I'm going on vacation next week.

WOW. Let me say that again. I'm going on vacation. To the beach. In a week!

(Dear Potential Thieves Scoping My House for Valuables:  First, Valuables?  HA!  Good luck with that.  Second, Husband and a VERY BIG DOG WHO BARKS AND GROWLS AND THINKS YOU ARE A TASTY TREAT* will be in the house.  No lie.)

Just me and sand ( Read more... )

How, in the name of all that is holy, can November be over?!  Seriously, it was Halloween, like yesterday, and today I look at the calendar and suddenly I'm behind on my Christmas shopping, have a week and a half to prepare for my vacation and Christmas traveling, and to send out the Christmas cards which I bought last year and are now buried ( Read more... )

Most mornings, Husband and I eat breakfast at the same restaurant.  It a small family diner.  The sort of place filled with regulars who all know each other and servers who know how we all take our coffee.  Several of the older gentlemen who frequent the restaurant have round bellies and cultivate long full beards.  Husband and I have taken to ( Read more... )

This past year I haven't had time to cook.  Cooking is a creative outlet for me.  I love making new dishes up from bits and pieces of recipes or trying to recreate a dish I had somewhere.   I love to try new spices, new cooking methods, old family recipes, and food from other cultures.  For me, cooking is an act of love and joy, of creating ( Read more... )

We are not going to talk about how long it's been since I posted.  There has been so much going on my life for the past three weeks I don't want to talk about it.  Plus since all the drama and chaos worked out mostly satisfactory, complaining seems bad for karma, and trust me when I say I've used up my karmic stores for like the next six months.  ( Read more... )

I am way overdue for an actual post, but holy moly have I been busy!  We did the annual visit-all-the-relatives holiday trip over Thanksgiving and I have a lot of personal things going on right now:  Kiddos' concerts, surgery on my right elbow, end-of-the-year Day Jobbe stuff, shopping for Christmas and 2 birthdays, figuring out how in the heck I'm ( Read more... )

Well, last week was a mix of bad and good news ( Read more... )

I had icky-phlegmitis through the holidays which wiped me and my voice out. While it was wonderful spending a week on the sofa wrapped in a blanket, writing, reading, and playing games with Husband and the Kids, the hacking cough and scratchy old-crone voice was not. Also, we missed the Christmas gatherings with my family and my in-laws. However I ( Read more... )

I only made it to 7565 words this weekend and I was aiming for at least 10K. [sigh] I became immersed in the joy of perusing the Greek/English Lexicon. I did add several words to my created language, and fleshed out some details in my plot/character guideline, so those are bonuses. But still only 7500 words. Tonight I aim for the last 2500. I ( Read more... )