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I thought it was autumn
It is 100.4 degreees right now, and it will be October before the high will be under 90. I want to mooooove. -
Central Texas Wildfires
The Labor Day holiday has been awfully scary around here. The heat and drought were bad enough, but add high winds spinning out of tropical storm Lee and you get this ( Read more... ) -
Christmas projects update
Yesterday I received notification that four of my fleece selections were out of stock and were removed from my order. This was phrased as a benefit to me rather than a detriment (I am not amused). The downside is that I cannot get the incredible sale price for these items and will have to obtain them elsewhere ( Read more... ) -
Insane Christmas Crafts
As evidence that I have well and truly lost my mind I have decided to make "snuggies" for the bulk of the people on my Christmas gift list (blankets with sleeves for anyone lucky enough to have missed the commercials). This started out a gift idea for the nieces and nephews (I have nine which gets terribly expensive) and grew to the point that I am ( Read more... ) -
Wish me luck
I'm going overboard with the loving-mom thing tonight and taking me 10-yr old daughter and a friend (also a 10 yr old girl) to a Twilight DVD release party. At Walmart, and of course at midnight. This should make the Harry Potter book releases look downright cerebral. At least Tori didn't start reading the series until it was already complete. I'm ( Read more... ) -
Work Woes
Be warned that this is at heart a rant. The subject matter is gut-wrenching IMHO ( Read more... ) -
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I am now thoroughly fed up with JKR ( Read more... ) -
Deathly Hallows-Favorite WTF momemts?
On the whole I enjoyed the book, but there were many times I felt that JKR was pulling the story out of orifices never designed for that purpose, such as:
( WTF-Spoilerish! )
