For a variety of reasons, I have decided to stop giving LJ my money, and also to scale down my use of the site pretty dramatically.  So I've cut my friends list down to the people I know in person (with one exception) who still use/might use their journals ( Read more... )

Just wanted a place to drop these.

( INFJ )

Ben Larson, a classmate of mine, is presumed dead in the Haiti quake.

He, his wife, and his cousin (really, they were more like brothers) were doing aid work in Haiti when the quake hit.  Jon and Renee are unhurt and coming home.  Ben's body has not been recovered but he was in a building that collapsed and they aren't holding out any hope, really, ( Read more... )

I was supposed to have Christmas dinner with my organist's family, but unfortunately the snow was such that driving, or even being driven, to a town fifteen minutes away just really did not sound like a good idea.  So I stayed home, instead, and made myself some pork chops on my new reversible grill/griddle that mom got me for Christmas.  I think ( Read more... )

Go to Urban Dictionary and look up your real answers to find the crazy answers!  I'm picking and choosing the good ones.

1.) Your name? Katie
A happy person who is a good listener and reliable friend. Likes to party and is always there when you need her.
A common name used in America and Canada. It comes from the greek Katharos meaning 'pure". ( Read more... )

My LJ is not the only online blog I have, I have another over on Dreamwidth which I use for other purposes. While over there today, I discovered that LJ is being stupid again, in a way not all that dis-similar to ways it has pissed off various people in the past. Like, for example, Strikethrough, where in an effort to delete any content which ( Read more... )