use him as a charm!
I haven't watched regular tv in months. I just haven't felt the need to. I've been too busy and it just seems too boring. In fact it is too boring. The great thing is that tonight I am too tired to move, but the slacker Gods have blessed me and I have my choice between Rocky IV and the top ten Michael Jackson music videos marathon! "Black and White" is such a great music video! "Scream" is still one of my favorites though. Michael was so much cuter with his bigger nose and when he was actually black. I wish I could moon walk with rollerskates!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNl2Pm9-7Vk
(Warning, much Jacksonian body grabbing and that kind of stuff)

I love this clip!!!!

No, I want color, no babies as peas in a pod posters!

I'm living surrounded by boxes and hangers all over the place. There is so much random garbage and I don't exactly know why I have it or if I need it later. What exactly do I do with my cheap "X-Men" cup or the 30 cd's that aren't marked but aren't blank? The mixes I have made, or friends have made for me, but won't y because they are so scratched up?I feel so guilt throwing them away.Do I need 50 extra push pins?
I finally buy paint for my bedroom. I loved the colors but then I felt so insecure when the salesman said, "Oh,you must really like color" TRANSLATION "What the #*&#@*&?! Who let this hippie-punk pick out color?".
Sorry sales-guy, but after being surrounded by cheap cream walls and stupid posters of babies wrapped up in a cabbage(What the?) & four year-olds pretending to get married, I want some color! I would like to be happy in the winter and the dark months, which are about 9 months long here!!!!!

Steve Martin I envy you and your banjo

I'm totally worn out and ready to cry. So I decided to watch one of my favorite you-tube videos, Steve Martin playing bluegrass with Earl Scrubbs.

I have banjo envy! I wish I had learned to play bluegrass when I played the violin!

Take your passive aggression and snork it

So this has been the month from Hell. Absolute, nightmarish, HELL. This is because I am moving out of my apt early thanks to our evil new Landlords. I thought I wouldn't have to until about the 14th but they changed their mind two days ago. So I am attempting to be moved out by Sat. This wouldn't be so hard but I actually have no where to put all my crud.
Ah, don't you love the month before school! Panic in the air, people(me included) are ready to leave all their worldly possessions(Except my Simpson's DVD's) and become Buddhist monks.

The other reason this month has stunk is because I am wanting to deck people. To me there isn't a worse quality in this world then passive aggression. If you want to be nice, be nice, if you want to be mean, be a jerk. There is nothing more exhausting then people who are fake and insincere! It drives me nuts! I know I am way more blunt then I should be, and I am willing to admit that and work on it. What I don't like is someone pretending they are nice, and then gossiping and backstabbing."A true friend stabs you in the front!" Lets stop the high school drama already!

Evil landlords, lots students not knowing where to go

Well, I'm pretty sure there is a special spot in hell for evil landlords. The Owners of my apt. complex are on the list. After being informed that we(the students) would have to move out 2 weeks earlier than we have in the last 3 years, the landlords then told us if we truly had no where to go we could stay until we could get into our new place.
Today we got a different announcement. Every day that we stay we will be charged $75. Everyone is so mad there aren't words to express it. So renovation on the house has been moved to triple time. I now have to be able to find room and have it ready to be moved into by Sat. I know that many students will basically be homeless for those two weeks thanks to this policy. So to you landlords, I put a Jewish curse on you!

Squirrel Nut Zippers

No one knows who the "Squirrel Nut Zippers" are. Which is too bad because they are so talented!

Steve Martin and the Muppets on the Banjo

Nothing makes me happier than watching Steve Martin play the banjo, unless he is playing it on the "Muppet Show"

Steve Martin on the Banjo

Nothing makes me happier than watching Steve Martin play the banjo!

Good Morning Smiley Face

In the summer, a group of "retired folks" known as the "Sunbirds" come to visit Logan. I normally enjoy these people quite a bit except that they all have newspaper issues.
By newspaper issues I mean:
1. They are mad that the "New York Times" doesn't come at 7am to a small mountain town in Utah
2. They are mad because the papers have to stay in the library
3. Why don't we open before 7am?!
4. They could have all the information from their favorite papers online for free but dag nab it- it is the principal of the thing! They want their free papers and now!

The return of the FRESHMAN!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!

