This weekend in Long Beach has been marked by the two standard Long Beach themes: friends-n-family on one hand, my mom's evil computer on the other ( Read more... )

It was a pretty good Christmas, though Heather had a migraine the whole day, which did put a damper on things. Also, her mom wasn't able to come to Long Beach with us, which was a shame but I know she would have been miserable Christmas evening, what with the extreme excess of my extended family's gift-giving ( Read more... )

• Drove to LA.
• In LA, went to a Flappers-and-Barbarians-themed Halloween party as an Ostrogoth (costume: all black, pants tucked into boots, black nail polish, a shirt saying "ostro"). Pasajera, Moonlitcirce, and Brodius257 were all there, each in great costumes, though Pasajara was the only person at the whole party to manage a costume that was both ( Read more... )