Molly Ringle's Blog, page 38

Das babies!

Little T is around 13 lbs now, a monster blob of a baby, whose hair sticks up in back like a punk rocker, and who likes to smile at us and try interesting new vocalizations like "AH WA!" and "AGLA!" and "MARGH!" and "LAR!" One of his new nicknames is "Marlar," as a result. And Z loves him to death, often swooping in for a strangle-kiss and telling us, "I like that baby!" Just wait till he outweighs you and sits on you, Z.

Anyway: pics!






That's alls I's got time fer. Night.

One-time userpic giveaway

I have a gift certificate for the LJ store, and only need a certain amount of it, but have to use it all at once or lose it. My unneeded balance is $10, which happens to be the exact cost of 100 extra userpics for 12 months. So, anyone who wants that, please comment here by midnight Pacific Time, tomorrow. I'll pick the winner on Friday by random number generator, and a crazy number of new potential icons will be all theirs!

I always knew I was eye candy, but now I'm also set dressing.

The other week my older sister Kate, who knows some people in movie production, emailed me to say, "Here's your chance to send naked pictures of yourself to Tobey Maguire!"

What she meant was, they're shooting a film here in Seattle, currently titled The Details, in which Tobey plays an OB/GYN, and they needed photos of newborns and new parents in the hospital to decorate Dr. Tobey's bulletin board on set. Kate had a bunch of me, Steve, and baby Toby (how about that name coincidence?), so wit...

Writing huzzahs

Two great bits of publishing news:

An old entry of mine (http://lemonlye.livejournal.com/85020...) made it into the LJ Turns 10 anthology! Apparently it's due out in print-on-demand next month. Fun!

And an old novel of mine, recently refurbished, got accepted at The Wild Rose Press as a contemporary romance! It's called Summer Term, and I'm sure I'll bore you later with the details and excerpts. For now, "yay" is all!

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It's...return of perfume giveaway!

Due to childbearing and such, I had put the perfume giveaways on hiatus, but the little vials are still sitting here, waiting for new homes. So let's start up again!

Since they've been around a while through a heat wave or two, and that can affect quality sometimes, I'll do them in batches of two to get through them faster and hopefully find them appreciative homes.

Today, two citrusy scents that are both lovely, but, for me, not quite worth the hard-to-acquire quality and price. Both are 1 ml sam

Unintentional Bulwer-Lyttonism

Hey writers, does this ever happen to you? You're trying to describe a moment or scene, in your head, mentally groping for the proper, unique words, and your description goes off the rails until you have a contender for the Bulwer-Lytton Awards on your hands. Then, if you're like me, you actually try to turn it into such a sentence and make it as dumb as possible. A couple of examples that have spun out of my brain lately:

- Dale "Gruff" MacCleod knew a storm was coming, not only from the red hue

Sorry to disappoint you, web-searchers

Interesting things people have entered as search terms, which have landed them on my webpage:

how many arrows pierced isildur [sorry, I didn't count:]
hagrid stripped ginny and molly [uh...:]
naked eowyn kissing aragorn [again, sorry. Photoshop isn't my strength.:]
do legolas and aragorn kiss [alas, no:]
aragorn and eowyn make out naked [see above:]
girl falls off refrigerator on broomstick [I have no idea. But my website isn't what you're after.:]
when i was in taiwan i had a dog named gandalf [how nice fo

O Cure, what became of you?

Feeling nostalgic, I decided to give new Cure another try, and checked out the 4:13 Dream album from the library. I really wanted to like it, but, well...glad I didn't pay for it, at least.

I miss the days when Robert could hit and hold notes. (Maybe he still can, but he's choosing not to.) I miss the clean, sharp guitar and keyboard notes, which have been replaced mostly by noise that I can't enjoy listening to. As for lyrics--well, I stopped trying to pay attention after Wild Mood Swings (which

Half-Blood Prince film parody (someone else's)!

What with infant rearing and all, I'm not getting out to see the Half-Blood Prince film anytime soon. But! Fortunately the rest of you have, and have provided discussions and reviews, and in at least one case, a really amusing parody version! Thank you, killer_cola, for raising many a giggle in this weary mom.

Some excerpts I particularly liked:

DUMBLEDORE: I'd get used to the bleak colourlessness: that's here to stay.
YATES: What can I say? Hanging around Helena Bonham Carter brings out the Burto

New fandom: The Office

Sometimes, such as when dealing with the last few weeks of pregnancy or the first few of new-baby-hood, fandom is a real sanity saver. I'm not only revisiting an old one by slowly working my way through Buffy again, but am also enjoying a new one with The Office (US--saw the UK one years ago, and yes, it was great too). We're just about done with season 3, and the silly show has wormed its way slowly into my heart.

I like that it seems on the surface to be almost pure parody--surely no one in rea