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A family friend issued a challenge recently, and I thought I'd put it to you, people of LJ (paraphrased copy/pasted from her email):

I am issuing a new year's challenge to my word loving friends to develop a personal list of your ten most beautiful words. This project occurred to me while reading Late Nights on the Radio by Elizabeth Hay. Now in ( Read more... )

So further to my idea about Macdonald Hall meets Sky High1, I have also decided that I want Macdonald Hall meets Toy Soldiers.

( It goes a little something like this. )

Happy 2008, beloveds! I sort of had intended to do a thoughtful, detailed year-end reflection post the way some of you guys have (thumbs up to those, by the way), but if I haven't done it by now, I probably won't get around to it, so in short: not much changed. Well, I moved. And I lost twenty-three pounds (it was twenty-five, briefly, before ( Read more... )

A week's worth of pictures, ( this-a-way. )

Happy belated birthday, beannis!!! I hope you had a fabulous day, and I know the coming year is going to bring you lots and lots of wonderful things. Go you ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, Molly kept walking around the apartment, meowing and meowing, and stopping by the chair/couch/sink/wherever I happened to be to meow pointedly in my direction. I couldn't figure out what she wanted - I tried petting, feeding, picking up, throwing her baby for her to "hunt" - nothing worked. Eventually, I went and laid down on ( Read more... )

Oh, freezing rain, how you make everything so much more difficult interesting. Managed to get to work, on time, without falling on my head or any other body part, yay! I'm sure my legs will be feeling it tomorrow - it's amazing how many muscles you never knew you had until you make them keep you upright on wet ice for an extended period of time ( Read more... )

( Project 365: days 11-14. )

Project 365, days 8-10. ( Pictures. )