Like the return of the Swallows to Capistrano, the freshman and flocking and returning to campus. DOOM DOOM DOOM!
Why do I feel such angst towards kids who were going to prom two months ago? Well, that question should answer itself. Some freshman are very sweet, endearing, and humble, these newbies are great!
What drives me nuts, and all librarians are the smug, barely 18 year-olds who still belong in high school. I just gave directions to a very annoyed future freshman, who obliviously had no idea where to go. Instead of listening to the directions she got annoyed and said "No". This happens a lot with the new students. I give them directions or help them to find a difficult book and they will tell us "No, you are wrong". Obviously they have no idea what they are doing, but they still have such an attitude that they have to disagree.
They are the "High School Musical" generation! Way more tough they the grunge rock,Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Marylin Manson, Beastie Boys, Biggie Smalls generation, sheesh!"Wait, who is Kirk Cobain?", "Who is Mr. T?", "What is a David Bowie? Was he in "Twilight"??"
Come on young grasshoppers! Face it, you are at the absolute bottom of life's totem pole now, and you need to accept it!
If someone helps you out, don't try teenage rebellion!

Baby Unibrow's Snappy New Outfit-What not to knit

Baby Unibrow’s Snappy New Outfit

By davidsdoll101

Don’t get me wrong, I love Thick And Quick, it’s my favorite cheap yarn. But there are things that you just shouldnt do with it. I like it for hats, it makes warm hats. Blankets, or big scarves, that’s what it’s for! But not for this, especially if you’re going to pair it with a floral print long sleeve shirt that doesn’t even remotely match.
Also, unibrow or no unibrow here? Is that a shadow or what? Discuss.

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Great books that no one has heard of

Ok, I love Modcloth.com but they have outdone themselves! I want both of these books! I love everything on their site! I wish I could afford it!

http://www.modcloth.com/store/Cute+2/Cute/ModCloth/Geeky+Dreamboats

http://www.modcloth.com/store/ModCloth/Apartment/Bookstore/Books/Book+of+Unuseless+Japanese+Inventions

http://www.modcloth.com/store/ModCloth/Holiday+2008/Employee+Gift+Picks/Vasils+Gift+Picks/FRUiTS+Japanese+Street+Fashion+Book

http://www.modcloth.com/store/ModCloth/Apartment/Decor/Desk+Accessories/Nature+Sounds+Speakers

http://www.modcloth.com/store/ModCloth/Apartment/Passive+Aggressive+Notes

The Devil Bushes in the yard will DIE!!!!!!!

I am trying to kill the evil demon bushes that live in the front yard of the house I'm moving into. Hobo spiders like the nest there and this morning I decided to take nature into my own hands. I put paint stripper on the stumps and put the rest on the roots. HA HA HA! Try to live now evil plant that only grows thorns and Hobos! Along with other dangerous chemicals this should kill the bush nicely! If the plants survive, then this bush is certainly assisted by Satan. I'm pretty sure all the roots go all the way to Hell anyway!

Demon llamas

This llama was seriously giving me the stink eye. I really thought it was going to spit on me! I don't mind horses, goats, and cows, but I am not the biggest fan of llamas. I had neighbors who had them growing up. I wanted to hurl funeral potatos at them and yell, "Tina, come get your Freakin' dinner!"

Not only that, apparently when you take a picture of a llama you capture its soul, which is evil! So not one set of pictures came out without the llamas having glowing red eyes!
Coincidence? I think not!!!!!

Grouchy llamas, amazing food, beautiful view; at the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, UT

I just spent a fabulous day with my friend/date Paul/Pauliwog at the Llama festival 2009 held at the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork, UT. Soooo beautiful! Amazing food! Amazing music! Grouchy llamas!
I don't know how many of you know llamas, but they are buggers. They are moody and they spit a lot. I guess tonight I sort of got to see their softer side but I still don't trust them as far as I can throw them!
I can always count on Paul for a great cultural experience! Who else do I know that cooks with coconut milk!? It was so beautiful, the sky was stormy and the wind was blowing a very hot wind, so for a little while there, we really did feel like we were in India. My only regret is that I couldn't take more pictures because my camera battery died. I bought a beautiful shall, and one I had it on, I looked like I should be going home to Israel! Let me just say, you haven't had cream of Wheat until you have it with cinnamon and coconut milk!!!

There's no place like home.....

I am going home for the weekend. I really need an escape and I guess this will have to count as a vacation. I just wish I didn't have the long drive! In the words of the Beach Boys, "I feel so broke up, I wanna go home! Let me go home!". Its been almost 2 months since I've been back home.

Finally some home renovation results!

So after a lot of really hard work I can finally start staining this woodwork and see the potential! It is gorgeous!

Recession Aggression Bag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJQiENt61Zw

Missing my grandma and grandpa soooo much.

