Thank you so much to all of my sponsors! (I sound like a NASCAR driver!) They are:

lissa_ann
matrushkajen
Kirasha
spacefiend
Charlotte (from work)
courtberger
awanderingbard
spacefiend's mother
seimaisin
katscanx
wendelah1
Anonymous
Cameron (Kronik)
Mom
traceace
lemoned_x
astrum_presulJeff ( Read more... )

We're at the second-to-last post of this year's blogathon! How crazy is that ( Read more... )

The sky is lightening! It looks very overcast, despite the fact that weather.com says it's sunny. Weather.com, you fail at weather. Hm ( Read more... )

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter. (If you want a letter, just say so)
2. List (and upload) 5-10 songs that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

lemoned_x gave me "S":

Satellite - Anna Nalick
Shine - Anna Nalick
Something to Be - Rob Thomas
Stop - Matchbox 20
Santorini - Yanni
Semiotic Love - Blaqk ( Read more... )

spacefiend's mother recently discovered that she has a gluten-sensitivity. She and I have talked a couple of times about things we've discovered that help -- she commented on several of my posts during the 'thon. I got an email from her recently about a cookbook she'd found: "You Won't Believe It's Gluten-Free" by Roben Ryborg. The recipes are apparently ( Read more... )

We've moved on to watching Hairspray. Watching this movie -- and something like So You Think You Can Dance -- always makes me want to dance ( Read more... )

I have a fairly wide range of musical tastes ( Read more... )

Okay, I lied. This post isn't about music, it's about Dr. Horrible and how awesome it is. <3 I'd only seen it once before, though I've had the soundtrack on my iPod and current playlist. (Oddly, one of the songs may have come up only once in all the time I've had it on my playlist. Weird.) The whole thing, though, is just so... unique, really. ( Read more... )

I could make an entire essay post on how much I love music. It's not something I'm fangirly about to the level I am TV shows, for example. But it's such a part of my life in a different way. It's there, all the time. I listen when I'm driving, or doing chores, or working. I usually have a song stuck in my head. If I don't have music playing in my ( Read more... )

The last half hour involved chips and cheese dip. Mmm, cheese dip. What I was missing all those years by not eating cheese! Well, I had a good reason -- I'd been lactose-intollerant since I was a wee baby, and that lingers to this day. I don't eat ice cream anymore, after having gotten sick after ice cream last year. It just does not appeal to me ( Read more... )