Category Archives: Cool things

The Dead Man’s Party

Posted on November 2, 2009 by HappyGoth

Last year, HusbandofLea (HoL) and I threw a party at my house for Halloween. And it was pretty awesome. I unknowingly told everyone it was a pirate theme (I put a picture of a pirate on the invitation, which apparently … Continue reading →

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It is so totally Halloween already!

Posted on October 30, 2009 by HappyGoth

I challenge you to say otherwise. Okay, so you probably will. But I have evidence to the contrary! Observe: EXHIBIT A I wore a costume to work today. It was so blingy. And I had a blast. I even got … Continue reading →

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Schwag

Posted on October 29, 2009 by HappyGoth

My in-laws are truly spectacular people. For every holiday, we get a box full of nifty/weird stuff, and on occasion these boxes come without a holiday. The box that came to the office yesterday was for Halloween, and was as … Continue reading →

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Oh, NASA

Posted on October 28, 2009 by HappyGoth

You’re so awesome. I’ve been watching the Guild pretty religiously, and so then added Felicia Day to my RSS feed so that I wouldn’t miss updates. Today, she posted about this excellent NASA video, which I now share with you: … Continue reading →

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It’s Diwali

Posted on October 17, 2009 by HappyGoth

Which is suddenly exciting to me (I do not wonder at this, though). And since it’s also the weekend, here’s a video that is trippy and combines my two greatest cultural obsessions into one strange, beautiful thing: If you’re in … Continue reading →

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Backing up a bit

Posted on October 14, 2009 by HappyGoth

The books stuff I’m working on now is not the only thing I’ve accomplished, book-wise, over the past month or so. I forgot to take photos, but here’s Master Lorenzo’s elevation gift (no, it’s not magic – he took some … Continue reading →

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Endbands!

Posted on October 13, 2009 by HappyGoth

I am in love with endbands. No, really. It was necessary for me to sleep last night, so I had to quit but I didn’t want to. Also, did you know that if you hunch over something for six hours, … Continue reading →

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What a weekend.

Posted on October 12, 2009 by HappyGoth

No, seriously. I had intended to clean house, which I sort of did, but then I did a lot of other stuff. And while that’s all well and good, I still need to clean my house. Oh, well. Anyway. Here’s … Continue reading →

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I love you, internet.

Posted on October 8, 2009 by HappyGoth

So then there was this other exciting thing that I’m learning to do, which is to build webpages, and I just realized that I love CSS. A lot. But you probably don’t care about that. Moving along, the top 5 … Continue reading →

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[SCA] Aha! Progress!

Posted on October 6, 2009 by HappyGoth

It feels good. Anyway. I’ve made some progress on the bookbinding front. So far I have cut and folded (and am pressing) all the pages for the test book. I went on an outing this past weekend to purchase leather … Continue reading →

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