baklava!

O.M.G. I sent my friend Marc some fudge in December because, er, well, frankly, he made it easy by just posting his address on one of the pictures of fudge I’d posted, and it amused me, so, fudge. I just got the same container back in the mail, except now it was filled with Marc’s baklava. Let me explain this to you: Marc’s baklava is to regular baklava what my fudge is to regular fudge. I got the package and was all like “Oh huh, mail from Marc, maybe he…

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Zen Master

Kitsnaps: Zen Master

Zen Master: the August picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar. I actually have quite a few good orangutan pictures, almost none of which I’ve posted. But once I’m done with the calendar images I’m going to try to, er, post not-animals for a while, so there may not be any orangutans to show off despite having good pictures of them. :)

a quoteable morning

It’s been a pretty quoteable morning around here. First my son and I were playing superheroes and he said to me, “Who is in that Iron Man armor?” I said, “Tony Stark, and he, quite reasonably, wanted to know who Tony Stark was. I said, “A philanthropist playboy billionaire genius.” Young Indiana said, “Like me?” Just like you, honey. Just like you. <3 :) Then over on Twitter, Alastair Reynolds (‏@AquilaRift), whom I like a lot as both a writer and a person, said, for some reason, that he won…

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Bongo

Kitsnaps: Bongo

Bongo: the July picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar. At Christmas when I gave these calendars out, one of my friends said, in astonishment, “Catie, where have you *been* that you’ve gotten all these amazing pictures of exotic animals?” I was all like, “…the zoo…? :)” and she was like I MUST GO TO THE ZOO! :)

Tortoise

Kitsnaps: Tortoise

Tortoise: the June picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar. Frankly, my favourite thing about doing my own calendar is that I get to choose my favourite picture to put on my birthday month. My mother thought I was totally bonkers when I mentioned that to her, but in general I’ve found that June’s picture in a calendar tends to be kind of crap, so I get a lot of satisfaction from using one I really love. :)