http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net I like music, long walks on the beach, and poking dead things with a stick. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:04:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I promise a post about the wedding, with pictures and all that good stuff -- by Monday, when I get a chance to breathe over the weekend. I'm home sick today, so you just get this meme: Newsweek's Top 100 Books of All Time (Orly?) Bold the ones you've read, italicize ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1565 You know that saying about "I laughed so hard I cried"? Yeah? I really, truly did -- reading this. I'm never going to forget this phrase: "there’s a little F-16 in my pants." Wendi Aarons is my new hero. I would read her blog at work for the stress ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1564 The local newspaper up in the Washington state town where my sister and her family live did an article on my niece and the fund-raiser set up by the school that her sister Haley attends. A blood-cancer charity has also set up a web page about Katie, and they ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1563 Happy Father's Day! Happy Summer Solstice! And... Geoffrey and I got married today. Still mind-boggled by it. Details soon, but for now I must collapse...sooo exhausted. It was a pretty amazing day, all told. http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1562 Florists clearly have an astonishing racket going on -- Geoffrey ordered some flowers for the wedding, and when told me how much florists charge for that crap, I almost had an apoplectic fit! $33 for a corsage, and bridal bouquets start at $85?!!! Are you fuq'ing KIDDING?! That much ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1561 Less than a week until the wedding, eep! Here's my list of stuff still to get done: Buy a new bra (and probably shoes) Get some speakers for my iPod Dye my hair (I may be 40 but I refuse to be gray!) & get it trimmed Buy the sparkling cider & grape ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1560 What did I get for my 40th birthday? A snakebite! Sebastian (the baby California kingsnake that belongs to Anxiety) grabbed the inside of my pinkie right where it meets my hand (that blurry silver thing in the pic is my Claddagh ring). Silly me overlooked the fact that ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1558 Oh hey, look -- I'm 40. Weird, it doesn't feel any different from 39. In family news, my niece is off the ventilator and out of intensive care. She's still having problems breathing, but the doctors said that is normal when someone is on the ventilator for a long ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1556 Friday night, my sister took her 4-year-old, my niece Katie, to an urgent care clinic because she didn't think the family doctor's diagnosis of a respiratory infection a few days earlier was correct. My niece had developed some scary swelling in her face and upper chest, and said she ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1555 One of my favorite shows from the '80's is being remade!!! *happy dance* And some actors I really like are in it! *squee!* Ever since BSG ended, my television viewing has largely consisted of NCIS and House marathons on USA Network (while crocheting or cross-stitching, because I cannot just sit and watch ... http://cosmicbabe.greyduck.net/journal/1553