First, SQUEEEEEE!

Second, egads!

We're going to Big Bend in five days. Any advice for maximum enjoyment?

Dear Friendslist:

Convince me I should haul my lazy ass up to Dallas next weekend to see Lois at Fencon!

If you were going to be in NY this Saturday, what would you take your 18-yr-old and 15-yr-old to see?

ETA: Stop voting for West Side Story! It's sold out. :(

Poll

I've always been vaguely intending to drive up to Dallas for Portus, stay with my relatives, and get together with any of you who are going. I hadn't bothered to register and I was thinking it would probably sell out and I was planning to pretty much just skulk around outside the conference meeting up with people.

But it looks like it isn't sold ( Read more... )

You would think that my New Years resolution was "don't post on LJ," so negligent have I been. It wasn't - I have no excuse.

In the absence of anything interesting to say, I'll ramble a bit about what's been going on in my life:

• Last weekend we went out to West/Central Texas to celebrate my husband's aunt's 85th birthday. This was pretty emotional ( Read more... )

First, and a bit belatedly ... HAPPY SOLSTICE!!!

(and while I'm catching up ... HAPPY HANUKKAH!!! & JOYOUS EID!!!)

I'm off on my travels tomorrow, so this is my last chance to make up for the many, many LJ posts I haven't made. I'd better go with bullet points:

• The coolest thing that's happened to me lately - actually the coolest thing that's ( Read more... )

I'm recovering from a sore throat virus, so I'm tired and grouchy. But not too tired to do ( the travel meme )

We'll be visiting New York City June 14-17 because my brilliant daughter WON GOLD IN THE SCHOLASTIC WRITING COMPETITION!

Her story is among the roughly 20-30 winners in the short story category from among 17,000 entries because she is just. that. awesome. Or maybe it's because her protagonist was named after one of youThe ceremony will be in ( Read more... )