asamiblack and I just got back from our traditional drive down to Pebble Creek - a neighborhood about half an hour away that does a wonderful lights display this time of the year ( Read more... )

It is officially Christmastime.

How do I know?  Why, because we have a fully decorated tree and have now seen White Christmas and Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas, of course.

It isn't truly the holiday season until there are singing muppets in the living room.

Now, who wants to see the tree?


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still.

I have a yuletide fic to write as well as something for the Winter Wonderland Advent at metamorfic_moon. my brain just won't focus on either of them right now. I'm going to give it a bit more of a break and then, hopefully, it will cooperate.

I just know that I'm going to desperately need a beta for my yuletide fic, but it is devilishly difficult to find one that ( Read more... )

I posted this originally at the beginning of November, but I wanted to make sure that everyone got a shot at it. I do not mind at all if you can't reciprocate, sign up anyway ( Read more... )

This is all quoshara's fault. Maybe that explains the gift?


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Brain Cells: Blissed out on tryptophan and whipped cream

Cheerleaders: Hopefully also enjoying the holiday, or just having a good day, I am thankful for you!

I knew nothing would get written today, but much got cooked and consumed and I got my PIE! Delicious. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am particularly ( Read more... )

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It's a little early, I know, but I have some people on my friends' list that live quite far away.

If anyone wants a Christmas/Holiday card from sunny Northern California, please comment to this post with your mailing address (all comments will be screened for everyone's privacy) and I will send you off a lovely card :)

The other reason for Memorial Day is, of course, the official kick-off of summertime activities - most notably the first real barbequeing/grilling day of the year. Everyone either fires up one of those nice gas grills or (for the rest of us without money) pulls one of those $29.99 blue light special charcoal grills out of storage, dusts it off, and ( Read more... )

It is human nature to avoid the unpleasant. But we need to remember the cost of war, we need to remember the price paid for our freedoms, we need to not let those who died, die forgotten and in vain.

When Congress made the day into a three-day weekend in with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363), it made it all the easier for us to be ( Read more... )