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Today, I am 33. Happy birthday to me!

“Oh, Internet”

MyHarto says: “This began as my Anti-SOPA song…but turned into so much more…” It’s beyond awesome, if you ask me.

Favorite Photos of 2011

For a number of reasons I’m rather fanatical about checking stats here, but other than noting new comments I don’t pay much attention to the activity on my Flickr stream. I’m hardly anything above a pure amateur so I guess I never really have cared, but I was poking around the other day and was pleasantly surprised to see that there’s been quite a lot of interest.

I don’t normally do posts recapping the year because (a.) it’s tedious and boring for me and (b.) I usually note the yearly partnership anniversary of me and my current guide dog so it seems redundant at best. But after digging through the 750+ photos from last year I thought I’d share some of my favorites. These aren’t all photos I took personally, though the majority are, just a smattering of the ones I’m particularly fond of.

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Adorable and Interesting

This is too adorable for words:

If you’re wondering why I am suddenly seemingly obsessed with the Muppets and Sesame Street all I will say for now is that you’re just jealous that you can’t justify it as work and I can. (No, really.) But that’s a story for another day.

On another subject all together, mine is one of those streets that sort of competes with itself during the holidays:

Uschi sitting by the many decorations in front of a nearby neighbor's house

Unlike most streets, though, it seems to be a competition for most obnoxious and gaudy. This house is a few doors down from me and I don’t think there’s a blow-up decoration available that they don’t have. Yara and Uschi both find the house quite peculiar and have had varying reactions to the huge, blow-up snowmen and company. I didn’t realize for quite some time that there are a few that are animated, too. Santa pops out of one of them and I think at least one of the snowmen waves.

There’s an addition this year of a camper-style RV and Uschi, frankly, finds it disturbing. The first time we came to the house since it was put out, she flatly refused to walk by it. A subsequent trip was only slightly better in that I didn’t have to walk around the block to get where I was going, but Uschi chose instead to growl at it menacingly.

ETA: It’s been almost a year and I’m still constantly calling the girls the wrong names, but this was the first post that I caught myself writing the wrong dog’s name. I’m now deeply curious if I’ve ever actually posted something unknowingly using the wrong name!

Fighting with iTunes

I love my new iPhone a lot, but I have to say that it does cause me some sporadic frustrations. Namely, it seems to randomly decide that syncing is an impossibility thus requiring me to run through a bunch of seemingly superfluous steps to get it to actually sync. Right now it won’t load my music or other media and the music app on the phone itself crashes when I try to load it. I should be wrapping gifts, but instead I’m fighting the strong urge to throw expensive electronic equipment at the wall.

Oh, well, here’s a video more appropriate to the time of year (and continuing with the theme of posting about the Muppets/Sesame Street):

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