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Um, hi. I have forgotten how to post apparently! Bad Elise! No biscuit!!!

I'm not even going to say how behind I am....
Must get my sooper secret project done TODAY. Yes, I must. Really. No excuses.
But it is so pretty outside!
Shut up Elise, you need to get this done.
*pouts*
OK right after you do a quick meme....


Upon receiving this tag If you are so inclined, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.

1. Go to your desktop and press the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12)

2. Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and doing a Paste (CTRL + V). If you wish, you can "edit" the image before saving it.

3. Post the picture on your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop if you want. You can explain why you prefer such a look or why it is full of icons. Things like that.

4. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a free view of their desktops as well, if you are in the mood.

( See here! )

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I've missed so much LJ - it isn't even funny. When I hit skip=400... I gave up even trying. Great Aunt passed and Bro/Bro in Law finally made it in with 2 dogs and a cat and a LOAD of furniture to move in.
We got the boxes in the place but that is about it and I'm about to go over to start slitting boxes apart.

hp_la is doing Free Hugs tomorrow and I'm going to try my BEST to make it, but might have to just settle for dinner (if the people are open to it?). My arms aren't happy with lifting MARBLE!!!

In lieu of further insight to my mostly dull life... a Meme!!!

( Best Picture Oscar Meme that was going 'round )

Gacked from mysticknyght
I wuv the 80s meme-age

1. How old were you in 1980?
Turned eight

2. How old were you in 1989?
Turned seventeen
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Dear Elise,

Thank you for your submission to Terminus. We are delighted to inform you that "Neville Longbottom: Ascent" has been accepted by the vetting board.

Let the Neville love run free! (OK that just sounds dirty! Or is that just to my brain?)


*wanders back to work*

There are few things as tacky as a single pair of Mardi Gras beads; but a huge pile of them somehow seems to transcend tackiness into something like incandescent twilight...

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HAHAHHAHAHHAAAA!! GO ELI!!!!! GIANTS WIN.

Ain't a perfect season now - is it??!??!?!?!??!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Next year - take off Mardi Gras weekend. If for no other reason than to not have to explain to out of state customers that WE BE NOT WORKING TUESDAY AND YOU CAN JUST DEAL!!!

I'm very sorry that it will just be Tuesday where you are. It must be very sad. Lose President's Day and have Mardi Gras. You will be the happier for it.

With sympathy,
~Me

I've lost my sense and am attempting to write a proposal for Terminus. I be nutty.  IT IS DUE FRIDAY! I no like last minute but there you go.  *facepalm*

"Neville Longbottom: Ascent"

Oh Neville lovers out in the big wide f-list... anything you think should be absolutely included in any discussion on Neville's character?

(Screening comments; so feel free to babble to your heart's content.)

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR US RESIDENTS

Please please please, do not pay to have your taxes filed (if you are under 50 and make less than $54K - that should be most of my f-list).

Go to the IRS website.
Click START NOW.
I recommend HRBlock's Free File.

/nerdy PSA

MWAHA!!! Take that Dallas! Yay Eli!

/randomness that no one really cares about.

"In the East, college football is a cultural exercise. On the West Coast, it is a tourist attraction. In the Midwest, it is cannibalism. But in the South, it is religion."
~Marino "Godfather" Casem


I'm a little glad that the Saints didn't make it  into the playoffs; I don't think I could take the extra partying.  *flumps*

Now onto Mardi Gras.... at least we have a weekend off to prepare plans.  Any hp_la peeps want to pick some days/locations for a Potter Mardi Gras?  :>

Only abigail89,hp_la peeps, and a few others will appreciate this one (just heard screamed from my neighbors)

HOT BOUDIN COLD COUS COUS - COME ON TIGERS POOSH POOSH POOSH!

*dies*

PSA: For those of the HP persuasion; Hot Topic - 50% off. - HP Messenger bag for $7!!!!!!!!!!

( Privilege meme )</b>

or anyone who likes Potter.

Seriously - get thee to The Purebloods MySpace page. (I know - MySpace is the devil. I KNOW)

The Death Eater Disco is made of awesome and win.

*grabs torn_portfolio for more car dancing*

Don't believe me about this song? Lyrics under the cut! AWESOME AND WIN PEOPLE!

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2nd Potter Generation (AKA Epilogue Extras)

If you didn't like the Epilogue don't watch - or watch; I really don't care. But no whining, please.

(For non-fandom friends - just keep on scrolling, darlings.)

1- Go to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article title that you get is the name of your band.

Exchange Square

2. - Go to The Quotations Page random quotations:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

Sweet Sauce of Labor

3 - Go to Flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/25679727@N00/2137231857/

Oh lordy....   *cackles*

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

In 1897, Frank Church, an editorial writer for The New York Sun, wrote this response to a letter from a young reader. It became one of the most famous editorials in American history.

We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.’

Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Yes, I'm one of the seemingly three people at work today.

SOMEONE SAVE ME!

Spam me! (Just no NSFW stuff - yeah I know - it takes all the fun out of it)
Ask questions!
Post recipes!
Ask for recipes!

Really - I am just about beyond caring at this point. Bored bored bored. It is so slow here we just had a contest to see who could make end of year boxes for all the files the quickest. The joke was on us - the box company changed the design and it took 6 people of various educational and practical skill levels to figure it out. Depressing and sad, that is - but still only TOOK AN HOUR! OMG - I have to make it until 5pm!!! HALP!!!