I've been missing my grandma and grandpa soooooo much.
I've been looking at pictures from northern California where we are all from. This, unnamed bridge, my grandfather designed and was the engineer. I see it and miss him, but I love that he has given the world something so beautiful and did it just for the sake of doing it. I miss you grandma and grandpa!
This is such a beautiful picture, it does the landscape justice.

Way to protest Lady! You rock!

This goes out to the old lady flashing her butt for better health care, You Rock!!! http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/16260/

Mourning with those from the mudslide.

Is mourning today with those families that have lost family members in the Logan mudslide.
I feel so strange going back to parking for work in an area where a massive tragedy has occurred. I feel like I should leave something to tell these people I'm grieving with them. That beautiful view is so solemn, so cold now.
You are in my prayers! I truly hope that the families can find some peace. My heart is broken with you!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hQRvl3CbhO5j9gLU1xOMt-cAlbgQD99ELK1O0

Missing my babies!

They aren't technically mine, but I still miss my nieces and nephews. To me they will always be my babies, and I will always adore them!

Quote of the day

"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."

Jimmy Stewart, "Harvey"

Library cell phone confessions, be careful people I can hear every word!

Ok, so I thought I should inform the general public at large, I have ears like a bat, I mean I can hear EVERYTHING! I think it is to make up for my terrible eyesight that I've had since I was a child. People, the library is large which means, it echoes! It means we can all hear your argument with your ex-boyfriend or your mom! So until people learn some cell phone manners, I will begin the to embarrass all those people who talk way too loudly on cell phones, hoping that people will learn some manners.
Inappropriate Library cell phone conversations Diary:

Today's episode features the ever too perky newly-wed.

Episode one: The perky-wed
Perky-wed, is a girl age 18-22, very perky and very very newly married. How can we tell? She makes dumb comments like "Every day is like a date with my husband." Bless her heart!
So during this conversation I heard an interesting thing that made me want to blog. Girls, I don't know how you were raised, but you DO NOT SEND WEDDING INVITATIONS OVER FACEBOOK!!! That isn't the worst part, it is soooooooo tacky to post a message on facebook saying if you want an invatation contact us! Come on people! Did you send out a mass wedding invite text as well? Sheesh! How lazy can we get! Maybe we should just text the ceremony to save the time and trouble of travel. Show a little class ladies!

My new favorite sites and video links for do-it-yourself projects!!!!

http://www.monkeysee.com/

http://www.askthebuilder.com

I am woman, hear me roar!

Alrighty,
so the house is really coming along! We have discovered all the beautiful shelves and moldings are made of pine. That's right, I am restoring 50 year old pine! That is why I'm taking all this time and effort! If I have one more know-it-all guy tell me to just paint over it all with cheap white paint, I will kick them in the bo-jangles!!
Boys, I love you, but don't ever tell a woman what she can or can't handle!

Watch out, I am Wonder-Woman !

3 hours looking at rocks?

I've been really stressed and trying not to get depressed. After work I decided to look for some pretty rocks along what is basically a cliff top, for a zen garden. Pretty soon I had tons of rocks, 3 hours had passed, it was getting dark, and I had been just sitting and staring at Cache Valley from a hill top. It was soooooo relaxing. Not to mention that I found a fossil rock for my nieces and nephews!

I felt silly until I pulled out of the parking lot and saw another guy sitting on the hood of his car and staring at the view. Way to go man! Birds of a feather flock together!

Oh, and I did get amazing rocks for a Zen Garden. Ha! They were free! Eat my shorts Madonna and Richard Gere!!!!

Stupid Rolled up Newspapers

Ok, so every day in the library it is my job to catalog, organize, stamp and staple (Stample), all the newspapers that come to the University Library. We get really incredible newspapers in French, German, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, and one I haven't figured out yet...

So this is my gripe, every day a certain nameless paper "The Arizona Republic", wraps their paper in a brown paper into a cylinder. This thing is so tight I could use it to pour milk. I have to find a way to get it open, without tearing the paper, and then place it under massive staplers and books so that it won't roll back up again on the shelf! Which it does all the time and then tries to roll away.

Quote of the day, Song of the Day

"If I want to feel something I stick pencils up my nose.I just want to change the world in what little way I can." http://hypem.com/track/761270/The%20Boy%20Least%20Likely%20To%20-%20Stringing%20Up%20Conkers

No vacaton for two years makes me a schizophrenic.... and so am i

I need a vacation, BAD!!!!!!!! I realized it's been almost two years since I have taken a vacation from work and school! Anyone want to sponsor me? I will shamelessly promote the "Monterey Bay Aquarium" and anything or anyone on the Northern California coast if you send me to Monterey!

