bah.

Bah. My day has been all thrown off by daylight savings. I didn’t change my clock last night, so I got out of bed at 8:30, which felt a little late anyway, but once I got showered and all I realized it was now /ten/, not nine, and now everything feels all cramped and crowded. Grumble. I’m making corn beef & cabbage for dinner (we were going to make it at St. Patrick’s Day, but Mom made it then, so I’m making it now!) and this cake for dessert, and…

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bah.

All right. I thought I might get more writing done today, but I’m not going to, so I’ll put down the day’s total at 2200 words and call it good. Ted and I went and spent some of his overtime money today. We bought a DVD/VCR combo because our VCR is failing and, er, we thought it would be nifty. O.O And Ted got a new computer game. Then we went and looked at guitars, but I have to give my guitar teacher a call and see if the kind…

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writey writey write

Thank God for test readers. *laugh* I’ve been struggling with FOOL’S GOLD and the pacing of it–I want the story to take place over a year, and I’ve never written a book that takes place over that long a period of time, so I’ve been bogging down in the wrong sorts of details. And consequently getting really bored and tired with it, which is not a good sign. _But_. I just spent a few minutes talking with Silkie, who is one of the people who test reads (and makes mournful…

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all I have to say

All I have to say today is 1. I hate Ted’s horrible nasty work, and 2. I keep hoping *today* will be the day that there’s email from Anna saying she wants to buy my book, but it keeps not being that day. Siiigh.

goodness

Goodness. I googled for ‘cut turquoise -jewlery’ and came up with this. And then if you really needed to know, the next photo answered the question of religion. Work safe. More or less. Goodness. o.o