Happy, happy, happy!

I was given a delightful gift a little while ago---adventurat made me a special icon by request. I gave her the pix, she figured out how to link them---she's a genius!



The idea came to me as I was drifting off to sleep the other night, and I tracked down suitable snaps for it. (It's that one-track mind thing again....) Two obsessions and one bad pun---does it get any better than that---?!

And in other nifty news, in 24 hours, I'll be at a midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Robyn e-mailed me this evening---she won a pair of tickets from a radio station and invited me to go with her. I'm so thrilled!


THANK YOU, WENDY!!!

Happy, happy, happy!

I was given a delightful gift a little while ago---adventurat made me a special icon by request. I gave her the pix, she figured out how to link them---she's a genius!



The idea came to me as I was drifting off to sleep the other night, and I tracked down suitable snaps for it. (It's that one-track mind thing again....) Two obsessions and one bad pun---does it get any better than that---?!

And in other nifty news, in 24 hours, I'll be at a midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Robyn e-mailed me this evening---she won a pair of tickets from a radio station and invited me to go with her. I'm so thrilled!


THANK YOU, WENDY!!!

A sniping we will go---!

Ah, I *love* a good snipe! It gives one such a warm glow of satisfaction to wait, circling above the fray as others snarl and snap, and then to swoop down and capture the prize at the penultimate moment. *delicately brushes canary feathers from lips*

Soon, I'll be getting goodies in the mail! (I *do* adore opening the mailbox to find LOOT inside.) I got the drop on a very nice Fossil bag (which I've been wanting since the first time I ventured into the Fossil store at City Walk), black leather, looks to be in nearly new condition...a *good* black bag is a classic, right?

And...Season One of "MI-5/Spooks". Because I've got it bad.


EDIT: Oh, the sweet, sweet irony. I just went and checked my e-mail, and what do you know? There was an ad from Fossil offering many lovely leather handbags...for roughly five times the amount I paid. *purrs with consumer contentment*

A sniping we will go---!

Ah, I *love* a good snipe! It gives one such a warm glow of satisfaction to wait, circling above the fray as others snarl and snap, and then to swoop down and capture the prize at the penultimate moment. *delicately brushes canary feathers from lips*

Soon, I'll be getting goodies in the mail! (I *do* adore opening the mailbox to find LOOT inside.) I got the drop on a very nice Fossil bag (which I've been wanting since the first time I ventured into the Fossil store at City Walk), black leather, looks to be in nearly new condition...a *good* black bag is a classic, right?

And...Season One of "MI-5/Spooks". Because I've got it bad.


EDIT: Oh, the sweet, sweet irony. I just went and checked my e-mail, and what do you know? There was an ad from Fossil offering many lovely leather handbags...for roughly five times the amount I paid. *purrs with consumer contentment*

Six random (automotive) things meme

Six random things about me meme (which was easy, once I thought of a theme)

tagged by pwcorgigirl (I'm showing my age; every time I look at her screen name, I have an urge to start singing "Hey, there, Corgi girl---!" to the tune of "Georgie Girl"...)


1. I once coat-hangered a car muffler, and it wasn't even my car. I was between cars, and a friend loaned me hers. The muffler dropped on my way to work one morning, so I got a coat hanger and a pair of pliers and fixed it on my lunch break. It took me about 15 minutes. (And it *stayed* fixed.)

2. I used to own a car that took me less than two minutes to open with a coat hanger because the chrome strip between the front and back windows was gone. That was my 1971 Buick convertible, a real tank. At today's gas prices, it would cost about forty cents A MILE to operate.

3. One of the rear tires blew in my ex-'s car while I was driving. On the highway. Doing 70 mph. I didn't slow down enough when steering it onto the (grass) shoulder and it skidded and did a 180 and wound up facing oncoming traffic. Fortunately, it was on the shoulder, but I was shaking for hours.

4. My current car is a 1990 Honda with 230+K miles on it. The automatic seat belt doesn't work, the passenger window is stuck (up, thankfully), there's no a/c and it's been rear-ended, so the back bumper is cattywampus.

5. I have fantasies about getting my hands on a classic Nissan 280Z, restoring it with a red interior, giving it a set of those fat racing tires and killer wheels, painting it white with a big red "M" on the hood and a yellow "5" in a red circle on the door. (Because I've been a "Speed Racer" geek since I was like, eight....)

6. I have never driven an automobile anywhere except the state of Florida, and I've had a valid license since 1978. I just haven't traveled out of state much, and when I did, it was by plane or bus, and it was to a place with public transportation.


Tag...dine! (You don't have to do cars---I just had a conversation on the subject with someone and thought of six relevant factoids.)

Six random (automotive) things meme

Six random things about me meme (which was easy, once I thought of a theme)

tagged by pwcorgigirl (I'm showing my age; every time I look at her screen name, I have an urge to start singing "Hey, there, Corgi girl---!" to the tune of "Georgie Girl"...)


1. I once coat-hangered a car muffler, and it wasn't even my car. I was between cars, and a friend loaned me hers. The muffler dropped on my way to work one morning, so I got a coat hanger and a pair of pliers and fixed it on my lunch break. It took me about 15 minutes. (And it *stayed* fixed.)

2. I used to own a car that took me less than two minutes to open with a coat hanger because the chrome strip between the front and back windows was gone. That was my 1971 Buick convertible, a real tank. At today's gas prices, it would cost about forty cents A MILE to operate.

3. One of the rear tires blew in my ex-'s car while I was driving. On the highway. Doing 70 mph. I didn't slow down enough when steering it onto the (grass) shoulder and it skidded and did a 180 and wound up facing oncoming traffic. Fortunately, it was on the shoulder, but I was shaking for hours.

4. My current car is a 1990 Honda with 230+K miles on it. The automatic seat belt doesn't work, the passenger window is stuck (up, thankfully), there's no a/c and it's been rear-ended, so the back bumper is cattywampus.

5. I have fantasies about getting my hands on a classic Nissan 280Z, restoring it with a red interior, giving it a set of those fat racing tires and killer wheels, painting it white with a big red "M" on the hood and a yellow "5" in a red circle on the door. (Because I've been a "Speed Racer" geek since I was like, eight....)

6. I have never driven an automobile anywhere except the state of Florida, and I've had a valid license since 1978. I just haven't traveled out of state much, and when I did, it was by plane or bus, and it was to a place with public transportation.


Tag...dine! (You don't have to do cars---I just had a conversation on the subject with someone and thought of six relevant factoids.)