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Writer's Block: Idiomatic Confusion
The expression "Shooting the shit" has always stumped me. I have no idea where or when it actually originated, but I always imagine that it was with a couple of cowboys hanging around at the edge of a pasture talking and shooting at piles of cow dung to pass the time.
As for the "waitress in the weeds" thing that seems to be confusing so many ( Read more... ) -
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Stumbled across this video the other day:
From the band Second Person. They've got a pretty cool website too. . . http://www.secondperson.net/ -
A slightly belated festival post.
Last weekend was Wild Magic at Lothlorien. A good time was had by all. It was wonderful to see some friends that I haven't seen nearly enough of recently. And unlike Elf Fest, I managed to leave my anxiety (what little there has been of it) at home. I just had an overall good time instead of an okay time punctuated by a few really good moments ( Read more... ) -
Safe and sound.
Just got home from the backpacking trip. I'll post details later, but for right now I just need to chill for a while and maybe take a nap. I will tell you that we had a great time though. I'd been looking forward to doing that for months! -
Heading out for a hike. . .
Nikki and I are headed down to the Charles C Deam Wilderness in Hoosier National Forest for a hike. We'll be heading out from the Fire Tower parking area and taking the Sycamore Loop trail. I'm not sure if we'll follow the loop all the way around or just camp near the creek at the bottom of the trail and hike back out tomorrow the same way we ( Read more... ) -
Aeon Flux
I forgot to mention in my last post that Nikki and I had just finished watching the Aeon Flux complete Animated Collection. I got it from the library. It has 10 full length episodes plus all of the shorts and some other special features. We still have some of the special features to go through, but we've watched all of the actual episodes. We ( Read more... ) -
Everyone's doing it. . .
Book meme ( Read more... ) -
No festival for me. . .
Well, here I sit at home, lamenting my poor van, and wishing I was at Our Haven's Beltaine festival. This is the first one I've missed in about 5 years. *sighs* I need to get out into the woods sooo bad. -
Friends. . .
I apparently need to make a point to check periodically to see if anyone new has added me to their friends list. I usually make my posts friends only, but being somewhat distraught about my van when posting this morning I forgot to do so and got a comment from someone very dear to me and who I love very much, but who I've been more or less out of ( Read more... ) -
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Well. I think my transmission is finally dead. It seemed to be working a bit better this morning when I dropped Nikki off to work, then it just stopped shifting out of first gear. So now I'm stuck at home trying to figure out what to do. I called a transmission shop. They obviously can't tell me anything for sure without looking at it, but the ( Read more... )
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