Will wave to y'all tonight---am off to do another little bit on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."  I love these guys!

I celebrated my natal day by finishing the first draft of my third book!  Yahoooooooo!!  (First one was, essentially, practice.  Second one is with my agent, being shopped around.  Third one, once it's polished and tweaked and dry-cleaned, will join #2 in trying to find a publisher for what is now a set.  Perhaps Santa will bring me a publisher for ( Read more... )

I don't usually send birthday wishes, as occasionally doing so points out how bad I am at in general (and has nothing to do with how much I love you all), but this case is special.  One of my dearest flisters happens to share my day (or, perhaps more correctly, I share hers), and so I must wish the happiest of felicitations to the lovely lady who ( Read more... )

In Russia?  Trying to shut people up?

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machshefa has provided some great advice and words of comfort on dealing with some really sucky news.

http://machshefa.livejournal.com/97505.html

Am sending warm hugs to any and all, including the magnificent mischievous_t   She is a recent and very welcome addition to my flist, and she is in my thoughts ( Read more... )

Am sending warmest thoughts and good wishes and hopes out to the amazing mischievous_t and all the blessed fangirls who were with her in Chicago this weekend.  Hoping that all goes smoothly tomorrow!!

accioslash sent me a yummy chocolate head to munch on!  Numnum!!!

I seem have received some sweet prezzies from mischievoust and accioslash (where is the little icon thingee that lets me turn them into Lego people?), but, as my 'puter is still slower than my brother reading the newspaper and LJ isn't displaying all the needed options to post properly and I can't figure how to get back to the page that shows my ( Read more... )

My SSHG Exchange fic has somehow managed to finish itself!  Early in the game it threatened to turn crack-ish, and once I had deterred it from that course, I then was very much afraid I had written myself into a corner, plot-wise.   Comes from plunging ahead without a plan of attack.  (Note to self:  Don't ever start with WIPs!)

But my glorious beta ( Read more... )

Yes, but I've been keeping busy.  Lurking.  Writing.  Commenting once in awhile.  Cleaning.  Working once in awhile.  Amusing the cats.

And today I got a particular treat---coffee with the ever-lovely tonksinger who happens to be in my neck of the woods for the summer (actually, she's in a much nicer part of the woods, so I also got to gaze out at the ocean ( Read more... )