Candice Payne

For about 45 minutes just now I sat here reading RSS feeds but mostly fiddling behind my back with a strap on my camisole that was twisted through its loop. This sort of thing is why I don’t remember a lot of what I read, I guess. I could have easily fixed the problem taking [...]

I bet our landlord is glad this cold weather is almost over! For reasons he doesn’t bother to be aware of or give a shit about! Guess what happens when our furnace keeps breaking down (won’t ignite) and you don’t do anything to properly fix it besides jiggling some wires until it works one single [...]

I want to let you in on my fantabulous method of creating playlists. May or may not require Winamp. Whatever player you use must allow you to search tracks/artists/whatnot by keyword. That’s probably all of them, I imagine. Step one: You’ve got two options here. Either play any song you happen to like, or choose [...]

I go to start some laundry. Some guy is in there putting his laundry into the dryer at the same time I am putting my laundry into the washer. The washer takes half the time of the dryer, so I wait for the amount of time the dryer takes to go switch my laundry from [...]

Not typos. Not grammatical errors. Not putting i on the wrong side of e. Not anything from the list of commonly misspelled words. Not screwing up some absurd foreign word with too many or not enough vowels. Not mixing up homophones or near-homophones or not-even-really-close-at-all-but-I-can-sort-of-see-a-resemblance-homophones. I’m talking about spelling mistakes where the person must have [...]

J-Walk, one of 8,000 blogs I read daily, posted an entry with a link to Google Ads Preferences, which endeavours to “make the ads you see on the web more interesting” by tracking your cookies and guessing at your interests and demographics. Here’s what Google thinks it knows about me, with the wrong bits crossed [...]

Facebook added “in a civil union”, “in a domestic partnership” and “in a civil partnership” to its list of possible relationship status options a few days ago. They only appear if you live in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France or Australia. Same-sex unions are recognized in many other places, of course, and [...]

Painted the background of these postcards two days ago, but couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do with them,  so I left them blank. Good effort, me! Yesterday a stencil appeared in the mail that was coincidentally just the right size, so ta da! Flying Spaghetti Monster postcards. Messy ones. Needed a smaller sponge [...]

I don’t care about football one bit, but there were so many mentions of chili in my Twitter stream… so I made some. Tastes much better than it looks as a photo taken with my cell phone and its dreadful flash. Did you know some people use a recipe to make this stuff? Here’s how [...]

Someone posted some of these with a link to instructions earlier. They’re pretty, so I tried it. And then I slapped twelve filters on it in Photoshop because my heads hurts and I couldn’t be arsed to do a proper job with my camera (I still haven’t figured out a way to take macro photos [...]