Midnight Owl's Profile

I got this exact same lamp at a thrift store not too long ago for $7 - I ADORE it! Two of the lights work (the middle and upper ones), but I can't get the bottom one's switch to twist on. I'd like to fix it, but where I have it sitting right now I don't really use the bottom one.

I have a pretty large ceramic owl collection myself, started a couple years ago with a fantastic 1970s plastic owl clock a friend found for me off Craigslist, and ever since then I haven't been able to stop collecting. My prize owl is a 2 foot tall one scored from a thrift store for $10 (large ones are hard to find)

my favorite fruit fly trap is a recycling option! I take any regular soda bottle (can be one of the 20 oz or the 2 liters), cut the top off, and then put the top upside down in the bottom to make a funnel. That way the flies can die in there as much as they wish and not in one of my drinking glasses I'd have to sacrifice for the cause. Drinking out of something that once had dead bugs in it just weirds me out a little, no matter how clean it is.

It's my favorite building on campus! The inside entryway is really pretty too! The Vanderslice building is fantastic too.

Ahh board games, the sport of kings! I love board games, I have a group of friends and we play nearly every friday or saturday night. Our current favorite is Agricola (17th century farming), it's so much fun. I own close to 50 games now, they're all stored in my kitchen cupboards (I only need one shelf for my dishes). I get most of them at thrift stores for cheap.

My husky I had as a kid once ate an entire roll of that black tarp-like tree wrap. It kept coming out her rear end for a week, we'd have to trim it off every day or she'd trip on it and yelp. We felt sorry for her of course, but it was hilarious at the same time.

This is the same dog that spent one afternoon while we were gone hopping over our garden fence, grabbing one summer squash, hoping back over the fence, taking one bite only to find out that the squash wasn't ripe, and decide to try again with a new squash....... over and over and over again. We had every single squash our garden produced that summer all over the backyard, with one bite in each one.

Our current dog has a weird habit now of on Sundays when my parents go to church, he gets into our wastebasket in the living room, and takes out precisely one used kleenex, and shreds it right in front of our front door, so that when my parents get home they know how DISTRESSED he was that they left him along for two hours.... this is the only time he does this, it's always only on Sunday mornings.

I have the same problem in my very tiny rental bathroom - nice large claw foot tub, but tiny sink and tiny toilet, and absolutely no room around them, and hardly any wall space. I got an over the door hanger for my towels, but the real problem was storage of hair and makeup supplies (needed drawers!). I couldn't find anything that would fit under the sink (it's a low, round bowl underneath, so there's just barely 24 inches of extra room under there) at Bed Bath and Beyond and other places. I ended up getting one of those three drawer plastic storage units that they sell at Target, and just taking off the plastic top of it, pulling off one of the drawers (with its supports), and then snapping the top back on, making it a two drawer unit, since they don't sell two drawer units in the size that would fit. It's not really pretty, but it works. I think when I get a chance I may stick some pretty paper on the front of the drawers just to jazz it up and make it so you can't see the things inside.