So when I got back from picking up my son from school this afternoon, I pulled my phone out of my pocket to check for messages and noticed new emails, so I thumbed them open as I headed into the kitchen and saw one was a comment for the last chapter I'd uploaded on AO3. Cool, I thought, and opened it ( Read more... )

This is what happens when the Impertinent Daughter gets bored halfway through an assignment to write a journal entry as if she were a colonist who had managed to survive a year in one of the New World colonies in the 1600's ( Read more... )

Okay, so... today was the usual trip the library so the kids could go to Animanga Club, and I could write. After I threw the Impossible Son in the shower (this is becoming a regular occurence, it seems, as the Boy Who Lived For Any Excuse To Get Wet has developed an aversion to showers), I went to get my stuff together. It was going along ( Read more... )

Yeah, y'all are probably tired of hearing about this, but... this is the seven day forecast for Central Texas...


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I have been informed that I am an Epic Mom™. The Impertinent Daughter informed me of this last night, shortly after she discovered me playing Lego Star Wars on my DS. Apparently, this is something that Ordinary Moms™ just don't do, which makes me wonder, because surely I cannot be the only geeky mom around... right ( Read more... )

Okay, so... apparently I can write when I'm away from home.I've had a plot bunny stalking me for a few days, and when we decided to make an excursion into Austin yesterday to hit Barnes and Noble and Book People to use our gift cards, it finally decided to attack ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week. I got to argue with Dr. Endocrinologist about my thyroid medication. The dosage was lowered during my last visit because my levels were too high (????) and not even three days after the dosage change, my hair started falling out again, I was experiencing Personal Antarcticas again, my skin was drying out... oh, yeah, I was ( Read more... )

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Today's post is brought to you from the San Marcos Public Library ( Read more... )

Last year at this time, it was very very hot, and very very dry. The temperatures were in the triple digits, our garden was slowly burning up, and the crops in the fields around town were drying up. The ground was so dry, it was driving the temperatures up, and we were in the epicenter of a catastrophic two year drought ( Read more... )