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I'll just copy and paste my Facebook post:

I called Jasper's previous owner to ask about his breed because it has been seeming more and more unlikely that he is a miniature pinscher, he's way too small and just doesn't exactly look it, now that I have seen him next to a verified one. Several people have been calling him a Prague Ratter. The man's reaction? 'Yeah, he's a Prague Ratter. That's the same thing as a miniature pinscher.' LOL no it's not! Seems official though, Jasper is a Prague Ratter :)

Red lentils I just cooked soft with lemon grass, coriander, cumin, and a dry sherry taste suspiciously meat-like and I can't figure out why. Delicious though.

I was going to watch the "House" show for the first time, they just aired an episode featuring an asexual couple and because of the severe lack of asexual exposure in the media Lev and I were interested and intended to watch it together...then we each independently found out that it in fact sucked very much. One was found to have a medical cause for his "asexuality" and the other turned out to just be lying to be together with him. In the end they 'debunked' it as not being legitimate orientation at all. So there is finally mainstream awareness and it is completely negative as well as ill-informed as they seemed to confuse "asexuality" with "erectile dysfunction" and/or "lack of libido" which is not accurate. It's kind of upsetting.

more cupcakes.

my back actually hurts from making cupcakes.

that's enough.

Btw, since people keep asking when I'm going to post more paintings: art sale!
And this might be the beginning of the end. Beginning with an end-of-(last)-year sale at the beginning of the year, oh how chaotic.

The mushrooms in my icon are up too now.

I just upgraded Skype to 5.0 just because it's been bouncing around telling me to and I thought well ok maybe it will hold better with my recent connection problem.

The thing is huge, clunky, stuck together in one gigantic app, it is just horrible.

And google tells me if I want to downgrade again I have to delete all of my files and start from scratch. This sucks.

So be warned if you are considering upgrading, google it and read reviews and look at screen shots first.

I don't make a whole lot of money on these mandala patterns but the e-mails from people who buy them are so uplifting, they alone make me want to create more of them. That such a simple thing can cause such feelings in people, it's beautiful.

Any Hindi speakers reading this have a few minutes and willing to type me out the lyrics to these two nursery rhymes? I tried googling them and searching the site linked on the videos but no luck. I get the gist of them (of course i know the numbers, and "chalna" is one of the first verbs I learned) but I don't know all of the words. Don't need a translation, just the text and I could probably figure it out from there :) Doesn't matter if it's Romanised or Devanagari, I've got the alphabet down. They're only about a minute and a half each:

Ek Do Teen
Ghadi Tik Tik Tik

The kids love these two and keep asking me to sing them and I kind of want to make sure I am singing them right too lol

I posted these to my art account but copied and pasted to my regular journal because they have personal relevance: Almost completely painted without an eye patch! (I had started them in October, hence the one Halloweenish one). I've developed the habit of looking from one side though as i figured would happen. Still better than patching one eye so often.

Apparently this was just in the paper about my brother's band:

“Lemongelli sounds like a bare-knuckle bowling alley brawl between King Kong and The Allman Brothers. Who wins? Everyone wins. It’s a bare-knuckle bowling alley brawl between King Kong and The Allmans.”

- Gene Padden, music critic, The Citizens’ Voice

:D

This is them, he is the first one on the left although he looks totally different now, he lost about 100 lbs since that pic was taken.

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