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Well hello there, Livejournal...
It's been a while, hasn't it? A very long while, but it's nice to see you're still here ( Read more... ) -
It just got cold here
I had it in my head to write something a little longer than this, but it's 1:30 in the morning and I'm fairly certain I've said what I was going to say a few times before. In short: It's November - just days away from Thanksgiving, and a little more than a month until Christmas. Seemed like a fine time to crack the seals on the Christmas music ( Read more... ) -
A brief bit of writing news
As of today my novel stands at a total of 62,807 words. That is, I believe, up 15,000 from when we moved to Washington. Much of that 15K has been written in the last few months ( Read more... ) -
Also - I've been writing a bit
I've been a little leery of mentioning this as I hate making promises I subsequently break (and I've made these promises many times before, to then disappoint myself by not following through). The lesson there should not be that making promises is the reason I then break them, but that's the way my brain interprets it anyway. I'm superstitious like ( Read more... ) -
Jeez...
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Cat Vacuuming: The Census!
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BLOG!!
So, the industry people I know/have met keep stressing the need to have a WEB PRESENCE if you want to sell books. Livejournal ain't gonna cut it for me - not THIS account anyway. So, I've started a blog. It's here: Cat Vacuuming!No, I'm not abandoning LJ (inasmuch as I seldom post as it is). Cat Vacuuming is going to exist at a slight remove from ( Read more... ) -
Big Girl
It sure doesn't seem like it's been eight years, but sure enough - my little girl turns eight years old today. I've made a habit over the years of retelling her birth story on this day, but I'm breaking it this year ( Read more... ) -
Avatar: The Review (Or - Blue Monkey Giant Robot Knife Fight says What??)
You remember TRON, right? Jeff Bridges is a computer programmer reduced to scamming on teenagers from his loft above the video arcade (remember when you had to GO SOMEWHERE DANK AND SMELLY if you wanted to play video games??) because he got fired from his cush job designing games like STAR INVADERS and BLASTEROODS. But he gets sucked into the ( Read more... ) -
Stuff and Nonsense
Good News: I've lost 15 pounds since we got bicycles and I've started being better about what I eat.
Bad News: Losing 15 pounds means I ONLY weigh 264
Cool News: I'm enjoying watching Defying Gravity and re-watching Kingdom
Crappy News: Sometimes friends are too broken to be friends, and that makes me sad.
School News: Tuesday the kids go back.