Astronauts and Teddy Bears and Zombies, Oh My.

I love msmoat's Post About Your Fandom Weekend idea, and wanted to contribute, even though my current fannish interests are far removed from Pros--some day I really want to interrogate my muse about how its interests changed from spies, special agents, and scruffy men with swords to a boyband, but for now I'm just enjoying the ride *g*--and I'm gong to make it just under the wire for it still being the weekend.

In the wake of the Frankfurt concert--which is still putting a monster grin on my face two weeks later--I thought I'd do a mini-Mark post. I've been meaning to do a new Mark Owen post for, oh, weeks now, but RL always seems to take precedence. But I've got a few spare minutes now, so I'm going to go for it.

At some point I'll do an emo!Mark post. And there's always the ever popular sweaty-and-performing!Mark, not to mention the dubious-and-awesome-fashion-choices!Mark. But today I'm going to focus on smiley!Mark. And yes, there will be astronauts and teddy bears and zombies.

( This way to smiley!Mark )

Ros is Seven!

Today, Ros turned seven! I can't quite believe I'm the mom of a seven-year-old, but there you have it.

With not very many weeks to spare, Ros finally decided she wanted a rock climbing birthday party, so we spent the afternoon at our local climbing gym with Ros and 11 of her friends.

I got to belay Ros (her friends had to be belayed by the professional instructors), so here we are in our climbing gear. I'm as astounded as anyone that I now own climbing gear. (So far I only belay Ros, but I'm toying with calling a climbing friend or two at some point and giving it a real go myself. On the really easy routes.)


( A couple of climbing Ros pics )