Happy Halloween

Well, tomorrow is the 35th anniversary of my baptism.
At any rate, I'm long overdue with a lot of stuff. Spent most of this past week sick, and that didn't help. But I had a major project taken off my lap at work, and that did help–they could see that I was kinda dying of exhaustion, [...]

Blanket in progress

This belongs on knitster, and I'll crosspost it there, but I'm making a blanket for my stepdaughter and I just wanted to share it with (a)Momcat and (b)my knitting/craft-oriented LJ friends.

Clicking on it will give you a large version of the picture.
PS Momcat… as DFH mentioned, I kinda want to surprise lil'D with the finished [...]

Another music note

You can tell I'm listening to the [internet] radio, can't you?
Paul Anka doing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is just plain wrong/catchy.

Random music observation

Yes, I still make them from time to time…
New Order's Morning Night and Day reminds me muchly of INXS' I Send a Message.

God money

So it turns out that most of my weblogs are pretty worthless, because most of them are f'only and I don't promote them. Knitster and deviathan are worth $1,129 each, but deviathan gets a bonus $500 or so from having more than one URL.
But my faith blog, on the other hand…

My blog is worth [...]

Cooking….

….Brunswick Stew!
It's missing something, and I don't know what. I mean, Brunswick is really the kind of stew that you can make however you want, seeing as Virgina and Georgia fight over custody of it, as long as it has tomatoes, corn, and baby limas or okra, but for the life of me I can't [...]

Foodage.

Hi. I'm craving pizza.
But I should mention I had this incredible couscous dish tonight at a potluck, and, having no idea who brought it, I don't know who to ask where they got it. (No comments from the peanut gallery on us bringing bought foods to a potluck. It's northern Virginia.)
Grumble. Can anything else go [...]

I did it.

Turns out that I either dropped a 1 from my meeting with Fr. Jim or he added one, but it seems that we just plain ol' miscommunicated last week and he had me down for 11 and I had him down for 1. I do believe that I am the one that screwed it up, [...]

You know that…

…you've been reading too many activist newsletters when you get your
news from the WNO* and think it's some kind of trade protest outfit
making another announcement.
* Washington National Opera

Oh! So that's the voice of God!

The lead headline on CNN right now is “Activists warn Bush to choose carefully.”
I'm picturing the dood from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade going, “He chose…poorly.”
Cause you know Bush and these fundie idiots are all about the golden, bejewelled cup fit for a king.
Assholes. You give God a bad name.

I guess I can't trade her in after all.

Cody is sitting in my lap and purring.
The camera is within reach, but its battery is not.

That vanity thing….

The more I look at pictures from last fall, the more I realize I look better in dark auburn.
and with bangs.
bleah.

No gloating

For all ye peeps who are dancing over Harriet Miers' withdrawal as a
Supreme Court nominee, why? Frankly, I'm terrified of what Bush'll
nominate next. On WTOP today, all they could talk about was how the
conservatives were up in arms about this nomination from the getgo,
and what with all the other disasters going on in the Republican
Party, [...]

Well that was not fun.

Cody has spent all day on the upstairs balcony. Of course I discovered this at 5:30.
I think I need to adopt her out. It's clear she wants to be an outside cat, or at least live somewhere else.
I don't know what to do with this. I can't let her back on the balcony again, [...]

Flu season has begun

This is purely a rhetorical question:
Why are we supposed to get plenty of fluids when we know they're all just going to run back out of our heads again?
Stayed home today. gurk.