Happy 2008, folks!

Lots of new pictures uploaded to my flickr account at http://flickr.com/photos/gypsyjolie for your perusal. Cats, crafts, Christmas, Wedding show, and snow. No, not the rest of New Orleans, but  maybe in two weeks when I get back from South Carolina. I will be in Myrtle Beach for a client conversion/installation from Jan 20th to ( Read more... )

The first of the New Orleans honeymoon pictures are up on my flickr site ( Read more... )

Since the honeymoon to New Orleans took a week out of my crafting timetable in my self-proclaimed All Handmade Christmas, I'm been running to catch up. Poor Liam has been a craft widower since we got home on Saturday night. However, I finished the last of the gifts last night in one big effort, and Liam wrapped them all. They are in a big gleaming ( Read more... )

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list. ( my list... )

To play this game, type "[your name] needs" into Google or any other search engine, and write down the first ten things that come up (or your ten favorites :) out of the results ( Read more... )

It's raining... again ( Read more... )

In this article on NPR about reading habits"A National Endowment for the Arts report found that only 57 percent of Americans had read a book in 2002 a four percentage-point drop in a decade. Book sales have been flat in recent years and are expected to stay that way for the foreseeable future ( Read more... )

Happiness is ( Read more... )

I'm finally back at work after Monday and Tuesday off, and am taking a quick break from wading through emails. I sprained my neck two days ago during a particularly agile bit of middle of the night migraine vomiting and so I'm not moving as well as I normally do yet. Sadly, I also managed to puke on the cat, who scooted under the bed in shock and ( Read more... )

Well lords and ladies - Happy Monday. I've been happy since last Thursday when my WW weigh in told me that I have lost 10.2 pounds, nearly 9 of those while I was in Michigan eating five pieces of wedding cake! I know it's silly but I was so motivated to hear that since it was a surprise. I had no idea if I had lost or gained weight. Goes to show ( Read more... )