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Thanksgiving craft time

For those of you who missed out on the classic paper turkey in elementary school, here are instructions. If you do remember making this as a wee innocent child, it’s worth doing again. Many of us are in such a hurry to be grown up that we lose our wonderment and delight for [...]

Totally amazing birthday video

Justine made me this adorable video for my birthday. It’s a montage of a bunch of photos and videos of us together. I can’t properly describe how I feel about this. It’s wonderful, amazing, incredibly sweet. It brings back a lot of memories. It’s strange to think that we met [...]

Feeling new

Celebratory cupcakes
Every time this date rolls around I start to stress. Should I be further in my career? What am I doing with my life? Is this the right path? Am I happy? The thoughts, worries, second-guessings eat away at me for weeks on end. I am cranky, temperamental, and [...]

Lost in America - Austin

Austin… what can I say? It was really weird. The story for Austin is full of silliness and definitely worth checking out. Watch episode 1 to get a taste of the absurdity:
Lost in America-Austin:cookies! (ep1) from Karen on Vimeo.
The other episodes are on my vimeo channel and a behind the scenes post [...]

Paypal sadness

The biggest problem with having a limited paypal account is that they have the records for your credit cards. You cannot use the credit cards on paypal even if you try to pay as a guest user & don’t sign in. I wish there were something better than paypal (in functionality and ease [...]

Get lost in Anchorage

For the last few months Justine and I have been running around together shooting videos for At&t. The videos for our Anchorage trip are finally up.
I’ve posted episode 2 below.
Lost in America - Hot Dog/Cold dog (ep2) from Karen on Vimeo.
Gotta say, I love video quality preservation on Vimeo. You can watch all [...]

Voted

Today is a new day. A wonderful, though bittersweet, day. Change is here.
The battle for gay rights continues. It’s not over yet, and I will not lose hope.