everything but the girl

I've been writing this post in dribs & drabs in email all day, and it's become just a set of highlights of The Day LJ Stood Still.

Normally, if I can't get onto lj for 28 hours I wonder if I'm missing anything interesting - I didn't feel like that today because I knew I at least wasn't missing interesting posts - there just *were* none. Tomorrow, otoh...

Went to Oceans 12 last night - very cute and you could tell they had a lot of fun with it. Did anyone see it without having seen 11? I can't see how it would've made sense in that way. I also wonder how Benedict is going to explain things on his tax return. The meta was very amusing, and I didn't like Brad Pitt's hair.

Then we went to this cute restaurant that we hadn't been to since august. We went for the good-enough food and the amazing molten chocolate cake. They've changed the menu, though - no more molten cake. Le sigh.

But I made it up to myself by having a nutella + strawberries crepe this morning for brunch.

Stumbled into a new manicure place today - the theme is PINK. praetorianguard would not like its scheme, but ari_o would, and epicyclical would comment on the glitter. sjbranford would never cross the threshold.

tea_and_toast, praetorianguard approved my Nefarious Plan, which should make for an interesting spring. I see april fools in the context somehow. Whee.

Jasper Fforde is auctioning off some Thursday Next & writing stuff - proceeds will go to tsunami relief. Cool guy. Auction ends on Jan. 27.

Now, I'm off to catch up on whatever's made it to my flist so far - and I have a question for all of you - what did you do for your Day Off From LJ?

Click here to see a (215kb) pic of Jonathon. It's a bit blurry - better image to come, but hopefully this will do for now.

This is Cassie posting for Heidi. This is not Heidi. Heidi is busy.

The 411 on Jumper Tandy:

Born at: 11:40 AM. Heidi called me at: 12:20. She's insane.

Eight pounds, seven ounces.

Twenty-two inches. (Don't ask me if this is length or width or what, I don't know anything about babies. -ed.)

No drugs.

His name is Jonathon Avi Tandy.

He is apparently a Harry/Hermione shipper and has no plans to read any slash in the near future.

Everyone go congratulate Heidi please!

*throws confetti*

1. Has nobody mentioned that on the last Buffy, there was a mention of "The Bad Place"?

: waves to Joss, who, I again am convinced is hanging out in some section of the fandom

2. As many of you know, we've spent the past seven months renovating our house. These images are *very* high res, but if you're interested in seeing Aaron's Comic Book Closet or the dining room walls (raspberry coloured) feel free to click.

3. In other news, still pregnant. But my sister is finally in the state, from California (although she's hanging out at Disney until I go into labour) so I'm glad she'll be here when Bebe decides to show up. Likely plan is that if I don't go into labour on my own, I'll be induced a week from today.

Simon, are you happy now?

And now we know, this child will be a gemini. Yay.

General update: I've been having intermittent contractions, but the sort that are totally unsequenced, and they're not getting particularly more intense or longer at all, although it's been going on for at least coming on five hours now. So I think I'll be hanging in there for a while longer.

I'm pretty much AFK for the weekend, because of a birthday party and mother's day, and my sister's anniversary, although I'm emailable - I'm terribly far behind on LJs and comments, etc - I don't think I've been up to date since Wednesday.

If you emailed me or YMed me, and I haven't replied, send it again. The bberry erased about 40 messages last night :(

: waves - have good days, everyone. Enjoy the impending summertime. Unless you're in Australia or Argentina, in which case...