New Blog Name

This blog needs a facelift. Perhaps a new name. What should one title a blog when the posts alternate between football & fabric? Polka Dots & Pigskins?

Happy Turkey Day to all!

30 days to 30

That is okay - I hear it's the new 25.

(Not so) soon to be a quilt for our couch

Dave can snuggle underneath it while watching Andy's moobs jiggle on the boob tube.

Let's hear it for the bro

I have to say I'm a big fan of this. Much better than the homeless guy look that has been perfected by Bill Belichick, but mostly I hope Reebok can develop a suit that will be able to hide the man boobs currently being sported by Andy Reid and Bill Parcells.


Cause let's face it, no one wants to see this:

The Rich List

I'm the 225,217,392 richest person on earth!

Watching HGTV always seems to makes me want more. Sometimes it is good to consider how much we already have.

$2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.

We now have DVR and I watch too many HGTV shows

Soon to be our duvet cover. I love Amy Butler’s Charm line, I am just surprised Dave agreed to it. There will be a manly blue border.

Updated Bill of Rights

Thanks Katie for passing this along. Turns out The Right Was Right

Guarantee

There are very few guarantees in life, but the Eagles are GUARANTEED to not lose this weekend. I have heard several times this season that the “Eagle’s can’t lose this weekend” but then (despite a valiant effort) they inevitable do lose (due, I am told, to Andy Reid not running the ball, or running the ball too much, or whatever). But not this weekend!! Thank you Eagles for having a buy* week & not ruining my Sunday afternoon.

* D informed me that it is a bye week, they are not, I guess, off to go shopping.

The good, the bad, and the just like everyone else's

The good thing about living in a city with an Ikea (pronounced Ick-ee-a) is that you've got a place to procure affordable (cheap) furniture. You can dog-ear the Pottery Barn catalog, then find matching items at Ikea:







The bad thing about living in a city with an Ikea is that your house will look exactly like everyone else's. At least everyone else who is your same socioeconomic range (poor).

Solution: Ikea Hacker shows you great ideas on how to customize Ikea items to make them your own. I am very excited about the custom Ikea slipcovers by Bemz. They make slipcovers to the specifications of Ikea furniture (no duct tape or ties-backs required!), but out of cool materials. Not that I don’t love our Idemo Beige couch, but it is a little, you know, beige. And the best part is that they are about the same price as the standard Ikea slipcovers!

Ikea Hacker also shows you how to make a skirt out of a pillowcase and how to make a pinhole camera from a plant holder.

Other cool sites: Craftster, Apartment Therapy, Craft, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, and Make (check out the make-your-own ipod charger).

Every 1st (tomorrow) and 3rd Sunday afternoon The Whistle Stop holds Knittin’ Time (with a DJ, $2 pints and dogs are welcome INSIDE THE BAR!!). I think I’m going to try my hand at crocheting cupcakes.

The World's Most Expensive Free Dog Gets New Disease

Rockstar developed a tumor, a very rapidy growing turmor, on his ear. It was diagnosed as an infected histiocytoma yesterday. He had to spend the day at the vet to have the biopsy done but the good news is that they usually regress without any treatment.

If you calculate the love recieved to cost expended ratio the cat ranks much, much higher. And he is a mean little guy.