(You see what I did there? No? You clearly have no respect for literature. Or maybe just no recollection of Junior English in high school ( Read more... )

Final day of our holiday celebrations was also quite lovely. I dragged Gramma out of bed around 8:15 this morning (if I don't, she is likely to sleep until 10:30 some days) and took her home to visit my parents for the morning and into the afternoon. Mom cooked a very tasty dinner of quiche and a glazed ham for us, and I managed to trick dad's ( Read more... )

(Sorry, Emma, you get this twice because yes, I am *that* happy!)

After almost two years of searching and several morosely passed over due to budget restraints, only to return a week or two later to find them all gone, I have finally found it, the one, the loveliest of all that puts all those others to shame...

( AT LAST! )

Silo House

Thanks to wowomom and I getting into a housing discussion on Facebook, I now want one of these.

NPR's Top 100 Sci Fi/Fantasy book list

Because... yes.

Also because I have only read maybe 10 of them, and that really really needs to change now. ::nods::

This weekend my friend Melissa from Minnesota and her hubby came for a camping trip down in Wisconsin Dells, and the invited me to join them. We hit the Lost Canyon tour which involved being driven through a small canyon carved out by the glaciers and/or glacial outwash during the last ice age by a team of horses. Super pretty and it made my ( Read more... )

A prologue to the Iron Man/Eureka crossover I wrote last week, because I needed a break from data entry.

In other news, I now own RED, and it is just as awesome the second time around.

Also, it is Friday and there is only an hour left of work! Woot!

I get to see ladysorka in a month!

\O/

I don't really watch Dancing with the Stars, but the second week I did catch the last half hour or so because it came on right before Castle. Dirty Dancing's Jennifer Grey was the last routine I saw, and seriously, it boggled my mind. The woman is 50 years old and still gorgeous, and it has been 23 years since Dirty Dancing came out and she can ( Read more... )

Thanks entirely to the Halloween episode of Chuck, I have discovered Stars, a Canadian indie/electronica group. More to the point, I have discovered their latest album, The Five Ghosts, and it is the only album I have seriously considering going out and buying and spending money on and stuff for the first time since 2005ish, and even that album ( ( Read more... )