Happy Valentine's Day, everyone ( Read more... )

Title: Four Things That Happened to Barney and Robin on New Year's Eve (and Some That Didn't)
Author: bredalot
Fandom: How I Met Your Mother/Sports Night
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2360
Summary: Barney and Robin celebrate New Year's Eve at Robin's black-tie office party.
Disclaimer: I don't own Robin, Barney, Dan, Casey, or anyone else mentioned herein ( Read more... )

This is not, perhaps, very timely, but I'm still confused, so: people who still watch House, why do I keep seeing the word "Skutner" on icons that have Taub and Kutner on them? I know it's ChriS Taub and LaurenCE Kutner, but I still don't understand why "Skutner" is the chosen elision. Do you ( Read more... )

It's 10 PM on Christmas Eve, and the city streets are pretty much deserted. It's gorgeous, not creepy like it would be at 4 AM. In an hour, I'll take myself off to Notre Dame to go to the carol concert and Midnight Mass, and then tomorrow I'll spend the day watching as many Christmas movies as I can ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving was fun! I made highly successful apple pie. I realized less than an hour before I had to be at the dinner that I didn't have cornstarch. Oops. Luckily, 30 seconds on Google told me that twice as much flour is an acceptable subsititute! I also had no measuring spoons, and that after I went to all the trouble to get a metric recipe ( Read more... )

bredalot is thankful for street musicians and online books and French dictionaries and you. Happy Thanksgiving, to those who celebrate it, and happy Thursday to those who don't!