Kara’s Blog

Kyle MacDonald is trading his way up from a paperclip to a house.

How cool is that? Very cool.

Check it out: one red paperclip.

It's five minutes of your life you won't regret.

I had a really bad afternoon because I got my computer back after 4 weeks of service and I found it that it still wasn't working. I took it to CompuSmart, and none of the tech support guys were "in," but one guy had popped in for a moment and stayed in to help me with my problem.

He determined that it was my adapter that was broken and is going to send it to…

I have good news and bad news today.

The good news first: my computer is back (and working)! :D I'm so glad I've got cookies back now . . . no more logging in all the time. I'm going to work on updating VSNS Lemon now, since it does have some bugs that could be worked out and features too.

Now for the bad news: I feel sick. :( Sneezing, snuffling, tired and sore throat…

At 96 pages, Word gave up. It decided that my novel had too many spelling errors for it to mark up anymore, and promptly advised me that I was an idiot and should use spell check. Those red squiggles that underline mispelt words then disappeared. How I miss them. :(

I don't actually spell many words wrong, but I do make up a lot of places and names. I'm just too lazy to add those…

Sometimes I'm running a bit late in the mornings, and I run to the bus stop for fear of missing my bus. Inevitably, the bus itself is late and I end up actually waiting in the cold, after running frantically to get to the stop!

One would think that after a few of these episodes, I'd stop running, eh? Nope. I live in perpetual fear. :D

Many of you know that Cookie Monster now eats cookies as a "sometimes" food. rolleyes Now, I am as much against rising child obesity as the next intelligent superluminal particle. It is a problem, especially in developed countries like Canada. But this . . . this goes too far!

The Christmas season is now upon us, and it has got me thinking (yes! :o). Santa really isn't all that different from Cookie Monster; he's this…

I actually meant to post last night (or, I guess, very early this morning would be more correct) but never got around to it. :D

We've got a set of those plastic ice cube tray things at home. Now, like any good plastic ice cube tray, it has started to break. Portions of the plastic are tearing right where the cube-cup thing joins with the little skeleton along the top. For some reason, this means…

Anyone in for some "audience participation"? :w00t:

Okay, so Laura posted this on her blog, and told me to put it on mine as well. I normally don't like chain things like this, but why not? I'm thinking of having more contest-like participation things for those of you crazy enough to read me. :D

Here's the deal: I want you to email me with a completely made up and fictional memory of you and…

The inclement weather, consisting mostly of snow, made the highways too difficult for the buses to traverse today, so most rural kids did not go to school. That's okay, small classes are good. Then, during period two, the principal announced that rural buses would be leaving at noon, so most rural kids who were at school left at noon (some stayed).

So we didn't do much during drama (which was cut short by a drinking…

So the Liberal minority government has fallen (and not even mightily), thus the polls shall open soon and the election bells will toll alongside the yuletide ones.

It's not very unexpected, eh. I mean, we've known for the past few weeks that a non-confidence motion was going to happen. We've known that the Bloc, NDP, and Conservatives would team up to defeat the Liberals. There was very little doubt.

Then it actually happens.

It…