Blatherings 2007 Index
Welcome to the 2007 archives of Debbie's Blatherings, a personal blog where I've been posting since 1997. To get back to the main Blatherings page: http://debbieohi.com/blatherings. You can also find me on Twitter: @inkyelbows (writing), @DebOhi (personal friends/family, non-work), @BGGgirl (board gaming), @iPadGirl.
Because of various online moves, my archives are split into different journal pages:
1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010+ (current archives).
Entries by Title
Click on an entry title below to view the full text of that entry.
- Celebrating New Year's with mochi!
- LAN parties and Technonerdmonsters
- Waiting For Bilbo (part 2)
- Happy holidays!
- Gifts, mailing lists, and cuttlefish
- Waiting For Bilbo?
- Christmas ornaments and free winter/holiday LJ user icons!
- Toronto snowstorm
- St. Nicholas Day package!
- Morning Rituals, dung beetles and vampire squirrels
- Nixie clocks, bpNichol and Little Nightmares
- Monster squirrels!
- Cats, sleeping babies and painting
- Ex-"Weta Guy" looking for Facebook app testers
- Meeting Ryan Couldrey
- Our Tree Removal Adventure
- Mini-easels!
- National Cartoonists Society holiday party
- Things I've Learned About Acrylics Painting So Far
- Cute and Vaguely Creepy
- My new Sumo bean bag chairs!
- Seanan McGuire: Stars Fall Home
- blogTO, painting and homemade peanut butter cups
- Seeking card distribution advice!
- Flickring and my art on letterpress cards (!)
- Breakfast with Rai-An and Wolfram
- Weddings, pottery and painting
- Music survey and acrylics
- Artsytalk
- Autumn, Strangolapreti and Nigel The Humming Cat
- Mimi's NaNoWriMo Pep Song and more paintings
- David Francey, Etsy, and Star Trek movie auditions
- Painting with acrylics
- Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (and a RAWF cartoon)
- Letter of the Day
- Blade Runner Final Cut and updated Chocolate
- Kiva: making a difference
- Comixtalk, My Life In A Nutshell, and Alberta trip report (part 4)
- Young writers, pottery and harps
- Dainty Finger Sandwiches (Alberta trip report, Part 3)
- Comixtalk, NanoWrimo, and Head-smashed-in (trip report part 2)
- Halloween Blather
- 10 Things I Love About My Friend Cathy
- Looking for voice-over talent?
- Filkcontinental, friends and chocolate
- Good Things
- Survey for photographers (and non-photographers)
- Shuriken Diaries
- Balticon, recording and songwriting
- Autumn's the BEST season
- Filkcontinental nostalgia
- Balticon, rejection and cake
- New chocolate and a rejection
- Urban Tapestry invited to Balticon as Musical Guests of Honor!
- Thanksgiving, Lawrence Schimel and the Cybils
- The Litter Guy, Uglies and the Happy Ending Foundation hoax
- A culture of beauty
- Dove's Campaign For Real Beauty - and a survey for women
- Virtual birthday party!
- Birthdays, music and squirrels
- CIBC Run For The Cure and Word On The Street
- Yay, I Finally Have A Properly Formatted Head!
- Word On The Street this Sunday
- Inkspot, Inklings, Inkspot.com and linking
- Darth Tater and Little Miss No-Name
- Rochester trip (part 3)
- Rochester trip (part 2)
- Rochester trip (part 1)
- Ergonomic Keyboard for Pirates
- Schoolhouse Rock and Facebook apps
- Classmates.com and advice to my younger self
- Sandwiches and pillow fights
- Are you a font/typeface geek?
- Getting out of debt: Indebtnet.com
- Facebook: graffiti comparison and a survey
- Brining, figs and books
- Will Write For Chocolate
- Buffalovisit (part 2)
- Buffalovisit
- Camera innards & nerd jewelry
- Chocolate, ice cream, sushi and cat faces
- Pegasus Award Nomination
- Motorcycle Trips and Assassin Bugs
- Levitating fire trucks
- Hairspray and Anniversaries
- Movie Theatre Pet Peeves
- The Last Original Plot For A Novel
- Monsters, NaNoWrimo, Sims and massages
- "Selfish-time" and a survey
- Astronomy pics with a DSLR
- Gaming pics
- Engagements, friends and photos
- Not like Harry Potter
- Robotic Squirrels Are Coming! RUN!
