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• Using the belly for fun and profit

  

  Since losing a hard drive this summer (and my sister losing hers last month), I’m pretty obsessed with online backup services.

  I also love funny or conversation-inspiring t-shirts, so when I heard about Mozy’s hilarious Back The F:\ Up t-shirt promotion, I put the brain to work on getting me one of those shirts.

  As it turns out, the Mozy folks liked my preggo belly-painting idea, and fortunately I have the nicest sister in the world (though she insists that I’ll need to share the t-shirt …

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• Little Stockings Advent Calendar

  

  A few weeks ago, I came across the Stocking Advent Calendar instructions on BurdaStyle.com and decided to make some of my own.

  If you know me, you can probably guess at the difficulty I had in actually creating 24 little stockings (24!) and finishing the project, but shockingly, I did finish it. (Knitters talk about the “2nd sock syndrome”… try the 23rd sock!)

  I pretty much followed the instructions from BurdaStyle.com, with a few exceptions:

  I used a different pattern for the stockings [download the …

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• Changing my daily format

  
  photo credit: orangeacid

  I’ve slowly been building up more and more resistence to my daily update post (as evidenced by its recently-spotty appearance), so I’m going to try something else for a while.

  You’ll notice that there’s a couple of new sections on the sidebar: one is my list (now maintained at my favorite online list site, Remember The Milk), and the other details my reward and progress. The idea …

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• Quick list and a mini-movie

  I’m feeling lazy about posting this week, so I’ll just put up my quick list and leave you with a video I enjoyed.
  Most Important Tasks

  Tweaks for one client
  Write back to theme-creation inquiry
  Tweaks for another client

  The reward
  Subscription to All You magazine, which I’ve been tempting myself with for several months.

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• New week, new month, new time

  
  photo credit: moonhouse

  It’s the dreaded first business day of the month, which means… invoicing day. Oh, well. As much as I hate the paperwork, invoicing (sometimes) means getting payments, so there you have it.

  Had a fun weekend, am feeling much better (and hopefully will be sounding good enough to sing this weekend—it’s our band’s “on” week). Just did one of my new yoga DVDs and am happy I purchased …

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