I've been having some trouble settling down to read lately, (both due to lack of blocks of time and lack of attention span) so finding several wonderful things in the course of a week was delightfully unexpected. Okay, mostly unexpected.  Enjoying the hell out of the stories in the Scalzi super bundle I bought during the hurricane was not much of a ( Read more... )

I've only been wanting to try this recipe for months now, and finally got around to doing so tonight.  I got the initial idea from rainbow - but she had trouble giving me exact amounts for the spices, so I gave mom the general directions and asked her what proportions I should use.  Mom said she didn't know squat about cooking meat with cocoa, and told me ( Read more... )

Y'all remember the rules?  Share something(s) happy with me.  This here post is cheap therapy for everyone ( Read more... )

Here's my list of awesome (*), please tell me yours!

1. Penguins getting valentines cards!  I could leave it there, but really, you deserve the full story, complete with pictures:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/california-academy-of-sciences-penguins_n_1277627.html
(This is my favorite news story of the week.  Thanks for sending it to me ( Read more... )

Its my half birthday! This looks like self-indulgent fun, and my last two birthdays got partially or fully drowned out by drama. This half birthday almost could be too, so I declare a FUCK-IT!  Happy half birthday to me, I shall do silly things!

Shamelessly stealing this meme from
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I would really really like to revive awesomeday.  I have had a month of incredible fucknuttery (2 family emergencies among other things.)  I'm going to try like WHOA to come up with a few things here.  Please please tell me something GOOD going on with you.  No bitching/venting/negativity.  This is officially a cry for help (though I am doing much ( Read more... )

I thought about twittering bits of this, but really, even the small bits are too long for twitter.  Also, need the longer format to work out some of this in my head.

Also, I do not seem to be smart enough for twitter today.  Have had a dozen tweets I've started and given up on as I couldn't shrink them down to 140char.  (None of them, I think, ( Read more... )

I get people asking me for referrals all over the country all the time.  If any of you happen to be in or know anyone in the Bellingham, WA  area, I officially know someone good in the area.  (Someone asked for a referral. I got an enthusiastic recomendation from my alumni mailing list.  The person I referred out there wound up being very pleased ( Read more... )

Considering how much I've been loving this and how many times I describe it to someone ("chocolate softserve icecream meets tropical drink") and they go, "ooooooh, recipe?", I thought I should post it here for posterity:

My basic indulgent PMS-remedying tropical chocolate smoothie recipe: (yes, it's in a mathematical ratio, where X = 1, 2 or 3, ( Read more... )

For idat who was intrigued:

Conditioner washing is washing your hair without shampoo.  Cheap conditioners apparently have mild surfactants (detergents) in them, so doing so is way less drying.  CO (conditioner-only) washing consistently has left my hair with a lot more body than it had, and frequently, full on mermaid hair (long curls).  It also ( Read more... )