I've just come back from my dad's house where we celebrated Christmas- and nearly had the house burn down. My brilliant stepmother set wrapping paper down on top of a candle and only the fact that my dad and I stomped it out saved it from catching the couch on fire. (My brother was trying to find a fire extinguisher.) Their carpet is scorched ( Read more... )

Happy New Year ( Read more... )

( my xmas stocking )

This is from Creating Passionate Users, but most of my flist is made up of readers, and since I'm one myself I thought I'd pass it along.

The post:

October is National Book Month, and I want to know the book that you wish people would read. It doesn't have to be your favorite book, or what you think is the best book... just one you've found ( Read more... )

If there is one or more people on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

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(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

! I miss somebody right now.
! I don't watch much TV these days.
! I own lots of books.

! I wear glasses or contact lenses.
! I love to play video games.
× I've tried marijuana.

! I've watched porn movies.  (And snickered at them.)
× I have been the psycho-ex in a past ( Read more... )

From illmantrim: Answer these questions in two words.
1. Yourself: constantly changing ( Read more... )

From scatteredlogic:

This is how it works: Comment on this entry saying that you'd like to play, and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation with what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
You can comment even if you don't want to play, but ( Read more... )

I like the My LJ's random journal deal. Someone had this thing called a Johari Window:

The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a ( Read more... )