What is up with all these earthquakes lately? There's been like three big enough for me to feel in the last three days.

Not surprisingly, having a baby does, really change everything.

( Strangely, it didn't really change things in the ways I thought it would. )

Literally.

So, as has probably been made evident by not only my Suspicious Absence but also by the ecstatic crowing of my husband on Facebook, I had a baby!

( Baby TMI here! )

Just in case it hits the news or whatever, yes, there was a 3.4 Earthquake in Marina del Rey like five minutes go, which for those keeping track is pretty much exactly where I live. It was a fast rolling quake that was over just about when I realized we were having an earthquake, and me and Kev and Blitz and the alien in my stomach the baby are ( Read more... )

The next web edition of the prestigious, wonderful, exceptionally high-brow magazine Lucy Magazine is coming just around the bend. I advise everyone go there and read it, because it's awesome, and ALSO because I'm on board now as a staff writer and my first article is coming up, which might, MIGHT count as a publication, provided the Editor in ( Read more... )

For anyone who might be reading my FL and wondering how Kev and I are, we weathered the quake just fine. It was apparently centered in East LA and we live in West LA, and by the time it got to us, it didn't even knock anything off of anything. It woke me up from a perfectly nice nap, though ( Read more... )

Kev and I went to the Getty center today for our anniversary. We had a very nice time and got to go on a tour of the medieval paintings on display. Here are the photos I took, along with a random picture of the cat, and some photos of Venice Beach.

Back in LA. Not dead. Update (and why I should be more attentive to my phone's camera capabilities) coming when I am not stupid tired. Icon has nothing to do with post!

A while ago, I tried my little phone camera out on the sunsets around here. Here's the results. Most of them are of Venice.

( I pretend to be good at this. )

The birthday, despite raining and fevers and UTTERLY FORGETTING to have my Incubus DVD marathon which might have to happen tomorrow, anyway, my birthday went surprisingly well. I even had churros.

Thank you, everyone who has wished me well. I appreciate it a lot.