As those of you up north celebrate rare warm, sunny days during the cool times, so we are celebrating this overcast, cool, rainy day. We are having bean and bacon soup with biscuits while snuggled on the sofa watching Star Wars. Later, there will be fresh pumpkin chocolate chip bread, and the house will smell cozy and divine as I get my youngsters ( Read more... )

For our tenth anniversary, rt_hon_rackman's sisters gave us money to help us buy a new sofa. It has taken us a while to get around to using it, but yesterday I went with a friend of mine in her mini van to get an Ektorp sofa from IKEA. I also got a bookshelf and cabinet that I had on my list, since the large-capacity vehicle was there anyway. We wrassled the ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen this yet, please enjoy the Proposition 8 Musical.

Hah! I successfully blogged every day this month, sometimes several times a day, in honor of NaBloPoMo. (My calendar thingy says I didn't post on the 7th, but it lies. There was some kind of time zone weirdness.) (Edit: I guess I missed the 26th, but I didn't have a computer available that day.) I liked the discipline of this; I frequently have ( Read more... )

(From a prompt by desdenova.)

( It was a Monday afternoon, and the hours were stretching like gum on the bottom of your shoe. )

1. I hab a code id by dose. So do the kids. But fortunately, our colds are fairly mild, and I've been getting more sleep, so things aren't too bad ( Read more... )

Since I haven't been literary for a few days, I was moved to do a mashup of two literary styles, as prompted by catechism and desdenova. See if you can guess which two I picked.

( The Merry Lives of Carlos and Helen )

Today is the final day of my Week in the Life photo essay. Not that I ever need encouragement to take pictures, but this was a fun exercise, and hopefully let people who know me get a glimpse of what I'm up to. Your turn now!

( November 8, 2008. )

( November 7, 2008. )

( November 6, 2008. )