I recently wrote that I was excited about attending the MotorCity Buffy Con. Sarah and I went and had a fabulous time. I wrote about our experience at the TWoP website. To my surprise, I had an interesting response to my posts. If you haven't seen it already (I know many of you already read TWoP), here is the link. Keep reading to the next page ( Read more... )

The oldest HomeDaughter and I are going to the MotorCity Buffy Con this coming weekend. I've never been to this type of convention before and I'm not sure what to expect. The HomeDaughter is so excited. She has been saving her babysitting and gift money to buy a ticket (wow, they are expensive!). She's even treating me to a ticket to the Common ( Read more... )

My fourteen year old daughter took a multiple choice career placement test at school and the form listed potential careers given the interests she indicated. The third career listed for her was "pharmacologist" and I immediately thought of Spectralbovine. I don't lend too much credence to this test, however, because her best friend checked off on ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was walking by several stores on my way to Target. Ahead of me was a teenager in very "punk" clothing, which is unusual to see in the pretty staid suburban Detroit area where I was shopping. He was wearing tight black clothing with a band logo I didn't recognize, black lace-up boots, lots of chains, and a mohawk haircut with long ( Read more... )

I am a word nerd. I love words. I love when people put words together and they flow beautifully. I love clever lyrics and wordplay. I'm not bad at it, but I wish I were better. I love rhyming. I am the person who writes rhymes for family members at special birthdays and weddings. I always send out holiday cards with news about our family in ( Read more... )

I've never done anything like this before. Writing a journal seems weird. But, I wanted to join up so that I could add comments to other people's journal entries. So now if they happen to link back to me, there won't be a blank page staring them in the face, just random, stupid ramblings ( Read more... )