I've been up since 3 AM and am now off to take Dad to the hospital for his surgery, because he needs to be there by 5 AM. (The surgery itself will be at 7:30 ( Read more... )

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you, and THANK YOU to all of you who have gone out of your ways to make it a special day for me today. Mission well accomplished, because I feel very loved indeed. Spoiled, to be honest, because I have no idea what I've done to merit all these nice things, but I am very grateful, nonetheless ( Read more... )

And in case you missed the title of the post, thank you again to everybody who helped to make my birthday on Monday such a lovely and uplifting day. I don't know what I've done to deserve such thoughtful and generous friends, but I'm lucky to know all of you and grateful for the privilege. &hearts &hearts &hearts

Thank you to blueartemis07 for the tasty v- ( Read more... )

Because hey, why limit the Good Things to Friday, right? I have many good things to note, so I'll let the happy run over the puny boundaries of dates and times ( Read more... )

1. The Bachelorette Weekend was last weekend, and it was ridiculously fun. ( More details here, plus a photo of the tattoo )

Because yes, even when life is very rough, there are good things. We just have to look harder to find them. (Ooh, sorry. I think I was channeling Pollyanna for a minute there!) But I am very grateful for and appreciative of the following things:

( I wrote something, Bambu wrote something for me, and other reasons why things are looking up )

1. I love, love, love writing reviews. Really. I always wibble that perhaps I've gone on too much, or the author or artist will roll her/his eyes at me blathering on and on and analyzing and speculating, but it's so much fun when you connect with the creator of the content in that way and get a positive response. I just... really dig that. ( Read more... )

I'll start with the PSA: Voting for the OWL Awards ends tonight, 3/11, so please be sure to make your choices and get your votes in before then. If you'd like to vote, now is the time to do so.

Go here to vote. You can see a list of my nominations, if you'd like, but please don't feel obligated. :-) Just go and vote ( Read more... )

Once again, the severus_shorts community has posted the kind of story that I will want to revisit over and over again, the sort that transports you right into its world and leaves you rethinking canon from an entirely different angle. It's deep and mysterious as the ocean, yet full of emotion, no less intense for being understated. It's also written in ( Read more... )

1. Just about everything that has been posted for the Severus Big Bang and the severus_shorts community has been of a very high standard, but today in Severus Shorts, a story posted that is of the sort that most of us might get one chance in a lifetime to write, if we're lucky. It's THAT good. It takes an extremely rare pairing--Snape and Sprout--and makes it ( Read more... )