It’s that time again! It’s 10 p.m. on Friday here in the Persephone offices, so we’re signing off until Monday. Feel free to use this open thread as a giant Persepheparty until we get back. Lurkers! Come on out and say hi to the rest of us, we promise not to bite. Unless you ask really nicely.
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I started A Game of Thrones this weekend. I am normally more of a sci-fi gal, but holy mackrel I am hooked!
Yes, more AGoTties!
joinnn ussss:)
I’m buying a treadmill. I fear it may be folly, but I like treadmills, and having one under my own roof where I don’t have to put on real gym clothes and get in the car and see other humans may just motivate me to use it. Also, I’m going to shamelessly use you all for motivation.
You need to use it so that I can treadmill vicariously through you. You have no idea how much I want one and how much I’m bummed that I can’t afford one right now (though I do keep checking Craigslist, since people get rid of them pretty frequently.)
I was going back and forth on it, and then one of my friends posted on FB that she was selling hers for $140. Decision made.
So… I think I had a really productive weekend! I did Days 1 and 2 of the 30-Day Shred, I cleaned a bunch, I cooked a bunch of food to freeze and have for the upcoming week, I’m going to be doing laundry tonight… so, yeah, things are looking good.
I did not make a hat for my dog, but there is still time for that since the photoshoot won’t be for at least two weeks.
What about the rest of you? Did you get as much done this weekend as you wanted? (Even if, or especially if, what you wanted to get done was “sit on your butt and watch TV/play videogames/surf the intarwebs”)
woo hoo! Kudos to you on the days of Shredding! let me know if you can walk tomorrow!
I’ve had an unproductive day, thanks to a hangover that just won’t quit. Dumb, dumb, dumb……
Amazingly, I got everything I wanted to do done this weekend! Worked out twice, got some strange, made a crazy rich dessert and went to church. I’m very satisfied.
Glad to hear your weekend was so productive!
am whooping for both PoM and Marthamydear. good hustle everybody! I ‘m
abroad this week so am feeling persephone-
deprived.have no laptop and mobile view is not the same.back on Wednesday!
Whooping back for TRAVELING. And your userpic!
Thanks! I’m seeing friends and being a nerdy tourist.
I recently found an actual quote from John McBride which chimes exactly with Kate Beaton’s portrayal of him: “Finding a rebellion on, I decided to take part in it”.
(he was executed for doing so).
Today I chopped off all my hair! Yahhh! It’s been a couple of years since I went pixie-short and my hair has wavered between short to near-bob length, but it’s been such a pain recently- in my face, lank + oily, so I decided to make the chop.
The fact that I’m getting some tonight with a girl who a few weeks told me she LOVED my short hair? Just good timing. ;)
Go you!
Chopping your hair off is so liberating! My hair was in some variation of a stacked bob with chin-length front pieces for a few years, and I finally went pixie short last summer. I’m getting the itch to grow it out again, but growing out from a pixie is sort of a pain, so I might just keep it short a while longer.
Growing out is so overrated. As an aside, also, having short hair is one of the few ways I feel that I can signal my ‘hey-I-also-like-girls’ side, since I’m otherwise completely femmey.
Thoughts about hair: I haz them, apparently.
NGL, I am in the process of growing my hair out from a pixie into a bob (desperately need a trim, as it’s in the “mullet” in-between stage. If you’ve done this before, you know of which I speak), and I am kind of worried that it’ll have an effect on how I show up on people’s gaydar, since that’s what always happens.
MULLETS ARGH BLARGH. I understand completely though. I can flirt and flirt and flirt and apparently the only way I’ll be taken seriously (although this hardly ever happens, sigh) is if I’m rocking the short hair.
I have hair like a fundamentalist polygamist lady. It’s all one length and it hits my waist. I’ve been thinking of going pixie, but that would mean chopping off about 2.5 feet of hair. That frightens me. My hair is like my wubby, and I can do a great Cousin It impression.
Although if you wanted to donate it, I bet wigmakers would kiss your dainty rainbow hooves!
“Kiss my dainty rainbow hooves” is going to replace “chomp my taint” as my retort of choice.
Whooooo! Plans for this weekend: Cleaning, seeing Harry Potter, and making a tiny hat for my dog.
A friend is doing a photoshoot with us, and I think it would be a really cute accessory.
And I was kind of thinking that it might be a niche to get into and possibly sell online: steampunk accessories for dogs (tiny hats, bowties, cravats… possibly vests if I start feeling ambitious.)
For your doggie models: http://dog-milk.com/humunga-stache-dog-toy/
That… is really adorable. Not something my dog would use (she prefers Nylabone chew toys and completely ignores Kongs), but still amazing.
I’m spending my whole weekend reading A Song of Ice and Fire. I’m on Book 2 right now. Shit’s getting good.
WINTER IS COMING.
Also, anyone who spoils anything for me will be disemvoweled forever.
Oooooh enojoy!
I’m 58% through, according to my Kindle. I plan to do nothing but read for the rest of the day.
But after that you still have 3a and 3b and 4 and even five is already (“already”) published!
Or do you want to read a book per tv-season?
I plan to power through the entire book series as quickly as possible. I was hoping to have books 2 and 3 done by Tuesday. We’ll see. I took a long nap, so I lost some time there.
HOly crap am i glad this week is over. Can I get a hellz ya?
word.