- New camera update
- Transition
- 14 years of Urban Tapestry
- Happy birthday, Walter!
- Hummingbird thoughts
- Courting My Muse
- Drugs, curry and Sharpie joy
- Surfacing (and a mini-rant)
- How I'm feeling right now
- First National Post colour photo credit!
- Cha Liu Dim Sum Shop
- New camera!
- Things you shouldn't say to a writer on a first date
- Dark Horse review in National Post
- Pho, Guinness Marmite, Sigma 30/1.4 lenses
- Less Than Art revamped!
- With joy
- Will Write For Chocolate updated
- Amaya review in National Post
- Looking for audiobook recommendations
- Wetstock
- Liam O'Donnell, camera advice, and cartoon captions
- Life is not a dress rehearsal
- Paris Hilton, raccoons and Facebook apps
- Raccoons, green bins, and birthdays
- Will Write For Chocolate, grilling, and herbal teas
- Nicholas Kennedy, neighbourly bbq, Relay For Life
- Post-relay: A personal account
- Relay For Life tonight!
- Face transforming and facial recognition
- Walking in the rain, my review in The National Post
- My Denis McGrath interview on blogTO
- WWFC, Phantom of the Opera, and Blood Ties news
- Dust Poets fangirl
- My first restaurant review up at blogTO!
- Heartfelt thanks, friends, and Dust Poets
- Relay For Life - please consider sponsoring me?
- Peanut Butter and Strawberry Jam (and Worms)
- Blood Ties coming to Canada
- The battle continues....
- Self-referential signs
- Demon squirrels strike again!
- Cora the Adventure Doll, Tom Smith & Babylon Five
- Will Write For Chocolate and an interview with Tanya Huff
- The black art of letterpress
- Hey, J.K.!
- Friends, MOO cards, PBA filk documentary
- Heather Dale book launch at the Renaissance Cafe, Toronto
- Harry Potter, Dave Huth and Heather Dale
- Chocolate, friends and memories
- Looking for Norm Brown
- Betty and Veronica
- iLike: a review
- Will Write For Chocolate
- So when did I become a gardenfreak?
- Adam Selzer, handmade purses, and Etsy.com
- The coolest clock in the world, best chocolate shop in Toronto
- Running through cemeteries
- Herb-y goodness
- I'm glad I'm not a giraffe
- Spechelle Michelle
- Praise for dentists and a question for gardeners
- Don't Ask Me To Draw A Horse (Part 2)
- Blood Ties
- Internet radio: will it survive?
- Throwing hatchets
- Grits, backups, and MacBook sudden shutdowns revisited
- Cancel relationship?!?
- Friends and books, plus MacBook random shutdown woes
- Slow cooking
- Facebook vs MySpace and other social networking sites
- And suddenly, it was spring
- sick
- Chocolate deprivation and Skullshakers
- Four books
- Stars Fall Home
- Sitemeter follow-up
- Sitemeter.com, spyware cookies, and bad PR
- A ragtag punitive fleet...
- Review: e-DENTITY at the Royal Alex, Toronto
- Wow! Women On Writing interview
- Guest blogger and more FKO highlights (Part 4)
- April Fool's!
- Toronto's Pomegranate restaurant: a Persian delight
- FKO (part 3): Children's concert
- Birthdays, friends and music
- FilKONtario (part 2): Filk Hall Of Fame
- Post-FKO (part 1): n'MC and Playing Rapunzel
- Back from FilKONtario
- Guest Blathering: Sibylle!
- Ernie, Interfilk, and Dave Clement
- Musical collaboration
- Flatmouse Fame!
- Chipmunks and Warm Macbooks
- Photos, comics and artstuff
- Ernie the Upside-Down Fish
- MOO MiniCards, Blood Ties and Seanan's CD
- FKO concerts, kid conversations, and time machines
- Google tour and Google food!
- Consonance
- 5 Reasons Why I Blog
- Home To FilKONtario!
- Cocooning
- Orange bundt cake, why I love Toronto, and moose heads
- my office cave
- deviantART delivery and print quality
- Dave Clement on CBC
- Housefilk and engagements
- Small indulgences
- I have the best neighbours
- Valentine's Day
- Writer's valentine
- Don't ask me to draw a horse
- Illustration Friday: Crash
- Prints for sale!
