Mini LP Gift Tags from Paul Overton on Vimeo.

I spent some time today watch Paul Overton videos - check out his Dudecraft site.

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I also spent some time this weekend rearranging some blog subscriptions. I periodically go through and purge a bunch or subscribe to too many new ones, depending on what time of year it is and how busy I am. Then I thought I got smart and had all my subscription notifications go to a gmail account I set up. But then I found I didn't get over there often enough was getting behind in the blogs of my friends, the people I want to keep up with. So now I have more of them come to my regular email address. I have all kinds of filters and rules set up for each mailbox so hopefully it won't get out of control. Ha! I crack me up.

I tried to go about the above rearranging in an organized fashion but I hope I didn't miss anyone. Oy, there's Feedblitz, Feedburner, ChangeDetection.com. And I use Bloglines to keep track of lots of marginal blogs I think I'll want to find again. What I'd really like is to make a living reading blogs. Anybody know where I can apply for that job??

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I look forward to January 1 so much because it always feels like such a clean slate, fresh start kind of thing. I usually start feeling January 1-ish the day after Christmas. When we put Wilma's shelves up in the pet room (what most people use for a dining room), they displaced some other wooden shelves that belonged to my parents and are possibly older than I am. I ended up putting them in my studio, which required some rearranging. I threw out a bunch of stuff and found more stuff to Freecycle at work.

I still have more paperwork to get through. I should have been doing that but the purging and rearranging was so much more fun! There's always next weekend. Steve and I always say we love New Year's Day because it's like a free day off with no obligations. We usually don't even stay up until midnight on New Year's Eve - then there's that fresh start January 1 thing we love.