I have to admit, I had wondered whether I was tempting fate by hosting a party on Halloween. Sure, the last Halloween had been mostly harmless and Tony and Pepper's party had gone off without a hitch. But I'd been on the island far too long to trust in its benevolence ( Read more... )

Today was a good sort of boring. Nothing crazy had happened and she'd been helpful with the clean-up. None of her (quickly dwindling) friends had disappeared in the past few days so it was like a strange break. A break she was definitely all about ( Read more... )

There were very many a challenge that would arise when a future pie maker would be brought into the world, but that moment was still months away. Though Ned spent every other waking hour convincing himself he would make a better father than his own, he began to feel a rather strange emotion as the days marched forward.

He was almost excitedChuck ( Read more... )

For all that this place often seemed to be boring, it certainly had a way of making everything happen at once. Rahne, who had on more than one occasion complained of having so little to do here, had found the past couple of weeks moving so fast that she hardly knew what to do with it. The trip she'd taken to the second island with Moira and Jamie ( Read more... )

It's been over a week since I found myself on the other side of the island. I'm making progress - I couldn't actually move much for a while, even with crutches, once we all made it back to civilization. I'm pretty sure that's the most walking (running) I've ever done in my entire life, if how sore I was said anything about it. It's a start. The ( Read more... )

Dated July 24, 2010:
The group of Cyd, Jacob, Castle, and Davos awake right in the middle of dino territory and are forced to work together to get back to civilization.

[ HERE | Ongoing | PG]

Waking up at the crack of dawn with buzzing nerves, Sookie Stackhouse had spent about ten hours in the kitchen and rec area before things were finally in place for the potluck dinner. The first several hours were a single-handed effort, getting certain dishes that she knew would take longer into the ovens and on the grill, such that even during ( Read more... )

"DIE! DIE! DIE ( Read more... )

Strange Island Happening Weekends happened to be Temperance's favorite kind of weekends, even when they shifted away from weekends. That was, of course, after the relaxed domestic weekends where she and her family-- her family-- could walk the beach and look for evidence of giant squid ( Read more... )

I'm having a terrible day ( Read more... )