OMG MY SISTER DID NOT KNOW THAT North and South WAS NOT BY JANE AUSTEN UNTIL RECENTLY!!

Also; can someone please recc me a good drama to watch? Any lang so long as there are subs! Something funny and cute and lovely like HYD please. ♥

The West Wing ~ the ep in which a homeless vet dies on a park bench, wearing a coat Toby donated to the GoodWill. Moving throughout, it is the closing sequence that broke me and had me crying my eyes out, even though I've seen the episode several times before.

Oh West Wing, how I miss you.

Last year my Christmas tree came with a stand on it already. But as I was unpacking my decorations I saw one of those old-fashioned screw-in ones. You know, the ones that are so hard to get a tree into?

I picked up my tree the day before yesterday. No stand on it when I bought it, but I figured to stop at Lowes and get one of those new-fangled ones that hold 16 gallons of water and easily accept the trunk of the tree. Except Lowes didn't have any. Neither did WalMart.

No worries. I dug out my decoration boxes again and guess what? You got it! It looks like, for the first time in a score of years (at least) I threw something out last year ~ THE TREE STAND!

Yikes and oh shite!

Dear Tree,
Could I persuade you to sit up nice and tall in a sheet rock pail full of water throughout the next month? Not to wobble and fall. Not to have some disagreement between you and the electric lights, causing fire and possibly loss of life?
I would deeply appreciate your consideration.
Sincerely,
The Lady Who Is Planning On Making You Look Like A Thousand Bucks

So, I had this bag of Hershey's Mint Kisses that I was going to divide up between 3 packages that I was sending out, you know, kisses scattered about inside the box. But I did up the first two, got them taped up and addressed only to find out that I'd forgotten the kisses! Damn!

Friends One and Two - your loss. So sorry. Friend Three - lucky you! You get the whole bag! YaY!

Except I had to go out of the house today for the first time in DAYS *gives Evil Eye to Hohoho fic-from-hell* and when I got home it was to be greeted by Zeke (one of my Blue Heelers) doing that funny wag-the-tale-while-looking-incredibly-guilty doggie thing. At his feet was the Hershey's Mint Kisses bag, torn asunder and empty as hell.

And not one speck of shiny green and silver striped aluminum foil anywhere in the house...

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Oh...Fuuuuuuuuuuuuudge. I can't leave you kids alone for one minute..... :(

How many times have I cursed the time-consuming "search/category" boxes that were the bane of LJ search? Type in a name, go to a second box, choose from a drop down (in which the Site & Username resided in the smack-dab middle), click on your choice, hit Enter or Search.

Pain in the ass, much?

Now it's merely type in what you're looking for and Enter. It's a miracle!

Thank you, for once, LJ.

Can any of you creative types rec a free program for making multi-pic composites? Simple, for I am a Luddite and easily frustrated with stuff like this - but needs must and I'd really like to know how.

Please and thank you!

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, apparently based on The Looking Glass Wars is shaping up to be the best union of Burton, Carter and Depp yet. Can't wait til March, when Alice returns to Wonderland and takes us along for the ride.

Thanks to geekmama for the head's up!

I love a warm pig belly for my aching feet.

StolenBorrowed without permission from cynthia_arrow who borrows without permissionfollows in the footsteps of slybrunette in the long-held tradition of quoting dear Leo from The West Wing on today, December 16. How long-held is the tradition? I dunno. What are it's origins? Dunno that either, but I loved Leo, and this seems fine to me!

Leo: We spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could write in space. Do you know what the Russians did?
Josh: Used a pencil?
Leo: Used a pencil.

This is no great Leo quote, but it is a Leo quote, so it fills the bill. To see a couple of classics, visit the LJ's of the ladies mentioned above. cynthia_arrow quotes one of my all time favorites - The Big Block of Cheese exchange.

;)