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…
On the Road
We are visiting family. It’s been both wonderful and really hard. The man’s mom has lost most of her memory. I don’t know if it’s Alzheimers or dementia. But she doesn’t know anyone and it’s just damned sad. We visited…
hairy questions
Since moving here, my hair has developed more curl, thanks to having some humidity. My hair is overly long in the front and yet it’s just now getting to be the length where I can put it up. It looks…
The Busy, It Hurts
Well, not really painful. The only major pain is we had to cross some stuff off the fun things to do list, which was sad. Yesterday I took the kids to the state fair while my husband worked OT. He…