I haven't posted much on lj for a while. Facebook has sucked me in. Today, out of the blue, I checked out my lj and all of the color and formatting was just gone. It was just white with black text. Very strange. Fortunately I had a screen shot of my custom color selections, and I was able to put it back to my old scheme ( Read more... )

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I read in the news today about a boy in Florida who had been set on fire by three other boys. The victim is 15, two of the attackers are 15 and the other is 16. The three attackers are being tried as adults for attempted murder. I do think it counts as attempted murder and it's pretty horrible, but it infuriates me that 15 year olds are only ( Read more... )

I think I'm in the bonding process with my new bellydance costume and making it really mine. It's a beautiful Hanan bra and belt set in irredescent sage with copper, green and gold beading. ( Read more... )

So I went to my friend Amy's shower this weekend, and she got a GORGEOUS china pattern. I forget the brand, but I think it's called "antique jeweled" or something and it's very Renaissance-ish and ornate, in a steel blue color ( Read more... )

Sean really wants a 3GS Iphone. Anybody know of any great deals or discounts?

Starting yesterday morning I've been trying a wheat free diet - just for the hell of it. About a year ago Suhaila found out she had a wheat alergy and stopped eating wheat, and afterward she lost weight, had more energy, and had less bloating in her stomach after she ate. I've noticed myself getting a distended stomach sometimes if I eat a bunch ( Read more... )

For my birthday Sean's getting me a Mac Pro-Palette Eye Shaddow X 15 set! It's a compact (though not very compact) with 15 shades of eye shaddow in it. And I get to pick all of them! SQUEE ( Read more... )

When you're a kid you grow up around other kids. For the most part they usually had two parents, and other than teachers - whose private lives must naturally resemble that of all others, you rarely saw any other adults. So the assumption that I had growing up was that all adults had children, or if they were older adults, grandchildren ( Read more... )

The costume maker has gotten back to me and offered to replace my two wrong-sized skirts with new ones. Yay!