Lately I've been posting about 50/50 friends locked/public entries. I add pretty much everyone who friends me so if you want to add me, add away!

Also, I would love it if you posted an intro comment on this post about yourself or where you found me. (comments are screened)

<3 Carly

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving to spend the weekend in Indiana. I'll arrive home Monday night, spend approximately 36 hours at home, and then Wednesday morning Kris and I are heading to Chicago for a couple days and we will be home Friday night (late).

Have a good week everybody!

My poor laptop is one step closer to eating it for good.

Last week I accidentally spilled some water near my laptop. Not on it, but behind it and water spread until it reached my computer. The computer still works but I can't unplug my laptop without it shutting off. This wouldn't be a huge problem except for the fact that I don't have a place for my laptop so I am constantly moving it around putting it places to use and then moving it so I can use the space for something else. At this point I'm turning it off, moving it, and starting it up again 3 to 4 times a day which is making life rather difficult.

If you are feeling generous and like listening to music or wearing cute underthings, any orders would help tremendously.

I think Absolutely Fabulous was the most influential show I ever watched growing up.

Why I don't own the box set is beyond me. *adds to the Amazon Wish List*

I picked up a couple of books at the library yesterday and I think my weekend is planned.


I'm working on another random 'for fun' type project to post on the Instructables web site and possibly to use as a project to apply for Maker Faire. I don't know if there is any interest on here to see my progress. I might post stuff under a cut for those who are interested.

I'm having a crummy week so I'm just going to post pictures of cupcakes I made and a perfect orange I cut up last week.

After my post about 4 random ads on Facebook, I received 2 more from people I went to high school with.

One request is from someone I was kinda friends with but wasn't very close to. Again, she is married with a child and is currently a teacher. We have nothing in common.

The last one I received may take the cake. I know I went to high school with him and I recognize his name but I know I never had a class with him or talked to him. I don't even know which clique he belonged to.

Way to bring people together, Facebook.

Recently, I changed my Facebook profile picture to the picture Tasha took of me. Since then, I have received 5 friend requests - none of them make sense. One person is a random add so I'm ignoring that one for now.

2 are girls I knew in jr. high and high school. I want to send each of them an email saying 'You stopped talking to me years ago, why do you suddenly want to be "friends" now?'

1 is a guy I went to high school with who dated a friend of mine and his brother dated my sister for a while. He went out of his way to NOT talk to me in high school but now wants to be friends on Facebook.

1 is a friend request from someone who is friends with the man who does my hair. My hairdresser is married, so is his friend. My hairdresser talked to me about this friend last time I was in there but I'm not sure why he all of a sudden has decided to friend me on Facebook.

Almost all of them have pictures of babies or small children with them or as their main profile picture. Do I look like a girl who has small children in her life? What could we possibly have in common at this point in our lives? Just because all our parents lived in the same city and we went to the same schools and grew up together does not mean that we have anything in common or have any reason to be "friends" at this point in our lives on Facebook. I kept the friends from high school that I wanted to keep and I moved on.

I don't know if you have seen the story about the high school football coach that was shot (It's on the Yahoo front page)

That school is about a 20 minute drive from Cedar Falls - it really is part of our community (that town was pretty much destroyed by a tornado in May 2008).

NO ONE THAT KNEW HIM HAS EVEN CHOKED UP TALKING ABOUT HIM. They have been interviewing friends, family, and former players of his and no one even seems really sad.

The only person upset about his death seems to be the local sports newscaster.

I have a new project (because I have the attention span of a two year old)! I am decorating headphones now.


I set up an Etsy shop (antibromide.etsy.com) just for the headphones. There are 8 styles right now so please go check them out!

What if Lost were a 90's sitcom?

What if Lost were like Full House?


Or Step By Step?


Or Family Matters?


Instead of a 90's sitcom, what would a parody of the Jackass opening look like?


One more for kicks - Lost as The A-Team

Damn I love Fight Club. Thank you Fuse.tv for showing it on a fairly regular basis.

I feel so behind on here right now. Kris and I have been making preserves from strawberries, raspberries, cherries, and kiwi. We have been enjoying the project but it takes a lot of time.

Also, all my supplies for my new project have arrived and I am working on that too.


On a side note, is it poor etiquette to send a message to someone asking why they would possibly want to be friends on Facebook in response to a friend request?

I visited my grandparent's place in Indiana a week ago and stars2811 came along to take pictures.

I also let her take a few photos of me to build her portfolio and she has posted one of the pictures of me to her Flickr account. If you aren't familiar with Tasha, you should check out her current portfolio.

I wish I liked eating as much as I liked cooking and baking.

Or

I wish I knew more people I could cook for so I could make all sorts of tasty things without worrying about the food going bad before I eat it all.

Example: I really want to make and decorate cupcakes but I only want to eat 2-3 out of the 2 dozen I would make. If I could find people to eat the other 21-22 cupcakes I would bake all the time.

It's been a while since I posted pictures.

( Fruit in liquor, The Great Gatsby, a Poladroided closet, a trip to Indiana, and 30lbs. of Strawberries )

I bought supplies for a new project!! It's a secret for now but probably not for long (depending on how long it takes for supplies to get here!).

I have been super busy the last few weeks and I haven't had much time to be on LJ :( That will change after this weekend.

This weekend I will be here:


And on Saturday, stars2811 will be with me!! I can't wait.

“Pro-life, pro-life… these people aren’t pro-life. They’re killing doctors. What kind of pro-life is that? What, they’ll do everything they can do save a fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets.”

— George Carlin