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My brother sent me a pair of steampunk goggles (and an amazing book to go with them). The zip-up sweater that I am wearing is what happens when you go to the " Click this to feed shelter cats and dogs " and of course it turns out there is stuff that you can buy to also support the shelters, and I found a Nepalese patterned hoodie and well, here it is. It kind of says "crazy cat lady" but it's super soft and has made one successful trip through the wash already. My friend Prae sent me some hair models as well--this one is from RuntimeDNA and is designed for Victoria4, the model is called "Anfa" and like all her models is super easy to use. The character is Fu-minn's Ami from Renderosity.com And finally it is baking season! J has his method of keeping everything organized in the kitchen. Post-its in our kitchen means that some kind of treat is coming: Here it is! Raspberry chocolate torte, super chocolatey!

It is now time to have my car go through Illinois State Inspection again, and I craftily thought that if I got some primer and paint from Home Depot, the car would look more likely to pass. I probably should have done a couple more coats of the spray paint, but I got tired of breathing through my NIOSH respirator, and after doing some strokes to make it look vaguely like the decal on a Pontiac Firebird, I called it a day. However, the new paint had a lot more glitter in it than the old can did, so I wanted to do something to sort of glue it together and make it a bit more water-resistant, and be a flexible final coat instead of a brittle finish. So I went out and got a can of Turtle Wax. Turtle Wax has probably been around since the first Ford rolled off the assembly line, but the new formulation smells better than the old stuff, and it goes on smoother too. I was using it off-label--you aren't supposed to apply it to matte paint, but since I knew it wouldn't be shiny I was v...