• Too blanking hot

    ninety five degrees today. I should have gone to the coast. I‘ve got a post up on Magical Words today involving beginning stories, bacon, Lucky Charms, and cooking. Go look. You know you want to. I love Jon Stewart. I…

  • accomplishing things

    It was hot today. Blech. I did get in a walk with the doggies before it got steamy. I got a fair bit of writing in and finished the third chapter on the proposal I’m working on. Now I need…

  • Bad bad bad bad movies

    Spent the morning doing work around the house. Cleaning and doing laundry and unpacking stuff and so on. Then we had a good friend come over for bad Syfy movies. Fun ensued! We watched Swamp Volcano where the science was…

  • Snippet and life

    Today I got the kids to school on time. Both of them. I hope boy does well. He needs to make friends. He’s outgoing and sweet, but at the same time, he’s the new kid among kids who’ve known each…

  • Primal Scream

    I didn’t hear my alarm or my husband calling on the phone this a.m. I think my phone might have been wonky. So I woke up exactly when my son was supposed to be starting school. His first day in…

  • Whoooosh! and the day goes by

    Got up this morning (a big triumph) and went to Safeway and Costco. Walked through all of Costco and good thing I did because they had some summer sausage in. Compared to the grocery store, it’s cheap as hell and…

  • I am not at Worldcon

    Nor am I at DragonCon. But it appears that Worldcon will be in Spokane in 2015, run by some very good conrunners, and I will be registering shortly for it. It will be called Sasquan (so I will be among…