I am happy to report a successful trip to Goodwill, where I acquired a dress, a skirt, a set that isn't really a pantsuit but that's the closest description for it, capris, and two more pairs of pants appropriate for work (at least for business casual ( Read more... )

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I am considering the distinct possibility that I may be crazy.  At the very least, it's a severe case of helium hand.  Is that curable?

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme:
1) bold those you have tried
2) strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet.
2a) Italicize any item you'll never eat again.
2b) Asterisk any items you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.

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This has been running through my head since I got back from war...
Ask me how do I feel
Ask me now that we're cosy and clinging
Well sir, all I can say, is if I were a bell I'd be ringing!

From the moment we kissed tonight
That's the way I've just gotta behave
Boy, if I were a lamp I'd light
And If I were a banner I'd wave!

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This Sunday, August 17, I need assistance moving furniture from Oxford to Forest Park.  We will be mustering at 11 am at Nico and Judith's home in Oxford and moving things to my new home just outside Forest Park.  Larger vehicles (vans and pick-up trucks) would be most useful, as I have already moved most of my smaller boxes.  Please contact me for ( Read more... )

Part of the reason I have been worried so much about getting my furniture in and set up is because it has suddenly dawned on me how busy I'm about to be, and my home will be a mess if I don't get things set up before then.  Saturday is gaming, and then Sunday is the Great Furniture Move.  I want to get as much set up as possible that week, ( Read more... )

Mwahaha!  We have brought someone else over to the Dark Side (or the time suck that is LJ).  And we didn't even have to offer Dmitrii cookies.

It's hard to post much that seems that exciting the week after Pennsic.  I am back at work, unburying myself from the mountain of customer emails, most of which have already been dealt with but were left in my inbox in an effort to confuse me.  Or something.  Other than the customer emails, I will be largely caught up by the end of the day.   Today ( Read more... )

Dmitri (SCA name, mka Mike, for those of you still catching up at home) is a brave, brave man.  We are discussing the travel arrangements so that he can accompany me to Mom's wedding.  After me asking "are you SURE?" a few times and providing the summary lists of each family members' neuroses (and a few psychoses), he's still in.