I mentioned in passing in the last post that we've moved. Well, that we're in the process of moving. It's not a very quick and clean thing to sort, pack and move--not to mention let go of--over a decade's worth of stuff (plus all the stuff carried over from the move before that). We're trying to get rid of everything we don't really want, use or ( Read more... )

I was feeling pretty piss miserable today. It wasn't even a bad day, I'm just completely out of potions right now, on a bit of a downswing and especially female all at once. So, my wonderful husband decided to give me an early Christmas present to cheer me up. And because he hates waiting and he finally saw a crack in my resolve.

Meet Cestis.


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This year, in no particular order ( Read more... )

The day started exactly the way I anticipated, with Justin a little slow to wake and get moving and with me hopping onto WoW to track down a Restless Shadeling battle pet. We then did our dailies and ran through a few scenarios. When I had enough of WoW, we switched over to Portal 2 co-op, which was fantastically fun. I found myself laughing to the ( Read more... )

Many of you have already seen this elsewhere. I'll only be posting it here once, trying to maximize exposure ( Read more... )

Life's been good. And itchy. It's a good kind of itch, I think, the kind that says it's time to do something. And, mostly, I have been doing things. The things I've been doing aren't always the things I should be doing, but more often than not, they're satisfying things, even productive things.

( Cruise, aunthood, geekery... )

Oh! And I also made more frozen yogurt this weekend. I strayed from all the sensible advice in my recipe book and used 0% fat lemon-flavored greek yogurt. And soy milk. Added some sugar, mixed it all up... and it's pretty gosh darn awesome. Very creamy ( Read more... )

It's been a really lovely weekend ( Read more... )

I've been driving the same car for twelve years as of this month. A whole dozen. My ex-in-laws put a lot of money into it, especially when I was broke, even after Keith and I split up, which is one of the--perhaps THE--most generous things anyone has ever done for me. It's a good car, exactly the car I wanted, a car I've loved. It's got almost 150, ( Read more... )

I feel like I made out way too well for Christmas this year, getting both material and spiritual wealth. Christmas Eve was lovely and satisfying and perfectly low-key, with my family--Justin, Eric, Carrie and Mom--gathered just the way I wanted and an evening spent being geeky with my brother. Even with that alone, all of us sharing breakfast and ( Read more... )