We had a giant box of legos... fucking loved them. Of course we also had old thick shag carpet, so the lego men would get trapped and die if we weren't careful. I used to look through the lego catalog and drool... those sets were so expensive! Lincoln Logs were awesome, too. Had a big set of them. I...

Oatmeal baths are awesome. That and calamine lotion is my mom's standard treatment for chicken pox/poison ivy -- stuff that you want to scratch so bad but can't. Oatmeal baths are exactly what they sound like. Run a warm bath, and pour in a packet of oatmeal bath solution (or make your own, I guess)...

Books I'm getting from the library: What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England Victorian London : the life of a city, 1840-1870 Victorian life and Victorian fiction : a companion for the American reader Gotham : a hi...

Man, chicken pox was simultaneously the best and worst disease as a kid. It was awesome because my best friend got chicken pox, and usually when your friend gets sick it means you can't hang out with them, but with chicken pox my parents really wanted me to hang out her -- so I'd catch it to while I...

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aaahhhhhh Nokia made such a great basic phone...

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