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My daughter made me a cake for Father's day, and we've already eaten most of it. Happy early Father's Day, everyone.

[Backdated to the start of the snowstorm. Mandy and I planned to post this, but life got in the way.]

If there is anyone without heat or safe shelter, my home is large enough to house a good number of people until the ice storm passes. Reply here and I can give you our address. Only... please do not be offended if I conduct an unofficial background check using this Network. Safety for everyone is my top priority.

Some of you know already, but Frodo and I are expecting again!

And it's twins this time!

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You spoke to me about a car collection, can I poke at it??

I really love this city. I was able to find a really old Opel GT to work on. Project cars! I love them. Even if it's going to take forever to get her up and running again. That's okay, totally worth it.

I'm up extra early for church, and hungry. Thinking about stopping somewhere for a quick breakfast, but I have no idea what I want to eat. I thought I'd ask on here, see if anyone has any suggestions. Otherwise I'll end up at the same old haunts again.

Hello! I'm Lothiriel and new to the area. I just sailed from New York, and I'm excited to be here for a while. I was super excited to drop off gifts for my cousins, Boromir and Faramir. Speaking of? Hi, you guys!

So what does everyone do around here, for fun? I always end up asking when I come into port for a while, since asking the locals is the way to find out where all the best places to eat or drink are, and where to go shopping. If I buy too much, I might sink my little boat! I better be careful that I don't go overboard. :)

Sirius and I will be leaving Saturday for England. We finally decided a few weeks back where we were going to go on our vacation, which is my school vacation and we found tickets that weren't horrendously expensive. The full moon is tomorrow, so we won't have to worry about that. I'm looking forward to this trip quite a lot. It'll be nice to spend time with Sirius with no interruptions.

Seeing as neither of us have been to England before, except in our dreams, what should we see for sure while we're there? I know there's quite a lot of people here who are from England.

So, if anyone can think of any cons to having this adorable ball of adorableness in their lives, tell me now, because I desperately want one!

I had wondered if this new? old? face might have gone back to normal by the morning, but it has not. But I believe I can stomach looking a good twenty years younger for a while. Not an old dad now, am I? Haha! My son seems a little confused, though.

Has not affected my height, unfortunately.

So, it would seem that I can make portals. So far I've only done it from one end if the house to another, to make sure it works, but I've been contemplating trying something bigger, but I don't think portaling to the store is a good idea. A portal opening up randomly in the middle of a store could be too much for some mundanes people to handle.

With chills and hot flashes, my cold has officially gotten worse. I think it may actually be the flu. I am under full quarantine in my den.

Sick day, I'm afraid.

This is a cute idea, a stay-at-home-dad who leaves Post-Its for his wife, detailing his day. I think when I end up Mr. Dad and staying at home with the kid I made with Isabela (NEVER going to get tired of saying that), I'm going to do this too.

I'm making a public announcement on this before the tabloids decide to descent. But I have a son. My parents currently have custody of him, but I will be reclaiming him, with the gracious help of my beloved Elphaba.

In professional news, this has inspired my next album.

Has anyone ever dreamed of Orcs?

Apparently I've been invited to compete at the European Grand Prix event in Bulgaria this June. Normally I wouldn't put things like that here, but it seems pointless to have an account and not use it.

I suppose I'll go. It's really my only chance to compete for the year, unless I go to the world championships. It might do well to keep in practice so I can maintain a strong standing come 2015.

Tauriel, now we'll have to go to the range some time.

I'm going to be doing something very life impacting, and long overdue. I'm not scared, nor am I nervous. I simply know it is right.

( Sometimes I really don't mind getting back to work! )

It's cold comfort but in my dreams at least I had the chance to be at my mother's funeral.

It would appear that over the last few days, I've become aware of yet another side effect of my lycanthropy. Just like dogs and other animals, I seem to be able to sense seismic activity before it happens. Before the first quake a few days ago I got extremely anxious just before it occurred. And that feeling repeated before each one that followed. This leads me to wonder if I'd also be susceptible to paranormal activity.

Ow! I should probably leave the kitchen to Frodo. Those blender blades are very sharp.

Merrill,

Costume for Samwise?

Had more dreams last night and even got another item from them. We got attacked by a giant squid thing then goblins then a giant firey rock monster. Gandalf fell while we were running from it then we met even more elves and we all got some goodies from them. I don't know if she was the queen of the elves or what, but she gave us all cloaks, which is what I found on my bed this morning, and she gave me rope, which supposedly won't break. That would come in handy sometimes for sure. In the end, Frodo and I separated from the rest of the Fellowship to go to Mount Doom on our own.

The cloak is pretty cool. It's supposed to camouflage the wearer of it against threats. I'll have to see if it works here too sometime.

