Still in Jamaica! Yes, I did completely avoid the internet for this holiday. However, we've just found out that our return flight has been cancelled, so I'm now using our allotted free internet time* to inform the lot of you that I won't be home for another day. The cruise company has informed us that they are scrambling to book all of us in ( Read more... )

We're mostly packed! and mostly ready ( Read more... )

( Harry Potter meme )

I'm still not getting email notifications regarding comments here or responses to my comments elsewhere. So, while I am trying to manually keep up with responses made to my comments in other journals, I am not always succeeding. Anyone have an idea of what's happened here? As far as I can see, my comment settings haven't changed. It's still set ( Read more... )

Inspired by the forward-thinking macshel, I'm going to ask here for people to give me their addresses for my Christmas (or generic wintertheme for those of you celebrating a day off of work) card list ( Read more... )

My chocolate cake was a big hit at the potluck lunch we attended this afternoon. This probably sounds like bragging, but mostly it's just the ecstatic feeling of having hit upon a really good recipe. Obviously "my" chocolate cake was not a recipe I came up with, myself. I know I've mentioned it here in the past, as it tends to consistently be a ( Read more... )

I've put them behind a cut. Though I've re-sized them, I have a feeling they will still be large.

( lots of pics! )

We visited Edinburgh this weekend. After months of wistful remarks that we "should" visit Scotland but not actually doing so, we finally found some inspiration in the form of some friends visiting Edinburgh from Norway. I had an e-mail asking if we'd be interested in meeting up, and "is it nearby?" (answer: not really!) and two days later, I'd ( Read more... )

Nothing really to report from Halloween here. We live on a dark, quiet street, so if there were kids trick or treating, they sensibly avoided us. However, I did find this great link on the origins of Halloween.Any other Americans remember Chick Tracts? For those who haven't been exposed, these are little black and white comic books very loosely ( Read more... )

For some reason, the word makes me sing it in my head, to the tune of Age of Aquarius ( Read more... )