A year ago rosepurr and thndrstd went to the Southern Festival of Books, and they told me it was awesome.  And then I bailed on going down on New Year's, because the roads sucked and I was tired whaa :)  So a few months ago I said "Sure, I think I might go down next time the Festival rolls around."  And then, despite the fact that I was dead tired from my first, crazy week of work...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul Rosepurr goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Druid. alstaria tricks you! You get a rock. big_biff gives you 6 yellow apple-flavoured gummy worms. cabell gives you 14 green watermelon-flavoured wafers. cafiorello gives you 6 white lime-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. cheerybeggar gives you 1 light blue cola-flavoured wafers. deepforestowl...

I've been really bad at these, so here's one massive birthday greeting! Happy Belated Birthdays to: braid_my_mer   scathedobsidian   asatomuraki   lightbringer42   britishcowgirl   ewok_626   goddess_of_art   setfiretolife   mummo74   leifvignirsson   pjhandley   cartoonmayhem   sanity_cheque   sparklymoon   amywedll...

Natal greetings to susanwrites and to thndrstd , who've both given me much to read and to think about in the book-world.

I have had this very journal since 2002, and it was the only time I have ever truly written. Except for all of the lab reports I had to turn in during college, which has so many red marks on it for grammar, it made me fear that I reached and encapsulated the limits of literary tedium. I knew I had it in me, and every week I worked at it, I stayed positive and let myself get creative - but I never...

thndrstd   recommended a website called www.sparkpeople.com from tracking calories. It has been eye-opening. Despite not feeling like I'm eating any less than usual (And despite going over the posted calorie limits twice), I lost another pound last week. I've also garnered further insights into my general eating habits. Note that these are true for me, and may not be for anybody else. - I...

Many thanks to jenelycam and prdct for the holiday cards!! Happy Birthday to roina_arwen ! Welcome to thndrstd , chazari and spiderandi ! Thank you to all who voted in the therealljidol poll , I actually placed first! I believe that never happened before, not even in season 3! I'm about to get back to comments, but currently I am...

thndrstd included this video in his LJ Idol entry and it just cracked me up! Another entry that made me laugh was this one, by bewize .