Okay, I'm going out of order on my In California series because it is important to post castles for sartorias on her birthday. Happy birthday to both of us! I love sharing a birthday with an awesome person!

So, somebody decided to build a castle in Napa, Moss and I couldn't resist stopping by on our way to his mother's house. Since I'd been accused at ( Read more... )

Friday morning, my mother called and sang "Happy Birthday" to me, and I said thanks, and then she said, "You can haz cake?" This is all because of the LOLcat oracle I gave Moss at Christmas. It introduced Madre to LOLspeak, and apparently she took it to heart. It's pretty adorable. Anyway, I said yes, I was very likely going to have cake, but ( Read more... )

In honor of sartorias, whose birthday is today (we share a birthday, yay!), we return to our ongoing (but very infrequently updated) Castles series. This time, our subject is Fougères, France, where my friend, D. lived in 2002. I was living over on the other side of France that year, but I went to visit her during spring break, and she showed me around ( Read more... )

Photographic documentation of the proceedings of the Mad Scientist Club Mentos Coke Experiment Picnic can be found here.

ETA: And Erika's comprehensive notes on the experiment here!

It's Moss's birthday, and my cat has given me the gift of peeing! On my new favorite capris! Which had my headphones in the pocket! Did she miss the pocket perchance? No! Of course she didn't! This is Moss's birthday pee!* It must cover as much of Julia's favorite things as possible! I found this out while I was vacuuming in the bedroom, and I ( Read more... )

Yes, today is my birthday! I have been overwhelmed with the flood of birthday wishes, so here's a little something in return ( Read more... )