Four years ago today, shogunhb and I stood on what looked like a giant altar, with a mountain as a backdrop and the sun in everyone's eyes, and promised to love and hold and cherish one another for as long as we both shall live ( Read more... )

Larpercalia was amazingly fun. Friday night, I was in Timelines, Saturday I played in Ruins of Grandeur and Better Off Dead, and Sunday I played in Costumed Henchmen. I think this was probably better for me, at least in terms of quality of games I played in. The 40 minute commute there and back wasn't great, but only really killed me Sunday when I ( Read more... )

*Just a warning to all of my lovely readers out there. If I hear you whining about how hard it is being white, I will have to throttle down my desire to punch you repeatedly in the face. Alternately, I will just throttle you. Ditto with how tough straight people have it, how it isn't fair that all the good parking spaces have handicapped markers, ( Read more... )

All right, so status update on my Captain: we're seeing much improvement. He's active (by which I mean 'bad'), is eating and using the litterbox with decent regularity (also, this whole episode has found me unnaturally concerned and/or excited by what my cat does in the litter box, why does every illness in this house leave me talking about bowel ( Read more... )

My mouth got me in big trouble today.

( No, not the way you're thinking (and I have no idea why you would leap to that conclusion anyway, GAWD) )

So, I tried the Cinna recipe as written, but it was too vodka-y for me. If I want to do a shot, I'll do a shot. If I'm having a mixed drink, I want to taste delicious other-flavors.

3 oz vodka to one TBS vinegar mixture and (the muddled strawberries) was too much.

Instead, shogunhb helped me come up with something a little different ( Read more... )

So, today shogunhb and I took Nephew out to 6 Flags, a land of fun and candy, excitement and rides ( Read more... )

So, shogunhb and I were driving to down 190 tonight to feed toti_cat (whose LJ name should totally be cat_bastard or some equivalent) when I hit a bunny VICIOUS MUTANT RAT-MONSTER.* I watch down the road instead of right in front of my car (unlike three-quarters of MA drivers who are then SHOCKED AND SURPRISED to come upon road work or a truck parked in one lane, even though ( Read more... )

*Today, I learned to solvent weld. The purple stuff on the edges of PVC pipes? Not actually purple highlighter. I managed to give myself a headache inhaling the fumes and one of my nails is dyed purple (and may possibly fall off, though shogunhb says it's doubtful), but I've successfully welded three or four lengths of pipes ( Read more... )

* The ending to "Cold Blood" the most recent Doctor Who episode. It was the kind of thing I'd expect from RTD. ( Tiny bits of spoilers )