The week in review:

• Saturday I got up early and prepared some fruit and eggs for my visiting friends Ben and Jodi. They brought cinnamon rolls and we sat outside at my patio table to chill and catch up while eating yummies. After they went on their way I took a nap and got up in time to sign onto a podcast I agreed to participate on, run by my ( Read more... )

The week in review:

• Saturday I spent some time blogging and talking to my sister. I had left the day open in case my friend Kari could come over but she didn't. I had a lot to do to get the blog stuff together because I hadn't posted the week's book review and some of my pages weren't updated, but I got to it all. In the evening I sat down with ( Read more... )

The week in review:

• Saturday was my huge Halloween party! I spent the morning baking the last two things, the later morning and early afternoon cleaning and arranging stuff for the party, and the evening, well, having the party. I got to wear my new costume (though sadly the final component of it did not arrive in the mail in time), and it was well ( Read more... )

The week in review:

• Saturday I woke up late and made a 7UP cake before Meghan arrived to hang out with me for our birthday week! We made another cake together, but it was really brownies: layers of love brownies, which include white chocolate chips and caramel sauce. Then our party guests arrived over the next hour or so, bringing potluck items. ( Read more... )

The week in review:

• Not a great day for a Halloween party since I was throwing up the night before and felt pretty miserable throughout the day. I didn't get to eat my party food. But I did feel pretty decent by the time the guests started arriving and did have a good time! I made the last two items (muffins) in the morning and sort of slowly got ( Read more... )

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• Saturday was my first author panel. I read an excerpt of my book Bad Fairy along with authors Ryan Meany and Ron Riekki, and afterwards we went out to eat and talked about writing and life and, you know, pretentious bullcrap. I blogged about it here and there's a video here where you can watch us read our work and answer ( Read more... )

The week in review:

• I stayed in San Francisco and returned on Monday! More lovely times playing with my nephew Ash and hanging out with my mom, my sister P, and my brother-in-law Y.
  
  
• Our Super Shuttle ride home from the airport took over two and a half hours because they really screwed up organizing how many people they should be taking at once. ( Read more... )

I had a Halloween party on Friday ( Read more... )

I promised a happy update so here are some cool things that have been happening. (Teeny pics can be clicked for big ones ( Read more... )

Yay, Halloween 2010 was a success, and it involved large quantities of food and friends sillying it up at my house. You can see the full photo album for the event at my Halloween photo page, but here are a selection of pictures, which you can click to see the big versions.

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