Tonight N- and I went to our first HOA (that's Home Owners Association for those of you who have not yet had to learn house hunting lingo) meeting. I thought it would be pretty boring, but was secretly hoping for it to be like the Stars Hollow town meetings on Gilmore Girls. Things actually got somewhat heated at various points, and I sat in the ( Read more... )

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I didn't do a lot of reading in November, since I did National Novel Writing Month instead. Reading became a treat when I had finished my wordcount for the day!

93. Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper (288 pgs ( Read more... )

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I took a few hours off this morning so I could start writing for NaNoWriMo with a bang. Haaaaa. I suck. I didn't do any of the work ahead of time and thought I had a general idea but have written three openings and they are all really really bad. (But I'm not editing, just using strikethrough so the words still count, not really cheating ( Read more... )

I took the dog to the vet yesterday because he wouldn't stop licking/gnawing at his back leg. Turns out he had a growth they wanted to remove and send to the lab. Did that today (nice that animals can get in for surgery so quickly, eh?) but then they didn't take the catheter out, so made a late-night trip to the emergency vet clinic when he ( Read more... )

So this will be my second year participating in National Novel Writing Month. Who is with me? I'm sh1mm3r on the forums if you want to add me as a writing buddy - I've already talked two librarians and one librarian staff member at work into joining me (woo hoo) after I gave what I'm sure was a manic presentation on Nano and the accompanying book ( Read more... )

Between the chirping birds and my snoring dog, I was just not going to get any more sleep this morning. I looked at the clock and it said 7:30 but it wasn't light outside. I knew instantly what had happened. We have these clocks, you see, which are programmed to celebrate Daylight Savings Time on their own. When we lived in Indiana we had ( Read more... )