I think this is the longest I've ever gone without updating my journal. Wow ( Read more... )

So I'm about a hundred years late to this party, but I still want to talk about the mind-melting awesomeness of PORTAL, and how you should play both of these games RIGHT NOW if you like any of the following ( Read more... )

I am tired (coffee!brain is telling me WHAT? YOU FEEL GREAT! - ilu, coffee), and trying to remember what it was like to crave sleep but I can't because lately sleep has been MY ENEMY. It turns a fairly tolerable chest cold into A DEMON OUT FOR MY DESTRUCTION. EVERY NIGHT ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning with a sore throat, and as the day goes on I'm feeling increasingly shaky and weak. WHAT. I have been exercising for a month straight now and taking boatloads of vitamins every day for TWO months. Not to mention that I'm completely obsessive about washing my hands. This is NOT. COOL. THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO AVOID. For ( Read more... )

I have been adventuring lately in the kitchen. The other night I made pizza for the first time and burnt myself and almost killed my parrot (long, hilarious story I could do no justice by recounting) but OH MAN was it a) fun, and b) delicious! Trader Joe's sells pizza dough that everyone raves about, and it turns out there's a good reason. The ( Read more... )

And while I'm sitting here going WHAT HOW, my boss brings me a gift: three little dancing wind-up robots for my desk. Two boys, one girl, to represent our department. Yes, they know me here ( Read more... )

Kauai was an Adventure with a capital A. ( I'm surprised our rental car made it through unscathed! )

I've been spending a lot of time mocking up an itinerary for our fast-approaching Kauai trip. It's less than a month away, and I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. I've never done anything like this before. I've never been overseas. I've never had the opportunity to plan my own crazy travel adventures. I've always dreamed about doing this on some ( Read more... )

As I believe I mentioned the last time a new Harry Potter film came around, I've made my peace with these movies. They've established themselves as a separate entity from the books, and that's fair. I've learned to just let go and enjoy the ride, because at this point, the amount of talent assembled is bordering on ridiculous, and to ignore what an ( Read more... )

I wish I could write like this woman.

After so many years, I'm finally finishing up her Darkangel trilogy - PaperBackSwap granted me the final two volumes, A Gathering of Gargoyles and The Pearl of the Soul of the World (with much prettier covers than the recent reprints, hooray!). It's a shame that Pierce's books have flown so far under the ( Read more... )