2019 was kind of a lackluster year for me. Sure, there were highlights. I did some fun things. But I overall I got almost nothing done. I took very few photos, I only wrote one short fic and made one vid (and it wasn't the vid I really need to work on), I acquired a few books but didn't read them.

2019 notables:

• My niece Clara was born
  
• I hit my ( Read more... )

While my January was a pretty good month, my February had its ups and downs. First I lost my wallet, which presumably dropped out of my coat pocket as I got out of a car in front of my house; by the time I realized it was missing the next morning, it had snowed several inches and the snowplow had come through. I dug around in the snow with a ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the theater lounge waiting to see the new Hobbit movie. My friend Denis hosted a re-watch of the first two movies over the weekend, and I have to admit it really re-sparked my excitement. I've had ambivalent feelings about the Hobbit movies (I feel the action scenes are way overlong and drag the movies down) but I do love their ( Read more... )

So today is my older sister's wedding. I'm in LA right now, trying to stay out of the way of the hustle and bustle of wedding preparation. I remembered to bring my bridesmaid's dress, shoes, and good-natured patience from home, so I think it'll all go smoothly on my end ( Read more... )

I was totally going to chronical my condo-buying adventures, but I never really posted about it past that one I-looked-at-a-terrible-condo-today post, and now I’ve got a condo all lined up and my closing date is in two weeks ( Read more... )

I'm back home from New Jersey. My vacation was wonderful while being both exciting and relaxing, and I'm so glad I got a chance to visit harmonyangel and her family. I also got to visit New York City for the first time in my life. If I were to boil my vacation down to a few statistics, it would look like this:

Table top games played: 6
• Love Letter
• Life: ( Read more... )

I'm looking into buying a condo rather than rent when my lease expires in August, so I'm filling out applications for loan pre-approval and looking at condos. My mom is helping me look because she knows what questions to ask, and she's still friends with the real estate agent who sold the house I lived in ages 0 through 10 ( Read more... )

Things I've done lately:

• Accidentally joined a book club. They were reading Shards of Honor, which I'd been meaning to read anyway, as I'd already read a couple of the later books in the series. The book was good, and deftly avoided anything creepy in the "Guy takes girl captive and they fall in love" premise. The discussion was low-key; everyone ( Read more... )

I got my hair cut quite short recently. Today my mom and I went out to lunch, and we ran into a friend who commented, "Oh, you got your hair cut!" To which my mom said, "I think it makes her look like Rachel Maddow ( Read more... )

Anyone want a Halloween card this year? Halloween motifs--bats, cats, ghosts, pumpkins--are my favorite things, so I've amassed a pretty large card collection. Just private message me your address ( Read more... )