I'm really getting sick of our ghost.

I say "our" but he doesn't really belong to us per se. He just lives in my house ( Read more... )

I very rarely have to punish Katrina for anything. She's a good kid. Recently, however, she's been spending too much time on the Internet and neglecting a school project, so I grounded her off the Internet until the project is done. Which is reasonable, and she's sucked it up and has been working on the project which is almost done. Like I ( Read more... )

While I'm as thoroughly excited as anyone I know about Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix and POTC3: At World's End... truth be known, my truest and deepest excitement is about the following project ( Read more... )

In memoriam of my LJ-friend eat_my_pencil who just passed away ( Read more... )

It really doesn't take much to make me happy ( Read more... )

So, for those of you who don't know, my house has been taken over by Harry Potter mania as the date of the final book approaches.

Actually, to be perfectly accurate, it's been taken over by magic and Slytherin/Snape mania. Because we don't really like Harry. But the hottness, the intellectual perfection that is Snape? Yes, please. (The fact ( Read more... )

Warning: Don't read this if you've NOT read the Harry Potter sixth book and you want to stay spoiler-free.

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Obviously measurements of time are merely arbitrarily assigned, abstract  concepts.  Our government taught us that by randomly adding daylight saving time and then CHANGING it on us ( Read more... )

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Ya know, I think I know my kid pretty well.  But every now and then she can still surprise me. ..

This morning I was flipping through some thing about top 25 upcoming movies to see what the coming attractions are for summer, and she was reading over my shoulder.  We went  through the PIrates, and Harry Potter, etc... the usual fare. We passed a ( Read more... )