Another house showing!
And yet another house showing today! Woohoo! My real estate agent also said that the house was shown over the weekend, so that is three showings this weekend. Awesome! Bouncy bouncy! Now if it will just sell… Related Images:
House is being shown today!
I got an email from my real estate agent. The house is being shown right now. Woohoo! Here’s hoping that the people like it and make an offer… The market has been so slow right now, but that’s okay. I am blessed with family close to where I work so I don’t have to pay…
Check Your Bank Statements!
I was doing my budget last night and discovered a cash withdrawl of over $200 made after I moved to North Carolina. I’m waiting on a call back from my bank. Nervewracking. Glad I check my statements. Update: Okay, well the bank situation turned out to be okay. The $250 transaction was where I had…
Presidential Debates
Seems like everyone on this side of the pond are watching the presendential debates. Last night, Hilleary Clinton and Barack Obama squared off in their first two-person debate. (Senator John Edwards bowed out of the race earlier this week without endorsing either remaining Democratic candidates.) I’m leery about the entire process presidential nomination and electrorial…
Trip to Tennessee
This weekend was my first trip back to Tennessee since I moved to North Carolina at the beginning of the year. (Yup, I’m behind on my blogging for a really good reason.) My youngest sister went with me this weekend. The goal was to get a lot of stuff done, and we did for the…
Blog Reading Level…
An interesting thing from one of my LJ friends. Related Images:
Litany Against Fear
One of my favourite quotes is from Frank Herbert’s Dune: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye…
No Hope for “The Last Legion”
Wow. This was bad. This was bad beyond bad. It’s like Ed Wood tried to write a movie based upon TH White’s Sword in the Stone and instead ended up with the script for “Arthur: Men in Anachronous Armor.” It’s like the movie also borrowed heavily from the left over equipment of the recent movie…
“The Seeker” Sucks, part 2
In October, I wrote a comparison of the movie The Seeker to the book upon which it was allegedly based, The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. My opinion? The movie sucked rocks and hurled chunks. I love the books and this movie was something abhorrent. Reading the comments on my earlier post made me…
Filling in Blog Posts for France Trip
I may start filling in what happened while I was in France by creating blog entries for the actual dates with brief details of what we did. It will mean that posts will be written one day but dated another. I can include a note on the post for the actual date it was written….
Sick. Sigh.
Never seems to fail. I come back from a trip and I get sick. On the flight back last weekend, the kid sitting in the row behind me coughed up a storm. I started losing my voice and getting a sore throat on Thursday last week. The coughing got worse over the weekend. I was…
Friday Night Vampires!
I’ve always enjoyed vampire stories. Whether the self-flagellating Louis or flamboyant Lestat from Anne Rice’s books, there is something enthralling about the stories. I’m an avid Doctor Who fan. One of my favorite episodes is Season 2 “Girl in the Fireplace,” where the Doctor (played by David Tennant) meets the Madame de Pompadour (played by…
From a Yarn Junkie
You know who you are. It was too precious to not post. Fiber loves me this I know, for my spindle tells me so Lots of yarn to me belong, to feed my habit sheep are shorn. Yes, fiber loves me, yes fiber loves me, yes fiber loves me, but my psychiatrist tells me “no”…
The Seeker: Movie vs. Book (Spoilers)
I have my copy of The Dark Is Rising (both a first edition paper back and a SF book club edition with all five volumes bound together) out and I am watching The Seeker (if you search for it, you’ll find a video of the movie on Google Video). The Seeker is a recently-released adaptation…
Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper’s series, The Dark is Rising, is slated to be made into movies. At least the first book, which came out on Friday, is the first in the set. Two of the four books in the Dark is Rising series are Newberry Award winners. It’s one of my favorite series. She is amazing. That…