I don’t know if you’ve heard about Trusted Tours and Attractions before, but they’ve got discounted tickets to sight seeing tours in some awesome destinations. I’ve never really thought about sightseeing tours, I mean I knew about them - I knew they existed - but every vacation I’ve ever taken was just a trip to relax and let the world roll by, but ( Read more... )

Whee! Whee! Whee, I tell you, whee! I’ve just heard some delicious science fangirl news about how I’m a giant geek!
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There’s just something about the Yankees, isn’t there? They have a hotdog and apple pie quality to them, even their name’s patriotic and watching them play the game is a sight to behold. I wish I’d been able to see them play live, in-stadium, or get Yankees Spring Training tickets, but I’ve never had the money to go to even a local ( Royals ) game ( Read more... )

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Hoo, stuffed! I’m stuffed - I have the itis! That’s right, THE itis! I ate way too much, but I’m much more than a my-own-horn-tooter, I’m also a pretty damn good cook, if I do say so myself, lol. I made turkey, stuffing, my special “No Gravy Potato Mash” and a recipe I made up today on the fly, “Irish Cream Pumpkin Gems” which I made in my brand ( Read more... )

Well, my mom’s at it again. Her and her boss have had a huge blow out fight over something too personal to be work related. This is so stupid. After my stepdad passed away, I thought she’d be ‘free’, so to speak, and that she wouldn’t have someone telling her what she could and couldn’t do, who she could and couldn’t talk to and where she could and ( Read more... )

Awww! I got the cutest ever birthday presents! I got them a bit late, so it’s got an extra surprise feel to it, and they’re easily exactly what I wanted. First of all, I bought myself a little black bento (picture will come soon) with a built-in divider, plus Laota and I had to have three nori face punches to make little faces for our onigiri and ( Read more... )

It’s possible that I’m going through a ‘thing’. Just a funk, and I don’t really know why. I’ve been able to keep my spirits up enough to stay in a state of Zen for the past few months, but it’s taken a lot of work to do it, and the sheer amount of reminders like, “No, it’s OK, you can handle this.” moments have taken a lot out of me. But it was ( Read more... )

Whoo, I’m getting old, or at least it feels like I am. Do you know that I’ve been blogging for over eight years on various sites, I’ve had Beautiful Sin probably six, maybe seven years and I’ve been making sites and in the graphics biz for eleven years? Tha’s just my net life, too, Odin knows how old I really am. Probably a seven or eight, easy. ( Read more... )

I dare you to tell me these aren’t cute, lol. Double dare! This is a rotten picture, but I just had to snap one, even if it was with my horrible, stupid camera phone, lol. I used my bento veggie cutters that I had shipped in from Tokyo, and I just adore them - they’re sakura, ume and orange blossom home made sugar cookies ( about 2/3 of an inch ( Read more... )