Here we are, off on vacation, hiking until our feet hurt (today it's more the calves, from that climb up to Clingman's Dome), eating good pancakes (see Respite for an explanation of where we're eating pancakes), sitting over a brook listening to babble... and I run out of books. There's a lovely used bookstore in Knoxville, but that's an hour from ( Read more... )

I am staring at books to be organized (they're all unpacked; that doesn't mean I can *find* things), more stories to work on than I have fingers (this is really, really embarrassing, I must say), and a dining room that needs painting. So, instead, I'm posting over here briefly since I haven't really posted in a couple weeks, and linking to medie's love ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning, I'm running away with jcbdragon for a week of pancakes, hiking, photography, naps, DVDs, and did I mention the important part, that this is a week with jcbdragon? We've been together twenty years now, more than half my life (if not by much). On Friday, we'll have been married for sixteen of those years. So, I may be on and updating LJ and ( Read more... )

I was going to do today's Friday Five, butI'm tired and right now I don't really identify with any character, much less five of them. Sorry.

Anyway, among other things, I've been gone on vacation (dolphin spotting, and spa, and museum, and gossiping with jimpage363, her husband, devohoneybee, and hafital), and writing more "Storm Crow." I have this vague hope I can end it in ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back. ::cheerful:: I have wine, Dragon's Xth B'day present, Merewyn's X+Nth b'day present (well, a start on both, and numbers have been removed to protect me!), and a lot of email and LJ entries to catch up on. ::cheerful:: I have no sunburn, no traveler's tummy, and no con crud. However I do have a list of '15 things Mulder and Buffy ( Read more... )

I will be halfway to the Smokies. Vacation for a couple days with Merewyn, now a.k.a. anaith. Yay! Pancake Pantry, and hiking, and pictures, and a cabin over a stream in the Smokies. ::happy:: I'll be offline from Tuesday morning 'til Friday night, so please, if there's something you think I should see, reply here. Thanks!

::cheerful:: If it's true that passport photos, like driver's license photos and other official identifications, are supposed to be hideous, and that security is in fact suspicous of anyone who has a *good* picture... then I'm completely safe, clearly. Lord that was a bad picture. Oh, well. I should have a passport again in a few weeks ( Read more... )

junoesk, I finally get to steal hugs? Whee! killabeez, I'm pretty sure I owe you a drink. I don't remember *why*, you understand, just that I do. emyrys, are you headed there? And I get to meet JiMpage363 in person! And then there are people I haven't seen in ages (katallison, kadymae, maygra, to name a few) or want to meet (hafital, I still love that Fugitive fic you wrote for me!).

One month 'til jcbdragon ( Read more... )

A quiz, gacked from brighidestone:

( Cut for a large picture on a quiz result )

...I'm going to Escapade. This year, after debating finances and some other considerations, I've decided not to. ::g:: I'll just register for next year, and get plane tickets, after this one's over. That'll give me all year to gloat and anticipate and enjoy it ( Read more... )