I must remember to close the shutters because I always wake up before 5AM, as that's when the sun shows its face around here. But at least I cleaned the whole house and now it's spotless and smells nice. There is something very satisfying in cleaning, and though I have a cleaning person, he doesn't clean as well as I do. Admittedly, I've been ( Read more... )

My little sister (she's taller than I am) came over to my house yesterday to drop off my nephew before work. When I looked at her face I almost screamed. She had a walnut-sized lump on her forehead, blue circles around her eyes, and the bridge of her nose was swollen.  The first thing she said, "Before you freak out, I'm fine. I'm well enough to ( Read more... )

Shaking, moving, removing, and inserting new text. Fun but exhausting. I have written 6ks of new text, removed another 3Ks, moved parts of the novel, and added clues to the first 5 chapters. But . . . I'm still only up to 186 pages. The process is glacial, but part of the reason is my one and a half jobs, chores, slush reading, and my anxiety about ( Read more... )

 We went to a four-day cruise with my husband's diving buddies in August. It was a nice litte jaunt, but of course I didn't dive. I suffer from sharkphobia. Only Jacky, who only dives to take underwater photographs, did of the four girls aboard. But Jacky wasn't diving that day. It was nice and sunny, the water transparent to a good depth, or so I ( Read more... )

My sister has a dog, 3 cats, a rabbit, and a turtle. Actually, my Nephew has them and my sister is the house maide.

The rabbit's name is Snuggy. He's in a large cage in the laundry room where he has a litter box and toys. Yes, toys. Snuggy is a happy fellow and very sexual. He's not very picky either, so he constatly humps one of the toys called ( Read more... )