Well I'm back. "Home" doesn't quite seem like the right word this week, but here I am, back in my little 10x10 cube, having paused briefly in the 700sqft 1/16th of a 100-year-old building that I pay a mortgage on. Weird ( Read more... )

I had Super Mail Day!! And am all happy!

My copy of the Winters bio arrived, and just reading the index made me cry. I'm so flipping hopeless. Guess who won't be folding and putting away her laundry tonight after all?

AND my copy of the Metropolitan Opera's Die Fledermaus on DVD--in English!!!--came, too ( Read more... )

Dear Secret Ficcer:

I know who you are, and you ROCK MY WORLD, BABY! I can't believe you pulled that off (not the story, keeping me from figuring out it was you all along! you are evil genius!)!

Anyone remotely interested in Band of Brothers and not squicked out by the idea of BoB fic should get over to camp_toccoa toute de suite. If you can handle fic, but ( Read more... )

zenatrix, your package arrived Saturday! We are all three askip with pleasure! Thank you. Scout and Minou are freaking out with the little mice and fuzzy balls (I did not just say that--but it's what they are!). They tried to freak out of my ornament, but I swiftly wised up and put it out of their reach.

And ladyofrivendell and ramalama! Cards! *Hugs*!!

And cunien!! Desktop! Icon! ( Read more... )

abyssinia4077! Your package arrived! Books and music and chocolate and letters are for grate yay! (I just can't pull that off the way ramalama can.) So very, very pleased! Thank you, my dear! I can't wait to dive into the book! And the music! MUPPETS!! And some other stuff that looks really cool and I know little smatterings of and I'm sure will be really really good ( Read more... )

Dear semielliptical:

Dude what is in this mouse-rat thing because we love it love it love it. Scout attacked the envelope even before the hiyacynth human got it open, and then Scout was like, "Whoa," and Minou was like "Whoa!" and we were like, "Dude this is excellent stuff!" And then we don't remember much because there's this smell--the hiyacynth human called it "nip" or ( Read more... )

Real mail is so wonderful!

Today I got not one but two fantabulous pieces of mail! cunien and lamadeleine, you are stars! Actual letters! They will be answered soon--at least in time for the holidays, as they are fast approaching. Thank you both so much! Mima, I cannot tell you how thrilling it was to read your story in your handwriting, on actual paper. It was ( Read more... )

Have just lost my entire day waiting on a friend of a friend. Annoys the hell out of me. But now I'm back on my own time, at least until 11.

orlisbunny!! You are a goddess!! Am cleaning up my desktop to properly display my darling Billy!

( Billy )

My darling, you are the best! I fainted at least four times when I opened the envelope. Such pretties ( Read more... )

The maternal units have departed. My house is my own again.

Just me and the kittehs feels really really good. Am now catching up on LJ and calming myself with epic war movies.

Two things I've learned this weekend.

Thing One: If you're gonna write boys' names on your underwear, you should wear them "plain" first, THEN write on them. Because ( Read more... )