AAAND, the most unworthy headline ever is this: Dining room table losing central status in families.

Sales of dining room furniture have dropped eight percent over the last five years, according to the survey by market research firm Mintel... Traditionally, families in Britain and across the world used the dining table as a meeting point for the ( Read more... )

( Memes! )

Meme time! Request a drabble--but for someone else. Tell me what character/pairings they want and anything else you think I should know. (Note: I'll only write Harry Potter or original fic.) I'll write the drabble and point them to it. Sound good? After that, you spread the love and make the same offer in your own LJ. It's all part of the season of ( Read more... )

These are the more interesting bits of a meme I gacked from simplydreamin awhile ago:

( THREE WAYS I AM STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY )

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haulsuper_elmo goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Kermit the Frog.ani_bester tricks you! You get a rock.brainie gives you 8 teal peach-flavoured gumdrops.clonedkitty gives you 18 light green coconut-flavoured gummy bats.florahart tricks you! You get a used tissue.horseygal57 tricks you! You lose 11 pieces of candy! ( Read more... )

Ganked from florahartThe object of the game is to stump the person writing the journal. I've been writing in my live journal for almost two years, and can't possibly remember all the topics I've talked about in that time ( Read more... )

Hmm. Apparently the link to the donations page was broken, which might explain why I have so far raised zero dollars and zero cents. So instead, I'll just solicit you all by email, because I am annoying as coffee stains and the internet exists to serve me. But I'll just email you once and then I'll stop, seriously ( Read more... )

marksykins made this icon, part of a batch of adorable Hogwarts Brats Icons over at her journal.

And just_juxtaposed drew some G-rated Remus/Harry that I want to cuddle up with ( Read more... )

Before we begin, I would just like to mention that someone over at ani_bester's LJ said her mother decided to have her own kids because it was easier than filling out all that adoption paperwork. Yowza. In other words, getting past government bureaucracy is harder than giving birth. What else fits that description, I wonder? Competing in the Olympics? ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm stealing the paranoia meme, in which I say things to X-number of people without saying who those people are. Some of these people aren't on my foflist, but they're all people I like the only people I don't like are the ones who don't read this journal. (In other words, don't let my critical-ness depress you. See? I told you I was mean.) ( Read more... )