Cooking As a Newlywed - Day One

So, while those of you who know me in RL know that it's been 3 1/2 months since I got married, this idea just came to me. I've decided, in an effort to increase the amount of time I write each day and to actually use my LJ account, I'm going to write about my various cooking adventures as a newlywed. Since I am, ( Read more... )

Well, because of logistical difficulties, I didn't take my boyo back to meet my fam. We've postponed that to MLK weekend. However, I still got to enjoy the awesomeness of a Grue Family Christmas ( Read more... )

Yes friends, I am indeed posting on my lj page. I figure the next year of my life is going to be crazy and exciting and nerve-wracking enough to require journaling and where better to do it than my already existent LJ?

I must first say that I adore the Christmas season. There are so many delightful things about it. Of course, there are the classic ( Read more... )

Heh - I've been rather remiss in posting lately. Memorial Day weekend was wonderful! We actually did end up staying with Andy's parents and it was far less awkward than any of us had anticipated. This was helped by two main things - Andy was gone almost the entire time we were there and Andy's mother made this absolutely fantastic breakfast of ( Read more... )

 So, much has happened since the last time I posted - graduation, joining the work force, paying rent for the first time ever, and so on. The most significant thing to me, however, is that I have a boyfriend now. His name is David and I absolutely adore him. I mean, it's hard to describe how much I've come to love him this past month and a half. ( ( Read more... )

So, I was traipsing through the DiR community while at work today (very slow day) and happened upon a book written by someone in the fandom. It costs a bit more than I can afford right now, so it goes immediately onto the book wishlist. For anyone who's curious, this is it:

Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of
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So, I know there's a song titled "it Never Rains in Southern California," but I wish people wouldn't think that was true. As we've all been made intimately aware this past fall, when California doesn't get any rain, it goes up in flame. Some rain, then, is obviously a good thing. Now, I've lived in Cali for 14 years now, so I know it rains every ( Read more... )

I just wanted to thank the people whose hard work I've used for my template and mood images: thefulcrum and hobbitholes.  I give them credit and gratitude.