It's like a ringing in my ears. A constant ringing in my ears.

I don't care what anyone says, shells and cheese are awesome.

Now that it seems that the animals have gone back to normal, I think I'd like to get a cat. Would anyone at home object to this? I'd keep it in my room.

I'd like to take some time out from our current crisis to make a public service announcement:

Dwarves are bastards.

Not 'little people', mind. Dwarves. Actual ones, with the shortness, the love of being undergrounds, and the hair. Bastards, all of them. Suave bastards sometimes, but bastards all the same.

So, apparently there's supposedly some study that says that guys who have smaller balls are better fathers than guys who have larger ones. Something about testosterone or something. Honestly, who decides that these are things that need to be studied?

I'm pretty sure that the plants in my kitchen just tried to kill me. When did that become a thing that could happen?

This is going to come as a disappointment to some of my fans, but I've been off the market for awhile now. And unfortunately for their hopes and dreams, that's going to become permanent.

Well I'm back to... being myself, I suppose. My niece teased me relentlessly that I looked like a member of a boy band. Westlife? It was something like that.

[Locked to Wally]
I assume things have gone back to normal for you, as well.

This isn't as bad as I figured it would be. At least Remus is fairly attractive, so I could be stuck someplace worse. Maybe I should do something fun while this lasts like get him a tattoo or a new haircut.

I have a request for whoever's in my body.. I didn't catch your name the other day..

My son has started to swat at things. Anything you hold close enough for him to hit, he will attempt to hit it. Flowers... toys... my hand.

Maybe I have a boxer in the works.

Word to the wise, if you have eaten everything Disneyland has to offer, it's probably not a good idea to ride Space Mountain and Matterhorn one right after the other. You will get sick. Oh and just so we're clear, it wasn't me that got sick, but he does frequent this board and his initials are S.S.

Has anyone else had dreams about friends being murdered dying? I should have expected something was going to happen. It was a war after all, but I wasn't expecting that.

I'm going to be up for a few hours. Unfortunately. I fell asleep when I got home from work (Bro and SIL didn't need me for babysitting tonight) and dreamed about four years worth of dreams. Mostly Hogwarts stuff. I've finished with school, unless I'm gonna go back and re-live it, and now I'm ready to really get some practice in with my wand.

Gosh, I must sound absolutely insane.

Magic won't hurt the baby, will it?

I'm having a wonderful summer so far.

Frodo! We should have a party!

With the Supermoon that we had this weekend, I am extremely glad that my Lycanthropy from my dreams has no bleed over. Obviously I have no idea if it would make a difference since it's also a full moon, but I can't help but think the transformation would be worse, considering the moon is closer to earth tonight.

How many people out there really play this Candy Crush game? I mean it seems like every place I look there is someone playing it... Though I have to admit I have been playing myself. It started out as a challenge between the dance girls to see who could get the farthest and I still find myself playing more than I care to admit. Not so much now that I have beat all the levels available in the app.

Yeah, I need to find something else to do with my time. I do have a few new photo shoots coming up thankfully.

I can't believe my parents flew in for my graduation! I had no idea. And they're staying through my birthday. I don't know what my Uncle Frodo said, but it must have worked.

Personally, I find all these talking and singing animals to be a great deal of fun. Baby Samwise enjoys the crickets that sing outside his room in the evening, too.

I've been trying to cut down my hours lately and since I've had varying degrees of success with this in the past I wasn't expecting much but it seems that I'm now finding a much better work life balance. I wonder if it's an indication that I now actually have a life beyond work. I'm not sure I could claim that even just a couple of years ago.

Now that there's a baby in the house, I'm no sure I shouldn't spend all my time at the beach.

I'm only kidding, Uncle.

My ears are gone.

Well, not gone. They're not pointy anymore. Sam's are different, too. He keeps crying. I think it's changing the way things sound to him.

It is an odd mood I am in tonight. Thinking on magic and on travel, on dreams and on beaches and fields.

( Cut for possible triggery conversation mentioning death. )

I missed the enrollment period for university. How could I be so stupid?

Maybe I'll end up having to go back to England after all.

Seriously, this day has sucked. Not just like normal suckage, but incredibly bad suckage. Or it did. And then there was Tessa. I don't think I've ever believed, before meeting her, that one person could completely change your life, completely make it better forever. But she... she really does.

( Cut for brief discussion of acute anxiety disorder and fluff )

In other news, is anyone out there hiring for a moderately smart and hard worker in computer and electrical engineering, as well as programming, with three years experience holding together a company's aging network infrastructure? Inquiring minds want to know.

Mother's Day was long and tiring, but I had the very best present by the end of it. Welcome, baby Samwise. He takes the cutest naps.