So I've been plugging away rather steadily at my novel rewrite since mid-August. I'm at 15 chapters and about 180 pages. Not bad, considering that I started the rewrite in, like 2005 and was on a major semi-hiatus for almost a year somewhere between then and, oh, my wedding. I'm pleased with what I've gotten so far. I've added a couple ( Read more... )

It's 2:52am, and I'm wide awake. We'd moved the bed into the far little bedroom so the master bedroom carpet could be installed, and it's pretty warm in there tonight. Aaron has the fan going, but he's also still got the big down blanket on as well. It's really windy or I'd open a window. I should've cleaned the screens so we could put them ( Read more... )

I know I always get thrown for a loop whenever we have to change the clocks, but I don't think it's all about the time change. I feel crappy. Sleep has been crappy for a few days now, my throat is sore, I have the sniffles, and I generally just want to stay in bed for a day. Unfortunately, I don't feel bad enough to actually warrant a sick day, ( Read more... )

I had to bring Aaron to work this morning, as he was supposed to get his tonneau cover put on his truck today, but the people at Raynor Ford ordered the wrong style. They were supposed to order one for a flare side truck, but they ordered one for style sided trucks. At least the service guy admitted to his mistake - when I ordered it I told him ( Read more... )

This is fun, regardless of your political leanings. In another life in which I teach college aged people, this would be so fun to share as part of an election lesson ( Read more... )

And here's what's left to do between work and class ( Read more... )

I feel like I haven't slept more than 20 hours total over the course of the week. For some reason, though I'm not officially allergic to anything, I'm having allergies (stuffy nose, sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes, coughing) because there's so much pollen in the air AND I've been breathing in a lot of dust and stuff at the house. So I haven't ( Read more... )

All the cabinets are finally in place, and Aaron has some buddies from work coming over tomorrow to help him lift the oven into place. YAY!!! Also talked to the countertop people today, they're booked solid the rest of this week so unless there's a sudden opening tomorrow or Friday, we won't have the template done until after spring break ( Read more... )

So we have all but two cabinets placed now, although the pantry cabinet isn't screwed into the wall yet. It's really coming along in the kitchen. This weekend we finished painting the walls, ran the wire for the oven, put in all the base cabinets, fixed the pipes for under the sink, hooked the dishwasher back up (prolly won't use it, but at least ( Read more... )

We didn't have school just at Fairley on Wednesday. Joe Occhino passed away over Easter weekend, and since he was the principal for YEARS easily 75% of the faculty and staff wanted to go to his funeral and they just didn't have enough subs sooo ( Read more... )