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Dragonfly

Will Turner: This is either madness or brilliance.
Capt. Jack Sparrow: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.

Last update: August 1, 2009

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  • member since February 23 2007

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  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    *falls over* Bless their poor feline hearts..

    Good gracious almighty, we all want Nightlight now, don't we?! *sighs at the inevitable credit card bill going up*

    I've got Inkheart & haven't read it yet.. .Should I? =D

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    LOL Poor, poor kitties...Do they realize soon they'll be wearing antlers? =D

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    I like your new modern look. =D

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    Oh your poor kitties forced to wear their costumes again! *cackles madly*

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    LOL! Yes, it is that time of year for you to torture the fur babies!!

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    Psssttt.....Check your email! =D And your spam, too.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    Check your PNs & your spam! LOL

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Pam S

    Pam S says

    Excellent, thank you! Am freshly back from book club with a nice haul :-)

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    LOL so I'm spam now, am I? Gaw, I'm so sorry you're having to haul your a*s everywhere instead of staying home w/ your sweet kitties! Is this just a temporary thing for work? (Of course, this may not be work, eh, & I'm just assuming...) I hope things work out for you & you can get some much needed time off - like your weekends being free again - soon!

    I need to send an update about the spy stuff...

    Wasn't Suze's idea good? The Biotches in print wold be a hoot!! It sounds like fun!

    Well, how's the garden? The weather here has been glorious, but I'm so worn out from last week (I gave a luncheon from H*LL for retired "acquaintenances" who I never care about seeing again), I can't drag myself out there. I've got lilies & irises & a bush to move before the big order gets here. *sigh* Where are big strong young men when you need them?

    Ohhh....Been reading a lot, which is a good thing. I've picked up a really good book at the library you might like: Homeland by Barbara Hambly. I've got to write about it in the dungeon. I was very lucky this month w/ the BBD's book swap. Suze recommended 2 great reads. And I still have your recommendation on my Amazon wishlist!

    Try not to work your lil a*s too much...We miss you...

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Pam S

    Pam S says

    Hello, I would love to join your Brilliant Babes etc group, it looks like fun. Please peruse my (new) shelf and let me know if I pass muster.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    Pssttttt! I've sent you a top-secret email! Please go read!!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    I'm so glad you're reading some Gabaldon!!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • rob

    rob says

    btw, since my focus has been nonexistant all summer, I've been rereading, but I'm running out of stuff to reread, so I've decided to join you as you journey through Dragonfly in Amber...I've been avoiding rereading the Gabaldons because I reread them so much at one point I was really sick to death of the damn things, but it's actually been about three years now, or nearer to four, so some of them are about due to be traversed again...also, i want to get into a proper Outlander frame of mind...

    (grins) so keep me updated!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • rob

    rob says

    yeah, I often wonder that myself, about reviewers... it's why I tend to ignore them and go w/ my gut, but then my gut led me to The Tenderness of Wolves, so it's not infallable...heh...no, I didnt hate it either, I gave it three stars, too...but yeah, something went screwy, I think she was trying too hard to impress, which is always a bad way to go, 'cause you can just tell when they do that, every time...canny readers always notice it, and we are a bunch of canny readers in our Dungeon fastness...

    you'll like Dragonfly in Amber, it's probably the best of the six books, and the one w/ the least inconsistencies littered in it, which you'll notice more as you go...

    the horror of TrueBlood is just plain unspeakable, it knows no bounds, the entire vast universe could not possibly contain the sheer badness that is TrueBlood...it is...it is...(moans pitifully) words fail me...

    (crawls off to suck down some much-needed whisky...) I'll be summoned to the castle soon...I can feel it coming...(cowers under the bed at the thought of her impending doom...)

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • rob

    rob says

    it won an award? hell, it must have been a desperate year...well, now we know the key to success...confuse the reader as much as possible w/ revolving tenses, toss in a murder, some snow, and a wolf that doesnt exist, and you've got yourself a best-seller that wins awards...I do wish someone had told me before I started mucking about w/ Templars...

