This woman makes some of the most gorgeous and tasteful beaded jewelry I've ever seen.

Yum. *growling tummy*

While doing some quick research on Jodie Foster's sexual orientation in the heat of a discussion I ran across this. All I can say is hmmm... and why don't they have a better shot on the webcam?

Note to self - movies to see:

The Ring... scariest movie ever... *shudder*
Red Dragon
Tuck Everlasting
White Oleander
Road to Perdition
Kockaround Guys
Ghost Ship
Punch-Drunk Love
The Rules of Attraction (?)
The Transporter (?)
Lilo & Stitch
Amelie
Monsters Inc.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Curly kitties! I've never seen these guys before. This one almost looks like a rabbit. I'm digging around for general info on the care of cats. I haven't had one since we had them for about a month when I was 13 or 14 and we adopted one at the House of Skark this week. The Cat Fancier's Association site looks pretty good. Anyone know of others?

There's definitely a feeling of fall in the air. The high was about 48 degrees today and it felt like midnight around 9pm thanks to the sun going to sleep earlier and earlier every night. I'm starting to get the crafty bug again lately, and I think I shall celebrate it by making pumpkin favors soon just for the heck of it. I'm already getting ideas in my head for Christmas gifts too, which blows my mind, as I so often am clammoring at the last minute for good gifts.

Well, I guess this is one way to waste a little time... HorrorDrunx. Any excuse for a road trip and a little alcohol. ;o)

It's probably a GOOD thing that the $130 shoes I want from a UK store aren't in stock in my size and color.

The top 88799 names in the United States according to the 1990 US census. I've always been a little fascinated by this because my last name is the 6th most common, but yet I've only known a handful of Davises in my life that weren't related to me in some form. They also have listings of male and female first names, where, oddly enough, my name isn't even listed. ;P Where does your fall?

Pictures from our weekend in Ely. It's so gorgeous up there.

I closed my Hotmail account. Too much garbage mail. Send to corryn @ corryn.org or corryn @ five-elements.com.

Light Rail is being pushed back yet again. I'm so anxious for this to start up. I'm not even entirely sure that it will be something I will use on a regular basis, but I do know that it is something this city needs pretty badly. Although we have the glorious MNDOT on our side keeping the outstate roads in good condition, our metro road system still falls far behind other metro areas in the country. They simply can't keep up with the number of cars on the road, usually due to funding issues (or just slow planning). How ironic that light rail is being delayed for funding issues, but at least they had to set an opening date. I find this portion of the article humorous: "Citing uncertain funding from the next Legislature, Metro Transit officials delayed the opening so they could work with a new administration and lawmakers." (In other words, they're waiting for Mr. Ventura to be out of office and to get their funding back.)

Cannabis legalized in the state of New York?

(harharhar) (via terje)

Extreme ironing? Of course it's a British thing....
(via Jester)

Holy shite, the things one can learn through indirect means... Chank is based in Minneapolis. Chank is huge. I don't know if I even have to explain it, but it's probably the most referenced font website that I've seen on the internet and here I come to find out several years later that it's local. How did I find out? My roomie got a call from them in reference to something he's working on for a theatre and I read it on caller ID. In the future I shall read a little further into the Info pages on such websites. Funkay.

PETA's list of Animal Ingredients and Their Alternatives. I'm not exactly an animal activist, but it's an eye opener to find out how many ingredients we see in everyday products come from inhumane practices. This issue seems so far off (although, I realize that doesn't make it non-existent), but I'm finding it's eerily close to home. (via not martha)

To keep me sane until I have a pet of my own, I've adopted a sheep. Isn't he cute? So is this.

Damn, if this ain't the truth! I'm glad Plush is getting the recognition it deserves. I don't have any experience with the scene outside of our sweet little twin cities, but they sure have been the best club events Minneapolis has seen in the past few years, since the crackdown raves. Lots of big names, good sound, fairly well priced entry, playing often times an hour or two farther into the night than they should be legally. JT and everyone else involved (excuse me for being out of the loop and bad with names) can put on quite a show.

I'm messing around over at LiveJournal for a little while until I get this all incorporated. The community there seems neat, although I would hate to completely give up Blogger. It's a very kickass site/program and it has been oh-so-good to me. I think the blog may become what it was actually intended to be - a weblog, and my livejournal, just that - a journal. Concept! So anyway, go here for now.

Can't figure out for the life of me where today went. Sleep was almost non-existent last night due to sticky heat, weird semi-frightening dreams, and anxiety which kept waking me up thinking I was late for work, which hasn't happened to me in quite some time. To top it off, around 8am a city crew decided it was time to chainsaw down some trees and such, in several locations on our street, that had apparantly been wind blown and broken in last night's doozy of a storm. Lack of sleep always makes for a very long day at work, but for some reason made my evening just fly by. Got the kitchen cleaned up a little and unpacked a little bit more. We finally have a working microwave on the premises. There is some semblence of organization in the cupboards and on the counter, which makes me a happy camper. Our tasks are far from over. I should be documenting this craziness in photos. Time to crash me thinks. zzzzzzz