- Will Write For Chocolate
- How to make winter ice candles (Cottage Visit Part 2)
- Winter cottage visit (part 1)
- BlogTO interview, bad rabbits, and cartoons
- blogging, truffles, whining and books
- Illustration Friday: Red
- Session sketches
- Will Write For Chocolate, LJ icons, and a fitness follow-up
- Squirrels, exercise, cartoons and books
- Books make me happy
- Illustration Friday, lip balms, and obsessions
- Drawing on walls
- GAfilk (part 6): making friends, Georgia Aquarium, hanging out with the Suttons
- GAfilk (part 5), slow cookers, Interfilk, Scrivener
- GAfilk (part 4): conspiracies, revenge and The Chocolate Song
- GAfilk (part 3): Come Down To GAfilk
- GAfilk (part 2): Music collab
- Post-GAfilk
- Dave Alway: gentle bard
- GAfilk, Kiva and Kenyan dairy farmers
- Happy New Year!
Entries by Week
Click on a week below to view a list of articles published during that week.
- December 30, 2007 - January 5, 2008 (2)
- December 23, 2007 - December 29, 2007 (2)
- December 16, 2007 - December 22, 2007 (4)
- December 9, 2007 - December 15, 2007 (4)
- December 2, 2007 - December 8, 2007 (5)
- November 25, 2007 - December 1, 2007 (6)
- November 18, 2007 - November 24, 2007 (4)
- November 11, 2007 - November 17, 2007 (6)
- November 4, 2007 - November 10, 2007 (5)
- October 28, 2007 - November 3, 2007 (5)
- October 21, 2007 - October 27, 2007 (1)
- October 14, 2007 - October 20, 2007 (5)
- October 7, 2007 - October 13, 2007 (6)
- September 30, 2007 - October 6, 2007 (6)
- September 23, 2007 - September 29, 2007 (7)
- September 16, 2007 - September 22, 2007 (3)
- September 9, 2007 - September 15, 2007 (5)
- September 2, 2007 - September 8, 2007 (4)
- August 26, 2007 - September 1, 2007 (4)
- August 19, 2007 - August 25, 2007 (6)
- August 12, 2007 - August 18, 2007 (6)
- July 29, 2007 - August 4, 2007 (3)
- July 22, 2007 - July 28, 2007 (3)
- July 15, 2007 - July 21, 2007 (3)
- July 8, 2007 - July 14, 2007 (5)
- July 1, 2007 - July 7, 2007 (5)
- June 24, 2007 - June 30, 2007 (6)
- June 17, 2007 - June 23, 2007 (5)
- June 10, 2007 - June 16, 2007 (2)
- June 3, 2007 - June 9, 2007 (5)
- May 27, 2007 - June 2, 2007 (8)
- May 20, 2007 - May 26, 2007 (5)
- May 13, 2007 - May 19, 2007 (5)
- May 6, 2007 - May 12, 2007 (6)
- April 29, 2007 - May 5, 2007 (4)
- April 22, 2007 - April 28, 2007 (4)
- April 15, 2007 - April 21, 2007 (4)
- April 8, 2007 - April 14, 2007 (3)
- April 1, 2007 - April 7, 2007 (5)
- March 25, 2007 - March 31, 2007 (6)
- March 18, 2007 - March 24, 2007 (4)
- March 11, 2007 - March 17, 2007 (4)
- March 4, 2007 - March 10, 2007 (3)
- February 25, 2007 - March 3, 2007 (3)
- February 18, 2007 - February 24, 2007 (5)
- February 11, 2007 - February 17, 2007 (5)
- February 4, 2007 - February 10, 2007 (5)
- January 28, 2007 - February 3, 2007 (3)
- January 21, 2007 - January 27, 2007 (4)
- January 14, 2007 - January 20, 2007 (6)
- January 7, 2007 - January 13, 2007 (3)
- December 31, 2006 - January 6, 2007 (2)
Entries by Month
Click on a month below to view a list of articles published during that month.
- December 2007 (18)
- November 2007 (23)
- October 2007 (20)
- September 2007 (19)
- August 2007 (18)
- July 2007 (17)
- June 2007 (21)
- May 2007 (24)
- April 2007 (17)
- March 2007 (18)
- February 2007 (18)
- January 2007 (17)