I’m so on it this year! Christmas shopping is done. Most of it has arrived & is already wrapped. Just waiting for the tree to go up the day after Thanksgiving so I can put them where they belong. I’m still waiting on 3 gifts (have the wrapping paper cut & ready for them!), as well as 3 stocking stuffers for the fur bbs & 2 stocking stuffers for Sis ( Read more... )

A few posts from my FB this last week. It’s so weird to think it’s been two years since Mom passed, yet a part of me thinks she’s in that house down the street still, surrounded by her stack of used books, sitting on the sofa with Winston. It’s too surreal to think they’re not there. Also, I still think Grandma & Grandpa are out at the farm, ( Read more... )

One year ago today, we lost our mother. It feels like it was just yesterday & also a lifetime ago. I still think to myself, "This is a good movie, I should recommend it to Mom." Or, "These pants don't fit me anymore, I should see if Mom wants them." It happens less now than it did, but there are still moments I forget. Though I know she is no ( Read more... )

Today is May 13th!! You know what that means! The Nephew’s birthday! Well, yes. #12 to be exact. It was his 4th birthday the day I started my LJ though. Because, yes, it is my LJ anniversary! #8! And now Dreamwidth too! I came a little late to the game, but I am so glad I still came. Thanks to
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I was about 12 when I first saw Night Of The Living Dead. My love for movie makeup & horror blossomed there. I thought of that movie every time I made little short horror films with my friends & video camera. I was in high school before I understood the significance of the main character being black, making it to the end and then being shot dead ( Read more... )

It's My Birthday! (It's liptonrm’s birthday too, she's my birthday twin and my bff, but she has abandoned Livejournal for different pastures - I think she’s still on Dreamwidth a bit, and Tumblr, ofc ( Read more... )

The weather here has been so wonky. Middle of February, we had 65F weather, sunny, beautiful. I was sitting out on the sun-porch everyday. Tuesday night, we had tornadoes. Not right where I am, a little south, right where my little brother lives. He lives close to the state line, so they get every bit of weather that blows through, no matter ( Read more... )

I can't believe this weather. Just over a week ago it was 30 degrees out with snow and winter weather advisories. Now it's 75 degrees out and beautiful as everything. My sister spent the weekend putting down mulch on the areas of our backyard that don't ever grow any grass anyways. And then my brother came by to assess to start building our new ( Read more... )

I'm getting tired of making these posts. I shouldn't be making another post like this so damn soon. I'll tell you a story though - I think the first thing I ever saw Alan Rickman in was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Now my mom was really into Kevin Costner and I, myself, couldn't have been more than 13 at the time and I remember saying to her ( Read more... )

Yesterday we lost a great one. Not only did he have an impact on music in a way that can't be measured, but he also had an impact on fashion, sexuality, gender boundaries and on my childhood, first through his role as The Goblin King and then through his music, opening my mind to the idea of what rock and roll could be. He was a beautiful man, in ( Read more... )