1. But not for this! Prompts and sign-ups are available now for femgenficathon!!! OMG, I did this last year and had such fun. You should try this too:) ETA: my prompt!! 20) Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. --Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999), American author of fantasy novels, ( Read more... )

1. I had a fairly busy weekend. Best thing that happened was the Packers defeating Atlanta in the NFC playoffs. (Sorry, Falcons fans...) Now looking forward to Packers/Bears NFC championship on Sunday afternoon 1/23. GO PACK ( Read more... )

1. Using one of my newer icons, because I adore THE BIG BANG THEORY and really loved last night's episode. I miss Penny, and am wondering when any of the characters are going to notice that she's not hanging around, but given the severity of her injury I'm not surprised that her recuperation period is fairly long (I suffered a relatively simple ( Read more... )

1. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I hope 2010 (that's twenty-ten) will be a great year for all of y'all. For me, I just hope it's not as bad as 2009. Baby steps and all that ( Read more... )

1. Friday I slept in until almost 7:30 (heresy!). Did a lot of writing, which was a good thing as I had a smallish fic due today for the clever_claws fic exchange. I wrote about 3,000 words of my 3,400-word fic between 9 a.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday *pats self on back* It's good to know I am actually still capable of writing anything. I also found time to ( Read more... )

1. I mentioned last time that our new cat, Jakob, has a broken upper canine tooth that, according to our veterinarian, must have happened to him quite some time ago, before he was taken, as a stray, to the animal shelter in Walworth County, WI, last December. I called the shelter last Friday and left a message for the director because we are ( Read more... )

I guess I'm lucky my flist was at only skip=180 when I finally read it this morning for the first time since Friday afternoon. I can't say I've been terribly busy except for Saturday; I just didn't manage to spend any time on LJ during that time. And now, some updates ( Read more... )

1. Thanks to the wondermous heather11483 for making my lovely new layout!! Some of y'all will recognize the song title and the other references on my layout. If you don't, here are the lyrics. Yeah, I'm pretty thoroughly cookified, all right :) Let's hope this fandom has more consistent fun (like, every week) than Monte's, with a lot less wank than Harry ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who dropped by and offered suggestions about a "heavy hors d'oeuvres" to bring to my office Christmas gathering on Tuesday ( Read more... )

I'm attending a small office holiday party on Tuesday afternoon (seriously, not evening) and I unwisely volunteered to bring a "heavy hors d'oeuvres". I have no idea what that means. Any suggestions? Any recipes? I have numerous cookbooks but I have no idea what sort of thing would qualify. Does that mean something like Swedish meatballs in the ( Read more... )