A Jubilant Goddess!

So, remember how I mentioned that my husband is awesome?

BEHOLD THE AWESOME!

Well, the feisty little bugger has continued to redefine the term! For he, in his infinite wisdom and humility, had created the second in his series of me, his patron goddess, in My Infinite And Varied Moods!

While my last incarnation was "Haughty", gazing upon the world and its environs with a detached and superior gaze, this one displays me in a more cheerful and perky mood!

Voila!

Everything's comin' up roses!

As you can see, this aspect is much more sporty and fun, from my fetching mini-toga to the bright pink with gold trimmings sash and background. After all, one can't be a contemplative and superior being all the time--well, one can, but one doesn't always have to dress/act that way. In the right moment, one can be cheerful, even euphoric, beaming down upon the mortals below, reveling in the sight of that *bookstore that shall remain nameless but rhymes with "Orders"* as it burns, burns, burns. 

Seriously, though, I just adore this. So fun! So cute! So enthralled with the momentary bliss and pain of mere mortals! Ah, I chose the right consort. 

So enjoy the current representation, kids! C'mon and party it up--ambrosia for everybody!

Ring Out, Wild Bells, To The Wild Sky--Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring

So I just saw The Bling Ring, and if there is a more terrifying indictment of how America has gone horribly wrong, failed its youth, and willfully thrown itself into the shallow end of the pool, I for one do not have the stomach to face it.

Goddess Makeover

So, you may have noticed something a little different about my blog.

You know,  it still looks like me, but better? Slicked up? More Goddess-y?

Well, there's a reason for that--I have the most awesome husband ever.

"Am I awesome?"

"Yes."

"How awesome?"

"The awesomest, sweetie."

"Yeah!"

My beloved and talented spouse had been promising for a couple months to draw some sketches of Yours Truly in my heavenly guise, and he's just completed the first one! It's the new background, as you can see, and I think it's just perfect.

There should be more coming fairly soon, to be put in the gallery at right, and of course I shall post alerts as each one shows up, as I am benevolent and wish to share the bounty of having a cool artist for a husband.

For now, enjoy my "Haughty" persona, far above you mortals and your petty concerns.  Others will be coming soon. I'm really looking forward to Wrathful.

I'm sorry the rest of you can't be me, but, Goddesses don't share. Still, no reason why you can't stand on the other side of the screen, wistfully viewing what cannot be yours. Enjoy!


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As We Have Done Before: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

Well,  you never know what's going to lure me back to posting.

This time around, it's to partially appease, partially excorsise an apparition that follows me in some kind of orbit, one as mysterious and elongated as Pluto's; Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.