{ lj and halloween and books and stuff }

[the_muppet]

1) lj: Finally! Saw this post this morning and I'm so glad they've finally gotten rid of that small, ugly font they were using in HTML editor. I still prefer the one they had before the small ugly one, but at least this one is an improvement on the last one in terms or writing and editing posts. It's a little annoying though that only default userpics appear on friends pages even if a different icon was used in the journal itself. (For example, I've used my pink mug icon for this post, though my default userpic is showing up as the icon used on my friends page.) I'm hoping this is a temporary bug that's quickly fixed.

2) good wife: Been marathoning The Good Wife lately and really enjoying it. How is Josh Charles still as lovely as he was when he was in Dead Poets Society?

3) halloween: Halloween on Monday and I love that holiday - when my brothers were younger I would decorate the flat and take them trick-or-treating every year; we always made their costumes and they were always amazing. No trick-or-treating any more, but me, Peter and my nephew Josh will be pumpkin carving on Saturday and watching scary movies (of the tame variety if Peter gets his way) this weekend. Best pumpkin I ever did (in my opinion) is one year when Peter asked for one that looked like the troll from Lord of the Rings; I really liked how that one turned out. I'll probably let them choose a pumpkin design from the ones I did a couple of years back, if I'm not feeling that creative on the day:



4) dream: Had a Supernatural related dream last night where I was the sister of the Winchester brothers. (Sister? Really, brain?) It started off with me and Sam out hunting together, but got so scary that I actually woke myself up. Still went back into the same dream when I went to sleep, though this time Dean was with us and he really didn't like having me around for some reason (which was sad, obviously) and wanted to be off hunting with just his brother.

5) bill bryson: Thanks to something nahara posted a couple of weeks ago, I've been re-reading all my Bill Bryson books. He's the only person I've ever read who can actually make me laugh until I cry. If you've never read any of his books, then you really, really should.

6) peter: Peter only gets 3 hours a week support worker time, which is really nothing at all and nowhere near what would be of benefit to him. However, his social worker has just gone to panel to try and get him 2 more hours a week and I just heard today that the funding for that has been agreed, so I'm really happy =)


Hope you're all doing okay; have a great week ♥

Comments

[psycho-warbaby.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say HI :D

Oh and I love those Pumpkins! I'm in Australia and we don't celebrate Halloween, but I love seeing all those cool designs!

*Hugs* Hope you're doing ok too

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I think it's sad you don't get to celebrate Halloween, it's such good fun =)

And HI! *hugs you* Hope all is good with you ♥

[dentedsky.livejournal.com]

Whoa you carved those? That's amazing! I've never seen one in real life /o\ They're kind of cute.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I did, yeah - years of practice have made me quite good at it =)

[prfctdaze.livejournal.com]

Halloween is a blast! Definitely my 2nd favorite holiday. Those pumpkins are awesome :D

I've never read Bill Bryson so I will add that to my list. Thanks for the rec :)

That's great news about Peter!

Hope you have a great week, too! ♥♥♥

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

You really must - he's a wonderful writer and so, so funny =)

Thanks love - I think I'm more pleased than Peter is, but that's just because it's not sunk in for him yet that he'll actually be able to do more now.

Take care lovely ♥

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

i hadn't noticed that lj is only displaying people's default userpics on my flist!! wtf! i hope they fix that asap because i like seeing people's different icons.

halloween :D i will be very busy this week, so i'm not sure i will get to experience it aside from various halloween eps on my tv shows.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

It's still doing it, for me, anyway, and I know a few others have the same issue as they've commented on it in the able LJ-releases post. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.

Hope you get to enjoy at least some of Halloween =)

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

I have adored Josh Charles for many years. He is lovely and one of the most underrated actors in the business.

Those pumpkins are fantastic!

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I kind of lost track of him after Dead Poets so it's nice to see him again =)

Thank you!

[ansku]

Ah, the HTML editor - no wonder I hadn't noticed any difference :) Glad it's fixed, though!

I'm still in awe of your pumpkin carving prowess :)

Congrats to Peter!

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, sorry, I should have clarified that - I always use the HTML editor =)

Thanks lovely, on both counts ♥

[sue91.livejournal.com]

You're right about the icon - I hadn't noticed! I hope it'll be fixed soon.

I maranthoned The Good Wife about two months ago and loved it! ♥

Glad to hear the news about Peter :)

*hugs* ♥

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I'm really enjoying it, but marathoning it so quickly I'll soon be done!

Thanks lovely, I'm really pleased for him =)

*hugs lots*

[lemniciate.livejournal.com]

everyone's been talking about the strange lj editor thing but i don't think i've even noticed...! what's wrong with the text? :O

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Until they made the change today, they had replaced the regular text with this quite tiny font which was, well horrible. Today they've changed it to a different one.

[valika56.livejournal.com]

Hey, you are very creative, these pumpkin heads are amazing! Unfortunately we don't celebrate Halloween here in my country, so I've seen this holiday in movies only.

It's good to hear that Peter will get more support.

Have a great week, too!*HUGS*

[vita-candeo.livejournal.com]

Your pumpkins are amazing hun!! *hugs*

[accordingtomel.livejournal.com]

Hey you!! *hugs*

I totally love your pumpkins! Man, I haven't carved a pumpkin in a LONG time, but it's so much fun :D. We used to have pumpkin carving contests back when I was in high school. Good memories...;)

I love fandom-related dreams, but it always sucks when they end up being bad ones. I'm sure if you were REALLY related to Sam and Dean, they'd like you just fine, LOL! ;)

I'm glad to hear that you were able to get more funding for respite for Peter. 5 hours still seems somewhat minimal to me, but I'm sure that goes a long way, when you're able to utilize it, so yay! :D

We both posted within a couple days of one another. That's almost unheard of these days! Anyway, glad things are going all right for you ♥

[adelagia.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Peter! o/\o

I will put Bill Bryson on my list! Is there one book in particular you'd recommend to start out with?

You might want to watch Sports Night; Josh Charles was marvelous in it. It aired around a decade ago, but his character is still one of my top ten TV boyfriends. :)

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Heyhey! Thanks for the blue spider! :D

[mir8lle.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the spider, hun!