This coming week, mme_printed and her boyfriend are heading to New Orleans for a long weekend / mini vacation.  Well-traveled though they are, they've never been to the most special American city.  It's been 3 years since I left, but I cobbled together a list of recommendations off the top of my head.  After emailing it, I decided to repost it here to see if ( Read more... )

I think this is the longest I've ever gone without posting since I started this LiveJournal back in December 2001.  Last I posted was April 30th.  April thirtieth!!  That's six weeks ago.

Just so you know, I haven't died.  I've been just fine. The fact is that I discovered 750words.com and have been using that quite diligently.  So to me, it ( Read more... )

Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas (Community) may be the best Christmas episode of any show ever.

The Christmas train's speeds are Aloof, Detached, Distant, and Bjork.  How can you not love that?

"There's nothing to do now but heal -- and share the experience with as many reputable journals as possible."

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There are very few things I hate more than chopping onions.  I would clean toilets all day to not have to do it.  My eyes are so sensitive.  You know how you maybe tear up a little and your eyes sting when you chop an onion?  That's what happens to me when I put on moisturizer with sunscreen in it.  Chopping an onion, even with sunglasses on and ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of when Katrina made landfall.  Today is the five-year anniversary of the levee breaches from the storm surge.

On Friday, I was thinking back to where I was five years ago - remembering that crazy morning when Sean woke me up from my intense hangover with a phone call.  I thought he was crazy when he told ( Read more... )

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I'm back from Vacation 1 (and have been back for a week), and it was delightful.  But at the moment, I'm tired and feel some numbered paragraphs of randomness coming on. . .

1. My father and brother played 63 holes of golf today, breaking their previous single-day record.  They are INSANE, but apparently, very pleased with themselves.
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