Sillybean

Virtual Christmas cookies for you

For you, my imaginary invisible internet friends, here’s the virtual version of the holiday treats I gave out this year:

Chocolate chocolate chip cookies with dried cherries

Citrus…

Snow!

The weather service predicted snow overnight. Having been out to lunch in uncomfortably humid, mid-70s sunshine yesterday, I did not entirely believe them. Then the wind started whistling around the house.

Behold, what I woke up to:

Actual fluffy…

Ouch.

XKCD on relationships with insecure men, with devastating accuracy.

In other “ouch” news, I’ve had a low-level migraine for about a month. Time to locate the neurologist’s phone number, methinks.

Gifts for Writers

When people who do not write try to buy gifts for writers, they often get it wrong.

Books

Specific books — things you think your writer might enjoy — a bad choice in most cases. We’re picky as hell. We…

Miles and Miles and Miles

The reason I haven’t posted in a couple weeks? After kicking the cold I came home with, I started physical therapy for my ongoing neck and shoulder problems. (Turns out the muscles in my back are knotted up like strands…

Back from HighEdWeb ’08

I’ve just returned from HighEdWeb ’08. I came down with a cold the day I left and am just now starting to feel normal, so I was way less bouncy than usual and didn’t attend much of the after-hours…

Bye, Ike.

Well, that was dizzyingly anticlimactic. We did get a lot of wind and rain, enough to blow down tree branches and fences all over the neighborhood, though none of ours. We never even lost power, and have been comfortably holed…

Hello, Ike.

Getting very windy out there. We spent the morning stocking up on stuff — although we still had the water and stuff we bought when it looked like Gustav was coming this way — and bringing everything inside. All that’s…

Random nattering

Got the MRI on my neck. No word yet from the doctor, naturally. The neck is not too bad at the moment, but the insomnia and the migraines have been slapping me around for the last few days. You…

Greek feast

Sorry for being all spammy with the sidebar links rather than writing a real post. I’ve been super-busy with the beginning of school and have been feeling very bleh since before we left for vacation. Something’s wrong with my neck…

Vicky Bliss PSA

Laughter of Dead Kings, the new Vicky Bliss mystery, is out this week.

Back to work. Frantically busy. First week of school. GAH.

Trip photos

… uploading now.

Oops, time for vacation

Our vacation has snuck up on me. Sarah and I are driving to Houston tomorrow night and flying to Boston on Saturday, meeting up with the boys there. They’ll be in training all next week, so we’ll be on our…

Olympic stuff

How much do I love Shawn Johnson for using the August Rush soundtrack (“August’s Rhapsody”) for her floor exercise music? Lots and lots and lots.

And then they had to spend ten minutes on Bush. Who can’t even pronounce…

Paco y Juan

When Michael and Shenan are cooking, fixing a computer, or tiling a bathroom, they become Paco and Juan. As of this week, their adventures will be chronicled at the new Paco y Juan website. As you can see, the…