Nice follow-up to the Palin turkey fiasco, BTW.

Oh dear God. I can not express how glad I am that this imbecile did not get elected into a federal office. Look, I understand that turkeys get slaughtered for us to eat them, but A) it was a press op where she pardoned a turkey and B) do we have to watch it? I mean, they were twitching. I don't need my 7-year-old watching a turkey get upside- ( Read more... )

So, I log onto WoW tonight after midnight to find a birthday pressie for me. Well, the bear was a WoW 4th anniversary present, but close enough.

WoW and I are twins... separated by 33 years.

Sweet!

Our guy won in spite of the rest of our state. McCain just conceded as the electors selected thus far give Obama a damn near landslide. Just... wow.

Bravo to McCain for a well-done concession speech. Very classy and gracious.

Ok, if you need one non-political, personal reason to hate the right-wing pundits, I can give you one in two words: Rush Limbaugh.

In this broadcast, he attacked Obama for going to his grandmother as she had fallen seriously ill. Rush thinks that it was a cover-up so that he could hustle to Hawaii to cover up some supposed discrepancy with the ( Read more... )

After many years in the works, "Crawling in the Dark" is finally complete. After gathering some excellent info from my few first readers, I finished the final draft. The core story has not changed, but a lot of new scenes were either added or changed based on input provided during the First Reader process. It was extremely helpful to get an ( Read more... )

Never in my life have I ever met anyone so at peace with their mortality as my mom. I took the news kind of hard when we found out about the cancer. Yesterday, I asked her how she was doing. She smiled and said, "Better than you right now." Ok, I have an ear infection, money troubles, and am faced with Mom's mortality. She is dying. She says ( Read more... )

Mom got her CAT scan results back. Three nodules that are almost positively cancer. Two on her lungs and one right against her heart. They are going to do a PET scan and biopsy to see what kind and how far it has spread, but she has been having headaches lately, so it isn't looking good. She is not a candidate for surgery since she only has 31 ( Read more... )

snagged from terribleangel

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

Vizzini: He didn't fall? INCONCEIVABLE!
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Nipped from drlaurac


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