My grandmother taught me to sew when I was about six or seven. Truth be told, she probably did it to keep me out of her way while she sewed, because the best way to keep me from playing with YOUR project is to give me one of my own. It worked ( Read more... )

I have a rule of thumb about reading books that have been turned into movies, that I will see the movie first and THEN read the book ( Read more... )

For a while, I had several dozen stuffed animals and/or plush dolls-- John had a habit of getting me one for every birthday, Valentine's Day and anniversary, and they added up fast. Eventually I got fed up with tripping over them, finding places for them, brushing the dust off of them now and then, etc. I gave most of them away, and kept only the ( Read more... )

I've been sort of sitting on this particular post, because I have a picture that I took of my Girl Scout sash that I'd like to put in here. Unfortunately, what with the myriad of photos and documents sitting in a hundred different places courtesy of the "scan it and get rid of it!" project, I can not actually locate that particular photo. (We all ( Read more... )

A billion years ago (okay, thirty), I took offense at the nickname people were using for me, and I defiantly stated "My name's not Peanut, it's Mandy ( Read more... )

I've been tagged in another meme, when I still haven't finished up the last one. To kill two birds with one stone, I'm calling this one of the 25 Things. This one is ( Read more... )

#3: I am a fast learner ( Read more... )

The single guiding principle in my life has been "No one ever told me I couldn't." I mean that in the sense that no one discouraged me early on, though I am also a master of the concept of "better to ask forgiveness than permission ( Read more... )

I'd managed to avoid the whole "post 25 random facts about you" thing largely by only having friends on LiveJournal who refuse to tag other people (and I love each and every one of you for it). Along came Facebook, where I got tagged by two different people ( Read more... )