This is a scan from an actual published fantasy book. It's the best purple prose ever, and I AM DEAD. Please read. Safe for work. I have a cable box now and I set up all my season passes and so I have shiny tv and I am in love with my shiny tv and right now I am watching the most recent ep of Real H...

Saw the Watchmen last night. Watchmen + Imax = LOVE. I love imax theaters, it's so crystal clear that I don't need to wear my glasses! But what I love more is the imax trailers. It was a packed house, and they had us vote how which movie should be shown next at this imax theater. I voted for Star Tr...

My kids are going to kill me for what I’ve done to their spring break. A week from tomorrow we will be heading to Greece. A few days ago I scoured the internet looking for tickets that would get us to the Galapagos Islands  and somehow ended up with tickets to Athens. Sorry, giant tortoise, m...

Some days I can't even understand my own mood swings or the situations that lead up to those mood swings. I lash out at the world when my hour is at its worst, only to see it reverse itself the very next day in a series of events that are nothing short of miraculous. If anything, it is the events li...

I hate to do this to people, but it has to be done.Thanks to Livejournal's rude messaging system, I'm sure you'll already know if you have been removed from my friends list. Please understand that there are no hard feelings from my part and no one did or said anything to make me not like you. We jus...

2009 has been a rough year so far. I've held off on making any emotional, depressed, "woe is me" posts, but I just need to say my piece so I can start the process of moving forward. I've had a rough time with the "Holiday Season" since my grandmother passed away in 1994. Every year I tell myself tha...

Yes, it's Friday the Thirteenth. And not just this month, but next month too. It won't be a particularly happy one round these parts, but not for what you might think is the obvious reason. This evening at church we have a memorial service for a parishioner, John, who succumbed to brain cancer three...

I was reading Marc’s latest post in which he talks about the fact that people now describe him as being clever.  Clever is one of those subjective concepts that’s difficult to pin down.  What does it actually mean? My niece thinks that clever people are the ones she can’t underst...

Beldin: I had Golden Grahams for breakfast. There was a little zebra car toy thingie in the box, a tie-in to Madagascar 2 —I opened the box (it was new) and the little toy popped right out, a bit of a surprise for so early of a morn. Bug: Weird.. you mean they don't bury the toys at the bottom of ...

Ed and I took Sam and Ben to see Graham after lunch today.  He was eating Kentucky Fried Chicken his Aunt Carol brought him.  He was going to save the lunch we brought him for later.   While we were there the Physical Therapist came in and got him up.  The boys and I le...