Today I watched myself have heart surgery. It was EPIC! I was born with a hole in my heart. We didn't know about it until a couple months ago. The surgery went like this: It was heart surgery, but not open heart. They made an incision in my leg vein and sent scopes up to perform the surgery from the inside. Veeeeeeery cool. A live X-ray gives the surgeon a view of where the scopes are

Whenever you have a surgery, even if it's a minor one, there is a set of forms you're supposed to fill out. Basically, if something horrible goes wrong during the surgery, the doctors want to know what I want people to do with my body. It's not very pleasant to think about, but it's good to be prepared. The Ponderer - view from the back shows the exposed nervous system, including the spinal cord,

After an abundance of shenanigans with my sea creature friends, I finally decided to fulfill the purpose for which I originally bought them: To prank Leo. Background Story: A couple years ago, Leo went on a business trip. While he was gone, I missed him, and as a token of this sentiment, I decided to leave 3 lbs of dry pinto beans in his bed. When he got home around midnight, awww… someone had

The other night, my Nathan brother wanted to come spend time with me. Quality time, so movies weren't an option. So we decided to go play pranks on people. We bought rose petals and incense and floating candles. Then we put them in people's toilets. We lit the candles and everything. ^_^ Along the way, the dollar store inspired an A and B the C of D moment:  It's one of those

My supervisor’s supervisor walked by my cubicle while I was assembling this one. “CLEARLY, Laura, since you don’t have enough to do, we need to find some more work for you…” *walks off laughing*

Today's inspiration? Jealousy, pretty much. I wanted a nap SO bad.  Snarky and Inky fighting over the beddy-bye hat: Pretending to be an ice cream cone... Lemon and grape. Or durian and eggplant... You choose.  Balance beam!

I'm attracted to foreign textiles. Both the cloth itself and the people who wear it tend to be a little rougher, more colorful, and more homemade. Although this particular girl comes with all the graces of an Indian princess, the fact remains: people who wear foreign textiles always have an interesting story to tell. On Friday, importanter people were coming than the people who are usually there,

You make a million octopuses from a mold, you'd think they'd all be the same. Not so! After hours of fiddling with the bath toys (no child ever played with their bath toys as much as I play with mine), I've noticed the flexibility of the plastic varies. I can put some of the 'podes in positions that the others can't hold. Their personalities are starting to emerge. ^_^ This is Parky doing his

I like totem poles.  Once my brother Paul was having a birthday. He was turning 15, I think... Big into girls and music. I was totally broke and had nothing to give him.  The morning of his birthday, I was out shopping for business supplies at work (back when I was the admin for the family business). I happened across a back-to-school sale, where they had packs of pencils for

AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!! I would rather deal with angry customers all day long than selfish sales representatives. *angry face*. When I get a data entry call from a Rep and I recognize that something they are doing is not in the best interest of the customer, I want to hang up on them or report them to my supervisor. Except my supervisor is also in on the conspiracy.

Oh nose! They are escaping!

I’ve always been a quiet person, so suddenly talking for 8+ hours a day is a stretch for my vocal cords. I started losing my voice my first week, and had to make an emergency errand for salt. I have since learned the value of a constant supply of cold water. ^_^ My Octopodes like the water bottle too, see? Stackable friends Snackable friends... And hide-and-go seek! Can you find them a

Friend Mandy helped me name my octopodes. They are now officially: Snarky = yellow Barky = red Parky = green Diddle Doo = Blue Inky = Purple

I always thought the sophisticated plural for octopus was octopi. Apparently that is incorrect. The correct term is “Octopodes”.  Thank you Google, for having 746,000 results to answer to my meaningless question. Why yes, I love this mov

Oh man… The discount shopping cart loves me back. I found a set of octopus bath toys for 99 cents. ^_^ Normally I wouldn’t, but these were unfathomably cute… I got them originally for pranking a friend, but somehow they ended up in my backpack and I brought them to work today. ; ) Besides, lots of people have office toys. Mine are just a little extra perky. I looked at my phone stats today: LITERALLY

So I work in a cubicle. Bottom of the food chain too: It’s in a call center for a home security company. I swore I’d never do a desk job again, but even the graveyard janitorial crew wouldn’t hire me, so it was time to swallow my pride. Besides, after months of eating my roommate’s stale leftover desserts because I couldn’t afford my own calories, any job was a relief. Last week several family