Archive for the 'Musings' Category

Ancient Relics

Monday, July 18th, 2011

Back in the early 90s, my family hosted our first of many foreign exchange students.  Her name was Melanie, and she was from Germany.  At the same time, or possibly shortly after Melanie came here, my oldest sister Jennifer went to Germany herself.  It’s been quite a while; I was like 5.  However, I do [...]

Sharpie Liquid Pencil Review

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Last August, Sanford announced the imminent release of the Sharpie Liquid Pencil, a product that caused waves of twitterpation among the artist circles I watch.  Many people couldn’t wait to get their hands on it to try it out. Personally, I thought it was a really cool idea and then promptly forgot about it until [...]

Plotting Relationships

Monday, October 11th, 2010

As I was randomly browsing r/Webcomics today, I ended up at Piperka’s webcomic listing.  As I passed over the lists upon lists of webcomics, I realized that I was familiar with quite a lot of them.  If I didn’t read the comic regularly, I had at least heard of them and maybe even met the [...]

Gardening Update

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Did a little gardening today, now that I have a backyard to do so!  It’s way exciting! I repotted the little plants I’d brought with me, which are on the top shelf.  On the left is a wildflower mix, daisies, and forget-me-nots, and on the right is a strawberry plant. On the bottom shelf, some [...]

Moving Woes

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Well, I’m just about on the other side of moving to the other side of Columbus.  The worst of it has been the last couple days, mostly owing to the fact that I suddenly had big issues going on with the brakes in my car, and the car is now in the shop.  My mother [...]