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Zen Garden

I decided I would take a good portion of my free time this weekend to work on a screen saver idea I have had floating around.  I always have liked the idea of Zen gardens and the geometry and such.  I decided I would try to do something similar.  This is based on the Zen [...]

More difficult than your average bear…

 

I like origami.  I find that all the instructions are extremely cryptic unless you actually know all of the lingo.  I don’t.  I have to guess from the illustrations.  Fortunately, this one had very good illustrations.  Unfortunately, some of the illustrations were the origami equivalent of “do a triple back flip” and even [...]

I’d rather be…

It all started with Nordstrom’s.  They sold license plate frames that catered to a group of people (mostly women, I think) that wanted to show their loyalty to the store.  It really seems a shallow gesture, though: it’s just for show and doesn’t say anything more than, “I spent $19.95 on this license plate frame.”  [...]

It’s the Jillian Blog!

 

I realize that I haven’t updated this too much lately.  Between work, school, and family I haven’t had much time to do a lot so the most important thing gets the posts: namely, family.

This is Jillian with one of her favorite snacks: a Baby Mum Mum (actual product name).  They kind of [...]