I made 50000 words yesterday. A little over, actually. 50821 words. That completes the National November Writing Month challenge but ... not my personal challenge ( Read more... )

{posted to Facebook}Thanksgiving is next week. Advent starts the Sunday after that and I expect to see whining posts about putting "Christ" in Christmas shortly there after ( Read more... )

Description of a phrophetic fitJeremiah sniped, "And just how are we supposed to find this Deputy wazziname? Where are we supposed to start looking ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was chatting with a friend about Christmas. In short, I was explaining how the darkness begins to deepen after the cross-quarter celebration of Oidhche Shamhna - Halloween - until it reaches its darkest on the longest night - the Winter Solstice. Then there is a slow increase of light until the cross-quarter celebration of Imbolc - St ( Read more... )

I left my netbook on last night and never logged out of the various sites, including livejournal. When I refreshed the friends page just now, I found that livejournal had logged me out - for my own good, I'm sure. I logged in and found myself looking at a webpage with the url kimuro.livejournal.com/feed ( Read more... )

Siren - water nymph whose chief characteristic is their song, which no man can resist. Ancient sailors who heard the sirens were lured to their doom.

Banshee - female spirit or fairy that voices her strange wail when disaster or death is imminent.Given those definitions, why is it that the ambulance that just passed by window has a siren and not ( Read more... )

( why we wear poppies )

I feel kind of bad about these eggs - not posting even dialann posts, let along Na Gurnaidh. Fact is that I've been distracted the past few days - posting to my gaelic lj as well and trying to make some doll sized books. There are tutorials out there on how to make such books - but they're mostly ... just for show. I suppose that makes sense, ( Read more... )

Today is Appreciate a Dragon day. Talk about your favorite dragon, or the one that made a big impact on you, or one that you think is underappreciated ( Read more... )

I came across this proverb yesterday and again today - which implies that I should be paying attention to it.

Far am bi do chràdh bidh do làmh; far am bi do ghràdh bidh do thathaich. - Where your pain is your hand will be ; where your love is your haunting will be.In explanation, you're more likely to strike out at something that hurts you, but ( Read more... )