writing this may be a bit of a struggle, as it’s a european keyboard and i’m not used to them. at least we found where the at key is at. :)
work proceeds apace. just reached the end of the first third of heart of stone (again) and i’m going to be going through it at least once more. but first, when this revision is done, i must finish writing coyote dreams. this is a very busy few months here. busy is good, but oi, the busy. :) possibly moving across the world in the midst of all this was not the *best* planning ever, but as ted says, hey, live and learn! :)
…jeez. i keep thinking of things to write about, but when i get to an access point i can’t think of them anymore. maybe i’ll just have to save up entries on my laptop until i can get into town and use mom and dad’s connection. anyway, we’re all alive and doing fine.
oh! we got a DRYER! it’s very exciting. and we got a tv and dvd player, which are also exciting. but you can’t rent dvds here without a bank account, and you can’t get a bank account without a utility bill proving you live where you say you do, and bills are only sent out every other month here, so, er, it’s a little odd. rather as if (we said in a chorus) we were living in a foreign country!
OH!
i am living in a foreign country where my books are not being published. THE CARDINAL RULE is out this week. if people happen to sight it and have a camera of some sort, if you’d take pictures (with or without yourself!) i would eventually get my act together enough to post them to cemurphy.net and i would luff you forever! email to catie at cemurphy dot net or mizkit73 at yahoo dot com (the former is better, though you’ll get an email back from an address something like catie at megs dot vogsn dot something or other dot this and dot that asking for you to verify you’re a real live person instead of a spambot, ’cause i’ve got a spam filter running on that account).
‘k, getting hungry now and ted says he’ll make dinner when we get home, so we better go home. :)
I think I just sent you a snapshot of the book with my new phone. It’s the first time I’ve sent email from it, so I dunno, but it seemed to work. :-)
(Check your spam filters, too, since I did get the auto-reply, but I’m not at all convinced I responded to it correctly through the cumbersome phone interface. At least it’s a good sign that the mail sending part worked. )
You know what I like about you? You don’t go on for days about how miserable you are without a dryer and a dvd player and a tv, and then once you get them, something else is wrong. You just take care of what can be done in the meantime and get joy from what you have each day. That’s what makes reading your blog such a pleasure–and your books as well because your characters have such a gift of enjoying the moment. That may seem so natural to you that you may not realize how special it is, but it is. I’m just learning to do that so reading your stuff, whether formally published in a book or informally published on the net–it’s just a treat. Seriously. *hugs*
*blinks at Crystal* Well, thank you. :) It’s not really that much of a bother to get along without a dryer or a tv or a dvd player, but it’s nice to have them. Generally, though, I like to look at the positive, not the negative. It makes things much more pleasant all around. So many people are so consistently negative I just find it exhausting.
Kirby! I did not get the picture! I’ll email you…