I just scrapped a rambling three hour entry about my love affair with the Sims series to write this post instead; which is about my love affair with AweSims in particular. I am a Sims interior design addict. It's hard to explain, or justify, the intense effort I put into creating virtual … [Read more...]

I usually have a few free hours to work on my FFs, but today I'm running on borrowed time-- I have a group of little boys showing up in an hour, and I need to clean up and get some snacks ready. And get out of my pajamas. You know. The basics. So we're going to make this quick and awesome.It's time … [Read more...]

Last night I let Jason pick up a new game from Best Buy. (I'm the money manager, so I dole the treats out. Heh.) Ever since we've been married, there's been a little video game budget set aside for him. Every man has their bachelor hobby, and it usually gets relegated to the backburner when the wife … [Read more...]

It's Font Friday! Since the 'Mad Men' entry was so well-received, I'm going to do today's post on another critically acclaimed retro series: 'Boardwalk Empire'.First of all-- I don't love this show. Yet. I'm trying. My big issue so far is a lot of the storylines are resolved or forgotten too … [Read more...]

So, in a few weeks, I'll be turning 28. On one hand, this seems crazy old, especially since I don't think I've aged much since 20. It's hard to reconcile Becca of eight years ago with Becca today. On the other hand, I got confused and thought I was 29 for the last year, so-- upon doing the math … [Read more...]

Okay, when I started this series a week or so back, I asked what other typographical pet peeves you guys had. Julie mentioned the grievous abuse of Old English typeface; particularly that they should never be used in all caps. COSIGNED. She's referring to fonts like this:(Which is called-- … [Read more...]

When I was 11 years old, my mom showed me how to use my first HTML editor. It was the WYSIYWG sort; where you just typed in a glorified text document and linked to other glorified text documents. I was hooked. I kept my first blog at 13-- although at the time (mid-90's), such a thing didn't exist … [Read more...]

I'm sorry this is such a thrown-together Font Friday. I'm going out of town for a few days, and I spent every spare minute this afternoon working on another entry-- an entry which I had my husband proofread before publishing, an entry he immediately told me nobody was going to care about it. (Also: … [Read more...]

Paper is such a ubiquitous commodity. It's everywhere, every day, in everything. We eat on paper plates and wipe our mouths with napkins. We write letters and send them in envelopes. We fax each other, we leave each other Post-Its, we sign forms and checks. We toss out junk mail. We flip … [Read more...]