So my daughter recently acquired a stuffed gecko, with which she is quite enthralled and which was having Adventures in the back seat while I was driving to pick my husband up this afternoon. I might have had some difficulty maintaining control of the car when I overheard "-and you can't stop ME, Mr. Bad Guy! I am a GECKO of GOD!!!"

...had to

...by the Dragon Age 2 reviewer explaining how he never, ever, ever liked Tolkien-inspired fantasy because "there was never anybody who looked like me", and never once having it cross his mind that heyyyyy, you can play a woman in this game.

So I got a fair amount of boggled feedback on Facebook over my use of the word "obstreperous" to describe Fat Cat ( Read more... )

In an attempt to trim the Christmas budget this year, I have been experimenting today with homemade bath salts.

At this point, I am fairly certain that I has a flavr.

So I'm doing low-carb for a while to kick up some very promising weight loss at the gym. (I'd like to do it long-term, as it worked very well for both Husband Unit and me, but it's just not feasible with 1) a four-year-old and 2) a down economy.) This is occasionally frustrating, but on the plus side, supper tonight was mushroom caps stuffed with ( Read more... )

...Lich King 25 DOWN!

So I was reading this article on "why liberals are more intelligent than conservatives" (funny how the yammering about IQ tests and their history/bias/applicability completely vanishes when the IQ tests are saying something the author wants to hear) when I get to this quote: "one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the ( Read more... )

Those planes didn't vanish into buildings, they were deliberately piloted into buildings with the intent to cause the greatest amount of physical and emotional damage possible.

Also, there were smoke, flames, plummeting masonry and falling human bodies. Those didn't vanish either.

Just sayin'.

Sigh. I got into Cataclysm beta, and they have hit it out of the park. So much concentrated awesome in one game package, and enough details to make my Hordecore little heart skip a beat approximately once a level.

Then they do this (link to Husband Unit's blog for brevity and to spare everybody the link to a 2000-page (not post, PAGE) thread ( Read more... )

Never let it be said that the urge for fanfic isn't natural ( Read more... )