A charm still filled with blood ...
... rolled to the edge of the walkway and back in a graceful arc. She picked it up. It was still warm. Kale's essence clung to it like a fragrance, the danger to him tingled against her skin.
Blood Charms
Did okay yesterday, despite the rain, although getting through chapter 27 of Charms was way slower than I expected. I had a real hard time concentrating. Spent most of the afternoon kinda puttering, actually, but still got most of my list done. Still avoiding the website fix ups. lol I started transferring recipe clippings I have to the Living Cookbook software. The only weird thing is that the clippings give one calorie measurement per serving and the software is giving another, but the clippings are ages old too, so who knows. I've been tinkering with that more than anything because it quickly gets tedious, but I know I'll be glad to get all those clippings, printouts, and pieces of paper and index cards cleared up.
Other than that, Chef and I talked Christmas dinner. Middle daughter might come over, but her BF is a little less than enthused about it because they were here last year, and he wants to spend the day with his parents. Unfortunately, she does not because his mother gives new meaning to religious craziness. For example, did you know that me liking dragons is going to send me to hell? o.O I'm a Christian. I don't advertise it because most Christians now days embarrass me (esp those in the public eye). I never read anywhere that liking dragons would send me to hell, so that's a new one on me. Plus, the woman doesn't approve her son's relationship with my daughter and gives new meaning to the mom who won't let go. My daughter is quite opinionated, hasn't quite gotten the hang of when to keep her mouth shut over a lot of things, and is agnostic. I'm sure you can see where that ends up whenever she visits there and why she'd really rather not go.
Anyway, Chef wants pretty close to the usual Christmas stuff. We've cut the cookie recipes down to three because he doesn't want to give them up (and has a hard time sharing his crinkles) and changed the dessert from a Vanilla Bean Cheesecake to a Orange Chocolate Cheesecake (saving us $20 on the vanilla beans alone), but the lists till looks...too big and expensive. No individual item is all that expensive ($1 for corn, for example), except the hens and even they aren't bad ($8 for two), but combined the list scares me. I don't want to get into the same place we did over Thanksgiving and be worrying about regular food for the following week. The good news right now is that 1) we'll get a 10-20% discount at Kroger because my daughter works there, and 2) we aren't feeding 9-10 people like we did last year which means it's cheaper than I'm used to anyway. Plus cutting back on the cookies both in types and numbers. Although the baking wasn't something I'd planned and was kinda looking forward to skipping this year (and would now be doing Friday and Saturday). But as for the money, maybe it won't be as bad as I think. Besides, after this year, we deserve some kind of small celebration, esp Chef (he didn't really get one with Thanksgiving since he had to go back to school so did homework Thanksgiving day; this year he has the week after pretty much off, I believe).
Anyway, far too long of a ramble over the holidays. On to word counts....
Word Counts Yesterday
Total New (incl WB): 0
Total Words: 2638
Total Pages Revised: 6
starting line:
Randi backed out of the ash from the shadow keeper's destruction, coughing.
ending line:
The woman turned back to Randi and pulled a knife, its edge slick with a dark film.
I'm actually pretty comfortable with this chapter. Worried about how short the next one is, but I think this one pulls some things that need to be said about the MC out into the open. I've been unsure about it, but I think I'm glad I kept it. The confrontation itself isn't that big of a deal, but other things go on that I think are.
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
Today's to do....
» B.C. chapter 27, 28 :: yes, both!
» 1250 words
» Crit
» Market Finders update
» web work: Alden.nu fixes
» dishes
» reading
» beta reading
» editing work
It's not listed, but I'm actually still working on laundry a bit for two reasons: in the cold, the damn dryer is even worse than it was, and the kids seem to have decided that anything in the baskets in the garage can be ignored. I'm a bit annoyed by both of these things, but figured I'd at least get the ignored stuff in the washer and let them deal with it after that. They'd kinda have to if they want to get their own clothes washed. :P
Btw, I'm thinking of moving my old domynoes.net book reviews over here, although I probably wouldn't tackle that until next year. I'm sad d.net is offline, but I don't see it coming back any time soon, and might even let the domain go since all I did with it was my review site, sites for my son and youngest girl, and host a few fiends. It just doesn't seen worth the money and effort to get it back online, especially with half the hosted sites abandoned, and I really have nothing else I want to do with it. If I do any new sites, they'll be for any books I get published or the Chef's restaurant (when he finally works on it), so what I otherwise take care of seems more than enough at the moment. On the one hand, might as well put some real content up over here on the LJ. On the other, oh the work! So, we'll see.
Off to get stuff done!
