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( Citrus Trio Butter Dipping Cookies )

( Cinnamon-Spiced Hot Chocolate Cookies )

Computer broke down in October. Monitor broke down in November. Mom's TV? Is starting to break down in December. Oi. I just can't catch a break.

( Hazelnut-Chocolate Linzer Cookies )

Oops. Sorry I'm so late. Shopping today, and then the wind blew my garbage can into the next county just about and I had to go traipsing after it.

( The Neelys' Butter Cookies )

Title: Again
Author: irana
Pairing: Snape/Neville
Rating: Smut
Wordcount: 614
Summary: Neville finds himself serving detention with Snape once more.
AN: So, I was in the mood for abuse of authority smut, and I thought about the last bit I wrote for the_minx_17 and decided to write another in the same vein. You can find it here if you want to read it. No beta so you spot something let me know.

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Two weeks left in the semester, going crazy.

Finished up the latest image for my regular illustration gig. I sketched to celebrate.

( Gundam Wing - Heero - Accidental Hipster )

( Dried Cherry and Almond Cookies with Vanilla Icing )

Well, it's that time of year again. The Twelve Days of Cookies Newsletter is here!



( Gingerbread Cookies for the Holidays )

On BDSM, Part IV, FINAL

I'm both encouraged and impressed by the amount of dialogue these posts have opened. I know I've disseminated a lot of information, and I know it can be a lot to take in. I also want to thank Minxie for the information she's shared, as well as thank all the people who have weighed in on this topic by commenting on the other posts. This one will be the last of this series of metas, and I do hope they've been helpful.

( Limits… )

Just back from the kids. We were going to put up their tree but it's fubar. pluged it in and nothing. Ditched it. They came over to get my tree so they could get it up before DIL has to go back to work. Darrell took one look at my 9' tall 64" across tree and just said, "No way. No room. Sorry."

They'd already carried the top two sections up the stairs from the basement so Jack carried the last section up and it's in the living room. Yay!!!

I usually have to wrestle it up the stairs myself. I sadly realized that my back just isn't up to it anymore, so I was going to give them that tree and I bought a smaller one I could handle.

Jack asked why I didn't put the tree in my back closet instead of dragging it up and down the basement stairs. I said, "You said all Christmass stuff has to be in the basement." And he said, "That was stupid of me, put it in the closet." So, in the closet it will go.

The kids will get the smaller tree I just ordered. So everyone is happy. Yay! again.

Well, Thanksgiving is over and I have oodles of new Christmas icons to play with, thanks to TooCuteIcons. She posed 300 icons yesterday so if you need holiday icons, that's where to find some. So it's time to start posting cookies!



( Spice Sugar Cookies )

I'm so far behind on reading it's not even funny. I read fast, but not this fast.

I'll catch up eventually but I'm only going to leave a really short comment as that is what takes me forever. So, if all you get is 'great job' I'm sorry. But I have 52 tabs open in LJ alone. Yikes!

Between Thanksgiving, my birthday and getting ready for my book binding class, time is of the essence. However, the class isn't going to happen. The people who sponsor the class didn't get the papers ordered in time. *sigh* Oh, well, that just gives me more time to read. I just rescheduled the class for January.

It's SNOWING! First snowfall of the year. It's not sticking to the ground much, but it's snowing! YAY!


Yeah, yeah, by February I'll be sick of it but right now, YAY!

We went down to Salinas to J's sister's new place, and holy crap is it huge. It's got a nifty layout, and infinitely more space than their old house. We hadn't seen Natalie since before she was walking so it took a while for her to stop giving J and I the suspicious eye, but by the end of the night it was lots of carry-me arms, and where Sophie is usually all about her Uncle J, somehow this time I ended up with her hanging on me more often than not. I suspect it was that I was wearing a pink shirt so that boosted my coolness rating. It's interesting to see the ways her personality has changed now that she's a big sister. Sometimes I wish we lived a bit closer in order to visit more often.

Anyway, we hung out, ate food, played with dolls, tried to devise a plan to steal their adorable pug, and at the end of the evening I got the bonus of belated b-day gifts. See subject. I have also increased my fuzzy scarf collection by one, so I should probably put out some of the ones I don't wear often out onto the curb.

The drive was nice, and J and I talked a lot about the ways in which we'd like to focus on our projects for school and general creative things. I'm back to having a solid idea of where to go with my current assignments so I'm feeling very rejuvenated about them. Which is good, as I need to be doubly-focused this weekend, since I didn't actually get any extra days off, and the lab is closed tomorrow which is typically my dedicated time to go in and work all day on my homework!

Thanksgiving Comments - Myspace Comments


Many blessings on to all my Flist and your family and friends this Thanksgiving! Even if you're not in the States! And if you guys go out for any Black Friday sales, be careful! Don't get mugged or hit over the head for a three dollar crock pot or anything! LOL

Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

( Next Day Turkey Soup )

Okay, I figure y'all know what you're cooking for Thanksgiving by now. Let's start on leftover ideas!



( Thanksgiving Leftovers Shepherd's Pie )

( Rich Chocolate Pecan Pie )

( Sweet Potato Pie )