My second holiday season in the UK. Thanksgiving has come and gone, Christmas et. al. is coming, and I have this vague unsettled feeling that I should be homesick. But I’m just… not. I don’t really feel anything ( Read more... )

I may have mentioned this on Twitter a while back, buuut - Adventuresome Coworker is organizing a bunch of her friends into a Superhero Cosplay Group for Halloween, and - well, I could blame it all on her, but the fact is she blurted out I could go as She-Ra and I exploded with glee. I have nobody but myself to blame. So apparently I have seven ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a good Christmas/perfectly ordinary winter day. I sure did. <3 I made my mom cry twice, once with the card I gave her and once with one of her presents, a notebook in which I'd written down stuff I'd learned from her. ^_^ I did that for Dad too, and he didn't cry, but he did come over and hug me without my having to initiate it ( Read more... )

What the heeeeell. Time for Winterthing, I guess ( Read more... )

Making the pumpkin pie is never, ever uneventful at my house, starting with my very first attempt, in which I mixed up the tablespoon with the teaspoon and made Salty Bob's Salty Pumpkin Pie of Saltiness. (I have yet to live this down.) Another year saw the Great Cinnamon Upset, and this year we lost the can opener which led to Dad showing me how ( Read more... )

First lines of each month, in honor of New Years ( Read more... )

I'm having a good Christmas. Even with the breaks to go to work and look after the furry things. (Today, every bowl of food gets a candy cane in it.)

Have some festive music:

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Love you guys. Merry Christmas. Take care of yourselves. *hugs all around*

If you're looking for Christmas present ideas (even for yourself, ahem), the stuff in my Etsy shop has a month to go before it gets delisted. Prices are negotiable if I've friended you. More stuff is Coming Soon, as they say ( Read more... )

My motto this year is 'Don't look back ( Read more... )

So, I really do like Christmas. I just don't like the month leaning up to it.

( Okay, Christmas is over, you really don't want to read through another 'this is what Christmas means to me blah blah blah.' )