The first half seems to be up as far as Molly and Arthur in bed, as usual. I almost did this as two chapters because it is a lot longer than what I usually write, so maybe that is something else I need advice about. Fingers crossed on formating.

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Live Journal may not be set up for taking so much text in one post so I've chopped this in half. Thanks to stmargarets and crumpledhornki and mollywheezy for letting me know about the problem.

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It's your birthday, mollywheezy! May you have a delightful day of celebration and a year full of enjoying what you read and what you write.

Ryan, may you have a year that is as busy as you want it to be. Your daughter is growing right before your eyes making memories you will never forget. Thank you for being my friend.

This result seems to be fairly common. Maybe too many of us identify with Emma Thompson.

Your result for The Jane Austen heroine Test...

Elinor Dashwood

70% romance, 45% sauciness, 52% etiquette, 75% intelligence


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Yea me! I finished the gathering of data for our taxes this morning while the California Legislature finally voted to pass a Budget. It was only 106 days late. Sigh! Now the voters will have to decide which of the many measures on the ballot May 19 will pass or fail. Some of them are good ideas (no pay for elected officials until there is a ( Read more... )

As most of you know, I have been learning to write fiction by using the plots and characters of JK Rowlings (along with some that belong to St Margarets, Moonette, Dogstar, and Gabriella duSult). With lots of help and advice I have managed to write a number of Molly-centric stories. So far, so good, as I allude to what is happening in the Harry ( Read more... )

'Rain, glorious rain, we suddenly have it!' Northern California has been in a terrible drought this year, the third year of the climate change effect that so many places are suffering from. Our unusually warm weather has been due to a persistent high pressure ridge that has shunted all precipitation up towards Canada and is probably responsible ( Read more... )

This is the latest update that I could find about the Australian brush fires
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20090208/D9673J8G0.html

crumplehornedki has just moved there so I am most concerned about her and her family. It sounds horrendous.