Today is shaterri 's birthday. Steve is one of my very best friends in the whole world and I completely adore him. This is fact, not hyperbole. I wanted to do something very public and very cheesy for his birthday, so I came up with the following: A nime - I've done a terrible job of watching the ones he's sent me, but shaterri always recommends terrific ones for me to watch...

Hi all-- I know there are some foodies on my friend list...and some of them even visit central Florida. (I'm looking at you, chipotle , bard_bloom , and beetiger .) achariya and wuxiadaddy are starting an Orlando blog with a focus on food. Foodiness? Is that even a word? You should all read their blog and then come visit me. Yes, I have ulterior motives...

I'm up at nearly five-thirty in the morning with a bad case of insomnia. Part of it's worrying about Nancy. Part of it's a desperately-needed 6pm-9pm fatigue-crash nap that reset my sleep clock. Part of it's the realization that there's something more to say here, a post that I've been turning over for months, in part without realizing what the post would actually say. It's a post about why I'm not...

Happy Chanukah everyone! (And happy sun returning!) In our book for home services, there's a different meditative line for each day of lighting the candles. I thought I would write a bit about each one. Technically today is the second day of Chanukah, so I'll do two today and hopefully one each day after. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. This quote reminds me of the...

I've wanted to write in here and suffered from the feeling that I just don't have anything to say. So here's a meme that addresses both of those points - it gives me something to write about, and it also forces me to be more positive about myself and my contributions. Win-win. :-) From Jessie, whose LJ name I'm spacing on at the moment. *** The point of this meme is that you can't say one bad thing...

I learned to hate the gifted program when I was in sixth grade. Oh, I liked some things about it...I liked effectively missing a day of school, though the make-up work was always a pain. Classes were offsite, and I liked the bus ride midmorning, which felt like an adventure each Thursday, no matter how many times I'd made the trip. I liked the giant brick building where we had classes with its large...