I just discovered that there's a hotel in Panama City Beach, Florida that offers a special service where a hotel employee (whoever lost a bet that day, one assumes) dressed as a dolphin comes to your room and tucks your child in at night. Cookies and milk, a souvenir photo, and a special gift included, all for a small fee ( Read more... )

We're fine. We have no damage whatsoever, and we just got power, internet, cell phone service, and regular phone service back. All at the same time, which we believe to be because teleute12 is magic.

( I really believe that now. )

A week ago I went to the most magical store in Alabama, possibly the universe, Unclaimed Baggage, where all the stuff the airlines lose forever goes to be rehomed. I got, among other nonsense, a great suitcase and some new glasses frames. Except I paid like ten bucks for them, but then I had to have my lenses in them, and my lenses cost an arm ( Read more... )

Years ago, I saw a very striking photo of a sailor's wife waiting for his ship to come in at a naval base in Virginia--the photo was just her feet and ankles, in these hot pink pumps. It was a lovely, happy photo, and those shoes stuck with me. Periodically I would think, "I want a pair of shoes like that!" and scour the internet for such shoes, ( Read more... )

Today, when my dad came up for dinner, he complained that our timing could be better, as he was missing the last five minutes of an old show called "Wagon Train." As dinner is ready when it's ready and if he doesn't like it he can learn to cook for himself, my mom and I proceeded to confuse the hell out of him ( Read more... )

The cabin fever is really starting to set in. My dad, the only one of us who's left the house for any length of time in a week, seems to be the most affected, strangely. Today he was in the kitchen while I was getting supper ready, and he started taking batteries out of one of those charger things. Batteries seem to have been charging an awful ( Read more... )

So in Alabama, we don't know how to deal with snow. We don't know how to deal with an inch of snow, never mind four to ten. Worse, the snow is melting partially during the day and freezing into ice at night, making it supertreacherous. Branches could take out the power lines or trees could take out the house at any time. It's exciting, in a ( Read more... )

I would like to join Twitter. It seems that all the cool kids already have, and while I do not pretend to be a cool kid, I would like to be able to keep up with what they're saying. There's just one problem ( Read more... )

So every year I try, unofficially, quietly, to do NaNo, and it never works out. This year, I will be skipping entirely, but for good reason. A couple of days into October (I don't remember the exact day, but it may have been the third or fourth), I started writing a novel. At about four o'clock this morning, after trying and failing to sleep and ( Read more... )

From Bones: As far as I can tell, marriage is having someone who will slap your enemies and then toss their dead bodies out of airplanes.

This is totally my new test of OTP. Would they?

Would your favorite couple?