writingu and stuff

Yesterday was a very nice day. We went out to dinner at our favorite (but increasingly expensive and hence rarely visited) Italian restaurant with Christopher and Young, and Ted ate so much that he was much, much too full to eat any of the German chocolate cake I made for his birthday cake! So we still have a pristine cake sitting downstairs. Ted got good loot for his birthday, including a book called FOOD FOR FIFTY, which deals with scaling recipes up for larger groups of people. He’d really wanted…

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a meme for ted

There’s a really terrific meme going on at LJ right now, in which the rules are thus: 1. Reply to this post if you want me to tell you how cool you are! 2. Watch my journal over the next few days for a post about you and why I think you rock. 3. If you like, post these instructions in your journal and give your friends a much needed dose of love and adoration! It’s just so incredibly nice to read down my friends page and see all of…

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All about you you you

rocks because: she is fearless. This is not to say she is without fear, because then she would be Matt Murdoch, and that would be weird. But I don’t believe I know anyone as willing to categorize and face her fears as Deen. The particular example that comes to mind is a simple one: going out dancing. This was not something in her repetoire, and the whole prospect made her very nervous. But given the opportunity to go Jamesing, she flung herself into a situation she had no experience or…

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I like this meme. :)

1. Reply to this post if you want me to tell you how cool you are! 2. Watch my journal over the next few days for a post about you and why I think you rock. 3. If you like, post these instructions in your journal and give your friends a much needed dose of love and adoration!

there. whew.

There. 3551 words today, plus the additional 807 yesterday, making for what’s starting to seem like a fairly decent wordcount so far this year. I’m slightly more than halfway done with this chapter, and I think I’ve got four to go. Oh dear. And Chrisber has found a build your own tartan website. Oh dear. :) ytd wordcount: 26,500