I need to start writing down LJ usernames instead of thinking, “ZOMG! Elizabeth Moon! I must friend her from my writing-friends-journal!” and then failing to make a note of the name so later (like today) when I go to get around to it, I have no idea what username I’m looking for. And Tamora Pierce, too, she’s another one I noticed in the past few days. *mutter* My damned netbook needs a new power supply–the dongle that fits into the computer got damaged while we were moving–and I went into…
Yesterday my mother, who is wonderful, came over to sit on Young Indiana for a few hours so Ted and I could go to a movie. We had intentions of attending the high-brow film “The A-Team”, but were derailed by trying to buy the unlimited monthly passes, which, infuriatingly, took forty minutes and only scored us one. So we went to the even-higher-brow film “Predators”. I’d had no particular intention of seeing Predators, since 1. I’ve seen none of the previous films and don’t give a hoot about the franchise,…
success!
Well, the housewarming party was a huge success. We had a variety of international travelers, as and INSANELY AND WONDERFULLY popped over from England for the day, and was down from the North. And there were the various ex-pats living in Dublin who attended; people from America and Spain and France and Poland and Germany, plus a load of Dubs (and at least one Cork lass), so it was a genuinely international sort of event. It was like P-Con in our living room. :) We had about 25 or 30…
Housewarming Party
The housewarming party has already proven a success, as it has done precisely what it was intended to: caused us to get the rest of the house unpacked and sorted. My office is the only thing left that’s still really a disaster, and maybe I’ll be able to get it taken care of in the morning. Tomorrow’s menu is as follows: – hamburgers (we even have a few veggie burgers, for the vegetablearians) – hot dogs – macaroni salad – marinated vegetable salad – baked beans – cookies (chocolate chip,…
wow. cool.
The “Year of Miracles” commission is unexpectedly (to me, anyway) close to 175 donors, standing currently at 163, which is easily ten more than I thought might be achieved.There are 23 hours left. Will it make 175? Stay tuned to find out! Now I’m off to make about nine dozen cookies for dessert tomorrow. :)