I am following a friend to Dreamwidth, so this will be my last LJ post. I'm sorry to say goodbye, and I hope I don't lose any friends. My ID at Dreamwidth is dragonfare, just like here, and my posts have been migrated over there, too.

Goodbye, LJ.

From some symptoms I had (specifically, nausea when I went to bed unless I'd eaten something first, but no heartburn), I thought I had a duodenal ulcer. This was a while ago, and tests showed I didn't have that, but I did have acid reflux. I have a prescription for it, but it's not helping much ( Read more... )

I've been wallowing in nostalgia. This is going to be a completely trivial post, so if you're reading it, you probably have better things to do. :)

The nostalgia is the late 90s anime Rurouni Kenshin. I recently got the three live action movies from Funimation (Origins, Kyoto Inferno, and The Legend Ends). I watched them in the dubbed version and ( Read more... )

I celebrated my 3rd year of retirement with sundaes. Randi and I have a "special event" sundae that we use for birthdays, Christmas/New Year, and, of course, my retirement day. The sundae consists of equal scoops of coffee and rocky road ice cream (Blue Bell), topped with Cool Whip, drizzled with Hershey's Special Dark chocolate syrup, and covered ( Read more... )

I heard back from my publisher a lot more quickly than I expected! She's on vacation for two weeks, but she'll accept The Path of the Dragonfly before she even reads it, because, she says, she knows the quality of my work. Yay! Dragonfly is on it's way.

I was cruising my websites to see if they need updating (they do), and ended up reading reviews I got on fanfiction.net. That made me feel a bit cocky. I'll have to remember to do that the next time I'm in that writer's funk where I think everything I put on paper is clunky and useless. I made the mistake of opening one of the Hikaru stories. Y'all ( Read more... )

I finally got up the nerve to launch The Path of the Dragonfly out into the world. I kept procrastinating with it, coming up with all sorts of excuses. "I've got a lot of gardening to do in Wizard 101." "I think I'll start the sequel." "The kitchen needs cleaning." "The Lord of the Rings special features are calling to me ( Read more... )

I didn't win at Nano, and my writing skidded to a halt mostly due to not knowing where the story was going. Sometimes things that seem bad are actually good. I've been forced to be a planner for a while, rather than a pantser, so I could build properly on a promising start. (I love my characters and where the story will end up. That helps!) The ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to coastal_spirit! (I'm posting it here because FB is too public.)

Be extra nice to yourself today. Do a little self-pampering.

Wishing you a great birthday!

I can put in this journal - which almost no one reads - what I can't put in Facebook ( Read more... )