Today LP turned 14 months old. It started with LP being super cute while we played around in bed. We all got up. LP and I watched half an hour of Sesame Street (aka "Elmo. Elmo. Elmo. - he MUST have picked it up at daycare). Then we drew on paper with crayons while Skyping with my mother.

Then lordaerith, and I packed up the diaper bag and LP and headed ( Read more... )

Friday night lordaerith went to go see How to Train Your Dragon. It was a fairly typical kids movie plot, but ZOMG SO CUTE! Want dragon!!! We went to the Lake Creek Drafthouse where that night they were also playing all three Evil Dead movies and so some of the waitstaff were dressed up like zombies. It was truly awesome.

Saturday we headed over to pyroyo007's for ( Read more... )

Recently I read Spindle's End and the Golden Compass. In the former large bodies of water/swimming/fish are bad b/c of the way that magic flows through them (you find this out at the beginning of the book). In the latter there's a part where a dæmon becomes a dolphin and swims in the water. When that happened I freaked out for a moment because I ( Read more... )

It all started with an email from Dad about the new Tolkien book that was signed "dumb daddy the long-lost descendent of Isuldur-the-beach-walker" which I replied to as "A-babe, Daughter of dumb daddy the long-lost descendant of Isuldur-the-beach-walker" and my sister replied as "Meregoth,Sister to A-babe, Youngest Daughter of Dumb Daddy the long- ( Read more... )

HBO to turn Fire and Ice into a series - According to Variety, and other sources, HBO has the rights to turn George RR Martin's series into a tv series. Each book will be converted into a season ( Read more... )

Well, due to "ice pellets", it appears that school is cancelled for tomorrow (and possibly wednesday too). All this for "ice accumulation less than a quarter of an inch." I think that it's pretty funny considering that nowhere where I worked or went to school in the past 8 years would have even blinked an eye at that sort of weather. We would ( Read more... )

Arrrgh! Jaquiline Carrey is one evil evil author! I'm finally reading Godslayer and I want to root for both sides and it's totally not fair. Damn her for being so good at what she's doing!!!

In other news, in addition to watching lots of BSG, lordaerith and i are really working on getting everything from the move completely unpacked and put away in its ( Read more... )