It fucking snowed here Monday. SNOW. Okay, for less than a minute, but STILL ( Read more... )

Echhh, still depressed and still consoling myself with butterflies. ( personal and gardening stuff... )

Another post about words today, this from Cecil Adams at The Straight Dope:

"Felo-de-se" is a Latin phrase meaning "evildoer upon himself," or, simply, a suicide. In England before 1870 a distinction was made between a suicide, which was the name given to an act of self-destruction committed by a person of unsound mind, and a felo-de-se, which was ( Read more... )

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Edited to add the answer: Mummenschanz!

Need help with a brain bubble. In the 1960s and 1970s, maybe into the 80s or now for all I know, there was a modern dance troupe that was considered very edgy and groundbreaking. They worked mostly in blackout bodysuits (hands, feet and faces covered too) like Japanese zentai. They manipulated large ( Read more... )

As of last week, I'd picked up seven ticks so far this year. Seven which actually bit me. Six of which glommed onto me in one ten-day period. Only five of which were removed in one piece. I've had all three life stages, too, nymph and juvenile and adult ( Read more... )

We colored eggs Friday night for Savant to take to his family up north while I stay with Ace. A few photos here for now.

Meanwhile, this is where the eggs come from, right?


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You know it's spring because yesterday, I picked up my first tick of the year. *sigh* It took my dearest savant_da_rat ten minutes and two pairs of tweezers to get rid of the foul thing on my knee. Fortunately, we are certain that it was not a deer tick, so probably no Lyme exposure. Bleah ( Read more... )

Let's start with Day 6, because Day 5 is a convoluted story at bottom. Day 6 was Tuesday, yesterday, and my Solstice gift arrived! And got planted! And it may be planted a bit too high cuz it's, like, 9' tall now that it's (more or less) in the ground. However, as I used the nursery's planting service, the tree is guaranteed and I can phone ( Read more... )

We don't often get migraines at our house, for which we are deeply grateful.

Enough of my flist does, however, that I thought a good proportion might enjoy this etymology of migraine, and how it began as hemicrania, half-head ( Read more... )