    (grins) toss 'em both in the air and see which one lands face up...

    but seriously (though not too) you gotta go w/ the Gabaldon, it's Outlander month...

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    Hey Dragonfly!

    Well, it's pouring this morning, which means no watering, thank goodness. I'm a tad tired of making sure all of the baskets, veggies & new tree (crape myrtyle, I know I should have waited, but couldn't!) have enough. The temps are cool this morning, too, in the 60's. Very unusual for us.

    Hummingbirds...LOVE them! We love to hear them twitter & whirr by when we sit on the backporch. It's fun to watch their aerial battles, too. I never understand why the feeders provide all of those holes when "my" hummers never let another one drink while they're visiting the feeder. A "peeping hummer", LOL!! They are nosy lil guys, aren't they? I bet yours are peeking in to see what you're cooking! If I let a feeder go empty for too long, they dive bomb me when I come out.


    I found holes in the hostas on the front porch last week. I wouldn't have thought that deer would walk up the steps, but I also found evidence of other nibblings throughout the yard. They're eating plants they don't even like such as begonias or sedums. Poor things, they must be hungry, but I wish they'd stay the heck off my porch. I think Sable was too drunk to guard the porch! LOL No, he's left the latest saucers alone. The Betty Ford Clinic hasn't been needed.

    Would you believe my library, due to budget cuts, hasn't bought any new books? I think that's such a crime. It's a good thing I'm not a librarian 'cause I'd be using my own money to buy books for tghe community. What a sin!

    It took my peppers last year forever to turn red, so maybe yours will eventually. *pouts* I didn't have room for them this year. How have your tomatoes been this year? All of the summer rain was great for my cukes, but has caused the tomatoes to be smaller than normal & crack. And bugs & worms & nasty creatures!! I've had so many of those, too!! I can't keep those varmints off them! Have you had that problem? What do you use? I'm ready to throw in the organic "towel" because they're just not working for me. Or maybe I'm doing it all wrong....*SIGH*

    Oh, YES to the rain barrels, & good for you to use the air conditioner drip!! (Who knows what the heck it's called?? LOL I'm w/ you: the drain, the pipe, the drip!) Hubby "bitched", moaned & groaned about the cost last year when I ordered them. Then the drought got worse & his snarling turned to admiration when we used the barrels to water. He installed another one this summer & has plans to buy more to use for my cutting garden. We're not hooked up to city water, too far in the country, so they're a blessing. I could never have the flowers, veggies, etc. I do w/o them. And you were so innovative tomake use of that dripping water! *cheers*

    After reading about your adventures w/ an open composter, *shudders again*, I found plans to make a closed one, using a garbage can. Would you like me to send you the link? It's so easy, I think I could make it even w/o hubby's help. =)

    I'm off to find that vampire series you love....

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    Ooh, black cherry... peach citrus. I cannot decide. Fortunately I don't have to; I got both! Yum!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    I've tried to write you back for 3 days now & I swear everytime I sit down here, hubby-pooh comes in & either demands the computer for work or needs me to help w/ something or the dogs are fighting w/ Sable or whatever! Ohhh!!! *stamps foot* I am not leaving today until I'm through writing to you!

    LOVE the new avatar!

    Oh Dragonfly, you are so right about Liveship Traders! I really enjoyed the first one in this series, but now on the third one, I just wanna scream each time I pick it up: When will you end??!! I read & read & read & still, no end in sight. I consider myself a fast reader but I swear this book is adding pages each time I put it down! I like it OK & I enjoy the characters, but come on already!! I've even started to skim the story just so I can finsih it. I do want to know what happens & how everything is resolved (or not) so I will keep plugging on. *SIGH*

    Either Sable is still enjoying a beer (or 12) or I have drunken deer in the woods...

