I didn't ride my bike to work on Wednesday because I had to hold my Dad's hand as he bought a present for my mother in the Apple Store. I was never going to get back from Grand Central in time on a bike. So I used my stationary bike at home that night, and, as a complement to the biking, I did all of fifteen--you are in shock at prowess, I can tell ( Read more... )

Balloon Juice has a thread up calling for people to sound off on their least favorite Christmas songs. I don't have one. I have plenty of versions I don't like of this or that song, but no one song drives me crazy during this time of year. It is the aggregate of all of them being forced on me for hours at a time that bothers, not the songs in ( Read more... )

Couldn't let this glorious day go by without wishing you all a safe and happy Halloween. For those of you rocking costumes at work, I salute you. I went with orange-and-black striped tights, my black-crow-on-orange-background shirt, and my stitching jewlery that I got from Etsy. It's been fun seeing reactions all day. The jewelry distracts people ( Read more... )

Halloween is easily better than Christmas, to me, although--GASP!--this year the rank commercialism that attends Halloween is starting to get to me. I predict, sadly, that next year I may even start to resent the appearance of orange, purple, black, and green items in August. Then I'll buy some of them and feel better. Halloween is an excuse to ( Read more... )

But applications are DONE. The heart-attack-inducing bill for this exercise in futility (and the resulting I-can-treat-myself-because-I-just-spent-10-times-as-much-on-applications post-application spending spree) is yet to come. I expect drinking will happen the night it does. A lot of drinking.

I can now resume caring about what is more important ( Read more... )

I find my lack of a Halloween icon disturbing. Needs must remedy that ( Read more... )

This weekend, I got an idea of what my next year might be like. For all three of you I haven’t told, I intend to see a movie a week at the movie theater for all of 2011. I saw two movies in one weekend, and I’m beginning to understand that there may be some theater-going overload with this plan. Then again, going to two movies right after the other ( Read more... )

My brother-in-law is not a fan of vegging about. I'd be happy to XBOX and watch movies until I have to leave here (he has Assassin's Creed II! Dear god, I suck at that game), but he was getting stir crazy after about one day. So we went out to see Avatar yesterday and he's out the door with the munchkin to go hiking while the rest of us kidnap my ( Read more... )

I'm out to San Francisco in less than eight hours. (Urgh.) Have a happy and safe holiday season and I'll see you all in the new year!

If I did the Evite right, you should all get a thank you note, but I thought I'd make sure to make another big LJ declaration ( Read more... )