Not too many months ago, my office was my home, and my absolute favorite thing to do all day was to stare out the window at the rooftops. Not particularly good for productivity. It was such a relief to move out and into our office space (part one, two), but I was sure going to miss those rooftops.
To commemorate that view, I ordered a canvas print of a photograph from Easy Canvas Prints.
I have to say it's awesome. Super easy to order, and the color is vibrant. I chose to have the photo stretched on the sides of the canvas and it looks great.
Did we mention that Father's Day is coming up? It would be a great gift for a dad with a sentimental nature. One time I gave my dad some magnets of some photos that I had taken over the years that I thought he'd like. He gave them back a few years later.
Easy Canvas Prints is so awesome, they offered to let me give away a free 8×10″ print!
Enter Now with blog code: JENNIFER2012. Please note that you need to live in the US, and they don't ship free prints to Hawaii or Alaska so if you live there you're out of luck. Poop.
I've been obsessed with Mad Men since my mom and her sisters got in a big fight about why her sisters wouldn't watch it in October of 2010. See, my mom was a working lady in that era much like Peggy, and she took offense at the fact that her sisters didn't like the show. They got it sorted out eventually and then all of us sat down to watch an episode.
In fact, when our downstairs neighbors moved and we got a Pete in their place we made jokes about keeping him away from our non-existent nanny. Oh yeah, we're hilarious.
Like so many of my fellow Mad Men fans, I've been riding the stages of grief over the fact that AMC has taken the better part of two years getting the new season going. What's up with that??
Well, AMC FINALLY announced the date of the premiere of Season 5. To commemorate this occasion (and anxiously wait for it), I — with the help of my most favorite graphic designer Lindsay and the web development skillz of my web shop, Artsy Geek — created Countdown to Mad Men, the second-to-second update about how long we have to wait for our next fix.
I just sat there. Silently watching as she robbed us of another thing. OUr family's love, which is a lot of times all we have to go on.
Mom's friend Celestra was staying with us for a few days. This morn she slept in my bed after I got up. Mom got her to leave after Dad threatened to call the police if she wasn't gone. With her she took: the strength our family has a whole, my Santa bear Em gave me; the fake blue flower I bought; a washcloth; and an ashtray. Not to mention the peace.
Mom had to yell at her in order for her to leave. I wasn't home then, but when I was home she asked if she could "borrow" my Santa bear and the flower. Now I'll never see them again.
This is one MESSED UP lady. When she arrived on our door step Thursday during the day, Mom said that she just shoved herself in. She took advantage of our hospitality and ours too. When mom asked her to leave this afternoon, Mom said she just ignored her and wouldn't leave. Dad says she's crazy. Just a little bit.
After Mom yelled at her to get out she got mad and decided to get Mom back. So she took our stuff that I mentioned before and burnt one of our pans. A good pan.
I'm sorry, Mom. I promise this Christmas there will be some Mom and Dad action. Or "parental unit" action as 12-year-old me might say.
Our new roommate (we found one! and he's awesome) alerted me to what has to be the BEST WEBSITE EVER, fiverr.com.
At fiverr.com you can pay a mere $5 and get all sorts of amazing stuff…a British young lady will videotape herself shouting your message in a banana suit, an aging hippie will sing your message and play the accordion, a terrifying dude in a green suit will dance with your message on his chest. That last one is pretty weird. I don't recommend that.
And they do stuff beyond making awesome videos. I even saw someone who will design two logos for your company for $5. That's just plain ridiculous.
The first $5 I plunked down was for this video as a present for my father, the Great Arno.
LOVE IT! What an affordable gift that he'll treasure forever! Or for the day. But it's the thought that counts, right?
I really need to get my hands on this book.
Thanks to long-time reader Gabe for sending me the link to this awesome exploration of the name Heller in print over the years put together by fellow blogger and long-lost-relative Steven Heller.