Quiet day today: didn't sleep too well due to the weather being warm last night, though at least the humidity has gone away and the warmth has turned to dry warmth ( Read more... )

Finished my work week today, now I get to relax and curl up with a good book or some RP taggage. My Christmas shopping is done, all I have to do now is wrap the packages and decorate our Christmas tree: we'll be putting the lights on it tonight, then I'll decorate it throughout the day tomorrow. I've also told myself, I am changing into my ( Read more... )

Just up from finishing up washing the dishes after watching the Fourth of July concert from Boston. Rather quiet Fourth, as my dad had to work today, thus we'll be having our indoor cookout tomorrow evening -- Yes, I know, contradictory name is contradictory: we have so many BUUUUGGGS in our yard that we rarely have a cookout before October and our ( Read more... )

Whether you celebrate it as the Christian feast of the Presentation of the Child Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, or you celebrate it as the Pagan festival of Imbolc, I hope you all have a blessed one ( Read more... )

I missed the bicentennial by about six months, but at least I was conceived during the bicentennial; makes it easy to calculate how old the U. S. of A is ( Read more... )

Longer entry to come in a bit, once I get settled in after a long day at work. Till then, here's a video of my current favorite song by the coolest Irish-punk band ever, the Dropkick Murphys, performing the song that put them on the map when it was used in the Irish Mob movie "The Departed" ( Said vid also features clips from said movie, which was ( Read more... )

It's been a wierd but good day: Wierd things included ( Read more... )

Monthly guilty-pleasure shopping: the new Silouette Nocturnes come out today, plus I am prowling for Valentine's Day-themed paranormal romance novella anthology. I found a Christmas-themed one at an after-Christmas sale, so I'm curious to see if there might not be one for Valentine's Day ( Read more... )

Celebrating with the lovely themed layout; I'd bought an electric menorah at the yard sale of a Russian Jewish family in Newton back in the summer, now I have it on my windowsill, with three blue flame-shaped bulbs lit ( Read more... )