Have you been waiting as long as I have? Just hang on for a few more months…

There are two featurettes here and here.

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Aww, thanks for your loyalty, Monra, Junnie and Heidi. Yay!

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{Recycled post #2}

Trust the Japanese to come up with the ultimate OC’s dreamhouse — a house of drawers. Imagine being able to keep clutter hidden from view, and at the same time have a different “look” for your interiors each day. Just push and pull and:

now you’ll see them,

later you won’t.

Galing no, “desk tugs of war” will no longer be figments of Terry Gilliam’s imagination.

I feel bad about losing my recent entries due to the switch, so I’ll be reposting some of them (the interesting ones at least), one a day. That way, even if I have nothing to write about, it won’t seem like I’m deserting this blog’s 3 most-loyal readers (yes it’s down to 3, I think: Shei, Tips, and Arn).

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Besides gift tags and ponytail holders, what other things can you do with ribbons? Well, a group of (brilliant!) Japanese designers had other things in mind, take a look.

A lamp, dot hooks, bowls, candlesticks, and more — all entirely fashioned out of ribbon.

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Looky! Pretty things to spoil your cat with (although our Abbsy seems quite content with what he has).

Kitty paraphernalia from George SF. Am loving the happy cat bowl-flock o’ birds food mat tandem.

By the way, yes they have stuff for doggies, too.

This being my birthday month (*wink, nudge*), I had to take a trip to the LTO to renew my license this morning. Since it only took my brother less than an hour (yup, drug test and all) to renew last year, I had high hopes that if I leave at 9, I’ll be able to get my new card in an hour, run to the grocery, and then get home early enough to cook lunch for dear hubby. In fact I proudly told him not to come along so he can work while his wife “took care of everything”.
Sadly, my well-orchestrated plan was not to be. (First of all, I woke up at 9 so I was already running a bit late to start with.) I left at 9:30, got to LTO by 9:45, finished the drug and medical test by 10, filed the license renewal form by 10:30, then waited. And waited. And waited. By 11:30, they hadn’t even called me to the cashier yet so I called Arn and told him that the chances that I can get home before lunch is rather, well, bleak. I finally got called to Window 6 at 11:59, only to be told that my license will be ready after lunch. (And it was, I got it at 1pm, on the dot. My card was just unfortunate enough to be in the pile that had to be set aside due to lunch break.)
Lesson: wake up early. It turns out that Calvin was there by 8, no wonder he finished early.

Just for posterity, you may want to read the blog entry I wrote after renewing 3 years ago.