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Enter to win a pair of American Duchess Nankeen boots. I love her shoes and her website:

http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/2014/02/nankeen-regency-boots-giveaway.html

(used her toutorial for my petticoat)

I want to rant about this but it's not socially acceptable for me to say to anyone. This applies to people coming to my house ( Read more... )

Starting a blog. I think the Internet needs comprehensive reviews of the Fandemonium Stargate novels, so that is what I'm doing. I'm starting with the ones I've read recently, but I will go back to the older ones ( Read more... )

Going crazy trying to identify a tree with palmate venation, 5 lobes, alternate arrangement. Not a sycamore, not a sweet gum, not an oak or maple. It must be rare or exotic because I just can't find it!

Also trying to identify some tiny bugs...

What is it about having the bass really loud when playing music in your apartment? What do you possibly get out of that? And why would anyone want to listen to music so loudly that it is a little uncomfortable just being in the stairwell ( Read more... )

I feel like maybe I'm still dreaming? Yelled at by a valet for not being able to reverse into a parking space behind a poll. Then, about to cross the street with a green light and a walk signal, when a bus runs the light. Then a second bus ran the light, too. Just right across the intersection...

So I once tried to teach myself to read Old English by reading a side by side translation of Beowulf, and it was pretty fun; knowing some German helped a bit ( Read more... )

Weird, the Netflix streaming version of Firefly (Train Job specifically) is some Fox version, with a summary in front. Feels so awkward. So this is what people first saw? Just coming in abruptly...

Let me just say that Homecoming, vol. 1 of the Legacy series of Stargate Atlantis books, is making me really happy!