(Title should be sung, as so:)
I bought an ice cream maker on a whim a month or so ago — I had been reading the tumblrs I follow and someone had posted a picture of strawberry ice cream with the note “I think this means I need to get myself an ice cream maker” and [...]
I love Ben. I love Ben so much. Name me another character who is so deceitful, manipulative, Machiavellian, and yet so fragile and emotionally vulnerable. I loved Lost before he showed up, but he is without a doubt the best thing that ever happened to the show. You know a Ben-centric episode is going to [...]
Tags:ben linus·dharma initiative·dr. linus·jack·lost·richard·season 6·sideways
The following was inspired by a writing prompt courtesy of Write One Leaf.
My family wasn’t the outdoorsy kind (too much nature), but I don’t think it’s possible to grow up in Minnesota and NOT go fishing at least once. And while ice fishing is definitely something one needs to experience — again, at least [...]
Tags:fishing·Grand Forks·lake fishing·Minnesota·North Dakota·outdoors
Whee hoo! Sorry for the delay, but I didn’t want to post this until all the blog transfer stuff got sorted. Don’t get too attached to the way it looks — I just wanted something other than the default generic blog theme. And with that, here’s this week’s episode nutshellified:
Well. That was some fucked up [...]
Tags:claire·dogen·Jin·kate·locke·lost·nadia·paik·sayid·season 6·smokey·sundown·temple
I own a number of things that I inherited from my grandparents — on both sides, I suppose, but mostly from the ones I lived with growing up. And by “inherited,” I really mean these are things I picked up from their house when we went through it to prepare it for sale after my [...]
Tags:cross stitch·embroidery·found items·grandmother·memories·stuff I own
Criticisms I’ve heard about this season so far: That we’re not getting any answers, that the answers we are getting are empty and meaningless, that the show works better when all the characters are together.
I say the first is wrong, the second is a matter of opinion, and the third I wholeheartedly agree with. I [...]
Tags:claire·hurley·jack·jacob·lighthouse·lost·numbers·season 6
So I watched Fame — the 1980 Alan Parker movie, not the (probably) inevitable 2009 remake — for the first time since I saw it as a kid (I must have been 12 or 13). Two scenes had stuck with me over the 20+ years before I watched it again: the Rocky Horror scene where [...]
Tags:1980·alan parker·coco·fame·rocky horror
When I was in high school studying for finals, the first thing I would do was make a study schedule. I’m not sure how I got the idea. As an adult I’m more the sort of person who looks at a big project and immediately feels overwhelmed, and it takes someone else to tell me [...]
Tags:budgeting time·happiness project·organization·scheduling
Abandon hope, all ye who haven’t seen this week’s episode. Like last week, I’ll start with some BS about last week’s episode, so don’t look down, and hit “n” now.
What I forgot to mention in last week’s super-lengthy post on “What Kate Did”: Jack and Dogan have an brief, quiet conversation in which Dogan explains [...]
Here’s how I found out about Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project: I saw that she was following me on the Twitter. I noticed straight away that she’s a real person — I think Twitterers know what I mean, but I define a real person as someone who uses Twitter for honest reasons, by which I mean [...]
Tags:books·gretchen rubin·happiness·happiness project·resolutions