Happy Saturday!

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Hello to new friends blyssmouse, fiannatiger, megthelegend, microwench, philrancid, and terminalwriter!
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Things I NEED to Get Done Today
* Order murnkay's birthday presents
* Mail LJLess Nickie's birthday presents
* Place Westfield Comics and Amzon.com orders
* Balance checkbook - heh. Better do that first....
* Hang up laundry

Fun Stuff Today
* Applying to be a guest at a new small Con in Florida
* Hanging out with night_child, and possibly more friends, depending on whether night_child would prefer controlled or uncontrolled chaos
* jupitercornwall's party with thetuan, karlita, and irana

Celebrity Crush
I want to marry Entertainment Weekly's Dalton Ross when I grow up. And have all of his babies. I just have a thing for funny guys....

Agita
Anyone who runs their lawnmower before 8 AM on a Saturday should be shot. When I take over the world, this will become law. Consider yourselves forewarned.

Shiny.

Thank you, "President" Bush, for tossing me $400. I will be contributing a chunk of that to Howard Dean's campaign, setting some toward Chanukah shopping, and I have used some to purchase for my family the following excellent items:

Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night..., edited by Art Spiegleman, including a comic by Neil Gaiman
The Wolves in the Walls, by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
One Knight Only, by Peter David
Hannah's Garden, by Midori Snyder - the last of the attempted Brian Froud's Faerielands series
Tong Lashing : The Continuing Adventures of Sir Apropos of Nothing, by Peter David
Take a Break, the new album by Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
Babylon 5 - The Complete Third Season - volume 3 of the best TV series ever.

Baby's first de Lint

Elayna is currently absorbed in reading the new Charles de Lint/Charles Vess book, Circle of Cats. :)

de Lint is the author who's most important to me, followed by Gaiman, so I think you can see how this is an occasion for rejoicing...

*wicked grin*

thetuan was hoping that night_child and I would like each other.....

.... it surprised him just how much we like each other..... ;)