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If you’re snowed in somewhere, I hope you’ve been as productive as I have(n’t).

Remember that toy you desperately wanted for Christmas but never got? The one Santa didn’t remember or couldn’t seem to get right; bringing you Malibu Barbie in lieu of the far superior Ballerina Barbie?  For me, that item was The Visible Horse.  The Visible Horse is an anatomical model of a horse that one paints and puts together while learning about the physiology of horses.  I was a little girl, obsessed with horses and destined (so I thought at the time) to become a veterinarian. One of the more memorable Christmases I had growing up was the year my mom finally bought The Visible Horse. For my sister.

I was crushed.  But as we grew older, my sister and I joked about Jory’s invisible model horse.  Thirteen years later, my sister bought me my very own Visible Horse for Christmas. I spent four days over Christmas break artistically painting vital organs and gluing tiny pieces of plastic to finish it.

In retrospect, there’s no way I could’ve done this at 12 years old. I guess I needed to wait awhile until I could fully appreciate The Visible Horse – and it was definitely worth the wait.

I did something today I very rarely do.

I updated my Facebook profile.

After reading a post on Mashable about how people were customizing their pages, I decided to try it for myself. It was incredibly easy – I even found a Photoshop template someone had made to make sure images fit inside the designated area. As you can probably tell, I didn’t put too much work into drawing the giraffe. The hardest part was remembering how to upload photos to Facebook, which is surprisingly awkward for such an intuitive website.