Hi! I've been distracted by offline concerns lately and am way behind on reading and commenting on your LJ posts--very sorry! Will have to remedy that--but not tonight. Quickie update instead ( Read more... )

I'm in overly-sunny Southern California visiting my mom for a few days. It's so hard to connect to the Internet! The only way I can do it is at Starbucks. I'm staying at my mom's empty house and she doesn't have Internet. I no longer have library cards for this area, either ( Read more... )

September 22, birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. Two very inspirational characters!

( One photo of Bilbo and Frodo )

This is traveling day so it's back to the west coast. I'll do another post later this week with photos of different costumes from various fandoms.

My friend rakshi put up some really cute ones I somehow got of Sean grinning in this entry.

Sean's gallery on Rakshi's web site is here. All the photos there now were taken by me but I didn't do any of the ( Read more... )

At Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia for the weekend. This is Day 1 of the con and it was mostly spent looking at costumes and trying to find Sean Astin.

My friend rakshi and I entered a Tolkien costume contest as Sam and Frodo. We tied for Best Group Costume. Very unexpected, I assure you ( Read more... )

My mom had brain surgery today--and it was a success! YAY ( Read more... )

Hi! Have returned from San Diego, California and Comic-con. Great event, I love it year after year. I took bunches of photos, none that great but it's okay, I had a blast taking them.

My friend spookystoy let me stay with her again. You'd think she'd get tired of me and my silly ways but no, not yet. Her cat, on the other hand, was not so amused ( Read more... )

The professor who's giving the Tolkien lectures up at the University said that this coming Sunday, February 3, one of the local radio stations will broadcast one of Tolkien's poems The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son. What makes it noteworthy is that Tolkien himself does the reading on a recording he made at home. The professor says he ( Read more... )

Last night I saw "Elizabeth: The Golden Age". It was worth seeing for Cate Blanchett's costumes alone.

I made it sort of a Girl's Night Out by taking Galadriel, Purple Dress Eowyn and Coronation Arwyen. Galadriel sat in my lap and appeared to enjoy herself. We'll have to all go out again sometime.