since I've posted anything but birthday messages here. It's also been just about exactly a year since we arrived here in Florida. We've had a great year and settled in quite nicely. The town we live in is great for families, lots of parks, walking/biking trails and other free things to do. Everyone has made new friends and we are getting used to ( Read more... )

to all the winners and nominees of the sshg_awards. Thank you for so many great stories! Also, thank you to everyone involved with the organizing and calculating of the awards. I really appreciate the hard work done by everyone involved.

Wishing a very Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels to all celebrating tomorrow. A very happy Thursday to everyone!

Good things:

-New president = good thing for everyone and not just the U.S

-first female senator from New Hampshire as averygoodun pointed out

-my congresswoman was re-elected

Not so good thing:

-Hubby lost his election by 2,056 votes. He worked incredibly hard for the over 10,000 votes he did receive. Knocking on doors in almost half of the city and one other ( Read more... )

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Just one of a few issues that I feel deeply about where hubby disagrees. Then again any marriage or union should be about partners who can agree or disagree and still be equals( ( Read more... )

I have the best neighbors. Son2 has discovered that a friend from his class lives down the street, close enough for him to cross by himself with the neighbor girl. Anyway, Mrs. B just called to ask if it was ok for the kids to join them for pizza. Hell, yes. It's sure to be a much better dinner than the leftovers I had planned. I'll say it again. I ( Read more... )

always a librarian I suppose. I've just been playing around with the new catalog system of our local library consortium, which consists of ten public libraries and two academic libraries all in different towns. One card and I can borrow from any of them and have the books delivered to my local branch library for me to pick up. That part is not new ( Read more... )

It seems that the custom license plate craze has now intruded on the HP world. I was driving home today from a big box store and was behind a man with this on his SUV:


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Two teaser recs for the   ( Read more... )

So many great stories have been nominated. Congratulations to all on my f-list and everyone who has been nominated. I will now spend as much time as I can reading & rereading the wonderful stories so that I can vote in the coming weeks.