A Little Morning Rhapsody

Birthday post coming soon — I spent far too much of yesterday sleeping off the fabulous skating extravaganza! In the meantime, I’ll leave you this little bit of awesomeness to tide you over. Please dance around the room and enjoy the song that was number one on the UK charts January 11, 1976. Plus, you can never go wrong…

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You Know…For Kids!

FIND A HERO! Contest Once in a lifetime chance to be in a book with a DC Comics super hero! How It Works: Superman and Batman are super heroes. Ordinary people can be extraordinary and heroic for many different reasons such as helping others, being remarkably brave in a situation, or overcoming an illness with resiliency, humor, and courage….

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Sweet Idea

When you type in "Alethea" to Google search, my website is the fourth one down. The first two listings are for Baby Name sites. The fifth is for the "Kung Fu" episode I’m named after. And the third is for a chocolate store in New York state, founded by a Greek woman from Kozani. For years, I’ve wanted to…

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Happy Tolkien Day!

In honor of J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday today, and next week being my Hobbit coming-of-age birthday (not eleventy-first; the other one), I am partaking in the second annual Lord of the Rings marathon. Beginning with the Rankin & Bass production of The Hobbit. I invite you all to join in on this, the Greatest Adventure.

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11:59:60

This is so awesome, my geekness exploded. (And not just because the article used pics from the Doctor Who episode "Being Human.") You should all endeavor to do something awesome with your Leap Second tonight. Make a wish. Make it a good one.

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My Haiku

I used nihilistic_kid ‘s haiku generator and came up with this one for me: odd people roamingthe grounds what a wonderfulmagical place this I like it. Here’s the link if you want to make your own!

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Happy Days meme: Day Three

The "best" way I’ve found so far of curling my hair has been sleeping in perm rollers with newly-dry just-after-a-shower hair. The unfortunate thing is that these are twenty-year-old perm rollers, so the ones that don’t tear half my hair out end up breaking when the elastic loses to the strain of too many years. Last night I stopped…

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Happy Days meme: Day Two

Thing that made me happy today: caffeine. Which reminds me…what exactly *is* on the end of the Starbucks swizzle stick? Is this a mermaid with a cup of coffee? Really? Is she flying? Coffee doesn’t steam underwater… Discuss.

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