I recently encountered a bit of gossip to the effect that a friend of mine was being petty and annoying about something very small in the grand scheme of things.  My first reaction was, "That's ridiculous.  She's a grown woman with a family, a life, a novel to write, and furthermore she hasn't said a thing to me about it."  My second thought was, " ( Read more... )

So, every few years my system changes over.  When once I used to get bitchy, headachy, and generally miserable, now I get sleepy.  Not just "Stay in bed a bit longer" sleepy.  "Gee, that bit of floor looks pretty comfy" sleepy.  So, if you haven't seen me on much lately and noticed this, that's why.  I haven't been awake enough to remember how to ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should stop waiting on Spouse and go to Home Depot alone ( Read more... )

I voted ( Read more... )

I should be over on the Facebook thingy finishing up my class.  I really should.  It's a thing I should get paid for eventually, but I think I've been without a paycheck too long to summon much enthusiasm for it.  Ah well.  If anyone wants to go check out Teach the People in the next few days/weeks/months more power to you.  There's a class in ( Read more... )

There's a job fair down the way. I really should get spiffed up, arm myself with a zillion copies of The Evil Resume, and look employable ( Read more... )

So far so good.  I have sent out three short stories and entered the five that are now out in Duotrope's submission tracker thingy so I don't lose track of them again.  I have queried to send an emailed resume (because mine does not fit the online-app boxes) to a doggie-day-care looking to hire, and made a more dog-themed resume in case they say " ( Read more... )

I could be dealing with getting an income, so as to pay for the roughly $4000 we dropped on the house yesterday (rewiring, mostly, so it doesn't burn down, but also repairs to the gas line so it doesn't blow up) but this is way more fun.

It sounds like quite the party.

I picked up nuts for a while this morning.  One plastic shopping bag of iffy pecans (I should have started doing this last week, before it started raining) and one of black walnuts.  There are probably three more bags of black walnuts available if I choose to collect them.  Once that's done, I mean to rake under the trees to remove all the things ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was painting the laundry room, took down the screens to do the windows, and then could not find the cat. He had gone out the window, bounced off the same bit of roofing that the chipmunks so love (it collects nuts from the trees above) and gone to explore the yard. Now, #1, this is a full-time housecat, and #2, this is very much ( Read more... )