…Or rather, all six of you who subscribe to my RSS Feed.

Ok, so here’s what I did…

I created an RSS Feed via Yahoo! Pipes that encompasses the normal feed from this blog, as well as the feeds from my Etsy Shops. So I spliced the three feeds into one.

Then I ran that feed back through Feedburner. Not really necessary to do, but I like the stats and it’s a super cute, neat and tidy little service. This also means that the address of my feed doesn’t change, so if you subscribed to my feed before, you are already subscribed to the new and improved feed.

The downside to this is I had to spend about an hour screwing with settings in Yahoo Pipes, Feedburner and Wordpress to get everything to play nice together. At one point I was seeing three copies of every item from my Etsy shop in my feed. I still don’t know why, but it’s gone now. Whatever.

So if you saw a lot of ridiculous things going on with my feed today, or you got all of my posts AGAIN in TRIPLICATE, or anything else unusual, I’m very sorry. I’m done tinkering now and everything should work normally. If it doesn’t, please tell me.

You’ll now receive updates from my Etsy shop as well as my Blog. If you don’t LIKE getting updates from my Etsy shop, please be honest and tell me – don’t just unsubscribe. I figured this would be something people would like but I didn’t take a survey or anything, so if I’m wrong about that I’d really like to know.

If you have NO IDEA what I’m talking about, look up under my banner on the top right hand side of the page and click “Subscribe” to get my RSS Feed.

Hope you all have a wonderful day! <3

Just a quick post to gush about a few items from my Etsy Shop that have found new homes recently.

This pretty little red Trip Diary was recently featured in “the Storque” on Etsy.

I’ve had this thing sitting on my desk since I acquired it, and let me tell you, having the weather report at your fingertips SANS INTERNET becomes quickly addictive. Or I’m just a great big nerd.

Despite it’s injured foot, I do love this ribbed vase. I think a knick here and there gives things character. Imperfections keep life interesting. I’m shipping it today.

Also, I will be participating in Etsy’s 2nd Annual YART Sale from June 10-14.

I’ll post  details when I figure out excactly what I’ll be offering.

<3

I was online today purchasing some sort of Age-Defying, Youth Enhancing, Wrinkling Asskicking moisturizer. I am 26 years old and am just starting to see the beginnings of lines on my face that are eventually going to mature into wrinkles.

Full-on panic-mode… ENGAGE.

It’s been a decade since I bought my first car – a blue 1972 Dodge Dart that I spent $500 for at an auction. Five hundred dollars worth of freedom. It feels like ages ago, but it was only ten years.

I pulled straight A’s throughout my entire grade school career. However, sometime around 7th grade,  friends and boys and hanging out suddenly became more important, and things went downhill. This trend continued into highschool, when I purchased said car.

I failed Physics the year I bought it. I didn’t fail because I couldn’t do the work. I failed because I couldn’t show up. I spent more time in parks and diners and just driving around than I did in class.

So I had to go to summer school. My summer science teacher, as it turned out, was the very same who had failed me in his Physics class. I’d interacted very little with him during the year, since I usually wasn’t even out of bed by the time his class began. He was a late-twenty-something, sloppy-haired, beardy man who looked like he’d crawled out of a 70’s era skateboarding video. He was having a fairly well-known affair with a married English teacher. In my infinite 16-year-old wisdom, I hated him. I hated him because I thought he was a pompous, English-teacher-shagging, has-been scenester who had had the audacity to fail me. I mean come on – I’m friggin’ awesome. You don’t fail me.

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