G R O W Y O U R W I N G S

I'm late early to the birthday wishes.  (So many folks posted mid-day yesterday--likely non-Americans--that I thought I was just under the wire with posting for Jared's birthday.  Turns out the birthday is July 19th!  So I was actually on the way early curve for my time zone.)

Was having fun re-learning CSS and playing with my LJ layout some more. Was able to fix all my CSS errors! So now I have that little LJ user symbol showing up when it is supposed to. Plus I fixed some minor formatting errors.

But back to the important thing..... wishing one of our favorite two actors a very happy birthday!

Just taking a quick moment to update. I think I'm going to have to apologize to my flist soon for spamming. Ever since I discovered LJ Book I want to use my LJ not just for fandom stuff but for RL stuff. I love the thought of being able to capture experiences and thoughts so that I can browse through them years from now. So if this starts to get too spamming for you all--I won't be insulted if you defriend.

I'll likely start posting more private posts as well. I do tend to "not care" about sharing too much. But there are limits--even for me!

Yesterday Mr. GYW took me to the coast to celebrate my birthday! We live in Oregon and the coast here is beautiful, unspoiled, all public, sometimes rocky (in Northern Oregon), and frequently cold and rainy. But I still absolutely love it! The ocean both calms and energizes me. I used to come over all the time before I met Mr. GYW. Unfortunately he's more a mountain and desert person. So when we do go places we have to balance his love of the mountains etc with my love of the ocean.

We're in Lincoln City at the Surftides. We have a room overlooking the ocean. I'll post photos later. It was clear and sunny all the drive over here until, you guessed it, we actually got to the edge of the ocean--then it was fog-bank city. But the fog cleared around 9:30 pm last night.

Last night there were fireworks over the beach. We could stand on our balcony and see them. It was cool.  We went to bed kinda late so Mr. GYW is still snoozing away while I'm sitting by the balcony watching and listening to the ocean while I browse the net a bit.

Just did a quick (and I mean 1 min) look see on my flist and found this post with photos of Jared in Australia. Man he looks terrific.



Then fickleone (by way of mrsr58) sent me over to Jim Beaver's MySpace blog.  He seems to be such a great person.  I used his RSS feed to subscribe to his blog through my flist so I can be sure to keep up with his entries.  I really hope he's at either or both ChicagoCon 2008 or LA Con 2009.