Thursday morning – that would be the same day I lugged Sebastian into the vet, in case you’re keeping score – I saw Rosemary in the litter box and it looked like she was straining, followed by what looked like a little blood in what came out. Thursday night, a repeat performance, and Friday each [...]
Nanowrimo started this weekend, and I kicked yesterday off with a rousing 2300 words. I doubt I’ll be able to keep up that kind of pace on a daily basis, especially since today so far I haven’t added a word, and tomorrow I have to get on a plane and I am not foreseeing lots [...]
Yesterday I flew down to spend the day at the office in Santa Monica with my boss and the architect and a pile of random information that somehow needed to not only be organized into a slide presentation, but also into an accompanying workbook, complete with exercises. Because the majority of us are extremely allergic [...]
The Pomegranates: Last night after the bible study class, one of the other woman distributed piles and piles of pomegranates to the rest of us to shuck, in preparation for the great jelly making party that is planned for this weekend. I took a bag full and wasn’t sure I’d be able to get them [...]
I have been a big slacker and done absolutely nothing on my knitting for the entire month of October, so it was a good thing we had craft night Friday night. While we sat at the table I rather hastily finished binding off the top parts and then the woman who’s been helping me showed [...]
Since the last time I wrote in this journal I have somehow managed to crank out an additional 14,000 words. I’d hoped to be up to 25,000 by the end of this weekend, and even that would still have been a few thousand words shy of where I really should be right now. But at [...]
I wish I could say that the reason I haven’t been writing is because I’m doing a lot of work on the novel, but that’s not really the case. I think it’s more to do with the fact that I’m feeling a bit guilty for not being further along on the novel than I should, [...]
We are all about the traditions in this house. And this year, even though we were headed out of town for Thanksgiving and all the preparation of food (two kinds of bread and green bean casserole) had already either been done, or the ingredients purchased and sitting on the counter or in the freezer, Richard [...]
