With the luxury of an unscheduled morning, I dusted off the altar and kit candles/incense for prayers. Pulled some actual omens too!

First one out of the bag was Honeysuckle. Next, in a bundle of three (of course), were Oak, Willow, and Gooseberry. I think he is trying to be profound.

Oof. 14 hours after leaving the house this morning, I am standing at the counter to eat my dinner, while prepping coffee for tomorrow and chatting with kiddos about Homecoming, choreography, and marching band. Not every day is like this, thank heaven, but this is why I am not on LJ often enough anymore. Times will change...hope this is all here ( Read more... )

Well, no. Not really. I figured it was something with layers of meaning.

Three cheers for reliable getting-online tools again! My phone is cool for *reading* LJ, but not so much for posting. Hard to say how much I'll be posting but I sure missed having the option.

A month or so ago, my home laptop stopped wanting to believe in the internet. Like, I could open up Chrome or whatever (didn't matter which browse) and it'd look like I was there, and then I'd type "ww" to get somewhere. As soon as I typed the third "w," everything would just *blink* and be GONE. Very confusing, and not something I've had the ( Read more... )

I don't even know what to do with this delightful mystery ( Read more... )

In the last iteration of my "101 in 1001" goals, I wanted to take and share more pictures (especially with distant family). A cell phone that takes pictures and lets me email/post them immediately helped me succeed with that. But if we still lived in the days of having to bring a camera, remembering to take a picture, and then getting film ( Read more... )

I devoured two books this past week, both written by Guy Gavriel Kay: Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors. I think it's safe to say I'm officially on a binge, because I am now in search of every other book of his I can get my hands on. I'm a big fan of big, sweeping historical fantasy (analogue history?), and really groove on ( Read more... )

Out of the Dark, David Weber ( Read more... )

It's actually too soft to crack properly. I probably didn't keep it at the "hard crack" temperature long enough, or something. Very tasty, though...we'll probably keep this batch around the house as crumbly ice cream topping. We'll have to try again this afternoon. How awful. :)