Truths and lies
Found on Delayra's blog, via Claw Marks: Four truths and a lie. Which is the lie?
1. I know how to make an atomic bomb
2. I used to be left handed
3. I can count to ten in Latin
4. I was born in New Zealand
5.
Topic
Personal
A collection of 513 issues
Nouwen
Picked up Seeds of Hope, a Henri Nouwen reader in Barnes and Noble this afternoon, between picking up the bits to fix the desktop machine, groceries, and dropping the car off for repairs. It is selections from his writings about subjects as varied as mysticism, career, writing, and children.
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Colourful
Take a look at the website of Laurel Burch, an artist in California who has produced some amazing, colourful work. Her Fantastic Felines collection is my favourite, you can see some of it here, here, and here. Celebrating the horse is her newer work.
Phantom
If you haven't already seen the movie version of Phantom of the Opera, go see it now. Today. It's excellent.
The Phantom is handsome then repulsive, Raoul is a little blond for my taste but well played, and Minnie Driver plays Carlotta brilliantly. The voices are
Music
Bowling for Soup "1985"
The Killers "Somebody told me"
Ingram Hill "Will I ever make it home"
Howie Day "Collide"
Gavin Degraw "I don't want to be"
Green Day "Boulevard of broken dreams"
If I could
Ouch!
I'm sat on the floor in front of the coffee table, peaceably eating my chicken curry. Behind me, Quantum the cat is sleeping on the futon. Suddenly it feels like I've been whacked on the head by the phone directory! My neck burns, my eyes water.
Rounding up the year
The Tsunami blog has links to sites you can donate to.
On the home front, the basement has been painted a happy shade of pale yellow, as opposed to the dingy white it used to be. Finished the second coat today, and it's a huge improvement. The Morehouse
Merry Christmas!
The house is firmly undecorated, apart from the piece of ribbon the cats nabbed from my homegroup gift swap present. There is no tinsel, no tree, and yet the sound of Christmas carols is in the air. Hubby's preaching on Boxing Day (26th December) at an old people&
Thankfulness
* Hubby
* Tim and Ceci over for dinner
* Making fajitas for dinner
* Thanksgiving day with Rox and Eric tomorrow
* Bob the turkey
* First snow that didn't last long enough to cause serious trouble
* Being less than two thousand words away from the end of my novel
* Four day weekends
Scale, and lack thereof
The BBC website says we're in for heavy snow on Wednesday. Local radio said it would be an inch of snow in the morning. My English sense of scale has been irreparably damaged. A hundred miles is something you drive in an afternoon, not a place at the