These are awards I've won for my icons, headers and wallpapers at LJ communities.
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Clearing out old communities, copying stuff back over here I'm aware links are broken, will fix eventually.

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found this on digitalmeowmix2's journal, since Livejournal saw fit to never add a word of it to faq. If you mod or maintain a community, it gets to be highly obnoxious since you never get a notice about the comments being marked suspicious.

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Originally posted by heeroluva at "Suspicious comments" and "Spam comments": LJ decision to 'block' spam is a big FAIL!

Yes, I do still remember this is hear. Like many it seems I've been neglecting LJ. Have gotten to points of neglecting the internet at times. Spending time shuffling through other things- reading, gaming, sims, genealogy, cross stitch, vegging to massive marathons of SVU and Stargate Atlantis and pixeling.

Last couple weeks I've been monitoring in Orange County, which means driving in to start at 7, with small periods of actual digging, in between long stretches of waiting. And the best thing to do is read, especially since there wasn't any good unsecured wireless connections ;) So I got myself a Nook Color (also so can take if I go and use my free flight vouchers). I think I love the thing. So much nicer than the ipad my dad claims is for my mom (and he loads with all his crap). Now hopefully some of the magazines I like will be available soon on the Nook (which is why I wanted color)

Found this list mentioned on shelfari, so had to have a look. May have seen it before, I because I remember looking at one that is extremely biased in favor of the last century, and hardly touches the earlier years. And holy repetitive authors Batman! ....but I was bored. Bold I've read, Italics I own/want to read/want to reread
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1. Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman. Finished 1/14/11. 736 pages.
2. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer. Finished 1/27/11. 342 pages.
3. The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson. Finished 1/31/11. 255 pages. E-book
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Finished 2/16/11. 617 pages
5. The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston. Finished 3/9/11. 320 pages
6. We Two: Victoria and Albert Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill. Finished 3/10/11. 522 pages Ebook
7. The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff. Finished 3/14/11. 292 pages
8. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Finished 3/20/11. 592 pages
9. Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran. Finished 3/26/11. 464 pages.
10. The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen. Finished 3/28/11. 392 pages. E-book
11. Gone: A Photographic Plea For Preservation by Shelby Foote and Nell Dickerson. Finished 3/29/11. 120 pages. E-book. ARC
12. Virals by Kathy Reichs. Finished 3/31/11. 320 pages. e-book
13. Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott. Started 3/31/11. Finished 4/6/11. 304 pages e-book
14. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. started 4/6/11. finished 4/7/11. 286 pages e-book
15. Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Started 4/10/11. Finished 4/11/11/ 199 pages e-book.
16. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. Started 4/11/11. Finished 4/14/11. 167 pages e-book
17. The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Started 4/14/11. Finished 4/19/11. 411 pages e-book.
18 The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. started 4/19/11. finished 4/23/11. 280 pages e-book
19 Water for Elephants. started 4/23/11. finished 4/26/11. 293 pages e-book
20. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Started 4/26/11. Finished 4/30/11. 273 pages e-book
21. The Blighted Troth: A Novel of New France by Mirella Sichirollo Palzer. Started 4/30/11. finished 5/4/11. 452 pages e-book.
22. Matched by Ally Condie. Started 5/4/11. Finished 5/6/11. 366 pages
23. The Philosopher's Kiss by Peter Prange. Started 4/28/11. Finished 5/9/11. 419 pages. ARC
24. I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. Started 5/9/11. Finished 5/10/11. 277 pages ebook

Almost gone and done it. Been a while. Took a vacation to see grandparents. Found out that my grandfather had gone into the hospital. Basically he wasn't doing exactly what his doctor told him to do (last year his bladder was removed due to cancer), so things were backing up on him, literally. So didn't do all that much while I was there since grandad was having trouble. We did go out to Wingfoot Lake State PArk, which used to be Goodyear employee park. There is still a blimp hangar there, and the blimp was out taking spins, and it landed while we were there. Then visited grandma in NC, and got a bit sidelined by a migraine (bad place to get one), and things took so long to get moving, we rarely left the house before noon. Don't know if this works for y'all, but Album of pictures or first picture. If not, I'll post some later when at my desktop.


As expected, not going to make 100 books this year. Currently at 35 (two were rereads), which is past last years amount, but I'm sure page count is equivalent to some peoples 100 books read list. Been joining some of the shelfari's groups monthly reads and am trying to reconnect with the library.

Currently I'm watching my youngest nephew, and the other, when he's done with school. Bro's daycare person has jury duty today and next monday, so I shall be here. Currently am being tortured by Spongebob Squarepants, which rates near Barney, high on the obnoxious meter.

Have to be at Fort Irwin at 8. Google estimates a 2.5 hour drive to get to the middle of nowhere, Mojave Desert. So if I want to give myself 1 hr to get ready and throw stuff in car, and little bubble, means I need to get up by 4am

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Have to go leave my Jeep at the dealer tomorrow. Apparently the mysterious noise was the sound of the rear end bearings dying, so they are supposed to replace them tommorrow. I think I'm going to blame the site bringer of bad news. First time I visited the site, I go to leave in the morning and my TPS is going off, and I find a screw in the offending tire. So I borrowed the folk's Jeep (which I will beat in mileage within the year > <), so my visits, then take the tire to be fixed later. Four months, later, now the bearings. Which is the first time someone else has been near/in the Jeep when its done it (usually only when Jeep is cold). Got to fix it now, and not risk it failing next week, when I have to go out to Fort Irwin, which is in the middle of nowhere, mojave desert. Need to be there about 8am, since we have to take a 9am class before we can go on the range to the site. Which means I should leave the house about 5am to get there on time, on a Monday...... FUN = |

Not much doing. Watching the dog, so usually spend dinner time watching tv with her, because woe is her if she doesn't get her routine. So I spend time bumming around internet or entering info from the family books into the family file. Tres exciting, no?

If anyone sees any Haven or Pillars of the Earth icons about, please point me in their direction. Having trouble finding good ones for those shows.

I don't get the current trend of multiple repeated small images in one icon, so it is, for lack of a better term, a clusterfuck of itty bitty little character clones. Makes less sense than the red blob of doom.

Have to be in Compton at 8am, so have to be off with nothing much of substance.