I have jade plants all over the house, to the extent that anyone who comes over is likely to be offered one (or a dozen). Only one has achieved that sprawling, twining tree effect that jades are known for; it's the second-oldest, my first effort, probably twenty years ago, at growing an offshoot from the original plant, and it's pretty cool- ( Read more... )

Attempting to anonymize this sufficiently to avoid specific wank. Hopefully it hasn't resulted in complete incoherence.

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I should have been at MediaWest*Con this weekend. :-(

Instead, we planted flowers. This is typically a mid-June activity for us, sometimes later (sometimes *much* later), so it was very strange to be at the local nursery when it was full of both flowers and people. Last year we got a very late start, which combined with the shortages and the hard ( Read more... )

Butler's Honeycomb Crisp Milk Chocolate

I recall being very partial to honeycomb, the few times I had it growing up, so this was an obvious buy for me.

Where bought: Not sure? Probably World Market.

Aroma: Sharp, almost tangy; more like a bittersweet dark chocolate than a sweet-laced milk.

Texture: Firm, with tiny crispety bits. Melts nicely as it ( Read more... )

I was up til about 2:00 am last night researching markets and submitting stories, and got four of them out there into slush-land.

One of them's back this morning with a form R. *headdesk*

This entry was originally posted at https://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/238365.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. ( Read more... )

Nestle Drifter Bar. Another one that's probably not exotic elsewhere, but is a novelty here.

Where bought: World Market, I think?

Aroma: Generic chocolate bar

Texture: Very satisfying to bite into. Many very thin layers of wafer stuck together with caramel.

Taste: Yummy. Your basic chocolate+wafers+caramel, but there's nothing wrong with that.

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New words in April = 7783, all on Lightning Strikes Twice

That is a damn sight better than I expected. An awful lot of that was in teeth-pulling low-output slogs, but there were an awful lot of slogs, so it does add up.

(May's numbers will not look this good. I have Stalled, and I am not doing well at getting started again. I was hoping a rest ( Read more... )

23. What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?

The exiled former commander is living alone on a mountaintop when her trusted second-in-command arrives to call her back to duty. All is forgiven, he tells her, if only she will come back and lead the army against this strange new threat. She trusts the crown's promises not at all ( Read more... )

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

Well, there's the great sprawling unfinished mess affectionately known as the "porn saga", which has both a desert-island alternate and a "character gets a spine infusion and gets himself a life ( Read more... )

Got my second (Pfizer) shot today. I wore my periodic table t-shirt because I wanted something science-y; the shot-giver and I had a good time talking science t-shirts and being happy about vaccines at each other.

So far no side-effects. I'm a bit sleepy, but I suspect that has more to do with being up til the wee hours wrangling an incalcitrant ( Read more... )