If I’d Got Christmas Cards or The Last Blast of Christmas

As today is my birthday, it is also the last day I’ll listen to Christmas/holiday music until Thanksgiving. And while I didn’t get to sending out Christmas cards this year, if I had I would have probably used one of these photos from the Hubble website. This one is probably my favorite: I’ll be spending the [...]

Forever Fifteen

The other book I listened to on my trip back and forth to Indy at Thanksgiving (now you know how long I’ve been working on this draft) was the Podiobooks.com release of Forever Fifteen by Kimberley Steele. I’m not a huge vampire fanatic by any means—this might even be the first vampire related novel I’ve [...]

And So Begins 2009

My family and I didn’t ring the new year with much fanfare. Just stayed home, hung out and did puzzles. We did watch the New York City ball drop coverage via our snazzy HDTV-to-analog TV converter thingy, though. I don’t generally do the “new year’s resolutions” thing, but it is a good time to try [...]

Christmas Crazy

In honor of today being the Winter Solstice and because Burgh Baby said I should and because she is doing a link-up of some of the various crazy Christmas decoration displays around, I present you a link to the Christmas Crazy that I ran across a few days ago. Most people will only have one [...]

Friday 5 — Childhood Indulgences

This week’s Friday 5 assumes that most of us haven’t quite completely grown up or at least occasionally do childish things. 1. When did you last have a mid-day nap? That would be last Sunday afternoon. It’s a nice time to catch up a bit on sleep over the weekend. 2. When did you last have milk and [...]