It's been just shy of a year since my last post. Years ago, I learned that when I'm in states of calm, my rabid "writer's block" takes over. Put another way, I just don't live in my head as much. I live my life. And that's what I've been doing. Occasional ups and downs? Yes. But nothing noteworthy enough to find its way magically to a monitor near ( Read more... )

Questioning and, better yet, CORRECTING my grammar corrections is SO a bad idea ( Read more... )

Sorry, I just found this really sweet: Aplets & Cotlets official candy?

I'm somehow just tickled by the thought of a showdown between Aplets & Cotlets and Almond Roca.

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OK, so I've spent the better part of the last seven hours being exceptionally bored, save for the approximate hour -- broken into 10-minute scattered intervals -- of QCing calendar ( Read more... )

Because I haven't done one in, like, forever, and it's from my sis.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper mostly, except for the cookies.
2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial, although I really miss the heavenly scent of pine
3. When do you put up the tree? The day after Thanksgiving, yo!
4. When do you take the tree down? The day after New ( Read more... )

I just received the following from the UW English Department ( Read more... )

Joey and I are married.

Doesn't that just totally kick ass?

The wedding stuff is coming along swimmingly. I'm all kinds of ready for the I-do's on Sunday. Sure, we have yet to make the pine cone garlands we're decorating with, and we're procrastinating jointly over the vows, but that stuff will get done. I'm the master procrastinator, after all. It may be zero hour minus two minutes when I'm finished, but ( Read more... )

Two things of note today:

I used Access for the first time. I don't know what the hell I did or what the point of Access is in the first place, since I was just following directions, but I used it. I'm *this* close to having all the skills necessary to be a receptionist. Sweet!

OK, that was sarcasm. Admittedly, I've always been a little annoyed ( Read more... )

So, did we or didn't we?

Pakistan.

Bombs.

My brain keeps going *cough*Cambodia*cough*

That's the knee-jerk of it anyway.

Feeling very ... needy.

Think it has something to do with a want for something utterly life-affirming.

And the fact I'm reading "Love in the Western World," a treatise on passion/courtly love versus church/marital love.

And that I didn't like the answer to light-hearted albeit loaded question I posited last night.

A scene from BtVS keeps repeating in ( Read more... )