I took Ben to see his girlfriend, and I may have feels about the fact that she mostly comes to see other people and he's incidental, but it makes him happy, so I shut up.  To him, anyway.  I think he deserves better, I think he deserves to be the main attraction for his partners when they're visiting the area, I think the fact that I have to drive ( Read more... )

• Great art supply stores.  I am very loyal to mine.  I walked in, yet again, and told them what I wanted and what my budget was, and the found a way to make all of those dreams come true.  I don't know if they recognize me or anything, I think this is just really amazing customer service...from people who are used to scatter-brained artists.  (In ( Read more... )

I've been contemplating the whole "the men who almost broke me" series, and considering talking about all of them, but you know?  A lot of them didn't.  Or if they did, I can't find the cracks anymore.  Some of them just don't...count.

There was one guy who could have, but A) the relationship sort of died in a pathetic, whiny gasp, and B) I don't ( Read more... )

I'm finally watching Jupiter Ascending.  I had to wait for people who didn't want to watch it to go to bed.  Unfortunately, that also means that the dishwasher's running and ruining the ambience, but oh, well.  (It is not ruining the ambience, it is simply making it impossible to hear.  Also I moved over to the other couch and that's going to screw ( Read more... )

• Much anticipated stuff from the library! Ursula Vernon's Harriet the Invincible, Hamster Princess.  It had 12 holds on it before I got on the list.  (You'd think this library would recognize that pretty much every kid in there, and not a few adults, are reading her books, because every one of them has about a 3 month wait, and therefore they'd buy ( Read more... )

Watching Exorcismus, a nice British possession/exorcism film.  I am a big fan of both the demon possession and hauntings subgenres of horror, and this one's fun.  It's British, so it uses completely different musical cues and stylistic choices, and thus surprises you a bit.  It's rare that I'm surprised anymore.  I still love the journey, but it's ( Read more... )

The last one went so well, here's some more intimate details about me!  (I'm feeling expansive.  Just go with it.  I'm likely to crawl back into my little shell again soon enough.)  And fair warning, most of today's links are NSFW.

( Another Guy Who Broke Me )

• When you open up on something that has the potential to be painful*, and people are so, so decent about it, it almost makes you cry.
• When you open up about that thing and then you get a bunch of emails from people who are supportive and/or sharing similar experiences, and you feel less alone.
• Surprise invitations to things I'm not interesting in ( Read more... )

( Well, that explains a lot... )

I've been thinking of putting my magic-y stuff on canvas.  I need a localized, central place to do it all, and I like the idea of having a permanent, ever-changing road map of the stuff I've done.  Kind of like those Chianti bottles with the wax spilling down the sides, but in this case pooled on canvas with herbs and stuff embedded in.  Forgetting ( Read more... )