I've been doing Dewey's 24-hr Read-a-thon off-and-on for over a decade now, I think. Not the last few years, as I have struggled with brain issues that make reading very hard, but I had just decided to rededicate myself to reading and books when they posted that the event organizers were retiring! There was such outpouring that I think they're ( Read more... )

It looks like I haven't done a real update since April, and I've not done any book reports since February. I'm definitely not going to make my NYR goal of reading 52 books this year. I've had a hard time reading for many months, but I'm trying to get back at it ( Read more... )

Eden is fourteen, soon to be fifteen. She's still a bit immature for her age, but she's smart as a whip. She says she hates public school, but she's doing well in it and she has this Scholar Bowl thing that she gets really excited about. It's a trivia group, and apparently she's one of their strongest members. She's wonderfully artistic. She almost ( Read more... )

The December Meme Master Post can be found here. Please feel free to leave a question or topic!

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State of the LJ: I've decided that since I have a permanent account (and lots of great perks) anyway, I'll tentatively keep my LJ unless I start hearing of some concrete heinous stuff going on through its pages. Only I HAVE MOVED myself mostly over to DW at this point. That's probably not fair to my lj friends who are still reading and commenting, ( Read more... )

I really like the idea of mission101, where you make a goal list of 101 things to accomplish in 1001 days (which is about 2 ¾ years). Unfortunately, it's such a long amount of time - and my memory has been getting consistently worse - that I keep forgetting about the damned thing!

My last Mission 101 list ends in March, and as I look over my goals from that ( Read more... )

I have a lot of new friends, so I thought I'd do a little intro post ( Read more... )

When I say I used to have a phenomenal memory, I really mean it. My earliest memory is from infancy, and I remember loads of stuff from the time I was two until about seven. At age seven, the evil stepdad entered the picture and things start getting fuzzier. I know that my early memories are because I used to obsess over how great out lives used to ( Read more... )

I remember when I first realized that Josh liked me more than I had credited, and it's one of my favorite memories ( Read more... )

1. What are you reading right now?

I just finished The Walking Dead: Compendium One (again) and am about to start on Choose Your Own Autobiography, by Neil Patrick Harris.

2. How many books have you read so far?

Two! I also finished Being Human, by Eliza Green. To be transparent, I have been working on both of those already this week.

3. What ( Read more... )