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Undertaken DONE
I am finally done the first draft of Undertaken! After a spate of writing over the last two days that amounted to over 10,000 words (almost 8,000 just today!) I have a manuscript totaling just under 126,000 words.
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Reality Check
The Harry Potter Alliance posted a graphic on their Facebook page juxtaposing what people think about minimum wage workers vs. the reality of minimum wage workers (most are not teenagers, most work full-time, etc.). However, as I posted as a comment there and as I said when I shared the graphic on my own Facebook page, this graphic is not really ( Read more... ) -
The Holiday Spirit
I believe that it is perfectly reasonable to draw the line at consenting to listen to Christmas music sung by The Beach Boys. Please take note, Trader Joe's ( Read more... ) -
Facebook Facepalming
Okay, okay, I get it, your little baby is turning three years old today! He's the love of your life, he's watched over by angels, blessed by fairies and dressed by birds and small woodland creatures. He's adorable and photogenic, and on top of that his mother is a professional photographer, so roughly five kajillion pictures of him exist since the ( Read more... ) -
Almost Empty Nest
Ben has signed a lease on an apartment in the neighborhood just north and west of ours, only about a 15 minute walk from our house. And I was recently in the Amherst area with Rachel and her roommate to secure a student apartment for the two of them for the coming year.
We looked at some pretty grim spaces. Dirty dishes left on tables, bongs, a ( Read more... ) -
Measuring Sticks
Now there's a woman saying that women who get equal pay--or even make more than men around them do--will never find husbands. Wow. Possibly even worse than the woman claiming that the equal pay movement is "demeaning" to women. IMO, both of these women have more than a little growing up to do ( Read more... ) -
The problem with wood
Those of you who also see my Facebook posts know that I am working on turning a box room in our house into a home office. (It has also been a playroom for our kids, when they were little, and a dressing room back when our bedroom was next to it, since there is a connecting door between the rooms.)
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Memo from the home office
The work on my home office is coming along. I have cleared out vast quantities of junk that were in here when we were using it as a box room, and now that the electrician has verified that I won't risk burning the house down by plugging my drill into the room's sole outlet, I can get to work repairing the table I will be using as my desk.
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My mom's 89th birthday
At my brother's house now waiting for him and my brother-in-law to bring my mom. She's the only one not here yet. No, it's not a surprise party. My brother simply neglected to talk to his son, who was supposed to be driving his grandmother here, before we were expecting them to arrive. (Actually, he didn't talk to his son until almost an hour after ( Read more... ) -
This is not going to be a good review
Dear pedometer,
It is not helpful that you have already stopped working, less than a week after I started using you.
No love,
Me