I'm keeping my list again of A Year In Reading where I keep track of all the books I read and how long it took me for an entire year. The issue this year of course is that most of the things I read are blogs or fanfiction. I'm finding a way of keeping track of it.


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Spent some time at a picnic with SCA people. No garb, lots of picnic foods, more socializing than I'm usually comfortable with, and some watching fighting. I also got to hold a very new baby; man, I miss that ( Read more... )

Finished Life Sentences today. The thought about how we remember our lives and what happens to us and the juxaposition of how others rememeber was very well done ( Read more... )

I'm spending a little more time on the computer (doing other than Facebook) lately, and posting some small posts. I still kick myself for forgetting to post on here when I post the longer things on FB (like about my garden and such). It's just that I can do that from my phone, whereas it's more difficult to post to LJ with links and pics and such ( Read more... )

Reading Life Sentences by Laura Lippman. It's a good story and I'm enjoying it, it's just a few details that bug me. The backstory is that the main character is a woman who, after having her life fall apart twice, decides to write the story of her life after each time. She goes to look up an old childhood friend, with whom she has fallen out of ( Read more... )

I've been researching, just recently, about liquid fasting. I know diedrebenham does a 24-hour water fast, once a month, but other than that I don't know a lot about it. I thot about doing it myself, just for a day or three, once a month, but the websites are all talking about weeks or a month! I don't want to get that into it! I just thot that ( Read more... )

A girl you should Date

I made the mistake of reading this when at work. My eyes teared up and I laughed. I ended up reading the whole thing out load to my co-workers and cried again, right in front of them. So true and woe is me, but most of the men in my life never got this. I think zdude does tho, that why he's a keeper.