Fallin' thru the ice

Oh my...that'll teach 'em to drive on the "unofficial" ice road!

This is the best part of the article:

"The ice road is not a road in the eyes of the Department of Transportation.

'It’s not a DOT responsibility,' Howard Thies, maintenance and operations director for the northern region of DOT, said when contacted Monday. 'We are the Department of Highways, Aviation and Public Facilities; there’s no rivers in there. It’s not our problem.' "

Take THAT, stupid reporter!

Unhappy holidays

I am so SO glad that we decided to stay home for the holidays. As much as I would have loved to see my family at Christmas, this and this is why I don't fly in late December anymore. There are a limited amount of flights out of Alaska and at any busy time of year (holidays, summer, etc.) it's a crap shoot whether the flight will be late and/or cancelled, or if you'll get a flight at all.

I feel sorry for all those people in Seattle and Portland but I've been there too -- running to customer service to get re-booked with the other 200 people from my flight or frantically dialing the 800 number and praying to get a real live person. But as far as airports go, the SeaTac is a pretty nice one to be stranded in. Lots of good food and shopping...

3 Cool Things - 12/22/08

Egg Pants -- ever see super cute things that have absolutely no use in your household but you WANT IT EVER SO MUCH? This is my current dilemna with the Egg Pants by Lizkin Design. I do not eat soft-boiled eggs but who knows, maybe I would if I had the proper pants for them. God forbid that eggs go around naked!

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Routan Baby Maker -- um, just check it out. You'll either think it's really awesome or extremely creepy. I will not subject you to the "baby" I made using my and D's photos.

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Elf Yourself -- it's baaaaaack!

Fleece scarf DIY

An easy but ever so cute fleece scarf project that will take you all of like 15 minutes to do.

From Curbly:

No cool things

Work and life are keeping me too busy - so no cool things this week. And for the first time in a while I got hit with a migraine, so Tuesday was a pretty bad day. I did have a little time to knit this wool hat -- I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It's my first time adding a contrasting color.

More fun scenery

Gift tags

Cute tags from Martha Stewart, via How About Orange:

Fishy gifts

A few times a year I give little handmade gifts to my coworkers. This holiday season everyone is getting fish-shaped soap that I made, along with some cute tags that I designed to go along with the general fish theme. I think you can click on the photos to see them larger...

More cold weather

Still clear, still cold and still amazingly gorgeous outside. This photo is from our bedroom window yesterday around 3:15 pm. I was sick and got to see the sunset from home.


On my way to work:


5 degrees today...better than below zero:

Clear and cold

We had lovely clear weather this past weekend, with beautiful blue skies and vivid pink sunrises. But clear skies mean lower temperatures and the hoar frost made a comeback, big time! I'm not sure I have ever seen it this thick before...

Pet Photography

Cool Pet's Eye View Digital Camera, which attaches to a collar and takes photos of your pet's activities throughout the day. It would be interesting to see what the pets do while home alone -- but I suspect that Drift's photos would just be of the door to the pantry where we keep his food or the carpet, because he sleeps all day. The cats are probably all over the place.

So the camera reminded me of this cool guy who made his OWN camera - before it was all trendy for pets to be photojournalists - and attached it to Mr. Lee, his roaming cat.

I like my cards sassy

From Offensive + Delightful:

Winter ruminations

My sister is still in town, so I get dropped off at work and then she does random Risha things all day -- shopping, visiting with friends, eating at my favorite restuarants without me and probably bank-robbing and red light-running too for good measure.

She mentioned today on the morning commute how dark it is here and with the heavy cloud cover, we never really see the sun all day! It's just gloomy. I know that I already blogged about how craptastic it is here right now, but having someone else confirm it for me is...just sad.

On a lighter note, D and I are going to the movies tonight...we never go anymore since my friend Netflix delivers a film every couple of days, but one of the bigger theaters in town just dropped the price of EVERY movie to $3!

We suspect that they are trying to compete with the highly succesful but always crowded Bear Tooth Theater. Bear Tooth has only one screen but you can get local beer on tap and eat yummy food while watching the movie. It's the sister facility to the Moose's Tooth, best pizza in AK!

3 Cool Things - 12/12/08

In the spirit of winter, I present...headgear!

(what, you were expecting something else?)

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Beard cap -- For the man (or slightly weird woman) who feels the need to express their affinity for beards and mustaches in cold weather.

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Head band - not sure why I like this so much, but it looks oh-so classy compared to the other winter headbands out there.

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Pumpkin hat -- Can't forget about the kiddos - here's a hat for your favorite little munchkin:

Stats don't lie

I like 90% of all chocolates - and peoples, I am fairly sure that I could eat 100% of this chocolate pie chart.



D is afraid that all my teeth are going to fall out because I am quite fond of candy. Damn these craggy Korean teeth...they are cavity magnets.

But this chocolate pie chart represents math, and math is good for you, therefore the chocolate pie chart is good for you! See, it's all in how you present the issue -- if A=B and B=C, then A=C! I am a genius...