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Summer's almost over, and it hardly feels like it's begun. I've had a chance to travel this summer, and I've been a plant sale junkie. It's a little embarrassing, really.

My friends got me into reading Philippa Gregory books, and I've relearned more about Elizabethan England than I ever knew I forgot.

I had drinks in a bar with the ( Read more... )

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Spring has arrived. Randy robins and other songbirds are trying to get some outside my bedroom window at obscene hours of the morning. Somehow, STFU! doesn't seem to work on creatures that are literally, well, bird-brained ( Read more... )

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The last samoa just got scarfed down. It's a sad moment every spring, Not quite so sad as April 15, and not quite so sad as the next snowfall after Groundhog's day, but sad nonetheless. Edy's tries to compensate with their Girl Scout Cookie ice cream, but it's a weak substitute for the real, trans-fat-laden goodness ( Read more... )

So we went to see "V for Vendetta" last night and for the most part, I liked it a great deal. I had a bit of the same reaction to it that I did to the Matrix series in that I thought it was somewhat dumbed down and tried to beat the audience over the head with the cultural/pollitical/religious references. (My reaction to the Matrix Part 2: "yes, OK ( Read more... )

I kid you not, we saw and heard real live Italians use the phrases "Mamma Mia" and "Ooh la la" in real live conversation. It's on a par with hearing Minnesotans and North Dakotans use the phrase "you betcha" in real live conversation, but I'm starting to become inured to that. (If you were offended by the movie Fargo, it might be because there was ( Read more... )

Three days in a row, and I now have an avatar. Victory is mine.

That's probably enough - I wouldn't want to overdo it.

LB

I would never have been able to pick out or name this song before last week, and then I see this gay cowboy ice skating routine performed to it on some LJ or another and now seemingly can't escape the damn song. I'm happily grocery shopping this evening, minding my own business and trying to choose between Le Petit Ecolier cookies and Oreos, and ( Read more... )