I went to a community ed class on fairy/dinosaur gardens. I knew some of the folks there, kids that were in school after I was, their siblings and I were in theater and things together. What was great about the class was that just as many dads were there as moms with their kids and everyone was having a good time making little bitty gardens. It ( Read more... )

We finally got snow. Just an inch or less, a tiny bit that slicked the roads and made for an Amature Drivers R Us(tm) day. (the first snow always makes dumb shits with bigger pickup trucks than brains drive more moronically than usual) But it was snow, the first time in my life I can remember being happy to see some that did not involve a Yule ( Read more... )

Thank you for the suggestions, much appreciated. The F sticks but the M is actually no longer attatched to the laptop, I left it in place and continue using it, I just have to edit carefully to be sure that all the letters I need are in the sentences I write. (I once had a car that had a cruise control button like that, I had to hold it in place ( Read more... )

My mother wants to know why I am not writing novels and keeping her in the style to which she would like to be accustomed. (This discussion after I looked up Operation Paperclip online to read to her the actual history of it after it had been mentioned in a book she is currently reading. She was rightly appalled by the entire thing.) This led to ( Read more... )

I think I can finally discuss this without the top of my head exploding or leaking random rage and curse words everywhere. Well, ok, random curse words will still be flung, this is me after all. I mostly got the rage out talking to J and L and posting privately for just a few f'list I knew wouldn't flip out at reading it ( Read more... )

Well, two bags full, which is a fuckton. Maybe a metric fuckton. It's a lot, anyway. And yes, I am shipping the fucking things home, yay ( Read more... )

My Sweet Queen and my Wonderful Angel sent me the WHOLE set of MFU movies! Now I can watch them on my DVD while I write or make bead thingies or clean housewhatever I want! *so very squeeful*

I'm making wonderful new friends as a result of the Snowflake Challenge. What fun! Welcome New Friends! One of the things I love about online journals is finding people to interact with that have completely different interests and lives and experiences and then finding what we have in common so we can squee and share and branch out into new ( Read more... )