Y'all head on over to vote in the dgficexchange. I was pretty pleased with the variety of nominations; this is the first year I've ever gotten around to nominating anything, so that makes me all proud ( Read more... )

10,291 words of murkily plotted, ill-conceived, tense challenged crap, with no clear cut ending in sight.

4 days to go.

Go, me.

I've been banging away at my dgficexchange story this morning. I've got about 5,000 words and only just hit the first plot point.

*sigh* I'm glad there's a word cap this go round. It helps keep things narrowed down so that I don't go down rabbit trails. Or plot bunny trails as the case may be. *har dee har har*

I'm having a crisis of decision: I ( Read more... )

Today's offering: Arroz Con Leche. Ask me if I love it.

I'll go ahead and answer. Yes, my lovely readers. Yes, I do.

It's strange, given my absolute loathing of tapioca pudding, but this stuff is amazing and easy. make it today. You'll thank me. My kids did.

All your rice pudding dreams are about to come true.

( Recipe, how-to and commentary on the dgficexchange under the cut... )

Um.

I'm grateful. Want to know why?

'Kay. I'll tell you. I'm grateful that 99% of the time I don't feel as if my head is filled with concrete. That other one percent is happening today,and I'm just... Urg. It's a head cold, it's just a old cold. But triple bleh.

In other news, I started writing my dgficexchange prompt. In longhand ( Read more... )

I have a new laptop. He needs a name, like... now. It's like having a baby and not naming it. Suggestions? He's strong and masculine, but put together.

The show I'm in is so solid, and we've got 3 more weeks of rehearsal. I've never worked with a more professional group of people.  Truly a pleasure.  Not a diva in the bunch.  And that's ( Read more... )

I got all 'Little House on the Prairie' again. :D  I went from gorgeous, perfectly ripe apricots...

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I adore Sunday mornings. Our church meets on Saturday night, so Sundays are wonderful, sleepy, lazy, don't-get-out-of-my-pyjamas-until-I'm-good-and-ready days. Last night I slept with earplugs in, which always assures me a fabulous night's sleep; unfortunately, I can't do it every night as I'll sleep right through my alarm clock. So I went to ( Read more... )

On the interest of starting the new year off with a kick, I give you a cooking blog post ( Read more... )

So Ethan and Aaron went to church with the in-laws yesterday. This is the lunch conversation afterwards.
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Nolan. What did you learn in Sunday school?

Ethan. (thinks) We learned that Daniel interpreted a dream.

Nolan. He did? Whose dream?

Ethan. Nebuckanezzard's

Nolan. (muffled laughter)
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Ethan goes on to give a scintillating play ( Read more... )