Day 201: Me and My Dad

Today I took my favorite picture of my dad and me (it's actually a photo of the framed photo) and altered it a bit. Feeling nostalgic, I guess.


That's the day my mom and dad moved me to college. It was a good day.

I miss you, Daddy. Every time I see this picture, I hope I make you proud.

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Day 200: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Mother Nature is doing a convincing job of making it look like we'll have nice weather for a while.

I used a nifty iPhone app to take an uber-panoramic photo of the world outside Leading Edge Kickboxing.

You can see it here:

http://photosynth.net/view/6e02db90-1582-4851-89a7-a83ea0485665

I'm getting better at doing these, if you don't pay attention to the edges or the sign. Just pay attention to the blue sky!


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Day 199: More Color than Yesterday

I've spent the last several days working on school projects nearly nonstop. I've hardly slept or ate, and I'm running on caffeine and Skittles at this point. So I hauled out an old box of colored pencils, a pair of scissors, and a sheet of card stock.


After about 3 minutes, this is what I had:


A pointless thing with color smashed all over it.


Coloring with fists full of colored pencils was fun, but the best part was randomly hacking up the edges.


Now I get to pick a million tiny pieces of card stock out of the carpet and then go to work.

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Day 198: A Splash of Color

Today I have taken a quick break to transform a picture of Boris the Travel Monkey and Pogo.


They think they look awfully cool and hip in black and white.

Now back to my all-night homework marathon. Maybe tomorrow's make will be something full of caffeine and sugar.

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Day 197: Christmas in July

When Carol was visiting me from Texas, I bought these adorable socks.


Unfortunately, adorable doesn't equal wearable. So today I decided to sew them all together into a scarf.


I think it looks especially good with my Happy Bunny shirt.


It's a colorful pile of sockscarf. And the stitching looks lovably homemade. On purpose. Really.


Just in time for the winter weather!

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Day 196: Red Runt Rimmer

Today I used my handy dandy new mortar and pestle to crush little heart-shaped red runt candies for use in rimming cocktail glasses.








Crushing stuff in a little marble bowl is much more fun than writing reports for school.

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Day 195: Hypnotoad (or Hpnotoad)

Today I made a drink I've been thinking about ever since I first tried Hpnotiq, which is a rather foul tasting blue liqueur. I think I've made it almost palatable by adding some Midori melon liqueur and Sprite.




It's a pretty green color too, which is always important in inventing drinks.



If you've never watched Futurama, you probably don't know what a Hypnotoad is, besides this drink. Here you go:

(I stole/borrowed this picture from here.)