Well, we did a lot of furniture shopping this past week. What occasioned it was my insistence that the boys clean their room. They started (haven’t quite finished yet) and one of the things they did was pull the mattress and ruined boxspring off of Boy #2’s bed to get at all of the junk under the bed. The thing had been broken for quite a while, and the cover was coming off little by little. Boy #1 decided that…
The color version of The White Winds boys – by the Girl – is finally up! It took a while, especially the bricks, but I’m so glad she did it! Thanks, Sweetie! Life has been quiet here at the moment. We had a nice 4th; went to Bro’s house and ate a good meal (good in all possible ways) then watched Batman Begins. A good movie, better than I thought it would be. My only major complaint, if it could be…
I got it into my head some time ago that I’d like a new bracelet to go with my medic alert tag. Not that I don’t like the one I have, but it’s nice to have a change once in a while. The cost, however, has kept me from buying one. But recently, Boy #1 has been making necklaces and earrings and little tags to hang on his backpack (which actually went back to the county, seeing as it was…
I knew it was comimg, and this morning I saw it. Went to view my stats at ff.net and saw that I had 25,051 hits on The White Winds, with 251 reviews. It’s exciting, a bit puzzling, and all around heartening to see. Now to get out the next chapter–I’ve been spending my writing time on my RPs and haven’t felt the need to write my actual stories. Hubby didn’t come home until after 5:30 yesterday, but he had a…
Spent the afternoon at my brother’s, celebrating his birthday. My SIL made a cake and icing with Splenda; they were both very tasty! We gave him a Boston Red Sox cap and a SC t-shirt. He seemed to be happy with both of them. We watched the latest Pink Panther movie, the one with Steve Martin. I couldn’t hack it; there’s only so much stupid I can take. But there was actually a plot, and Clouseau solves the case by…
The mail brought all three report cards to our door today. I was pleased with my kids overall. The Girl had reason to be unsure about her final exam in Geometry; she got a D, which I don’t think surprised her. It brought her semester grade down to a high C, but her final grade overall was a B, which we can most certainly live with. It also means she’ll be staying in the honors math next year. She got…
The stray dog is gone. I bought a cheap chain collar, and a chain to keep him from running away, and he stayed tied up to one of our trees last night. Whined off and on during the night, but he was still here in the morning. The kids had christened him "Max", which was appropriate, I suppose. I called animal control this morning, and they came out this afternoon to pick the dog up. I wanted to make sure…
Yes, folks! It’s the last day of school here in Greenville County! I am soooo excited! It has been an odd day, to say the least, but not having to get up in the morning to tote the kids around will be so sweet! (At least until next week when Fine Arts camp begins…) Boy #2’s school had their award ceremony last Thursday. He brought home two awards: All A honor roll, and excellence in computer science. But he’d had…
Chapter 28 of The White Winds is up, and I’ve managed to outline a bit of the next few chapters. We’ll see how it goes. I should be getting to 23K hits on this story with this chapter. It still amazes me how different the two worlds are; the movie verse brings in a lot of people from other fandoms. Two more days of school! Yay!
Well, there’s another chapter of Overtures posted. It’s my longest one yet; over 8600 words. Very difficult to write and to get right. But I think I did. Now back to The White Winds. I have probaby half of the next chapter of that written. I just have to finish it. I’ve posted Serendipity at FicWad, and Masquerade now has just over 8000 hits. The White Winds is nearing 23,000, which astonishes me. There’s plenty of activity at IR:TNP, but…