decided to break the unintended update sabbatical now…

1.  mom’s birthday ended just a couple of hours ago! cooked spicy seafood marinara spaghetti to give my mom a break from the daily chores, as well as to satisfy her crab and cayenne pepper cravings.  last friday, her office staff hosted a small surprise lunch for her, which I thought was sweet ( Read more... )

So I have not been updating.  Whoops.  Sorry.

A week ago a nice, authoritative lady with an American Midwestern accent told me that I could go to her home country for three months so I could do the Big Two-Bee (which at this point I am FAR from being adequately prepared, dangit) and hopefully work on kickstarting my professional training which ( Read more... )

since the concept of delayed gratification is anathema to my mother, i traipsed on over yesterday to get our preordered copy of  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  i'd have opted to wait for a box set of all 7 books or at least wait for the paperback, but my mom wanted to read it right away. being the dutiful daughter that i am, i got her a ( Read more... )

all right, by now everyone and their grandmother knows about this already, but i'm still riding the wave here. when everything is already said and posted and done… here are some of my photos of the neil gaiman stalkage-turned-pilgrimage.

( how we all turned into fangirly pilgrims to the Shrine of Neil Gaiman )

okay, the long and tall of it...  i went to the Neil Gaiman book signing at the Power Plant Mall yesterday, and i'm still on that dorky high right now.

so dorkily high right now that my copy of Preludes and Nocturnes and Neverwhere is still on hand, within reaching distance, so i can stare at the newly inscribed title pages from time to time.  i ( Read more... )