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I've often joked that the sole purpose of mobile twittering is to take pictures of what you are eating, and send it out in a tweet. Not long ago I sent this picture I took with my iPhone.

Here comes my only problem with the iPhone so far. I was scrolling through my camera roll last night and there they were, those lovely buffalo wings. I flashed the picture to Wil and remarked how tasty they looked. He agreed, but he might have been referring to the frosty beer in the background. So, because I'm sometimes made up entirely of id, guess what we had for dinner yesterday?

My iPhone makes me hungry. It makes me want things. It won't take no for an answer.

From Blogography.com, one of Dave's Blogoversary t-shirt designs. @CaptainDumbass, from US and Them, apparently has one as well. He lives in Richmond BC, I live in New West, a few miles away. He suggested that if I stay in New West and he stays in Richmond we should be ok. I told him I had no trouble being Twinkies.

Several days ago:
Wm: Why haven't you done one of those "what's on my tshirt" bloggy things with your new Frank Black tshirt.
Me: Probably because I haven't worn it yet.
Wm: Well DO IT! Tonight!

But, because "obey" was not in our marriage vows, I took that order with a grain of salt. I planned on wearing it today anyway, but when I got out of the shower and he was cleaning the kitchen, I knew I had to wear it. I walked into the kitchen and pointed to my shirt.

Wm: There you go. Good [pointing towards my desk] DO IT!

Wil is something of a Pixies/Frank Black/Black Francis fanatic. Last fall we went to see his show, which was awesome, but they didn't have shirts on sale. He found these on Frank Black's website and I ordered them. Had to have them sent to my mom, and when they did not arrive in time for her last visit, he was extremely disappointed. But my mom is awesome, so she shipped them to us as soon as they got in, proving, once again, he is the luckiest son-in-law EVER.

Frank Black was playing here last night. Only I think he's going by Black Francis again. It's hard to keep track. But when I went to get tickets last month, he was sold out. In fact, in keeping with the "paper" theme of the first anniversary present, I was going to get us tickets to Frank Black and he was going to get us tickets to Chris Isaak (one of my favorites). Both were sold out.

I think the iPhone helped with my sadness. I'll see you next summer, Chris.

I saw this shirt a long long time ago. I don't know why I didn't buy it immediately. Then I forgot where I saw it until, recently, Dooce talked about hers. I saw it on Threadless.com. And now it is finally mine.

If you know me, you know this shirt is perfect for me. I was so excited. I had to have it shipped to the States, so I sent it to my mom's house. I told her she could open it up when it got there because it was too funny. When she got it, she said to me that it was "funny because it's your sense of humor."

Wil: What did she say?
Me: She said it's funny because it's my sense of humor.
Wil: She doesn't like it.
Me: Not as much as I do, no. This is the equivalent to your "That's interesting." when I am telling you a story.

She reminded me that my little vegan brother would probably hate it. As would other vegan and vegetarian friends of mine. Yes, I suppose. But they wouldn't be surprised by it. The fact is, I'm a carnivore.

I've done something like this before, but I've had the flu for the last few days, and I figured that copy and paste was about all the energy I had right now. Plus pictures are pretty. Oooooo....

The concept:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab's Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food? right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your flickr name?

1. For Snowy4052002 (Jodi), 2. New York Steak, 3. class of '98, 4. Go Green!!!, 5. Cesar Millan and Daddy, 6. The Dr. is IN, 7. Dr. Pepper Museum, 8. Sweet Cherry Pie, 9. For Clarity!, 10. Family Portrait, 11. My Buddy, 12. Mixed Woods

Answers:

1. Jodi
2. Steak and Baked Potato. Mmmmm
3. Union High School, Tulsa OK
4. green
5. I asked Wil who my celebrity crush was, he instantly replied "The dog guy." He's right. I adore Cesar Milan. I don't have a dog, but I am addicted to The Dog Whisperer show. (Wil's celebrity crush is Kelly Rippa, he lurvs her.)
6. Dr Pepper
7. The Dr Pepper Museum. Duh
8. Cherry Pie
9. Dolphin Psychologist
10. My family. Swear to god, I didn't try to get a picture of monsters, that just happened. :)
11. I asked Wil for a word that describes me and he said "You are my buddy."
12. My name is, of course, Jodiferous. It had no images for that, it suggested "coniferous."

You might be wondering where exactly Amelia has been lately. Why she's been so quiet. For a long time I have wanted to get her framed. She's been through a lot and has a lot of wear and tear. I wanted to get her in a frame before anymore damage occurred. She is, technically, a collector's item.

Last December, before Christmas, I took her into Michael's, along with the Jim Henson/ Kermit Think Different poster and two NaNoWriMo posters, to be framed. They were having a 50% off sale, and I wanted something nice. And oh man were they helpful. We probably spent about an hour and half, choosing matting and frames. The NaNo posters were especially difficult, colorwise. It took 3 frame dept people to figure it out, with much debate. Finally, we had everything spec'd out and he started to write up the estimate. That is something he maybe should have done after the first poster, I could have saved us all a lot of time. The Think Different posters are 24 x 36, the NaNo posters 18 x 24, and really, that is quite large for a custom frame job. Each poster had a relatively inexpensive frame, but three levels of matting. It was so nice.It really made a difference.

When he added up the total for just Amelia, I almost passed out. I was expecting it to be less than that at 100%. At 50% it was ridunculously expensive. Let me put it this way, I could have framed all prints as planned, or I could have bought my husband a black MacBook with an extra gig of ram for Christmas with that kind of money. If I had that kind of money lying about. Which I did not.

I decided to go ahead and have Amelia framed. We tried reducing the cost by removing some of the matting, but it just looked so much better the way we planned it out. It hurt me to pay that much, believe me. It was extortion. I don't even have Jim and Kermit on the wall because I couldn't bare to have them look all naked and plain next to Amelia.

The picture does not do it justice. She really does look fabulous.

Amelia: Hey.. look at me!
Me: You look good.
Amelia: I look FANTASTIC. My posture has never been better. Can you hear me from behind the glass?
Me: Loud and clear.
Amelia: Sweet. Do you think you can wipe off that fingerprint in the lower right corner? I don't want to look smudgy.
Me: I'm on it.

Again. Because my Photo Booth is working, I guess.

I got this t-shirt at the Northern Voice blogging conference last month, which was pretty fun. I finally met Airdre in person, after reading her blog for a long time and I met a completely new person named Catherine, who gets to play WoW at her job. On purpose! We are going to meet for coffee someday.

Airdre has a podcast called Lipgloss and Laptops, and consequently gets lots of free product. Last week when we met for drinks, she brought me a bag full of MAC products. It was like Christmas! Anyway, if you like beauty products, you should give it a listen.

Have I done this one before? I know when I bought the shirt it was way too small. I couldn't wear it for a long time.

Even if I have, it's got cupcakes on it so it bears repeating.