Something I meant to document from awhile ago - the fourth of July as a matter of fact.  But as the profile says, events may not occur in chronological order. Winter holidays just past so you get something from a warm summer one.

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Happy New Year 2013 by *senoritafish on deviantARTI'm sorry, I am late with everything for this year. Seems like I spend most of my time on my Nook, which will not let me copy/pasta anything, and it's kind of pain to type longer entries on. But in any case I think I'm allowed to say Happy New Year all of January, right ( Read more... )

Off to visit John's mom & grandma. I haven't driven past that paticular shopping center in Seal Beach since October. :(

John likes this Hof's Hut for Thanksgiving tradition we've been doing. Except there's no leftovers. Or Dad.

So, once upon a time, the Corpse Bride, a plague doctor*, and Rainbow Dash the My Little Pony went Trick or Treating...


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omg. Very tempted to get this for Halloween...

Halloween set of Giant Microbes

"Trick or Treat with Anthrax adorning a witch's hat, Flesh Eating with spooky, fake fangs, orange Amoeba with black mask, Black Death embroidered with a skull and crossbones, and Ebola costumed as Frankenstein with stitched mouth and neck bolts!"

Hope everyone had a Happy 4th (here in the States, that is). Pretty par for the course here. Parade, fireworks. We thought about going to Anime Expo on Sunday, but at least one fry decided they didn't want to go, runsamuck pouted about possibly staying home from his friend Jerry's (they have a standing Sunday video game playdate), and most importantly, I ( Read more... )

I have a number of things I want to post about, but I have a couple of work deadlines I have procrastinated on for way too long and now I feel like Garrison Kiellor's Winged Motivational Products™ are glaring down at me from my cube walls. Gonna have to wait until at least the first one is finished with, but at least need to get something off my ( Read more... )

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Happy Groundhog Day! If we had groundhogs here, they'd fershure be seeing their shadows, as it's sunny but blowing gusty Santa Ana winds (do gophers work instead?). And by the way, Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies.

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