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Hello! I haven’t written in quite a while because I’d decided to wait until I had something good to report, job wise. But it seems that I’ve vastly underestimated how long that would take, so here I am, breaking down and writing again to record my trip to Disney World:
( Part one of Maura’s Incredibly Long and Rambling Disney Travel Diary ) -
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Of all the weird things that Michael Jackson did in his life, dieing was by far the weirdest.
When I first heard that he had died, I had a moment of weird cognitive dissonance; it just didn’t click and I was sure I had misheard something. Eventually I realized that this was because I had come to mentally categorized Michael Jackson as a fictional character; it was as if someone had told me that James Bond or Robin Hood or The Pillsbury ( Read more... ) -
We made s’mores in the microwave and went to sleep!
Happy memorial day. I went to Cape Cod over the weekend; saw Alyssa (hi!) and attempted a couple times to do the family BBQ thing, but the weather was in a state of continuously threatening to become inclement (the Odin Son has no respect for American martial holidays, it seems). It will have to be postponed until the forth of July then; that’s the ( Read more... ) -
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Music Meme ( Read more... ) -
Free stuff on the internet
I have some coupons for a free month of Netflix for new members, good till June 15th. If anyone wants one, e-mail me. -
Strawberry Moon
I went to Cape Cod over the weekend, to visit my mother on Mother’s Day. On the drive up, The Moon was huge and yellow and Huge. It was so distracting that I had to pull over and look at it for a while before I could get back to driving with any confidence. You see, there’s some part of me that never really got used to the idea of the moon. Somehow ( Read more... ) -
Interesting Times Meme
I was talking to someone the other day about a book I was reading and we got into a discussion about the setting, and from there, about preferences for setting. It’s interesting, the way that people gravitate towards or romanticize/mythologize certain times/places, sometimes to the point that the setting becomes the genre; Westerns, for example. So ( Read more... ) -
Behold, the prophecy is fulfilled!!! My little baby cousin’s first ever little baby was just born!!
Yesterday I had hardly any extended family, and now I have a second cousin once removed! (I think) Even as I type, he’s less then a day old; he still has newborn-colored eyes and a piece of umbilical cord and (as it was a long birth; must send something nice to the new mother...) a slightly conical head. Aww, I really want to see him; I bet he’s a ( Read more... ) -
I’m awash in a sea of animals (But not fish. Or whales.)
Over Easter weekend, I went to my mother’s, stopping on the way to pick up Pat, Evelyn, and their new cat, Lexy (which is the only name on her adoption papers, but which is short for Lexington Horatio Feathersworth VonCat, at least so far as I’m concerned). She’s an adorable little kitten, and very personable, and, oddly enough, her markings are ( Read more... )