Last Saturday night was the 12th Annual Jane Austen Ball. I’ve been going since the very first one, and have only missed two due to work. It’s an excuse for people to dress up and dance to the music of Jane Austen’s lifetime, and it’s one of the geekiest and most wonderful things I do. […]
An addition to the family
We have a new member in our household, and he lives in the living room. He’s a 52-inch LCD television. People refer to their cars as “she,” but this is a very male appliance. It was purchased by my husband, and it actually arrived just before the new year. But he did not buy it […]
Day 5 without shopping: Catalog junkie
Okay, confession time. I was straightening up over the weekend and found a catalog I’d marked a page in a couple of weeks back. There was a blouse I wanted to order, but I forgot about it. I’m a big catalog shopper, mostly because I hate malls. So here’s the confession part: I actually considered […]