I did it! I did it! I mowed the grass! I got the thing to start after googling to see what I did wrong. Oh, and the first thing to come up on google under "start lawn mower" is a man who got arrested for shooting his lawn mower with a rifle because the engine wouldn't start. *grins* Anyway, apparently you're supposed to push that button on ( Read more... )

Okay, so I dragged the lawnmower out of the garage. I checked the oil. I gave it more gas. I thought "I can do this". And then, I pulled the rope-thing. And I pulled it. And I pulled it. The blasted thing won't start. It just sits there, mocking me, giving a little whirring noise every now and then to let me know it's laughing. Now my arm ( Read more... )

Okay, after a 22 hour nap, I feel much better. On to the report ( Read more... )

Home. Safe. Sick. Exhausted. Had a woooonderful time. Will post more later, after nap.

I went to a free concert by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra tonight. They played some of my old favorites, like "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony". That was fun because I'd never heard them live before. And then they played Barber's "Second Essay for Orchestra". Gorgeous. I had never heard it before. I ( Read more... )

I am really enjoying my dance class. I didn't expect to - I thought it was just a chance for me to extend a bit and be brave. But dancing is a lot of fun. It's fast becoming one of my favorite parts of the week.

So here I sit. I'm in the study of my grandparents' house (the Alabama ones). I came with my parents to visit until Sunday. Long trip, which means...books! I brought along two Dan Brown books - I'm in the middle of one about a cryptographer. I also brought a book about a girl in boarding school who wants to be an aeronautical engineer, one ( Read more... )

Sometime during Christmas vacation, I happened to see the movie "Enchanted". And I decided right there, in the midlee of the movie, to try to tackle making this dress for Dragon*Con:


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Sunburned sunburned sunburned sunburned sunburned. Sunburned shoulders and sunburned nose. Sunburned back, sumburned stomach. Is there anywhere I'm not sunburned?

I went to the pool today! It was lovely. I swam for an hour, so I feel strangely exercised, along with being all fresh and chloriney. Then we (Mom, Dad, and me) worked on my kitchen floor some more. The middle's done - we're working on cutting tiles for the edges. Harder than it looks. Anyway, got a lot done. I think one or two more days ( Read more... )