1. It snowed all day! I barely made it home from Boxing Day lunch at my grandmother's.

2. Sudden need to mainline North & South, probably because I was going to catch up on Spooks and then someone just happened to mention N&S and now I'm all ♥_♥ but don't really have time unless I stay up all night for a not very good reason which I haven't in ( Read more... )

I'M SO BOOOOOOORED. Tell me what to do, flist, since apparently there's no way Yuletide will open for me until EVERYONE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE has finished reading every story there. If these things could involve not eating all the leftover cookies I have stashed in various hiding places, that would be super extra awesome. (Recipes this year: spoon ( Read more... )

WTF IS THIS NEW EMMA NONSENSE. IT'S ON MY TV! AND MR. KNIGHTLEY IS JONNY LEE MILLER. AHAHAHAHAHA WHAT.I greatly approve of Michael Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse, though ( Read more... )

Happy First Advent, flist! I busted out some Christmas classics for today's lunch, and, honestly, my carrot casserole is fucking divine. I should make it more often. Emi spent most of the meal trying to stick his stupid face in the Advent candle. I can't believe he's turning five... tomorrow. WHERE DID NOVEMBER GO ( Read more... )

This was my advent calendar last year. I thought it was cute, so I'm sharing. I don't think I can achieve a fancy mouseover-image-changing effect on LJ (at least... I think I probably should be able to, but my CSS skills are somewhat rusty), so here is the original with all days unopened. I'm backdating this and coming back to open one day at a ( Read more... )

1. IT SNOWED. OK, so it was like a millimeter or two, you can still see the green of my lawn (well, you could, the five minutes it was light), but whatever. STILL COUNTS ( Read more... )

or, as I like to think of it, Tomorrow Will Be Better Than Today But Still Worse Than, For Example, Last Tuesday, And Lots Of Other Days That Were Pretty Sucky, Too Day ( Read more... )

I couldn't sleep so I started thinking about cookies, and now I can't sleep because I'm craving cookies. THIS IS A VICIOUS CIRCLE.

For those of you new to this establishment, my family consists of a bunch of anti-materialistic weirdos, so every Christmas I go a little insane in the head baking for them.

DefinitelyRussian Tea Cakes ( Read more... )

Behold, an advent calendar.

People more conversant with CSS than I: I should be able to do mouseover image changes on LJ, right? I know how to do it when I can go poke at the code in a plain-and-simple html page, but customizing LJ scares me for unknown reasons.

I'm sure I've left the holiday wishes so late the lot of you will already be off celebrating, but. Merry Christmas! Or Monday, if that is your preference.

Today is pretty much packed with activity extended family meals (and sauna), but I'll probably be around for most of the day tomorrow.