~~~
most recent
whysper the challenge begins :: journeys Finding Tools That Work
the chef's wife Cranberry Sauce
Blood Charms
Did okay yesterday, despite the rain, although getting through chapter 27 of Charms was way slower than I expected. I had a real hard time concentrating. Spent most of the afternoon kinda puttering, actually, but still got most of my list done. Still avoiding the website fix ups. lol I started transferring recipe clippings I have to the Living Cookbook software. The only weird thing is that the clippings give one calorie measurement per serving and the software is giving another, but the clippings are ages old too, so who knows. I've been tinkering with that more than anything because it quickly gets tedious, but I know I'll be glad to get all those clippings, printouts, and pieces of paper and index cards cleared up.
Other than that, Chef and I talked Christmas dinner. Middle daughter might come over, but her BF is a little less than enthused about it because they were here last year, and he wants to spend the day with his parents. Unfortunately, she does not because his mother gives new meaning to religious craziness. For example, did you know that me liking dragons is going to send me to hell? o.O I'm a Christian. I don't advertise it because most Christians now days embarrass me (esp those in the public eye). I never read anywhere that liking dragons would send me to hell, so that's a new one on me. Plus, the woman doesn't approve her son's relationship with my daughter and gives new meaning to the mom who won't let go. My daughter is quite opinionated, hasn't quite gotten the hang of when to keep her mouth shut over a lot of things, and is agnostic. I'm sure you can see where that ends up whenever she visits there and why she'd really rather not go.
Anyway, Chef wants pretty close to the usual Christmas stuff. We've cut the cookie recipes down to three because he doesn't want to give them up (and has a hard time sharing his crinkles) and changed the dessert from a Vanilla Bean Cheesecake to a Orange Chocolate Cheesecake (saving us $20 on the vanilla beans alone), but the lists till looks...too big and expensive. No individual item is all that expensive ($1 for corn, for example), except the hens and even they aren't bad ($8 for two), but combined the list scares me. I don't want to get into the same place we did over Thanksgiving and be worrying about regular food for the following week. The good news right now is that 1) we'll get a 10-20% discount at Kroger because my daughter works there, and 2) we aren't feeding 9-10 people like we did last year which means it's cheaper than I'm used to anyway. Plus cutting back on the cookies both in types and numbers. Although the baking wasn't something I'd planned and was kinda looking forward to skipping this year (and would now be doing Friday and Saturday). But as for the money, maybe it won't be as bad as I think. Besides, after this year, we deserve some kind of small celebration, esp Chef (he didn't really get one with Thanksgiving since he had to go back to school so did homework Thanksgiving day; this year he has the week after pretty much off, I believe).
Anyway, far too long of a ramble over the holidays. On to word counts....
Word Counts Yesterday
Total New (incl WB): 0
Total Words: 2638
Total Pages Revised: 6
starting line:
Randi backed out of the ash from the shadow keeper's destruction, coughing.
ending line:
The woman turned back to Randi and pulled a knife, its edge slick with a dark film.
I'm actually pretty comfortable with this chapter. Worried about how short the next one is, but I think this one pulls some things that need to be said about the MC out into the open. I've been unsure about it, but I think I'm glad I kept it. The confrontation itself isn't that big of a deal, but other things go on that I think are.
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
Today's to do....
» B.C. chapter 27, 28 :: yes, both!
» 1250 words
» Crit
» Market Finders update
» web work: Alden.nu fixes
» dishes
» reading
» beta reading
» editing work
It's not listed, but I'm actually still working on laundry a bit for two reasons: in the cold, the damn dryer is even worse than it was, and the kids seem to have decided that anything in the baskets in the garage can be ignored. I'm a bit annoyed by both of these things, but figured I'd at least get the ignored stuff in the washer and let them deal with it after that. They'd kinda have to if they want to get their own clothes washed. :P
Btw, I'm thinking of moving my old domynoes.net book reviews over here, although I probably wouldn't tackle that until next year. I'm sad d.net is offline, but I don't see it coming back any time soon, and might even let the domain go since all I did with it was my review site, sites for my son and youngest girl, and host a few fiends. It just doesn't seen worth the money and effort to get it back online, especially with half the hosted sites abandoned, and I really have nothing else I want to do with it. If I do any new sites, they'll be for any books I get published or the Chef's restaurant (when he finally works on it), so what I otherwise take care of seems more than enough at the moment. On the one hand, might as well put some real content up over here on the LJ. On the other, oh the work! So, we'll see.
Off to get stuff done!
~~~
most recent
whysper the challenge begins :: journeys Finding Tools That Work
the chef's wife Cranberry Sauce