Kira Grogg · this is what i do

I've migrated my blog to integrate it into the rest of my website and break free of Wordpress.  The wordpress blog is still up, but no longer active.  I wanted a simpler platform for creating posts.  They are so rare that Wordpress seems a bit overkill, so I made my own little blogging system.

Okay, so this is only sort of space science. Really this is just a cool gif and an amusing picture I came across on imgur that really spoke to me. They both provide valuable insight into the size of earth and the universe.

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I made a few Halloween decorations for a party, but no carved pumpkins this year :(

Decorations include ghost fridge, Frankencandle, and a ghost bag (which held spare costumes for people too lame to show up in one).

These simply involved markers, paper cutouts, and lots of double sided tape. I love double sided tape!

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I really like the font Gill Sans. I used to use it on this blog. But, alas, no more! (For now). I use a Mac, so I didn't notice this problem until I visited this site on my work desktop (Windows 7). In Chrome on Windows, Gill Sans apparently defaults to the ultra bold version now.

As you can (maybe) see here:

This should be Gill Sans...unless you are on Windows Chrome.

Not cool. It is terrible for content text. So, based on advice from this chromium thread I initially resorted to Gill Sans MT. But it's just not the same, and I can't give it a lighter weight. So then I decided to go with the 300 weight Google Font Open Sans. It's still not as nice as Gill Sans, but it'll do for now. Until Windows, or Google or somebody fixes things.

Update: To illustrate for those who don't have Windows, or Chrome on Windows, this is what (still) happens.

My boyfriend hosted a Mario Kart 8 tournament last weekend. I've been a huge Nintendo fan ever since I slowly appropriated each of my brother's consoles for myself. I wanted to bring a treat, and I figured what could be better than cookies shaped like the boost mushrooms! Get it? Because the cookies have sugar = energy = boost?

I started with an old sugar cookie recipe that has forever been my favorite. My family calls them "Waveguide sailing cookies" because apparently my parents first encountered them when sailing on my uncle's boat "Waveguide", but it is a fairly basic sugar cookie recipe. The dough is simple to put together, but the rest of the process can be lengthly, depending on how fancy you want to get.

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