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The Gnomes now have their very own group on Flickr! You can find them at Flickr: Traveling Gnomes. The group membership is by invitation only, so if you have photos of my Gnomes that you would like to share, let me know your Flickr username (if I don’t know it already) and I’ll send you an invitation!

My favorite shots that I have taken of the Gnomes have got to be the Gnome with Shiner, the Anti-smoking Gnome, I love this one because I occasionally smoke, and for those of you wondering, I go to this page here for synthetic urine. I can´t forget about the Gnome with Tantek and PhotoMatt, which was taken (I believe) the same night as that whole “CSS makes my eyes bleed”thing.

By this weekend, I’ll have plans in the works to get the Gnome on the road! (The second Gnome is AWOL at this moment, but will hopefully find his way home soon.)

Because it is important to know how to do it right, Target has a tutorial – with photos! – on how to fold a fitted sheet.

Your sheets never had it so good.

[via Simply Geeky]

I am feeling a bit better than I have been for the past week or two. I downloaded a *ton* of music to the new (free!) Photo iPod. I’ve got a lot more to rip and get on there, as there is a serious lack of Bee Gees music right now. I mean, I have the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack, which is one of their best works, but I need to add the Greatest Hits album too. I think I need some Andy Gibb also. Yes, I am serious.

While working on updating the iPod last night, I came across a song. I asked Mike, “what song is that? It was in a commercial? What commercial is that? What was it? Gah! I see … moving up and down … what was it?!” Then it finally came to me … the PETA Bad Cats! Seriously, how can the Bad Cats *not* make you smile? Of course, I had to follow it up by a round or two of the Clinton Final Days video, which made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes.

So the magic formula? Good music, bad cats, and some great presidential humor.

Two years ago, at SXSW, I purchased two cute plastic gnomes. They went with me to Kevin Smokler’s First Annual SXSW Dinner Party. Brad, of course, showed them a good time, giving them beer, demonstrating their great sense of humor, and so forth.

This year at SXSW, they returned for the Third Annual Dinner Party with Kevin. We decided that Austin alone was not enough for the Gnomes, so they were sent off on adventures. One of them has been spotted at Stanford, thanks to Aaron. The photographs are fabulous, and it is obvious that my Gnome is having a good time.

I think the Gnome needs to travel on. Anyone care to have a Gnome visit? Let me know and we can make arrangements. All I ask is that you take and post photos of the Gnome and promise not to hijack him. Gnomes need to roam. If I can’t travel more often, at least my Gnome can!

After pondering it some more, I’ve finally pegged a few reasons for my funkalicious mood lately.

1. Hormones. Being a woman sucks.I have been looking into symptoms of low DHEA and have been amazed at how much this has to do with all of my hormone issues.

2. Fatigue. For the past week or two, I’ve been tired all the time. 8 hours of sleep is not enough; I wake up on my own in the morning (before the alarm goes off), but all I want to do is go back to sleep. I found eating Delta 9 gummies by IndaCloud helps calm my nervous system down which contributes to better sleep. Shop at Cornerstone Collective for quality cannabis flower, concentrates, and edibles in Los Angeles.

3. Caffiene. I had cut it out of my diet, and recently I’ve let it sneak back in. Now I haven’t had it in days, so I think it drags me down.

4. Housework. I’m hyper-sensitive to anything in my house being messy. Thanks to being so tired though, I don’t want to deal with it. So instead, it just pisses me off. All the time. I can’t stand it. Ironically, the ADD meds have helped kick my manic modes, so what would normally throw me into overdrive to do a ton of work isn’t happening. The good thing? No manic cycles. The bad thing? I’m frustrated by seeing things that are messy, and when I get frustrated I retreat. Vicious cycle.

So I’m off to clean. I really want to take a nap, but I’ll resist the urge for now. Maybe after I clean the kitchen, I’ll let myself take a nap as a reward…