TALKING HAMILL

I still have 2 things to add: a quote on the Blog Fiction page and the whole write-out of the Thomas story I'm glomming from two episodes of Shining Time Station (hey, why not?) but, beyond that, Birthday Visitors is complete. Enjoy.

And now I can finally go to sleep.

:p

There's these little frogs that live around our house and once in a while at night you see 'em hopping around. There's times they'll hop into the street or be on the sidewalk and get baked once the sun goes up (poor things). I can't stand to see 'em suffer like that so I'll usually move them back onto the grass. I picked one up just now and it squirted fluid on my hands but I didn't want to see it squished or cooked, so I put it on the grass and let him be. I wish I could've gotten a picture, though. These frogs are so cute!!

Here's another batch of Katie Cook icons! Only Star Wars this time. Since these are all from her sketch cards, I tried brightening them up so they didn't look too cardboardy and since I like borders, and all of my icons so far have had black borders, I'm making it a tradition. Hopefully everyone else likes them as much as I do.

Check for more soon! :)

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The rest here!

Hi all! This is my first post to this community. I've got 20 Star Wars icons, including:

1 Leia, Han, Chewie, 3PO
1 Luke and Yoda
1 Luke and Anakin Skywalker
1 Luke, Leia, Han
3 Luke and Leia
13 Luke

Please comment and credit if you take any. To credit, just add:
made by <*lj user="zardi">
to the comment line when you upload the icon (without the *).

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( All 20 behind the cut. )

Did you know there was going to be a new Terminator movie???? Cuz I sure didn't. :/

No Arnie, though. :(

The registration check-in process for our second camp - Primary - went very well. I even got many compliments, from all manner of people, about how registration was going in general. Makes me feel good, of course, for all the hard work. I know how difficult it is to handle some of the other jobs of camp staff - directing (which I haven't actually done, but I've been in charge of other things and it gives one an idea), being a counselor, etc. So what I like most is when all their responsibilities are made that much easier because me and my God-given A-type personality handled my part. Amazing, isn't it, how the Lord brings it all together like that sometimes. ; ) Alas, then there was some type of illness breakout during camp and they had to end it a bit early. I don't know the details but it does make me feel bad for the kids - what a horrid time to have to get sick - and the director (this was her first time directing a district children's camp and I know she put in a ton of work).

Our annual meetings are next week, with Preteen camp after that. Oh yeah, and then Athenaeum Girls' School kicks in. I'll actually be going on a vacation when all that is finished. James has a conference to attend in Williamsburg, VA and we're adding a week after it to be all touristy and stuff. Part of me is excited, and the other part of me is a little too tired to be bothered with trying to research all the fun/cool things to do in that area. So, if anyone knows of anything I really should not miss while there, do give me a heads up please.

Despite the busy-ness of my summer, I've managed to give myself some down time. James and I went to see Wall-e and adored it! And I've been catching up on some of the various things I had recorded from TV. Any of my mystery loving friends happen to watch Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece Theater Mystery? I've quite enjoyed the first two installments. Although it kept bugging me that I couldn't place the actress who played the widow in the second story.

Doctor Who has kept me on the edge of my seat recently. I could probably drive myself mad trying to over-analyze the recent two-parter but I don't really have time. What does have my curiosity up more than anything, however, is the whole deal about the Doctor's real name. I don't recall that being a big thing in the original series. Part of me finds it fascinating - that there's this bit of his past that we don't really know. At the same time, I kind of hope it never gets revealed. Part of the wonder of The Doctor is his secrets. ; )

Other things I've been watching include Robin Hood. Yes, it is still as silly as ever. Perhaps even more so. But it seems to work for me as entirely mindless entertainment or something. And after discovering the Sleuth channel a few months back I have totally fallen in love again with Simon & Simon. I'd forgotten just how hard-hitting some of the episodes could be, or how impressive Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney were in their acting in some of those more demanding episodes. Then in perhaps one of the strangest fandom-worlds-collide moments ever, I happened to catch a moment of an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise a few weeks back - James was watching and I was passing through the living room. To my surprise the alien-of-the-week characters were portrayed by Mary Carver (a.k.a. Cecilia Simon, or Rick and AJ's mom) and Erik Avari (a.k.a. Kasuf, or Daniel Jackson's father-in-law).

