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Poor Harry Potter didn't adjust well to life after Hogwarts (according to the comedy troop The Monkey Box. WARNING: The following video has adult themes.

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A few years ago, I really started to become a Mary Engelbreit fan. She does such wonderful, colorful illustrations. I found out that she had a retail store and vowed that one day I would visit it. Well, for some reason, I had it in my head that it was was up North somewhere. Well, I was looking at her site yesterday trying to get inspiration for a project I'm working on and I found out her store is in the Galleria Mall in St. Louis, MO. The very same mall Marcus and I went to the Apple Store in when we spent a few days in St. Louis three years ago. D'oh! We even strolled around the mall for a bit, but didn't make it to the section that had the ME store. Argh! So close. Marcus promised that on the next trip to Tennessee to visit his folks, we can stay in St. Louis again so that I can go to that store.

Blogosphere, meet Chip. Chip, meet the Blogosphere. (Get it? Chip. Chip off the block. Wood chip. LOL! I crack myself up.)

OK, he's not really a family member, but he is a new addition to the household. I've always wanted one of these wooden drawing mannequins (we used to use them at school), so yesterday I splurged the $10 bucks and got him. Besides being a great decorative accent for my craft room (yes, it is still clean!), he's useful, as well. I want to get back into illustrating and drawing.

Guys, quit reading now if girl stuff grosses you out. Just skip to the next paragraph. Do any of my women readers get constipated for the first couple of days of your period? No matter what I do, I always get it. I'm not sure if is from the same hormone that causes the cramps or what, but it is majorly annoying. I'm having a particularly bad one this week, to boot. I was in so much pain yesterday that I thought I was going to pass out. I'm also retaining a LOT of fluid. Ick. Not cool.

Man, I haven't done a Thursday Thirteen in three weeks. I've got subjects, I just can't seem to get the motivation to post.

I had a whole bunch of stuff I wanted to say and now I'm drawing a complete blank. *sigh* I guess it'll have to wait until another time.

OK, this one was tough because I already did the "5 Things Meme" awhile back and didn't want to duplicate what I wrote there.

Ten Things Most People Don't Know About Me

1. My first crush was on Eric Faulkner from the Bay City Rollers.
2. I want to see a ghost.
3. I love puzzles: math equations, logic problems, jigsaws. I love to use the old brain.
4. I don't believe in gods. I've tried to believe and wished I could, but I don't. I'm not an atheist, though, more of an agnostic, I guess.
5. I have a hard time connecting with people, especially women.
6. I can't stand the smell of rum (drinking game gone bad in college — I suck at quarters).
7. I have an extremely low tolerance for rudeness and stupidity.
8. I'm a night owl. I really hate trying to fit into a "normal" routine.
9. I have a lot of disturbing, reoccurring dreams.
10. I'm 40 and still don't know what I want to do with my life.

As I sit here after midnight, tired as hell and in terrible toothache pain waiting for the ibuprofin to kick in, I decided to catch up on some feeds in my Google Reader. I came across an article written on the Emtwo blog where Melissa had mentioned that she had just upgraded her design company's computers to the newest version of Thunderbird. I have been so busy and out of touch lately that I didn't realize that a new version of Thunderbird had been released (it's now at version 2). If you don't already know, Thunderbird is a really neat mail app from the folks at Mozilla, producers of Firefox, one of the coolest browsers ever in my not so humble opinion. I just upgraded, as well, and will have to look into what new features are included sometime when I'm not so freaking tired.