So much travel! cutenyeboi and I have been here for a week now. Since we're ensconced in Haifa, Israel at the moment with access to wireless where we're staying, I figured an update was in order. Let's see... I'll try this in linear time, but I expect to be diverted by some rants along the way ( Read more... )

This is the only one of the seven that sounds funny when you say it. "Gluttony" sounds positively retro when I hear it, like it's the middle ages and someone's shouting at you for eating all the rat and turnip soup in the monastery. It's kind of funny how this is more broadly about guilty pleasures in the meme than food. I have no shortage of ( Read more... )

Mmm, greed. I'm no Gordon Gekko, but neither am I a guilty white liberal who is thoroughly and unreasonably convinced that all corporatist greed is bad. Like all things, moderation is called for... but how can one differentiate the desire to acquire more and be successful from greed? Scale certainly matters... I don't need ALL THE THINGS, but ( Read more... )

Yeah... not very difficult to find things that I don't do. Let's see if I can complete this post, considering more than half the posts I've started in the last couple of years have been exiled to "Private (Just Me)" LJ purgatory. Of course, I'm enjoying doing this series so far and that should help keep me active on this until I get distracted by ( Read more... )

This may be the easiest to come up with... but it has not been easy being honest about the things that make me angry. I keep my mouth shut a lot more than it seems, since I'm usually rambling about an opinion I have or the like... but the things that really annoy me that I don't have the power to change? I don't bring it up much. It's ( Read more... )

Ah, envy.

Day 1 - Pride. Seven great things about yourself.
Day 2 - Envy. Seven things you lack and covet.
Day 3 - Wrath. Seven things that piss you off.
Day 4 - Sloth. Seven things you neglect to do.
Day 5 - Greed. Seven worldly material desires.
Day 6 - Gluttony. Seven guilty pleasures.
Day 7 - Lust. Seven sex secrets.

Envy:
( Not as easy as I thought it would be to come up with seven... )

It's been awhile since I tackled a meme. The lovely and talented archanglrobriel took this one on and tossed it around like the awesome predator that he is... and I've been looking for reasons to post more.

Therefore, I bring you over the next several* days a series of statements about our good friends, the deadly sins.

Day 1 - Pride. Seven great things ( Read more... )

Here's hoping this isn't another post that ends up with most of the others, in the great "half-finished, private setting" box. Because, yeah... that's where the majority of my rants end up these days.

Apparently we're having Christmas at our house this year. I knew this was an inevitable consequence of owning my own house, but the reality really ( Read more... )

What a month; what a two+ month period, I suppose, since my last update was after the epic three day weekend at the beginning of September.
( I thought about leaving this uncut, since it includes Canadians... )

Wow. Summer 2010 is on notice. This endless parade of suffering around me must cease, or we will have to return to the milder seasons. It's more galling because, well, I'm kind of having an awesome summer full of wonderful things but there are demons gnawing at the world around me. Very displeased, all things be told ( Read more... )