not a success

My cake was not a success. I kind of liked it, but Ted didn’t like it at all, and I probably won’t eat another piece. Oh well. It wasn’t a good baking week, I guess. I made Mother-I-Forgot cookies on Friday or something, and the butter was frozen so they cooked too long and were dry (Ted said, “They’re too dry.” My gut response to this–proving I am indeed my mother’s daughter–was, “Fine, make them yourself from now on.” (Mom once made Dad a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich. Dad said,…

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“It’s the one with the alien.”

It’s been a nice weekend. Christopher flaked again, no gaming (grr) and so I watched my Highlander episodes for the week (AUGH. I ended on the ep Tessa DIED in, which I’d never SEEN, and AUGH. *AUGH*!) and we watched some more Stargate. *laugh* We just started watching season 6, and we’d watched the first three eps and the fourth is called “Frozen”. Ted and Shaun said, “Which one’s that one?” and really without meaning to be a smartass at all, I said, “It’s the one with the alien.” Shaun…

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ONE. HUNDRED. THOUSAND!

Juuuuuuust under 2300 words total today, and juuuuust over 100K total for the year! Woot! ytd wordcount: 100,200 *ha cha cha*!

dinking around

I’m dinking around. I’m 1000 words shy of hitting 100K for the year and I’m, well, dinking around instead of writing the next thousand words. I need to get some breakfast. Ees beeooteeful out. Clear and, okay, only 22 degrees, which isn’t so beautiful, but boy it’s pretty. And yes, this is me procrastinating. Ok. I’ll get breakfast and come stare at this computer screen for a bit longer, then I’ll go write another thousand words and hit 100K for the year. I need to go back to ch. 4…

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huh.

Huh. I’m taking over the Alaska RWA site, cause the woman who’s running it now is leaving and because, well. Web designer. :) So we were talking on the list about me taking over the site, and a couple of people asked if they could sit in on me and Lani discussing the transition, and then other people mentioned they were going to take Dreamweaver classes, and so after a while I said, well, if people were interested, I could teach an HTML class, since I’ve done it before and…

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