• Stupid Human Tricks

    Specifically, stupid human mental gymnastics. I have been beating myself up a lot lately. It has to do with the house not selling. The latest lookers liked it, but not enough. It’s very demoralizing, along with my other emotional sadness…

  • Admissions and a snippet

    I admit that it’s been a hard day. I had a bit of a meltdown actually. The culprit is Valentine’s day. But not in the way that you might thing. My husband and I don’t usually do much for V…

  • a workday

    I managed to exercise today, and I finished the neverending chapter of the WIP. Finally. I’m pretty pleased with it. I hope I still am when I really dig back into it. I now have one more chapter to write…

  • bububbbbbb

    I don’t know what happened to me this morning. I passed out after I sent the kids to school and slept for three hours. Three. Hours. WTF?  I then managed to get some laundry done and cleaned the fish tank…

  • and another thing

    I forgot to mention that I won a book on GoodReads Giveaways! It’s the new, not quite out yet Seanan McGuire novel Midnight Blue Special. It’s an Incryptid novel and I really like the first one, so I’m excited to…

  • Life Happens

    Today was the first day of my professional development block, which means I don’t teach for a block. Instead I do professional development, which in my case is write. Of course I didn’t write a lot today, since I still…

  • Reading and Food and Orchids

    I really hadn’t realized how little reading I’ve been doing of late. I buy tons of books and then don’t end up reading them. So my TBR stacks of actual books and ebooks are really large. Massive. Enormous. Anyhow, I…

  • Book Club Selection

    And the next book club reading selection for March 2nd, is Moon Called by Patty Briggs.  Voting went: Moon Called IIIII  IIII Temping II Between IIII Alchemystic III Unholy Ghosts III Now let’s hope everyone can read and be there…

  • Children and Other Strange Creatures

    Sometimes children are marvelous creatures and very unexpected. Today in the afternoon, I told the kids they could play some video games once girlie finished her reading homework and boy finished his clarinet practice. This countermanded a day before timeout…

  • Vote on a book for Book Club

    What do you suppose the first rule of Book Club is? It can’t be that we don’t talk about it. I mean, what’s the point of book club if we don’t talk? Incidentally, it’s been a night of drama at…