If you enjoyed Legally Blonde or Miss Match, I highly recommend Drop Dead Diva. If you like thoughtful, funny, Health-At-Every-Size-positive shows with a bit of contrarealism, check it out! The first season is free on Hulu until June 6 ( Read more... )

All MWRA towns east of Weston are under a boil water advisory and emergency water conservation measures. This includes Quincy (where I am), along with Arlington, Boston, Brookline, Arlington, Somerville... for some reason Cambridge is *not* listed on the alert.

I've been sewing. First pillows, and then aprons, and now clothing. (Aprons are a nice training-wheel piece -- no fitting, nothing too complex ( Read more... )

I was in Honors Home Ec in middle school. Not everyone knows that about me. (Honors Home Ec just meant I went to the Home Ec room during extra periods to work on projects, not that it was a harder curriculum or anything. But still! Also, I won blue ribbons at the county fair. So there ( Read more... )

I don't know what to be more disturbed by: the fact that Amazon.com sells multiple adorable chainsaw charms, or the fact that they're only available at a price point way above my budget for this project. ($180 for a little gold chainsaw? Really?)

I had a great time. Meeting everyone was awesome -- it's great to find out what people are up to, meet new folks, etc. (Hi, everyone!)

I got a necklace I love from Hiberna Curios. The jewelery she had in the show was amazing -- lots of Lovecrafty, steampunky things, including some of the neatest found-key necklaces I've seen ( Read more... )

So for Christmas I got a small pie pan. I asked for it; well, I didn't really, but we were in the store looking at small pie pans and I mentioned to Mom that I don't make pie because a normally-sized-pie is far too much pie for one person, and fiddly to freeze. And so Mom got me a smaller pie pan ( Read more... )

Last year I bought three bags of candy, handed out double-candy to the few kids who showed up, and ended up with nearly all of it left over. (I ate the leftover Nerds myself, since I really like Nerds and only get them once a year, but the leftover gummy body parts went to my office, where they were a huge hit. Go figure ( Read more... )

It is sleeting. Sleeting. I expect this kind of thing from Upstate New York. Not from Boston ( Read more... )

Thing that doesn't make me decide to vote for a candidate: Robocalls ( Read more... )