I have just posted my final DS article, and my queue stands empty for the first time since I've started writing for them. I have the next ten days off! \0 ( Read more... )

(Okay, take two. Yesterday, Pengolodh Lord of Gondolin decided to throw a hissy fit and black out right as I was proofreading the final paragraph of this post. And LJ only saved half of the draft. GRAR! Guess that's what I get being a Feanorian sympathizer who calls regularly upon a lord of Gondolin to aid her heretic efforts ...)

Happy New Year, ( Read more... )

Tonight, Bobby and I had our traditional Christmas Eve supper of pizza and wine. Too much of both ( Read more... )

If you heard something that sounded like a whoop of great glee, that was me finally finishing my holiday cards for this year. If you requested a card from me, then you should have it already or it should arrive shortly; I sent out the cards for online friends first, last week, since they were going all over the US and world and I wanted to give ( Read more... )

I've been too busy to write in my LJ (horror!) but I do want to remember this holiday. I did lots of stuff...hence being too busy to write about it all in my LJ. I will now attempt to write a brief summary of each (no rambling, Dawn!) and post the appropriate pictures.

( December in Pixels )

Christmas was great. Bobby and I celebrated that night with a bottle of champagne and a pizza. We both got a little silly from the champagne and I discovered that blowing across the top of the bottle drives Alex a little nuts. It makes a deep, spooky sound, and Alex couldn't quite figure out what to think. This was hilarious to us, after drinking ( Read more... )

Well, the gifts are wrapped (with a little help from the muses) and so it's just a matter of enjoying the rest of the evening. I did get an early gift! Bobby came in this morning and said that he was giving me one of my gifts a day early. He said that when I saw it, it would make sense.

So, he went into his closet and brought out...a brand-spankin ( Read more... )

I don't really know what I'll be doing--or not doing--in the days to come, so while Bobby is playing EA football on his 360 and I have a minute, I will say...

Happy Holidays, Everyone!I know, that is a very original message. In fact, the HTML code is longer than the actual message ( Read more... )

First order of business:

Thank you, nienna_weeper!What a truly special Christmas card! We have it hanging on our refrigerator (in the words of Bobby, "out of reach of all carpet alligators") and adore it! Thank you! *hugs ( Read more... )

Well, the holiday season is upon us again, which feels a bit odd since my mind is still stuck back in September and the weather in Maryland has been in the '70s so perhaps more fitting to September! Alas, the official holiday season is less than a week from beginning, so I must get in my holiday post before it is too late ( Read more... )