The day after Halloween means that there are pathetic pumpkins sitting on front porches, with puddles of wax spilled inside and smoke marks ringing the carved eyes and noses. It means that all the little motion-sensitive chattering skulls and moaning ghosts are finally turned off. And it also means that in the break rooms of [...]
One of the very best things about NaNoWriMo so far is that, because of it, we successfully avoided making plans for our weekends for the entire month of November. Yes, folks – an entire month where the only time we’ll actually be leaving town is for the yearly turkey-related feast later on this month. Other [...]
I wish I could say that I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve been so busy writing. But the truth is that I haven’t been doing much writing at all – at least not until today. I’ve picked at the novel in bits and pieces here and there over the past few days, but [...]
I made chicken fried rice the other night. Of course I didn’t discover that we have no soy sauce until the very end. Chicken fried rice actually tastes pretty decent with teriyaki sauce. Really. But it tastes *soooo* much better with soy sauce. Sigh.
The lack of soy sauce wasn’t the main reason for our after-dinner [...]
If Collab – November: If you were given one cosmic ‘get out of jail free’ card that would allow you to undo one act from your past, which would you use it on? What outcome would you hope to result from that decision?
There was a time in my life when I did a lot [...]
It’s been coming all day. This morning even with the sun shining there were enough clouds to give one pause, and later this afternoon, as we emerged from the last stop in a short stint of holiday shopping, the sky was dark earlier than usual, even by daylight savings’ standards. As we walked to the [...]
It’s finally been cold enough at night that we got to try out our fireplace. Actually – we have now tried out both fireplaces, but the one we wanted to try out the most was the one in the bedroom because I think we had this idea that it was just going to really heat [...]
All day yesterday I pinged all over the office, pestering Richard on Instant Messenger with hourly countdowns til the showing of Harry Potter (we got advance tickets for the last show of the night).
I had only him to pester, see, because – strange as it may seem – the rest of my department wasn’t the [...]
It is day 18 of Nanowrimo. At 4:30 in the afternoon, I am currently sitting at 21,000 words. After struggling significantly all this past week I have more than doubled my word count, but I still have 9000 more words to catch up to where I really should be by now. I have a page [...]
I’m sitting here at my computer, waiting for Richard to get home. He’s off doing a few last minute errands, and I’ve just finished packing up everything I need for the next few days, and doing a hasty clean-up of the kitchen.
When he gets home, we’ll load everything into the car – clothes, jackets, all [...]
