The nice thing about the beginning of a new year is that there is always some change in energy, a feeling that bygones should go by, mistakes forgiven, and that all the things that need to be accomplished, can. Kind of fun.

Yuletide Excitement:

This year I got to write in American Gods and since one of the requests was more about any of the gods we ( Read more... )

I am about several beers down and so I apologize for any missteps and misspellings because tht would be awkard ( Read more... )

I have some sort of cold (at least I think it's a cold) most likely from teaching all last week for a teacher who was out with a cold/flu/bronchitis/plague. So my nose is stuffy and it's making me a little headachy to day, which is fun ( Read more... )

I am dog-sitting for a friend (the dog is awesome and named Bogey and he looks mostly like this but older and more white on his face) and it's been a good time. They get back tomorrow, so mostly I've been watching lots of Olympics shenanigans, going randomly shopping (it's like a mini-vacation!) and... sleeping. Mmm, sleeping ( Read more... )

Christmas morning was late in the Flyakate family household, which worked out just fine. We also took the time to watch everyone else open up a present so that it stretched out the actual present-opening time quite nicely. I am greatly excited because not only did I get a lovely new messenger bag (that I had picked out from Macy's known about) and ( Read more... )

Espresso Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

I so don't have the patience (or, um, the kitchen equipment) to make these. But they sound awesome.

However, the next time I'm at the store (to buy a butternut squash and an onion and vegetable stock, so as to make delicious soup a la dogeared, I miiiiiight just buy chocolate powder to make Brownie Roll Out Cookies ( Read more... )

Take care of the journals, kids, because I am off to the Grande Family Reunion of 2009, where I predict there will be lots of guitars, laughter, and a high chance of me, Younger Sister and two Cousins singing Disney songs.

Will be back on Sunday, so let me know if I miss anything good!

Bandaids are in the closet, towels next to the sink, haha. :o ( Read more... )

There aren't enough words for how much I should be sleeping, but just posting this to say that Remix has been revealed and I wrote...

Postcards from the Edge (Three Chord Overdub) [Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oz, PG]

For me was written...

Just Breathe (The Artifact of Vision Remix) [Stargate: Atlantis, John/Rodney, PG] by the awesomely talented crysothemis ( Read more... )

So one of my campers is reading The Westing Game as a school assigned summer reading book and I was Googling around to see if there were any useful websites or games. And then I found that Ellen Raskin donated all her manuscript and draft notes to UW-Madison so that students could see the process of writing a novel and creating cover art and page ( Read more... )

My tongue is coated a funny color and I have a sore, sore throat. Guess I didn't escape Martin's plague after all :o( Regardless, I am off to Sacramento for the weekend for a family extravaganza for Mother's Day, including grandparents and all two aunt/uncle branches of that side of the family (capedcrusader92, I will say hi and I'm sure they will come up with a ( Read more... )