THE OWLERY

So I am still reading Drarry, but life has been very busy and a bit unstable. Things will hopefully smooth out after the new year. However, I haven't had time to monitor all of the fests, which leaves me a bit out of the loop for finding the best H/D fics. Capitu and her recs have been inactive, H/D storyroom has been inactive. Does anyone know of another person or site doing recs? I'd appreciate any help.

Thank you so much to those who posted birthday things to me and sent me PMs! It was a lovely surprise today to find them. I work swing shift and my birthday fell in the middle of a few days straight, so I didn't get to peruse the last several days of LJ posts until today. I was happy to see all of the well-wishes, so thank you all. I love fandom and you are all special to me.

I do want to rec my birthday fic from enchanted_jae, Recklessness. It was a lovely read and just tickled me to read it. Again, thank you so much, Ms Jae! You are awesome to do this for people. http://enchanted-jae.livejournal.com/2326353.html

Here is a little teaser:

Draco's eyes flashed with heat, and he straightened from his slouch. "Oh, I can take it alright, and I can give it, too."

And then, here are a couple of my favorite birthday gifts from family. I thought I'd show them off:

This needs no explanation. I adore it!


And it isn't enough to have all the paperbacks, all the movies, all the hardbound books in that treasure chest, one must have the new illustrated hardbound editions. The artwork is stunning!


I guess, I'm having a birthday week. Daughter bought me lunch today, my sis is taking me to lunch later this week and on Sat a bunch of us are going to go to 'Fantastic Beasts'! Can't wait! Thanks all!

Who's going this week? I have to work on Nov 18 evening, so that's out. There might be a showing on the 17th and I will be there. Will be in nirvana!

Man, it seems like it has been forever since I had time to peruse my LJ feed like I want to. I used to work part time (almost full), then I didn't work for four years (not really my choice), and now I'm back working, but now I'm full time! It's not leaving me nearly enough time to keep on top of the fests and all the new fics! Grrr!! So that is why I value recs. When you all pick out the best of the best and rec them, it makes my job so much easier! I still have enough unread fic piled onto my Kindle to last me years, but I'm so afraid of missing something awesome! Keep rec'ing!

So here is the meme I snagged from lijahlover. I wanted to at least feel like I am participating somewhat.

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your hair? awesome
3. Your dad? passed
4. Your other half? whatotherhalf?
5. Your favourite food? everything
6. Your dream last night? clueless
7. Your favourite drink? coffee
8. Your dream/goal? comfort
9. What room you are in? diningroom
10. Your hobby? writing
11. Your fear? beingabaglady
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Livinginmyowntinyhouse.
13. Where were you last night? work
14. Something that you aren't? thin
15. Muffins? morningglory
16. Wish list item? money
17. Where you grew up? Spokane
18. Last thing you did? dinner
19. What are you wearing now? jersey
20. Your TV? News
21. Your pets? Lab!
22. Friends? definitely
23. Your life? exhausting
25. Missing someone? yes
26. Car? yes
27. Something you're not wearing? bra
28. Your favourite store? Amazon
29. Your favourite color? violet
30. When is the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? dunno
32. Who will redo this? dunno
33. One place that you go to over and over? Dutch Bros.
34. One person who emails me regularly? Sandy
35. My favourite place to eat? ThaiCuisine

A link for this came across my FB page today and I was blown away! The artwork is by Gabriel Picolo and he has a deviant art page, too. Go look at all the pretty!



http://theberry.com/2016/01/19/beautifully-illustrated-magic-spells-from-harry-potter/?utm_source=Cybrid&utm_medium=Paid&utm_content=Jote&utm_campaign=Gallery_Website_Click&utm_term=Jan2016_

Well, I'm sitting here getting yet another of those pesky occular migraines that have been more frequent lately. For those not familiar with them, they are, essentially, the aura that comes with a migraine headache without the headache. The ocular migraine is all sorts of weird visual disturbances, but they are painless and harmless. However, it's hard to read or write during the 30 minutes or so that it lasts. So I will just leave this here. It's a video that consolidates most of Snape's major scenes throughout the whole Harry Potter series of movies. It sort of made me cry a little.

I can't let it pass without a mention. I'm just thrilled that we can now begin to enjoy longer days and shorter nights. Blessed Be.

We are currently under a big pile of snow that doesn't look to be any better over the holidays. Not sure how that is going to affect my holiday plans. We are tentatively planning to be at my sister's place, but she lives out in the country and the roads getting there are always bad in the snow. Might just end up having out own little celebration here at home.

Hope you are all well and have a perfectly lovely holiday.

My Christmas card to you all! Hope you all have a lovely holiday season. After a very mild fall, we are getting a bunch of snow. It's beautiful, but driving is horrible when you don't have an SUV. I'm finally getting over a long bout of bronchitis. Still have tons of shopping to do. I guess it will come down to a marathon day of shopping and an evening of wrapping.

Hafta say, this is the first time I am staying (sort of) on top of the Erised fics! I haven't read them all yet, but I'm not far behind. I'm loving them! Thank you to all who participated. For those posting Advent fics that can be read as a single fic, I hope you will put them into a single document or chaptered fic and post them on AO3. I'm finding it really hard to keep up with those stories, as there are so many to sort through each day. Mostly I just want to wait until the last week of the month and then marathon read.

Speaking of marathoning. I'm finally starting the Star Wars prequels. I figure I will get roped into seeing the new movie sometime this month, so I better catch up. I plan to watch them all before we see it just to have it all fresh in my mind. I'm not thrilled about the $13.75 price tag on it. It better be worth it!

I will end wishing you all a Merry Christmas and May the Force Be With You!

So I saw this posted elsewhere, but I had to steal it! OMG! So much fun! Daniel is....wait for it....wait....wait for it...CLEAN SHAVEN! Wow! I haven't seen the actual skin of his face in years! Enjoy!