ok, i haven't taken pics of the house decorations yet. i probably won't. really, who wants to see my messy old house and my crappy decorations? but mom and i did go look at that guy's house again this year and, since i now know how to turn the flash off (doh!), i've got good shots of his house and his lights without annoying things like flashes and ( Read more... )

so today was spent mostly doing Halloween related things. put up a few lights. carved the pumpkin. put in Halloween type movies. and i thought that i'd share a couple of pics with you. my windows and my pumpkin which, if i do say so myself, came out rather smashingly. sadly, you can't see the whole effect of everything because the flash on the ( Read more... )

so no doubt you all remember the post i made about a month ago, entitled wow. this was so... disappointing , in which i talked about how it attempted to do wintery things here and failed miserably. snow that melted before it even hit the ground, really. it was kind of depressing. you all know how i feel about winter and no cold or snow or anything ( Read more... )

for the past week, the weather people on the local channels have been talking about the arctic air that was supposed to push all the way down into the South. color me all excited about that. the colder it is, the happier this bitch is. one of the challenges to my Midwesterner childhood is the fact that not everyone loves snow and cold the way i do ( Read more... )

so mom and i went out looking at Christmas lights tonight. mostly we went to Farmers Branch to see their annual holiday lights display. as always, it was awesome. then we drove around for a bit, stopping at a house that had blue and white LED lights around the yard and lots of other pretties to see. then we caught something to eat and headed back ( Read more... )

meant to do this Friday because i could and because i feel i need to post something again.

we went truck shopping on Friday with the money the insurance company issued to cover the value of the old truck. (part of it went to paying off the old truck, the rest she got went for a new vehicle) so we drove out to the local Ford dealership and cruised ( Read more... )

spawn was over visiting his friend Larry again tonight. when he called for a ride home, i was in the middle of making dinner. so i told him to walk. he came in with a pair of photos in hand. the weekend before last, he spent the night at Larry's and it seems Larry's mom took pics. she was kind enough to send a couple home with him tonight. so being ( Read more... )

so i got into a discussion with samuraiter  about books. if you hadn't guessed by now, they're a serious passion of mine. i am terribly happy when i'm lost in the stacks of a book store. i should be as happy in the library, but i haven't gone in years. perhaps spawn and i should consider doing this. but i digress. this discussion of ours prompted me to pick ( Read more... )

just occasionally, all of the stuff that comes to my email box produces sometihng worth my time. today, as i was sifting through (read: deleting) about 3 weeks worth of emails, i stumbled across something that i felt was worth sharing with my f-list. i don't think the timing could have been any better. hope you all enjoy. there is a certain amount ( Read more... )