Yosemite TRAGEDY
- By jtal
- 27 April, 2013
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In my wrap-up of our Easter weekend trip to Yosemite (see parts 1 and 2), I alluded to a CRIMINAL event committed by a DEVIOUS WILD FORCE OF EVIL upon … Continue Reading →
Yosemite Easter – pt. 2
When last we left off, the hubby and I were resting up for our first big day of hiking in Yosemite. So… Saturday We woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready … Continue Reading →
Yosemite Easter – pt 1
Being the cheapskate I am, I scan LivingSocial and Groupon every week or so for deals I can use, and in March I found a SA-WEET deal on a hotel … Continue Reading →
Why I like making movies
- By jtal
- 9 March, 2013
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One of my favorite days during my time in grad school–and really of all time (in a thankfully long list of favorite days)–was the day my 30-minute documentary premiered at … Continue Reading →
Couches from Scandinavian Designs will give you pink eye
- By jtal
- 16 December, 2012
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Hi. Welcome back to our saga. When last we left, I was really upset about how purchasing a couch from Scandinavian Designs was taking three months, giving me scoliosis, pink … Continue Reading →
Scandinavian Design Couches Cheap
- By jtal
- 11 December, 2012
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This isn’t really a site where you can buy couches from Scandinavian Designs for cheap. Sorry. I just said that so that maybe people who are thinking about buying furniture … Continue Reading →
The Couchicorn
- By jtal
- 6 December, 2012
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When Richard and I landed in CA, we headed straight for IKEA to get what we thought were our two most direly needed items: a bed and a couch. The bed was found easily, but we felt their couches were just so…sad. And cheap-looking. So we decided to wait on the couch. Continue Reading →
Ahh! Ghosts!
- By jtal
- 26 October, 2012
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Hey, it’s almost Halloween. Watch my bitchin’ documentary (artfully titled As Long As We Keep Telling, –I KNOW it’s too long) and learn why we tell ghost stories in a … Continue Reading →
Invisible cat of destruction
- By jtal
- 25 September, 2012
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Remember when I said this picture was taken on the night Pixel went crazy? She’d been doing surprisingly well along the trip–in the car she meowed for the first hour … Continue Reading →
A costumed life
I was wondering, after this year’s round of Halloween parties and subsequent photos, how many years of Halloween pictures could I collect? 19. 19 years out of 27…but some years … Continue Reading →












