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…