No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth, I've been busy!! Don't abandon me, I AM coming back, hopefully soon! :-) Seen you then!

Have you played the online 20 Questions? I've recently re-discovered it, and it's still as amazing as ever. And now there are different categories in addition to the classic game. Very cool. Give it a try!

Also, go out and buy Hershey's Coconut Creme kisses right now!! I first bought one bag after Easter last year. I absolutely loved them, but I looked again and couldn't find them anywhere. Apparently they show up around Easter only. I've been waiting for this Easter in hopes that they would appear again, and they did!
Anyway, if you like coconut at all, go buy them! (I want them to be very popular! :-D) Yum!

Icon post! Yipee! :-D

24 Icons

10 LOTR (primarily Arwen)
1 Stock
6 Various Costume Dramas
7 Rosamund Pike

Examples


Rules:
1. COMMENT if taking anything, and please tell me WHAT you take!!
2. Credit enchantinglight! *notice the first part ends in "ing"*
3. No hotlinking!
4. No altering!!! Period!
5. Enjoy! :-)

Sorry the cut text is so light, I've got a new layout and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it yet.
( Sometimes when you dream, your dreams come true in extraordinary ways... )

So. I decided I was incredibly bored of my layout, and I went searching for a new one that I liked. Being exceptionally hard to please, I have been having a lot of difficulty finding one that suits me. I found a few that I sort of liked, and I tried several of them out on a "tester" journal that I have. I decided to take a break, and I logged out. A little while later, I decided to continue my quest, and dummy me logged into my regular journal (this one). I tried on a new layout, only to realize that I put it on this journal and therefore screwed up my old layout before I was ready!!! My tiny icons! I had them all nice and it took me forever to get them that way! And every layout I try now either A) doesn't have a list of tags, B) doesn't appear to work with my Finding Nemo mood theme that I am so NOT READY TO GIVE UP!!, and/or C) looks terrible with my plus account. I toyed with the idea of going back to Basic, but then I can't make polls!

In short, I've just made a lot of trouble for myself. Grrr. Idiot. And I STILL can't find one I like.

My family and I drove several hours to a mall today. It was fairly large, with about two and a half floors and all the big department store names you can think of. It was insanely busy, with wall to wall people. Here's the thing: Really big mall absolutely swimming with people, and yet there was not a single bookstore.

None. Not a one anywhere to be seen.

I went home and read Jane Austen and wept. (Okay, so that's an exaggeration. The last part isn't true. ;-P)

But seriously, how can that huge mall have no bookstore? Do they have no use for one? As much as I'd like to believe that everyone there had a Kindle in his or her pocket, I really doubt it. Is this where we are all headed? Are we to have giant masses of near-illiterate people running around, people whose idea of reading is a text message?

Am I totally over-reacting to this? Is there some logical explanation, such as little mall bookstores are being crowded out by larger stores like Barnes & Noble and cheaper books online? Or is the general population truely headed downhill and fast?

I love Christmas Eve. I think I may love it even more than Christmas itself. The anticipation, the excitement, the possibilities...it truly seems like a magical night where anything can happen.

You can feel it in the air.

As we gather 'round our fireside
On this new Thanksgiving Day,
Time would fail to count the blessings
That have followed all our way;
Grace sufficient, help and healing,
Prayer oft answered at our call;
And the best of all our blessings
Christ Himself, our all in all.

While we love to "count our blessings"
Grateful for the year that's gone,
Faith would sweep a wider vision,
Hope would gaze yet further on.
For the signals all around us
Seem with one accord to say,
"Christ is coming soon to bring us
Earth's last, best Thanksgiving Day"!

A.B. Simpson


Happy Thanksgiving!! :-D

This is going around the Jane Austen internet circles. I'm finding it terribly entertaining! You know the "Lorem ipsum" thing that gives you dummy text for putting in preview layouts and other things? Well this gives you random dialogue from Pride & Prejudice! It's crazy, I'm loving it! It makes me want to create a sharable profile or something just so that I have an excuse to use it.

Examples: ;-)

♥ This is a wretched beginning indeed! My sole dependence was on you; and I am sure nobody else will believe me, if you do not. There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The person of whom I speak is a gentleman, and a stranger.

♥ Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. I rather expected, from my knowledge of her affability, that it would happen. Let me hear from you very soon.

♥ This will never do. Lizzy I was going to look for you; come into my room. You might have talked to me more when you came to dinner.

