I did two exciting things today: practiced driving a stick on hills, and raided the Goodwill. I did well driving until I actually had to start up at stop sign on a hill. Suddenly, there were a billion people behind me, the car kept rolling back, and I freaked. After waving everyone past, I let Rachel Lyn take over. I'm willing to be patient with ( Read more... )

Midsummer's Eve I spent with my friend Liz, visiting the Salvation Army to buy hawaiian shirts for the Locus Awards. We were charged with getting a couple for kehrli, and much energy was spent debating if a shirt was ugly enough for him. One wasn't even a proper hawaiian shirt, just covered in cartoon hams. We weren't sure if it was a true Keffy shirt, ( Read more... )

I had a nice, busy day yesterday. After discovering ants in my kitchen, I headed out to get some traps. This happened in a very roundabout fashion, as I got waylaid by an estate sale and had to lug home a 20$ set of drawers. It's going to be perfect for keeping my craft supplies in, and was great exercise. I can totally feel it in my arms and back ( Read more... )

A very nice day yesterday. Actually, I haven't posted in a while, have I? It's been a very nice weekend ( Read more... )

... because I feel like procrastinating. Actually, I'm putting off the second go of line edits because I'm moody and I know that I don't want to start off my writing career with being grumpy about line edits. I've got some time yet ( Read more... )

On my desk is a little crumb-covered plate which once held the bagel I had for breakfast. I just cleared one of my long hairs from it. Immediately afterwards, I was staring vacantly in the direction of this plate, pondering the novel I'm working on. Suddenly, I saw the hair I'd just cleared away. Then it vanished. My heart raced. WTF? Was I seeing ( Read more... )

Today I:

Tried out a faux french braid that I learned last night from the awesome Torrin Paige of Youtube.

Read an article that says that doing either good or bad things increases your willpower.Which reminded me that I should check up on my Kiva loans. I had 15$ credit, so I added 10 and made a loan to a Mongolian butcher woman ( Read more... )

Dream ( Read more... )

I'm disappointed that frozen M&Ms aren't as hard as I thought they'd be. But I'm sure that if they were frozen at forty degrees below zero, they'd be totally hardcore.

Holy crap, there must be, like, catnip at the thrift store. Teisel came in my room to obsessively sniff everything, and when he poked his head into my bag of recently acquired thrift shop treasure, he eagerly patted at the tissue paper and suddenly was perky and wide-eyed ( Read more... )