My christmas season started this morning with solo cello on "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel." It was beautiful. Since then we've taken down our pumpkins and other fall frippery, started on our christmas decorations, and written our first handful of cards. Success! It was sadly raining today, or we would have gotten a tree as well. Oh well. Now I ( Read more... )

Phew. One parental visit down, one to go. (And a night off inbetween - woohoo!) They're getting here at noon, so the Other One gets to deal with them ( Read more... )

Today I saw the first crocus. So much for the calendar - it is officially spring ( Read more... )

And Happy Boxing Day! I plan to celebrate by going boxing. Letterboxing! (Makes sense, right? Right ( Read more... )

This weekend was completely awesome ( Read more... )

Fall happened, swiftly and unexpectedly, over the weekend. Appropriate I suppose ( Read more... )

We went to see Aida - the Elton John and Tim Rice musical, not the Verdi opera - on Saturday. Yay free tickets! We've been winning an awful lot of those lately.

( Aida )

I headed down to the post office to do some mailing, and while I was there, the sky opened up, buckets rained forth, and the tornado sirens went off. Oh, and the post office staff were unbelievably slow ( Read more... )

Most of our plans with friends this weekend fell through, so instead we spent both days letterboxing! Our friends should flake out more often. I also planted the first box in my Shape Note series over at the St. James. Maybe this one won't get lost or destroyed. (Don't know the status of the Berlin box, obviously, but the other three I've ( Read more... )

I speculated some time ago on the reuse of titles for things. It turns out I'm not the only one. It seems tvtropes has a List of Stock Episode Titles, based on data from the imdb. The title I was talking about, "The Enemy Within," is on there with 28 uses - although since this only counts episodes that number includes neither the book nor the ( Read more... )