thinks to do:

- go to the butcher for a roast beast
- get stuff to make marshmallow creme (eggs, corn syrup…)
- write one trillion words (or at least 2500)
- maybe bake something nice
- try to remember the other things I’m forgetting, which are myriad
- like wrapping some presents
- and putting the ones we’re not wrapping under the tree
- and ( Read more... )

A friend of mine asked a couple days ago where the mileage to Rivendell was. She found it at its usual location, the Eowyn Challenge, but because I broke it out into separate journeys years ago whle I was doing this, I asked if she wanted the individualized set. She did, and at least one other person did too, so I thought I’d put it up here in case ( Read more... )

I started this post to say I’d just checked my Walk to Rivendell mileage sheet. I actually only have the last two 150-ish mile bits of Aragorn’s journey to complete for all the outward-bound stuff. I’ll finish that this /year/! But then I got dragged in another direction, which may be largely preaching to the choir. Perhaps I’ll put it behind a cut ( Read more... )

I just got the rough cover for DEMON HUNTS, book five of the Walker Papers, due out in June 2010 (and book four is out in three weeks! Yay!). ZOMG. I wish I could show this off to you right now, because it’s going to be amazing. Wow. Wow! Yay! I believe I have a new favorite cover!

Holy crap, speaking of covers, I just saw the cover to the twelfth ( Read more... )

Today involved a lot of walking back and forth, digging in the dirt, and knitting. We have now got All The Plants (raspberries tayberries black currants cherry tree rhubarb sage rosemary thyme strawberries), and they are All Planted. Now we shall see if we get any FROOTS and BERRIES from them.

We had dinner at Mom & Dad’s, and then while Ted and ( Read more... )

Well, the first words of the year have been committed. 1500 down, 268,500 to go.

Also, I think my pedometer is under-counting my steps. *grumpy*

ytd wordcount: 1500
miles to Dunharrow: 106.8
(x-posted from the essential kit)

Nabbed from tambowrites:

Supposedly if you’ve seen more than 85 of the 239 films on this list, you have no life. Copy this list, then put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, and add them up. I tag anyone who wants to play. Have fun.
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Today I reached Isengard!

I have been travelling with Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas from Rauros to Isengard for the past few months, and have today completed the journey of 484 miles. That’s kind of cool in and of itself. What’s even cooler, though, is that in the first half of the year I walked the 578 miles from Isengard to Minas Tirith with Merry ( Read more... )

I took myself on a walk this morning and reached Minas Tirith for the third time, thus completing the outward leg of the hobbits’ journeys there and back again. Next I’m backtracking (magic reset button, I don’t have to walk back) to Rauros Falls, and taking the trip from there to Isengard with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, a journey of 484 miles. ( Read more... )

I noticed a couple days ago that my yearly wordcount goal was a mere 300K. I'd thought it was 350K and that I had no chance of getting to it. But, well, hell, I'm at 264K right now, and there are 14 days (including today) left in the year ( Read more... )