Hello, internet! I have been busy and distracted with AWESOMENESS and have not been telling you about it! This should be remedied posthaste! (I have been telling Twitter and Tumblr and my mother in spurts because there I can narrate in little bursts as things happen and needn't settle down to describe everything, and since everything has been ( Read more... )

Today's a dark and rainy day; through the windows it already looks like dusk although it isn't four yet. Normally I would be Extremely Bothered about this, but today's too cosy for me to grudge it a little dimness. Anyway my fairy lights are so lovely and bright and my lamp glows redly through the brocade lampshade and I love the sound of rain and ( Read more... )

The super fantastic barefoottomboy (who sent me a microphone which I have spent much of this afternoon testing out, as can be evidenced over on come_all_ye) suggested that I take pictures of some of my favourite things. I changed the prompt around a little to fifteen pictures of things that make me happy, and I now foist them upon you unsuspecting lot. (I have also done ( Read more... )

Today I found a magical oasis. It is called a coffee shop. (Well, actually, it is called Java Joey's, and has a wee kangaroo on the sign.) I may go there every day now.

Those of you who live in Civilised Parts (which is to say, um, most of you) are likely raising eyebrows. Yes, it has Delicious Baked Goods and Coffee and Milkshakes. Yes, the walls ( Read more... )

ajjghergthjrt NaNo. If I could have a permanent status taped to my forehead (and I could, too, but I'd look a bit silly and tape's sort of itchy), it would, roughly, be that. But: I reached today's goal of 5,000 words (and then a little more!) before midnight, and this was very good, even if I had to put poor Mr Caruthers' life in shambles (again) ( Read more... )

This morning I woke to snow. (More properly, this morning I woke to Leandra screaming and howling because she had poured a bottle of glue over her head and needed to be bathed vigorously. But also there was snow.) I was very, very cross about it for some hours, although it has been awfully pretty, and it isn't sticking really at all... and late ( Read more... )

I have discovered a marvellous thing. It is called morning coffee.

(Picture here, if you will, my parents laughing uproariously at me, as they have been trying to get me to drink coffee most of my life, it seems.)

Somehow in the last few weeks it has gone from a bitter, unfriendly, if glorious-smelling, concoction to the epitome of deliciousness. I ( Read more... )

Aaaack, it's my least favourite part of any trip: the last few hours before we leave. (I say 'last few hours' because, um, it's nine thirty now, and Dad and I are getting up at five.) All the scrambling and madness and me being sure I'm forgetting something important and, as usual, only beginning to pack at the last minute (though that's usually ( Read more... )

I really love my job.

Now, not every day is the giddy glory that the eight hours last Saturday were, but going to work and doing my work continuously makes me happy. Borders may not get a ringing endorsement from me as companies go, and certainly I have to wade through a lot of bureaucratic nonsense, and sell a lot of rubbish books (and even ( Read more... )

I'm thinking that maybe this weekend I will actually have a really excellent night's sleep. This I am looking forward to.

So: I have all this stuff to do tonight, including a) some baking, b) cleaning the bedroom, and b) NaNoing. Ergo, I am drinking coffee. I don't particularly like coffee, but I need to stay up tonight, and today at work I was ( Read more... )