I've been making an angry bird for Qualapec's mom, and now I'm posting the pics with permission.


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I was just asked earlier this week to be presiding judge in my county's school board elections in a few weeks ( Read more... )

I've done a lot of crocheting since I fell off the map with last semester and getting sick with every non-serious respiratory infection ever.

Even better, I remembered to take pictures of some of them. So here's a picspam of my work!


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Ear infections suck.

So, in the interest of keeping me from doing anything self-destructive until Sailor Rhea gets here, I'm going to do something meme-like.

Recommend something to me. Anything at all. Comics, tv shows, movies, books, music, food, alcohol, anything you can think of.

I'm back! For real this time!

(There. Now Qualapec has no new reasons to kill me.)

My sister flew in from Iowa on the evening of day two. She got to the hotel while the rest of us were having dinner with our adoptive uncle and his ailing father. By the time jiejie actually found us, Grandpa was in the middle of driving ima into the nearest bar by being confused about rooming arrangements on the boat and by having run down his ( Read more... )

(I'm back from my very, very good book, which I'll talk about later ( Read more... )

Life is being put on hold for a few days while I read The Far West by Patricia C Wrede, the final book in the Frontier Magic series.

I just got it this evening, and holy mother of Glob is it amazing.

Go out and buy this series, people!

I'm starting my retelling of the week-and-a-half from hell at the beginning, which was, of course, well before we ever got out of the house. I wouldn't call this the planning stage, as I was left firmly out of that, except for when I was asked if I'd hypothetically like to go with most of the family to Alaska at some distant point in the future ( Read more... )

So, I recently spent a week and a half out of town without a computer. (Yes, I realize that my absence from lj has been much longer, but before this I was busy learning calculus.) For a week of that time, I was on a cruise to Alaska with my ima, siblings, grandparents and an adoptive uncle and his aging father. For the rest of that time, I was in ( Read more... )