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tree crits house for x$000
For friends who aren't following me on Facebook, we had a Derecho storm (that's like a tornado except it's a straight line) through our area and we were badly hit. A tree got thrown onto my roof and punctured the roof in 7 places. Roofer is telling us that we will absolutely need a complete new roof, and also that the wooden underlayer to our roof ( Read more... ) -
Happy Yule!
Hail to all of my friends on the Longest Night, may the returning light of the new year bring better tidings to all of us ( Read more... ) -
killing the Big Bad
Here's a fiction question for you all: When, after the long wait and confrontations with lesser villains, you finally get the big climactic confrontation against the Big Bad, how much does it matter to you how it dies ( Read more... ) -
REVIEW: A Dance With Dragons
Haven't posted anywhere in a million years, hopefully this will change.
Warning: Some of this is spoilery.
I like GRRM for his systematic demolishing of fantasy tropes that really, when you think about it (if you think about it) don't make a lot of sense. This remains, IMO, this book's best strength. ( So here's the scoreboard, as I see it ) -
soldier PTSD ad
I saw an ad for the Wounded Warrior Project on my TV tonight, with a soldier who lost an arm in the war talking about his PTSD and "don't suffer in silence" as a slogan ( Read more... ) -
Reeeeeeeach!
wabbitseason couldn't make the Ren Faire last weekend, so we went out and got Reach instead. New canon, squee! Have done the first two campaign missions so far and a ton of solo and co-op Firefight. So if you're playing, please don't spoil me with anything about the campaign past the meeting with Halsey (Halsey! In game! And she's completely badass ( Read more... ) -
Ugh.
"Eat Pray Love" is now a movie, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. And "from the creator of Glee", how completely not surprising. One of my least favorite books in the world becomes a movie from the person responsible for my single least favorite scripted show in the world ( Read more... ) -
hi, new people!
Here, have a cupcake icon. :)
So... about the post I made earlier tonight... rants that build up over months come out even rantier than I usually am, I'm not usually *quite* that bad, I don't think...
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Pagan tithing
(A friend on Facebook put up a really interesting post on tithing, and she linked to the article I'm about to address in it. I wish I could address and link to her post, but proper blogging etiquette is to give a linkback in that post to here, so that she and her commenters, if they wish, can comment here. But I really, REALLY do not want this ( Read more... )
