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this-is-sams-lost-shoe: There are only two gifs you need to survive on tumblr: and Accurate.

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:12:10 -0500

this-is-sams-lost-shoe:

There are only two gifs you need to survive on tumblr:

and

Accurate.

fierrrrrrce: Omg ikr :’( lmao Dead.

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:34:46 -0500

fierrrrrrce:

Omg ikr :’( lmao

Dead.

Long, tiring day... and tomorrow is... just... uhmmmm....

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:32:18 -0500

So, a few years ago, a very serious series of events happened between a colleague and me. I thought lunch would be lunch and lunch turned into a very horrible afternoon. In the end, I lost a bit of reputation, however wrongly, and said person spread a lie that it was me that was after him, which was ridiculous.

This past week, the person I saw that afternoon, the person behind the mask, committed his final curtain call as far as his employer was concerned. Since his employer is one of my clients, I’ve spent the day rushing around, getting locks changed and doing everything I can to prevent an electronic retaliatory action he may decide to make over the weekend, once he finally has access to a computer. I have to say, Constant Contact was sympathetic and quick to respond to our issue.

The problem was that this particular person was incredibly controlling and kept a lot of passwords that he should not have had secret, and that also included the password recovery questions. Everything has been changed over to the President of the organization. So, in the end, even if this day was a total chaotic mess and the President had to make a difficult decision she did not want to make, the good that comes out of it is that she is, finally, in control of all of the correspondence, especially electronic that may leave the office.

…And considering how the former colleague has been behaving especially this past few months or so, I’m glad to finally come out ahead with my reputation repaired from that horrible afternoon, and in fact, that horrible afternoon and the President of the organization’s handling of it, helped put her in a better spot after the events of this week.

…

Now, I have to prepare to go to my parent’s country home tomorrow, with Lexi in tow. I was looking forward to it until my Mom turned into critical Mom on Mother’s Day. However, evil sister who has been guilting me and saying that she’s “been taking care of Mom for Dad” these past weekends (every other weekend), when informed by our Dad that I would be going up there on Saturday, told him that she would be driving up tonight. So, completely afraid of the ambush that awaits, because she will try to start a fight and it WILL be in front of my Mom and it will be done in such a way as to attempt to make me look as bad as possible and on top of all of that? My Mom will make me apologize no matter how the fight comes out, at least she has in the past, because she tells me that I have the better heart so I should use it.

However, I’m encouraged by the fact that when I called to officially wish my Mom happy birthday this evening (I waited because I wanted to talk to my Dad about my sister’s announcement to him and get his opinion) that she warned me that my sister would be there… To which I told her I had the plans scheduled before my sister did.

…and if my sister uses the whole, “well, I’ve been taking care of Mom” guilt trip BS on me again, I’m going to say, but Donya? You didn’t have to come up here this weekend, and you knew full well that you didn’t.

Also? My Dad told me which plant my Mom wants. Score!! Gonna be the favourite daughter with the better present. (Yes, I’m doing the cabbage patch… please don’t judge me.) Juvenile, I know, but since my sister’s whole big thing is to try and make herself look like the better daughter by pulling this crap, and my Dad can see it and doesn’t like how she’s been treating a fair few people, I’m getting helpful inside information.

So tired already. Good thing, though, Lexi should be extremely exhausted on our way home tomorrow.

Maybe we shouldn’t’ve taken the long path, Mom. ...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:57:11 -0500

Maybe we shouldn’t’ve taken the long path, Mom. It’s getting hot and humid again. You carry Lexi back home, okay? #lexi #lexisworld #dailylexi #dogs #dogmomproblems #diva #divadog #dogsofinstagram

pseuglam: Ohara Koson, “Flowering plum and moon”

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:19:07 -0500

pseuglam:

Ohara Koson, “Flowering plum and moon”

Emma Watson for W Magazine (June 2013)

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:55:58 -0500

Emma Watson for W Magazine (June 2013)

hollye83: One of my very favorite scenes.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:32:56 -0500

hollye83:

One of my very favorite scenes.

firstladyjbko: Jackie thanking America for their letters after...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:09:27 -0500

firstladyjbko:

Jackie thanking America for their letters after Jack was killed. This was in early ‘64.

