Goodness, our schedule’s been thrown into a futher! I was *sure* and husband were arriving the 5th, to stay through the 12th. Ted and I dashed around cleaning the house today in preparation for the blessed event. We got rid of two of the beds and moved a bookcase out of the spare bedroom (and moved a wardrobe in), and now that room is quite large-looking and echoy. It’ll pretty much remain that way, too, because due to popular demand the futon and sofabed we ordered in, what, mid or…
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just stuff
I had no idea my complaint about milkshakes would prompt so much discourse. :) is in Japan at WorldCon. I told her to have fun for me, and she has. :) :) :) I wandered down to the Ceili Mor yesterday afternoon. It would’ve been more fun with someone else, but there were a lot of high spirits and good-natured people around, so that was nice to wander through for a little while. Then I came home and read/finished reading Carol Berg‘s FLESH & SPIRIT, which I enjoyed a lot.…
milkshakes
The Irish do not understand milkshakes. The first time I was in Ireland (in the UK, in fact, because this problem was endemic to England and Wales as well) I ordered milkshakes several times, and was always presented with this rather nasty concoction that was more like shaken milk than a milkshake. Sometimes it was lumpy. Other times it was bubbly, but not like soda bubbles, but rather, like shaken milk bubbles. It was never cold enough, or chocolatey enough, and it clearly never had any acquaintance with ice cream.…
currently working on…
Hm, it’s the first of the month (ye gods), which means this is a good time to post a Currently Working On, right? Right. Especially since that means taking another 10 minutes away from doing my job, which, as we all know, is an important thing to do. So: September 2007 WiP: Writing: HANDS OF FLAME (The Negotiator: Book 3) Revising: THE PRETENDER’S CROWN proposal Submitting: HANDS OF FLAME, I hope! Publishing: — Waiting: — Gosh. That didn’t take anything like 10 minutes. Drat.
*laughs*
‘s fault: *laughs*