All right, so after ages and ages of not having a camera of my own (and hence periodically borrowing the cameras of others), I'm finally going to obtain a digital camera. This is My One Extravagance for the season, although it can be argued that it's also sort of a business need -- people may start hurting me if I don't provide pictures of the ( Read more... )

Sunday, Jeanne and I met up to attempt to get me new pages for my beloved Franklin-Covey planner, aka 'Seanan's external brain.' Note the word 'attempt.' We went to Emeryville, the Emeryville store was no longer there. We went to Pleasanton, the Pleasanton store was closed. We gave up ( Read more... )

So after a two-month dry spell (during which I fed books to copperwise and wished wistfully for the next batch to arrive), it's just about time for another pendant post on chimera_fancies! Pardon me while I dance around the room clapping my hands. These are bits of wearable fiction, fairy tales found in the pages of dying books that need some sort of second shot at life ( Read more... )

My mother and I went to the flea market today. In addition to finding a bunch of books for Mia to cannibalize -- because nothing says 'great place to sell your trashed tomes' like 'the Solano Flea Market' -- I walked away with an enormous stuffed pumpkin Beanie Buddy and a Munsters lunch box which may well wind up becoming my actual functional ( Read more... )

I love that telling Etsy to show me 'pumpkin jewelry' results in nineteen pages of results. Also, is this not the single most Toby-appropriate piece of jewelry you have ever seen? Seriously, I'm like, dude, I should almost buy that just to have it. But then I remember that I still have to find something to wear with my suit, and resume the quest ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I wrangled my mother into taking me and my current houseguests (Teddy and Tom) to the Solano Flea Market. (For Americans: an outdoor flea market the size of a decently large city block. For those from countries without flea markets: a car boot sale or jumble sale the size the main concourse at Heathrow Airport.) Please note that this ( Read more... )

Things what are on sale at Safeway this week, posted here on account of having been whinged at for not telling folks about the DDP sale ( Read more... )

I (and the Amanda) have survived Black Friday! Old Navy, Victoria's Secret, and Hot Topic were all reasonably mellow; crowded, but polite, and full of cheery people who seemed to have realized that if they embraced their inner negativity, they'd be ripped apart and devoured by the ravening hordes. Going into the Disney Store, however, was a major ( Read more... )

Today, I wound up spending pretty much, well, today with Cat, Rey, and their friend Adrian, who afforded us the rare opportunity to wander the Valley Fair Mall with a battering ram of our very own (AKA, 'her wheelchair'). People are sometimes kind of dicks about letting wheelchairs through. People sometimes don't actually need to continue having ( Read more... )

Take one (1) Seanan. Add to one (1) comic book store, where the new comics have just arrived. Let it shop for a while. For additional results, allow it to finally talk itself into the first volume of Morrison's 'New X-Men' in hardcover. Really, it'll be less dangerous in the long run, this way. Plus it means she'll have more shelf space for ( Read more... )