    My garden has been great this year & I am finally seeing the work of the past 3 years take hold. Lke you, I, too planted zinnias this year & have never seen so many big butterflies! I'd bought some seed packets as a lark one time while in Target & I'm so glad I tried them. I've had flowers to cut for my house all summer!!! In fact, I'm going to put in a cutting garden (complete w/ a white picket fence surrounding it) this fall where I'll plant zinnias next year, as well as dahlais, etc. So the flowers have done great this year, but the tomatoes have been...disappointing. We've enjoyed them, of course, but we don't have as many as usual, nor are they as big as I'd like & they aren't as pretty either. Also, the bugs have been feasting more than ever on them. It seems like I spray every day! We've had more rain than usual, which I am not complaining about - the drought is still fresh in my memory, & I planted some different tomato varieties than the usual Big Boys, so perhaps those are the reasons for the stunted, ugly tomatoes. Oh well. The cucumbers have been great though!

    I've ordered over 300 bulbs! LOL A friend's daughter asked if she could be married in our yard & we said yes. The wedding will be in May & of course I want the late bulbs to put on quite a show...Her fiance is looking for work & since he used to work in landscaping, I've "volunteered" him to help me. I'm telling everyone I really do have a yard boy now! (Just call me a cougar, OK?)

    I've got to look for your vampire book. Halloween is almost here...=)

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sweetafton

    sweetafton says

    We finally managed to watch "Kinky Boots"--and I do mean finally. Picked up a copy for our local haunt, popped it in, armed with ice cream and other goodies. A couple minutes into scene seven, Lola's awkward transformation into Simon on the floor of the factory, and the blasted thing starts pixilating. Take it out and wipe it off--not that they guys at the local haunt haven't already done this; they are, in fact, rather monkish about their devotion to disc cleaning--pop it back in, cue to scene. Pixels, skips, more pixels, FREEZE! The damn thing no longer knows it's a DVD. Arrrrrrggg! Managed to snag a copy--free even--from the library (why didn't I look there first?!). Loved it. Milan? Priceless. That it was based on an actual factory? Even better. No Lola though. Thanks for the recommendation! What others have you seen?

    I am all over "The Closer" and have watched "Army Wives" since it started, though this season is a little boring and I'm thinking of pruning it from the DVR queue unless they do something interesting... and fast. LOL My mom is a "Burn Notice" addict, but I haven't watched it. She stares at me, glassy-eyed when I tell her that. Like I've committed a mortal sin. lol Hail, Mary...

    The EW article was a waste of paper, as is the entire issue most of the time. Whoever wrote it didn't know from vampires. I mean, putting Edward Cullen on a list of best vamps of all time?!? WTF was in their crack pipe? LOL Seriously.......

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    Thanks for the link to the snake repellant! I've never heard of that stuff!! How cool! I think I'll buy some to give as Christmas presents. I know quite a few people around here that are deathly afraid of snakes; hubby for one. No, I haven't seen any snakes lately, thank goodness. *knock wood*

    I'm considering checking Sable into the Betty Ford clinic. I think he's drinking the beer I set out for the slugs & snails!! Can you imagine?! He loves staying out during the summer nights & twice now, I've watched him throwing up when I've walked out early to water. At first I was all concerned, urging him to lie down, petting him, trying to convince him to eat later in the day. And then I noticed how the beer saucers were empty & there weren't any slugs in them! Ah ha! Sable's been nipping!

    Ohh, your book sounds good. I've been reading trash all summer. I didn't want to haul War & Peace around Germany so I put that off & then when I got home, I couldn't cope w/ anything too serious or taxing. So to preserve what few brain cells I have left after drinking my way across German, I've been reading the Sookie books (the True Blood books) or some Nora or whatever I could get my hands on at the library. I started the Liveship Traders series by Robin Hobb. I really liked the first one but the second one is dragging.

    How's the garden?

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )