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Amazing Cake!!
Watching the Food Network tonight with the kiddos we saw 'Horror Cakes." We love creepy things and Halloween around here. Check out the awesomeness of this confectionery creation! Can you see the evil cupcakes at the bottom eating the chef's hand??
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LJ Idol Season 8, Week 1, "When you pray, move your feet"
“Spend all your time waiting for that second chance, for the break that’ll make it ok…”
The early morning light was just beginning to change from grey to pink when the call came.
Buried in the comforter, dog curled at my feet, I was sleeping the sweet sleep of the one who gets to stay in bed longer. The one who has drifted gratefully back to ( Read more... ) -
Weekend Fun, Weekend Done
Had a crazy full weekend. Three days of autumn frolicking because the kiddos were on fall break.
Friday, I started my name change process.
*Picked up my marriage license (I guess the official gold seal they stick on the front is worth the $21? I dunno. It wasn't THAT fancy a sticker.)
*Headed to the DMV (45 minutes of thumb twiddling to change my name ( Read more... ) -
Here we GO!
Looks like it's that time again...
Strapping on my safety helmet and big girl panties to be a contestant on The Real LJ Idol again, woot! -
Game of Thrones
I think reading George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones is getting to me ( Read more... ) -
Paid in Full
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LJ Idol Season 6 - Week 1 - Empty Gestures
The bus stop was just two houses down from mine ( Read more... ) -
It Is Undeniably...
...that time again!
What's the buy-in this hand, Gary? I'm gonna play LJ Idol! -
LJ Idol Week 25 - Stuck With Luddites Again
Last week, I died.
While my children slept, wrapped in fluffy, soft dreams of cotton candy innocence, I invited a man into my home. A man who wasn’t my husband. Leery at first to take the risk, I had asked him not to come over several times, but finally acquiesced, expecting nothing more than some polite companionship on a lonely evening. My ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol - Week 24 - Auguries
The priestess stood on a hill. Tendrils of dark hair, loosely bound in a braid, whirled about her face as she scanned the sky.
No birds today. Not a single sparrow, swallow, certainly none of the majestic eagles that would please her Caesar.
An ornithomancer, she had spent the morning preparing for divination, wandering the Forum Boarium to find the ( Read more... )
