Let it snow!

Here's the first of what may be mutliple photo-related posts over the next day or so.

First here's some photos and a slide show of our recent snow.  (Hey M, did you use photobucket to do your holiday decoration slideshow?  If so, how did you get music?)

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Happy Holidays!

Here's photo post #2. Just a slideshow this time....kemiloo --you did a great job!

Our holiday decorations...

ETA:  I had to update to add this one photo--it doesn't show up well in the slideshow...

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Wow

Just heard that our schools are closed again tomorrow.  Third day in a row.  I can't even remember a time when the schools were closed three days in a row before.

I guess everyone's assuming the forecast is correct and another 2-4 inches are headed our way tomorrow.  I don't know.  Seems like they are jumping the gun a little bit.  They could wait to see what it's like in the morning.  Although the forecast does say that most of it will fall around noontime.

*This* just makes me smile...Sketches of the Js...

oddment has posted her sketches in responses to all the prompts she got.  I only got partway through and had to post about them.  They (as usual) are fantastic!  (*is envious of her skill*)

Go see them here!  (BTW I love the Jensen and Jared as FBI agents.  Jensen in glasses is always GUH to me.  It was that one that sent me off to post and rec.  So I haven't even seen the rest of them yet.)

ETA:  Warning there is at least one NSFW pic in there!

A Jared Meme!

First seen at keepaofthecheez and then several other places including janglyjewels . 

Cheer up your flist with your fav Jared pic!

Here's some I took at Chicago J2 Breakfast in Nov...

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That Meme....the eight days of happiness...

Tagged by mrsr58, rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Tag 8 people to do the same. 

Day 1--what made me happy today:  Photoshop!!!! (In case you didn't already notice my 22,342 other posts today.)  While the darn thing is not intuitively easy to learn--once you get the hang of it--the THINGS you can DO!  And I found pre-recorded actions today!!!!  I can lose hours and hours and hours and hours using this program.

For example...remember my "Jensen comes to visit" manip? 

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Hmmm... I tag anyone else who hasn't done this yet...

Jared? Seriously????

Do you love us?  Or what?  I mean really!???   Three conventions in March!??  We really hype you up, don't we?

(And Jensen's going back to Asylum???  Is that in May?  (*is too lazy to go look.*)  I guess they must have beefed up the security to re-assure him or something.  I'm so glad he's going back.  SPN-love and the Js have to go EVERYWHERE so everyone can see how wonderful they are.)

And I see Misha's getting around.  He's going to be an old pro at this rate.

All's well in SPN Land.

O, btw, I'm watching this DVD--"Finding the Future.  A Science Fiction Conversation."  I saw it mentioned in some of the obituary notices for Forrest Ackerman--who I guess is one of (or maybe the original?) SciFi fanboy.  I obviously majorly FAIL and should have my scifi card revoked for not knowing about him until he died and I read it on Wil Wheaton's blog. 

This DVD is basically an overview of Fandom  and Scifi Con's.  It's such fun to watch!

Here are some memorable quotes that I actually wrote down when I started watching it a few days ago.  Most of these are Fen trying to describe who they are...

a willingness to imagine differences

a willingness to look beyond the everyday

fandom tends to be more accepting of differences among people on our own planet.  Or differences among each other.

Fandom is a very accepting community of differences among people.

Everybody is an alien to everyone else.

Science fiction fandom is actually a tribe.  We're a tribe of individuals who have unique characteristics of mutual and common respect.

Fans are freaks and geeks.

Their ability to accept just about everything and everyone.

What do you call someone who is not a fan?  A Mundane.

A Mundane is a non-fan.  People who don't "get it."  They call us freaks--we call them Mundanes.

[regarding Mundanes...]  We see them as people that there really isn't anything--we can't talk to them about anything--they're not reading books.  None of this excites them.  None of this interests them.  They think the current consensus reality as they've been fed it, by whoever feeds it to them, is all there is.  And that doesn't bother them!

We question why things are.  We question authority. 

Fans are all interested in ideas and speculation than gossip and keeping up with the Jones'.  Who gives a shit what the Jones' have?

Science fiction is the future.  What has been science fiction in the past has now become science fact in many cases.  We are doing things today that our grandfathers knew wasn't possible.

OMG--look at the TIME!  I slept so much yesterday, I wonder if I'll ever get to sleep tonight...