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    This is Halloween! This is Halloween!

    I unabashedly love Halloween. Always have. When I was in high school, we lived in an absolutely perfect trick-or-treating neighborhood – a bunch of quiet streets with tons of kids. We’d come back with pillowcases full of candy and spend November on a non-stop sugar high. Most years I put a lot of effort into putting a costume together, and I’ve come up with some really good ones. Almost every year since having my kid,…

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    Rebel Badge Update

    I’ve been working on a lot of badges since I last posted about this, and since then I’ve taken a pottery class (and signed up for another one), traveled to New Zealand and put together a 197-page scrapbook of our trip, wrote a bunch on this here blog, did a lot of crafting, and planted a garden this year.

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    Hairstyles of the (not)rich and (not)famous

    I’ve had a LOT of hairstyles over the years. From ultra long down to my butt in 6th grade to that time I cut my own hair in high school to pixie cuts, from platinum blonde when I was a kid to rainbow when I was, well, a very large kid, I’ve always enjoyed changing it up.

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    Holy post explosion, Batman!

    Regular readers (as if I had any regular readers, lol) might be asking “What’s with all the posts lately?” I mentioned Rebel Badges in a post last month. One of the badges I’m going for is the Writer badge, and one of the things I can do to earn the badge is to do writing in a blog. So I says to myself, “Self,” I says. “I have a blog already, I just have to…

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    Why The Hobbit Movies are Crap

    Lest you think I save up all of my enmity for the Hobbit movies for my blog, I would like to call your attention to a real, actual presentation I made at work.

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    What made Melkor such a shithead?

    Melkor was one of the most powerful of the Ainur. But why did he turn into such a shithead and how did he become known as Morgoth? Tl;dr: Boredom and loneliness. No, really. Oh, and also a good heaping measure of wanting the power of creation for himself, that too.

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    Rings of Power, S1 E2

    Ok. I’m finally getting around to watching the next episode. Here we go! Liveblog for initial watch-through of Rings of Power S1 E2 I’ve put my initial thoughts as I was watching in the main bullets, and then pulled out any additional info I added afterward into sub-bullets. Needless to say, spoilers abound.