The kitchen is clean!

And not just...tidied up clean. Clean clean. nijawial and I busted our butts cleaning out the cabinets and fridge, organizing, doing dishes, wiping counters, the whole shebang ( Read more... )

Welcome, welcome, welcome new friends! There've been a good number of you over the last week ( Read more... )

Holy hell ( Read more... )

We braved the snow and cold to journey (in one of those fancy automobiles) to the library ( Read more... )

It's still snowing.

And it's snowing hard.

But I've been able to get a lot of reading in! Books I've finished:

World Without End: Ken Follet's long-awaited follow-up novel to Pillars of the Earth. I've never read Pillars of the Earth, but I'd heard good things about it, and World Without End isn't a direct sequel. It doesn't matter which ( Read more... )

So I've been reading a great deal lately. I may not be able to get many new books, but I've got a ton of used ones I've been able to get my hands on. I read in the bath and before bed, and if I'm feeling it, when I first wake up while I have my breakfast ( Read more... )

I'm seriously considering walking up to Fantastic Sams and getting my hair done today. Just the cut, not the color, as I figure I can strip the parts I need myself.

( I'm Going For Something Like This )

Yes, it's that time of the year. I've begun my annual reading of The Hogfather. :D I'm also reading 4 Past Midnight, but that's not terribly seasonal. ;) Though it does give me something to talk about ( Read more... )

So I reached 23k and it was decided I needed a little break. What with the drooling and babbling nonsensically. ;)

So here is some stuff completely not related to NaNo at all! To prove there is life outside of Nano!

We finally got all the Halloween decorations, and now the porch is being converted to a sort of work space. nijawial has her art table ( Read more... )

All those pesticides, the exterminator making repeated trips....

And all it took was some herbs in the cabinet. I don't know whether to be amused or not.

I finished Blood Rites last night! Still not sure how I feel about the massive revelation in there. And now am eagerly craving the next one. I have a million books to read, however. I ( Read more... )