Received some lovely gifts of late. A gorgeous tea cozy from jedihealer and some darajeeling tea from cnidarian. Many thanks, ladies!

Nothing terribly big planned for the July 4th weekend. Going to see my folks - James and Dad will fish, and who knows what kind of trouble Mom and I will get into. ; )

In this blog story I have Mistral speaking aloud (they can after their 4th birthday) and I had to glean through my old journal entries to find out the year I created her (2004) to make sure she could speak aloud. ><# I really should make that timeline. :/

Or, at least, tag my posts.

I need a basic rundown of what emotions of RiftDoc cause what. I know what got posted on his journal but I need to know what (if anything) fear and nervousness causes. I'm looking through his Rift posts, but just in case I miss something (which is known to happen, hehe)...

I haven't been checking in on-line or through various fandoms recently, so it was only just this afternoon that I learned of the passing of Don S. Davis.

I've known of deaths of appreciated actors/entertainers before, of course. But this is the first time it's been someone I also had the privilege of meeting in person. And I can say that all those nice things you've ever read about Don S. Davis are true. He was quick with that welcoming smile and a warm southern hello. His personality was huge, but never made you feel ill at ease. He always had a story to tell, but would invariably find a way to involve you in the conversation. He was as curious to hear your story as you were his.

I'll never forget the enjoyment of listening to him read various selections during the Cabaret entertainment evening at the 2005 Creation Con in Grapevine, Texas. Or the thrill of getting to meet him and chat with him at the dessert party later. And I was so looking forward to an opportunity to see him again at Dragon*Con later this summer.

Sonia and I have the privilege of meeting Don S. Davis in 2005.

As with the loss of anyone, things won't be quite the same without him - even for those who only "knew" him through his acting roles. But I like to think my life is a little better for having known him, even in that small way. Godspeed, Sir. You will be missed.

With my computer being sick I couldn't scan this earlier. :/ This group of females let a male come and play. :)

( The Doctor's companions )

 9 anakin/padme icons here

What animal are you?
Devbook Quizzes!!

( pictures of my real bike )

Сабж.
До встречи на Старконе.

This one isn't mine, it's one of found on Google image search, but mine's the same make and model, and a similar color (turquiose 1980 Takara). I love it. It's much better than my old bike. And I like how its wheels shine like justice. Like justice.

Though nothing will ever take that bike's place in my heart *sniff*.


Also, will someone make me an icon of that picture of Mark Hamill riding his bike that I posted a few weeks ago? I want to use it when I talk about bikey things.

180-200 Star Wars



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I'm come to terms with the fact that I'm just never going to see my bike again. I've taken steps to acquire a new bike.

I'm going to go look at an old as fuck but beautiful ca. 1969 schwinn 10 speed tomorrow morning. I'd rather have something later, but this looks like a good bike. I've emailed about other bikes, and I'd kind of rather have the 1980 12 speed than the 1969 10 speed. Bikes are the only thing where I'd rather have something from the 80s than the 60s.

I thought that my bike getting stolen was the result of bad karma, but maybe what's going on is that now the universe owes me, and my new bike will be amazing. I loved that old Univega. But only four or five of its 12 speeds worked and it made thudding and grinding noises when switching gears, or sometimes for no reason at all. I never got around to tuning it up. It could have been a fast and awesome bike, but it wasn't. Maybe my new bike will be.

I've just come up with a completely cracked-out idea for that Rift!Doc-Meets-Tempest-and-Mistral story. Heh. Heh. Heh.

I know Rift!Doc's opinion on magic, but what about stories and steam trains? :p *giggle*

Wow~ I'd better go to bed. ^^ *thud*

1-27: Star Wars
28-89: Phantom of the Opera
90-122: Sweeney Todd
123-130: The Other Boleyn Girl
131-146: Elizabeth the Golden Age
147-157: Marie-Antoinette
158-164: The Duchess

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