She aged a good five years in the span of a few months. Grief just ages you.

scandalgladiators: Hysterically funny moment…

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:46:35 -0500

scandalgladiators:

Hysterically funny moment…

scandalouscastles: LMAO Cyrus Cyrus had the BEST lines of the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:20 -0500

scandalouscastles:

LMAO Cyrus

Cyrus had the BEST lines of the night.

rollingstone: How were you first approached about Back to the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:18:54 -0500

rollingstone:

How were you first approached about Back to the Future?
Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale, who produced, directed and wrote the film respectively, asked for a meeting. We went to Amblin Entertainment in Los Angles. They said, “Look, we’ve written this film, and the lead character is this teenager, Marty McFly. His favorite band would be Huey Lewis and the News. Would you like to write a song?” I said, “I’m flattered, but I’ve never written for a film. We’ll send you the next thing we write.” That was “Power of Love.” I didn’t think it would work since there was no love interest in the film, but clearly they used it pretty well.

Huey Lewis sat down with us to talk about the landmark album Sports, as well as American Psycho, Back to the Future, “We Are the World” and many other things.

Prevent Asthma and Allergy Attacks in your Home

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:10:04 -0500

Prevent Asthma and Allergy Attacks in your Home:

usagov:

May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. Learn how you can prevent these attacks in your home.

Read this post in Spanish.

inebriatedpony: abandonedography: 9 of the Most Fascinating...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:04:59 -0500

inebriatedpony:

abandonedography:

9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World

All you Bond villains looking for a stylish evil operations base, take note.

im-a-kittycat: “So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:56:07 -0500

im-a-kittycat:

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”

- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl

This is an amazing idea.

Woodwork | Sleeping at Last Stunning EP. Available on iTunes

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:13:00 -0500

Woodwork | Sleeping at Last

Stunning EP. Available on iTunes

oupacademic: Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Baking...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:28:41 -0500

oupacademic:

Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!

Baking chocolate was melted before its incorporation into cookie dough until the 1930s, when Wakefield, the owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, created the “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie,” which later became known as the chocolate chip cookie. Her original recipe, from Toll House Tried and True Recipes, calls for cutting bars of Nestlé semisweet chocolate into very small pieces, which are then added to a basic butter cookie dough. When sales of semisweet chocolate soared in New England, Nestlé investigated, and the company began producing scored chocolate bars packaged with a small chopper. In 1939, the company introduced semisweet chocolate morsels and signed a contract with Wakefield allowing the company to print her recipe on every package. The shortcut formula for adding chocolate to cookies was a big success, and the chocolate chip continues its reign as America’s favorite homemade cookie.

From the “Cookies” entry by Becky Mercuri in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, Second Edition, edited by Andrew F. Smith. The entire entry is available to read for free until the end of the month.

And stay tuned for pictures from OUP USA office bake-offs!

Photo by Alice Northover, cookies by Alana Podolsky for Oxford University Press.

I bake one of the best chocolate chip cookies ever. I add pecans to them now, though, so technically they’re chocolate chip and pecan. They’re so addictive. Family members fight over their containers. Not even kidding.

TBS & TNT To Offer Live Streaming Online and on App | Deadline

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:05:43 -0500

TBS & TNT To Offer Live Streaming Online and on App | Deadline

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Wed, 15 May 2013 16:41:56 -0500

When I talk about recreating the spirit of that world, the...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:18:58 -0500

When I talk about recreating the spirit of that world, the music is as important as the dialogue and the behavior. From 1947 on, music scored what was happening in the streets, the back rooms. And it affected, sometimes, the behavior of the people, because this music was playing in the streets. Jukeboxes were brought out during the summer. Windows were open, and you could hear what everybody else was listening to. It expresses the excitement of the time. Simply, it’s the way I saw life. The way I experienced life. - Martin Scorsese.

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:55:44 -0500

“If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

I want to rethink ‘surrender’ as an active verb.”

- Brian Eno (via kateoplis)