My Mac Air crashed. Again. It happened in May and I had to have it wiped. They are clearing it again as I write.

GAH!

I still don't know what all I lost the first time. Luckily no writing. But there were pictures that are gone forever now. This time I hadn't saved much on the hard drive, except for a very productive day's worth of revising which has ( Read more... )

Today I dropped Darling Daughter off at school.  She's been going to the community college since the Fall, but this was the first time I actually saw her on campus - you know - being a college student - walking around with all those other college students.

I never pictured her as a "college student", yet there she was, trekking across campus to the ( Read more... )

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I seem to being seeing how much better The Book of Esther: A Faerie Tale (I added the subtitle, what do you think?) can be now that I'm revising.  I start thinking, ooh, I could develop that motivation, or, I should explore this relationship, or, I should use that literary device...A lot of it comes from my most helpful critiques (thank you Steph, ( Read more... )

I am taking Darling Daughter (17-year-old) to England in April for two weeks.  It's kind of a mother-daughter/last hurrah/senior year trip (okay, the real reason is that England is waaaaay down on hubby's vacation hot spot list and DD and I are anglophiles who've been dying to visit).  So it seemed like a good idea all around; it's an English- ( Read more... )

OMGosh, I am ROFL!!!!!

So Darling Daughter (soon to be 17 year old) is visiting Nana in Oregon this week.  Her car has been filthy - it's a midsize suv we use to take the boat to the lake and we haven't washed it in a long time.  Daughter hasn't gotten around to doing it, but keeps talking about it.  Well, while she was away Daddy decides to do it ( Read more... )

Re my icon: is not accurate at this moment, just funneh.

This is a mini break in weekend of once over/revision before sending agent the full.  Getting intense, but I want to get this one right.  Starting to not feel too bad hubby won't be home for father's day and traditional pampering (he's at the US Open, he's in heaven...truly, he sounds giddy ( Read more... )

I can barely stop laughing to write this.

I bought three book shelves. I helped my husband carry them inside - they were very dense and heavy. They were not what I thought, so I ask him to load them in the car tonight to return them. Just then my daughter's hunky new boyfriend, that we're meeting for the first time, pulls up in his Camaro. ( Read more... )

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