{"id":1092,"date":"2005-11-30T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1092"},"modified":"2005-11-30T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T13:53:00","slug":"when-synapses-misfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1092","title":{"rendered":"When Synapses Misfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Has anyone else observed that the festive illustrations on this year’s Starbucks holiday cups<\/a> look rather like Edward Gorey on Xanax?<\/p>\n

2. JVL, K-Jo and I took festive Christmas photos at home last night for our household holiday cards. They’re hilarious. I’ll be posting some of them, friends-locked, in the next few weeks. <\/p>\n

3. Yesterday I shelled out a lot of dough for a quilt book. Sigh. It’s this beautiful, massive hardcover on ‘Gee’s Bend: the Women and their Quilts’. I thought it was out of print, which is why I bought it from ‘Another Man’s Poison’ on McCall for quite a lot of money. But as I’ve just learned, it’s available on Amazon.ca for a lot less. Dammit. It is so rare for me to purchase something without doing at least some basic research on the internet. Caveat emptor.<\/p>\n

4. Busy weekend coming up: work party tomorrow, birthday party way the heck out in Whitby Friday, Mathom party (and kitties!) Saturday.<\/p>\n

5. I’m thinking about taking an all-day $75 course in free-motion quilting that is being offered Saturday, January 8th through ‘Sew Be It’ studio<\/a>. I worry it will make me want a new sewing maching, though. I’ll hold off on signing up for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

6. So far, so good with the Nuvaring. I still haven’t done that extremely graphic post yet, but it will come in time. Anyway, not to get into gory details, but it looks like a skinny, translucent jelly bracelet, about an inch and a half in diameter, and it’s very bendy. No weird side effects yet. I can’t feel it at all, and we have a green light on the nookie front. So ladies, go forth and acquire once-a-month, non-injected, removable birth control if you want it. <\/p>\n

7. The cover story on the Metro today<\/a> is about the TTC spending $350,000 on TTC station aesthetic upgrades. FINALLY! I am so, so happy about this. It’s about time Toronto took its transit seriously as a tool for promoting tourism and a major investment that they should enhance whenever possible. I can’t wait to see the Osgoode-Opera station with its musical enhancements, and the Museum station with its sarcophagus and totem-styled columns. And how cool would it be if they trashed the dreadful puke-green tile in St. Patrick, and replaced it with something representative of the newly-renovated AGO and OCAD buildings just around the corner? SO COOL. My commute would become much more pleasant. Yay, TTC!
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8. Jeez, look at this numbered list. Who do I think I am – ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Has anyone else observed that the festive illustrations on this year’s Starbucks holiday cups look rather like Edward Gorey on Xanax? 2. JVL, K-Jo and I took festive Christmas photos at home last night for our household holiday cards. They’re hilarious. I’ll be posting some of them, friends-locked, in the next few weeks. 3. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}