This is a pic actually right outside the cabin where my family has stayed in Pacific Grove for about 3 generations.
Send me back to the sea!!!!!!!! It's been too long since I've seen Big Sur!! Or Disneyland, I'm not picky.....

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

I am listening to "The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy" read by Stephen Fry, I forgot how funny this book is. It makes me want to watch the movie!

There is a full moon out...... Uh oh........

I should know better than to do ANY sort of life improvement, laundry & showering included, during a full moon! I don't know what it is but I think people go completely nuts!

If fish,wolves, squirrels, insects, and women are ruled by the phases of the moon, I would imagine that guys, you are too!

I'm been so frustrated by so many people's wacko behavior! I have to hope its the full moon and that they aren't insane! Moody guys, this means you!

Some progress? I'm in too much pain not to see some difference...

And the Lord said, let there be wood, and there was finally wood underneath the 20+ years of hardened paint and tape!

The Simpsons- Lisa on happy pills

Fire Sale-Best of Arrested Development

Children's worst book titles

Children's worst book titles!

You Were an Accident Strangers Have the Best Candy The Little Sissy Who Snitched Some Kittens Can Fly! Getting More Chocolate on Your Face Where Would You Like to Be Buried? Kathy Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her The Attention Deficit Disorder Association's Book of Animals of North America-Hey! Let's Go Ride Our Bikes! All Dogs Go to Hell The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking When Mommy and Daddy Don't Know the Answer, They Say God Did It Garfield Gets Feline Leukemia What Is That Dog Doing to That Other Dog? Why Can't Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends? Bi-Curious George Daddy Drinks Because You Cry You Are Different and That's Bad Dad's New Wife Gerald Pop! Goes The Hamster-And Other Great Microwave Games Testing Homemade Parachutes With Your Household Pets The Hardy Boys, the Barbie Twins, and the Vice Squad Babar Meets the Taxidermist Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence The Boy Who Died from Eating All His Vegetables Start a Real-Estate Empire With the Change From Your Mom's Purse The Pop-up Book of Human Anatomy Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will The Care Bears Maul Some Campers And Are Shot Dead How to Become The Dominant Military Power In Your Elementary School Controlling the Playground: Respect through Fear

Hey Mom,
You found my Blog! Hooray! Now you
can read my smarmy(I work in the Li-berry) remarks all the time!
Aren't you lucky!

I spent all of 4th of July renovating so that I would have a nice place to move in to. I didn't realize how how this thing is going to take. But I'm not quitting!

I figure that stripping paint and sanding down everything is a small price to pay for not having to listen to my roommates speak baby-talk,

Removal of 20+ years of paint

I have to Strip this paint.(Gotcha Pervs)
This is what two days of paint stripper looks like on painted wood that had hardened for 20 years. Sheesh!!!!! Who would paint over wood moldings!

day 4-it is starting to look like there is real wood!!!

Finally it looks like there may be actual wood underneath all this cheap paint!

Sharing Washers and dryers-or trying not to smell like a guy's shoes

Okay, I don't know what some of these guys are washing in the laundry room! I think my clothes would come out cleaner and smelling better if I went to the river and beat them on rocks. My not- so-bad whites come out brown & I wonder what kind of laundry soap is being used, if any...... The next time I find someone's shoes in the washer I will freeze them in liquid nitrogen and throw them at a wall. It is too expensive to spend that much money on laundry and have all my clothes smelling worse then if I had used them to dry a wet dog!

Why am I working so hard to renovate this house? Because you can only wake up to guys downstairs playing guitar hero "Hotel California" every night for 6 months, at exactly 1 Am, for so long without going nuts.

day 2 renovation

Day 4 of Renovation

Well, this 4th of July I thought i would celebrate my independence as a free woman and get to work renovating. It is so empowering to do this work by myself. I am learning how to wire electricity, tile walls, Strip paint and stain would floors, cabinets, moldings, and doors. I have no idea what possessed the previous owners to paint over such beautiful woodwork.

This has been day 4 of stripping paint off various wooden cabinets, drawers, shelves, ect. I started out the day with " the Ramones" blasting on my ipod, (good thing the neibors are hard of hearing). I think it has taken me about 4 days to use paint stripper correctly. That stuff will burn your skin off!!!!!

So why do all this? For one thing I want to know how to repair a home or car on my own. Also I'm a really poor student librarian so I don't really have a choice. I would rather learn to help myself.

Home Renovation

I am about to move into my friends home. I am renovating the home so that I like where I live too. Plus it is fun! I am a starving student but if I can do all this without a guy, so can you! I have never felt so liberated and so confident! Eat your heart out Rosie the Riveter, this is all us!