My office mate forwarded me an email today about sending holiday cards to troops.  While it had an address which, according to snopes, is invalid, I think this is a great idea.

If you feel so inspired please add another card to your holiday list.  To send cards through the American Red Cross' program address cards to:

Holiday Mail for Heroes
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I enjoyed my trip to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1) this morning. I thought they did a pretty good job with the film but I haven't read the books in a while.

Speaking of reading books, this meme is going around again...

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into ( Read more... )

This was apparently Anti-Bullying week which I wouldn't have known about except for the Katie situation.  nnaylime 's pulled together a post with a bunch of links related to the story but the short version is this:

A first grade girl was bullied by a group of her male classmates for having a Star Wars thermos; her mother wrote a blog about it asking for ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had too many ideas none of which would gel; today I had no ideas. You get a writer's block answer.

You all know I love "Chuck" and I will advocate for the survival of the show until the end.  Unfortunately, I wasn't impressed by last night's episode.

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For Christmas I'm giving my parents an enlargement/canvas print of one of my pictures from our family to Yellowstone.  I've narrowed it down to 5 images but I'm having trouble choosing from there.  My parents have decent variety on their walls from stuff my brother and I did in elementary school art class to ink sketches and pastoral painting ( Read more... )

I've been slacking off on actually watching tv recently between my parents visiting and the cable company screwing with the guide which broke all my old DVR programming.  But I am mostly caught up now, well at least through Weds.

Glee

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It was a bit chilly and breezy out today, but after stopping for lunch at the Museum of the American Indian we (my parents and I) headed to the zoo.

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I don't have any ideas on which to attempt to write a novel, but what I am going to try to do is...


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