♥ Do you draw? An express came at twelve last night, just as we were all gone to bed, from Colonel Forster, to inform us that she was gone off to Scotland with one of his officers; to own the truth, with Wickham! Imagine our surprise. Then the two third he danced with Miss King, and the two fourth with Maria Lucas, and the two fifth with Jane again, and the two sixth with Lizzy, and the _Boulanger_--

♥ I am afraid you have been long desiring my absence, nor have I anything to plead in excuse of my stay, but real, though unavailing concern. Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it. Yes, yes, they must marry.

♥ His regiment is there; for I suppose you have heard of his leaving the ----shire, and of his being gone into the regulars. Poor Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately. This will not do you never will be able to make both of them good for anything.

♥ If I were to go through the world, I could not meet with a better. I shall tell Colonel Forster it will be quite a shame if he does not. Why, I must confess that I love him better than I do Bingley.

♥ Make haste, make haste. You both did as much as you could in planning the marriage. How you must have hated me after _that_ evening?

♥ Good God! what is the matter? I will not detain you a minute; but let me, or let the servant go after Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. But you--how are you? You look pale. We have not met since the 26th of November, when we were all dancing together at Netherfield.

♥ From what I can collect, he left Derbyshire only one day after ourselves, and came to town with the resolution of hunting for them. That is the place to get husbands. I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself.

Give it a try! ;-)

Hey everybody! Long time no see! (Read?) ;-P

To my Flist
I know I haven't posted anywhere in forever. I've been really busy. I'm still here, and details should be coming soon. I hope. :-) I would love to go back and look over the posts that I've missed, so once again the weirdo who's commenting on your entry from a week ago is me. ;-D

To Everyone Else
I would really like to be entering some more icontests soon, and I know that I still have a few sets of icons that I haven't posted yet. So, hopefully, I will do that in the not-so-distant future! I haven't responded to comments or PMs recently, and for that I apologize. And I'm delighted that as many of you liked my "For President" icons as you did. :-)

If you're in the US, then by now you've probably had it with the Presidental election. In the spirit of lightening things up and having some fun, I've created a few icons in honor of the election. ;-)

Examples:

PLEASE comment, credit, don't alter, and enjoy!
All comments are welcome!

( She'd never seen him before, and she called him Knightley! )

...when you are in the middle of something on your computer, you should frequently File > Save. :-/ Now I need someone to tell me.

Trying to communicate online with someone when their spelling, grammar, and punctuation leave much to be desired is incredibly difficult. At times, their ability to read seems doubtful as well...

30 Ever After Icons

Examples:



Rules:
1. COMMENT if taking anything, and please tell me WHAT you take!!
2. Credit enchantinglight! *notice the first part ends in "ing"*
3. No hotlinking!
4. No altering!!! Period!
5. Enjoy! :-)

( Tell me a fable... )

♥ Watch this show! ♥ (I believe that is eastern time.)

Examples:

6 Lost in Austen
6 entries for victorianstills
7 entries for costume_stills (Woman in gowns from the late Victorian to the Edwardian era)
6 The Importance of Being Earnest
12 North & South
6 Disney (Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and Aladdin)



Rules:
1. COMMENT if taking anything, and please tell me WHAT you take!!
2. Credit enchantinglight! *notice the first part ends in "ing"*
3. No hotlinking!
4. No altering!!! Period!
5. Enjoy! :-)

That said, all comments are welcome! :-)

( There's something in the wind... )

You know, you would be amazed by the number of people on Livejournal who are so very interested in Elizabeth Bennett and Jane Austin.

;-)

I'm writing a paper right now. No, really, I am. Seriously. Not posting on LJ, not checking my e-mail, PAPER! A PAPER, I say! Truly. Almost.


Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam...


Okay, I'm done.


You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

I love watching costume dramas. (I'm sure you never could have guessed. ;-P) I really enjoying seeing and learning about the different customs or traditions of the past. Sometimes, the way things were done back then seem so much more elegant and respectful then the ways things are often done today. In some cases, the way they did things just looks cooler. ( Consider that a teaser. ;-) )

Arrr! I logged onto Lj, and what do I see? It's one o' me favorite holidays, Talk Like a Pirate Day! I be in a hurry because I be insanely busy today, but seein' that put a big grin on me face! So, brush up on your pirate lin'o, and have fun. I be aft later! I'm goin' t' have a toast in honor o' me old pirate'n buckos who seem t' have gone down t' Davy Jones' Locker.

The Official Site for International Talk Like a Pirate Day.