I’m trying to see if I can actually do 31 Days of Book Pics with Jessica at Quirky Bookworm this month. I’m off to a decent start, since I’ve come up with photo subjects for the first four prompts! Participants are linking up every Friday this month–here’s my first recap. I’m posting the original photos daily on Instagram.
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| Clockwise from top left–Day 1: Bookshelves; Day 2: Book + Movie; Day 3: Book Cover: Day 4: Library |
After buying a house last summer, Tall Paul and I agreed that we’d keep our Christmas 2013 gifts to each other pretty low-key (although we did purchase a very nice new set of cookware as a “to us, from us” present). I asked him for just one thing: to select a couple of his own photos that he especially liked, and frame them for me to hang in my office. He chose these two from […]
I’m working on my 2013 wrap-ups–reading stats, surveys, Books of the Year picks, et cetera, which I’ll be posting here across the next week–and thought I’d give you a snapshot of the books I’ve tagged as “2013review” on LibraryThing. The numbers don’t match perfectly with my “books read in 2013” stats on GoodReads–there are a few things we call “reconciling items” in accounting-speak–and I did fall just shy of my overall one-book-per-week target, but overall […]
It is a total cheat to call this a Flashback Friday shot, since I just took it this morning…but because I am wearing a time machine, I’m taking it. The “Exploding TARDIS” pencil skirt, with its Van Gogh-inspired print referencing the Series 5 episode “Vincent and the Doctor,” is letting me sneak a little cosplay into the office today. (30 days till the Doctor Who 50th-anniversary special, y’all!) Also flashing back this Friday: Desiree Kim […]
Seven* years ago this weekend, this guy and I married each other. We’re both taking the day off on Monday, our actual anniversary, to wander around town and enjoy each other’s company. I don’t think we’ll get quite this dressed up, though. 26–Happy Anniversary! Love you, 28 *edited because 2006 was 7 years ago, not 8, and this accountant can’t do mental arithmetic Florinda and PaulSaturday, October 21, 2006The Westlake Village InnWestlake Village, California Also flashing back […]
The Wordless Wednesday gang has decided to photo-blog twice a week, so welcome to our first Flashback Friday! This photo was taken by my husband near his family’s fishing cabin in the eastern Sierras at just this time of year, eight years ago–the edits are all my fault, though. Autumn at Lower Twin Lake, Bridgeport, CA, October 2005 I’ll update this post later today with links, so you can go check out the other gals’ […]
Inside and out, the holiday season has officially arrived! (And yes, we really do have those books under the tree…but no one reads them.) This is my favorite Christmas scene in my house this year, though: How are your holiday preparations coming along? Posted with Blogsy Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers
As you probably inferred from the title, I’m on the threshold of another posting milestone–one that probably doesn’t mean much except that it’s another number ending in zero. However, it did prompt me to calculate whether I’d reach 2000 posts here by my 6th blogiversary on March 16, 2013. That would require daily posting for the next 134 days, with two new posts on 66 of those days…which is seriously unlikely to happen, so those […]
Less than 24 hours after arriving in New York City almost two weeks ago, I was on a Statue Cruises ferry with Kim, Lu, and Teresa, off to visit Ellis Island (although Kim and Lu stopped off to see the Statue at Liberty island first). My camera was with me, and it was a beautiful day out on New York Harbor. I was snapping pictures all along the way. Some photo ops are setups, and […]
Tall Paul and I made our very first sojourn to the annual Renaissance Pleasure Faire this past weekend, and while we were there, I did something else for the first time. You might think that being one-quarter Sicilian would give me an affinity for handling knives (outside the kitchen). You would be wrong. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, seriously. And I mean the actual knife. Go sit down. I enhanced the focus on […]
Did I tell y’all my husband has a new toy? Meet Amelia. (She’s a ginger–and yes, she’s named for Amy Pond. As Tall Paul says, only he can geekify a motorcycle.) She’s the newest resident of our garage. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers
I can never decide whether the seasons in Southern California don’t exist at all, or are just out of whack with both natural and human calendars. Last weekend, just a few days before the vernal equinox and after a warmer, drier winter than normal, we had chilly rain and hail. Now we’re looking at high temperatures in the mid-60s/low 70s into next week, with maybe some rain on Sunday. But back in February, it seemed […]
