oot!

I managed to weigh in at 195.5 this morning. I’m not quite sure how that happened, but I shall try to continue the downward trend! Yesterday it was 23532498 degrees out, and we went out shopping and errand-running and I overheated and had to come home and lie down like a sick lump in the bedroom for an hour, but then I got better, which was good ’cause Mom came over and we had bbq ribs and macaroni salad and corn on the cob for dinner. And very excellent, if…

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diddly squat, + some

I did diddly squat yesterday. I wrote 1600 words Thursday; that was something, anyway. Today I’ve made bread and a strawberry rhubarb pie and walked the dog. Now I’m going to go do more stuff. ytd wordcount: 156,850 miles to Rivendell: 144.25

writing

Well, fnrt. I got email from Karen (the lady who’s running Writer’s Weekend) last night saying that one of my entries for the WW writing contest hadn’t arrived until yesterday. Since I sent it on about the 20th of June, and sent it priority, and the bloody contest closed July 1st, that’s a little annoying. That was the entry that had Angles and Urban Shaman in it. Feh. Oh well. She says she’ll see if she can get the editors to read them even if it’s much too late for…

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updatey

Okay, I’d better update my webpage before my husband starts complaining that I never tell him what’s going on with my life anymore. :) Yesterday, I tried to go to lunch with my Mom and an old friend, Sam Perera, who was an exchange student from Sri Lanka at KCHS and whom I re-met in college. Mom came to get me, and we drove to where the directions said to drive. And the road ended. So we thought, “Um, well, maybe it’s the other direction.” So we drove the other…

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I was almost certain…

…that I would come out as this kind of sword. :) You are a broadsword! you are double-edged andsharp. As swords go you are a happy medium.Long but not to long. Sharp but not enough tomake the blade weak. Strong but not overlyheavy. What kind of sword are you? brought to you by Quizilla