I have to clean. You don't even know. I have let it get so bad. Every room in the house is a mess. Am I doing it? Nope. Here I sit, watching Bigfoot shows. I need to get the timer and set it for an hour and work in each room from now until it's time to go to bed. I also need to go fill up the car with gas since it's my turn to drive carpool this ( Read more... )

Today's fic was a Strange Magic.

My usual summer baking impulses are flaring up hard. Something about a vacation where I'm near the kitchen all day makes me think I could recreate the food in the Ghibli films, or Jake's Adventure Time sandwich, or all those Harry Potter House-themed cocktails.

In other news, I'm growing pumpkins and milkweed.

Well, I think I've eaten just about everything easy to make in the house. I put a small pot roast in the crock pot yesterday morning and I've gnawed my way through it. Now I have a crock pot of beef broth with some carrot and potato mush in the bottom. If I added rice or noodles, would it be soup? Something to consider for tomorrow when I start ( Read more... )

First day back at work! If we get any more kids, they’ll have to hire another teacher, but in the meantime, I have the whole grade to myself! Bwahahaaaaaugh! So, we have a new principal, three new teachers, one new aide and I have to move rooms. Luckily, my co-teacher is the queen of organized get-things-donedness and she has busted all manner of ( Read more... )

The end of summer that is. I have begun my annual "too-much-to-do-so-a-little-more-to-even-it-out-may-tip-me-into-madness" frenzy.

As one of those extra things, I have written a Strange Magic fic at 31_daysSo much to do! So much to think about! So what am I actually doing? Filling up my tumblr queue and watching clips of The Nightly Show on Hulu and ( Read more... )

So, I dragged my poor friend Debbie to see Strange Magic again. I dragged her to it once before with the promise of Alan Cumming’s voice and she spent the last ten minutes of the movie in a fetal position saying “I can’t. I can’t ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, I went to see Strange Magic. I originally didn’t want to. The trailers looked pretty terrible, but then tumblr lit up with how fun it was and how the hot villain was voiced by Alan Cumming and I said “Ok, I’m in ( Read more... )