Between the 4th and the horrible heat-wave that finally backed off last Friday, I got nothing done except to finish and post my Idol entry. This week's was on music, and involved painful amounts of HTML coding. Also a little journey through some audio-editing software. :O ( Read more... )

There were bunches of random things I was going to post up last week, before the whole health scare over my oldest sister (who is back in her nursing home now, and still recuperating).

On to the frivolous!

I finally bought new running shoes again. This takes years, because the store I like isn't near us, but they're who can look at my old shoes ( Read more... )

Voting ends for the current round of LJ Idol today! My entry is here, and the votes are really close. I'm nervous. This is a "bottom 5 authors go" round ( Read more... )

My compulsivity, it is not pretty.

Even if I never talk about them in detail, I don't want to lose track of all these books I've read recently:

( Yeah, it's like _that_... )

Last night, I dreamed myself in the middle of a Supernatural episode. Sam's hair was slicked back, and he looked like a completely different guy (which he was-some not-Jared person was playing him). Sam had been cursed somehow, and in the middle of breaking the curse, Dean balked at kissing him to finish the job. That might have been Dean being ( Read more... )

LJ Idol voting closes today. Those of us who were moved to new tribes last week are still suffering in the voting, so your help in the polls would be appreciated if you are so inclined: halfshellvenus, karmasoup, impoetry, and nodressrehersal. These are good stories, but it's hard to be new in a tribe as the other members tend not to read you. I can also recommend the entries by muchtooarrogant, beldarzfixon, and rattsuI ( Read more... )

Boy, no one's reading my stories these days, except at AO3. It's like I'm writing into the void! The crickets and I are getting lonely...

I finished some books over the break, including my first encounter with the written No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. I loved the HBO mini-series (what a cast!), so when this book showed up at the library, ( Read more... )

Voting for Real LJ Idol has opened up! The nearly 300 competitors have been separated into tribes (currently, alphabetical chunks), so you can read entries within a tribe and vote for the ones you like best. I'm hoping to make it at least a few rounds on this, to see what it's all about. I'm in this group. Lots of variety in all the tribes, lots of ( Read more... )

So much for the 3-day weekend! We spent most of it prepping & painting Lauren's room, with delays for 1) Lauren being home sick IN her room on Friday, when we'd hoped to prep early, 2) Me waking up at 11:30 on Saturday (gah!), and 3) Going to a friend's for BBQ on Monday. I intended to do more detail-work painting after the BBQ last night, but ( Read more... )

Both kids won their championship basketball games on Sunday (with some nail-biting moments along the way). Yay!

Now we have afterparties this Sunday and next, and we might go up to the snow on Saturday... if it isn't snowing at the time. Our yearly trips are always a game of chicken: we have to go on a clear weekend (usually early Spring), but ( Read more... )