Hallowe'en party tonight! My hair is... well, not black. But it's darker than it was. I think it's as dark as temporary hair dye will go on my hair.

River Tam costume is ready! I have perfect boots from the Army Navy Surplus store. I tried shredding the sweater sleeves last night with limited success (it's machine-knitted top down, unfortunately ( Read more... )

I haven't had a functional computer at home for almost a month. I still don't, and am not certain when that's likely to change. As I don't access LJ or its related email from work (or any computer that requires my real ID) I'm pretty much totally out of the loop. If you've commented on something and I have apparently rudely ignored it; if you've ( Read more... )

I stapled my finger, while repairing the stapler (so Elder Son could create something out of the recycling). Ow ow ow. Also, I can't get The Glory of Love out of my head.

LJ has not managed to figure out why I still cannot load certain journals, although someone has asked some relevant questions and, I hope, gone away to think about it ( Read more... )

I finished my PoA scarf! Pictures at hp_knitting.

The billboard near my house now contains Jeffrey Dean Morgan trying to look down Uma Thurman's top. I think I preferred it when it was Alan Rickman looking supercilious in a powdered wig. (Sorry, madame_meretrix, I'm just not a fan ( Read more... )

Happy New Year ( Read more... )

You may have noticed that breastfeeding's hit the news the past few days, being linked to higher IQ and lower rates of childhood obesity, as well as lowering the future risk of breast cancer for mothers. Its many other benefits are known to include decreased rates of asthma and allergies in children, decreased ear, chest and gastrointestinal ( Read more... )

I'm back! :D ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, I left my laptop plugged in and working fine, when I went to get Elder Son from school. We dropped by the library, came home, I fed the baby, made supper... and discovered my hard drive had gone off the rails. Terminal, irretrievable meltdown. It's just out of warranty, and although I do back-up fairly regularly, I hadn't done so since ( Read more... )

...neither can the floods drown it.

One time, my supervisor at work took a small group of us out at lunchtime. Only we didn't have lunch. He gave us a choice: "We can have a feast for the body - or a feast for the mind." (Imagine it in an Inigo Montoya accent.) So we went to the nearest bookstore instead and he bought us each a book.

I got The ( Read more... )

I am so spoilt. Me in my uber-First World with more than enough food and water, clean air and clothes, all-present-and-accounted-for (albeit slightly insane) family, and oodles of books (which I am able to read, having been edumacated, despite being female.) And many, many other blessings of which I am not sufficiently conscious day to day ( Read more... )