Queen of Rambles

I think I have a fever. Ugh. Darned kids not washing their grubby hands and then touching stuff that I need to touch. Blah. I just had Mike feel my forehead to see if I have a fever. Him: Maybe you do. I don’t know. Me, with a major whine: What kind of mommy are [...]

I need to get to bed pronto! I have a very, very early day tomorrow and am going to be miserable if I don’t get to bed five minutes ago. I can’t resist making an entry though. I’m about all ranted out today. I’ve ranted other places. Instead, I’ll give you the highlights of my [...]

I have totally wasted this day. There’s no school on Thursday or Friday so I guess all the teachers thought they should go to work today. That meant I was free to do things that I really, really needed to do. Last night I came up with the idea of making a frog quilt wall [...]

Time has been sneaking up on me! It’s time to mention that Mosaic Minds is accepting submissions for the theme Serenity. The deadline is November 15. Only features need to reflect the theme in some way. Short stories, poetry, entertainment, travel, and so forth don’t need to reflect the theme. To me this seems like [...]

I don’t drink* and have never been hung over, but I’m certainly feeling some pain tonight. At about 11 pm last night I decided I wasn’t going to quit Nano and that I was going to make my daily word count No Matter What. It’s a good thing I’m a relatively fast typist. I was [...]

What a day. It seems like I am actually done with nano, unless I skip work a couple of days this week and just sit and write for eight hours. Not likely to happen. I told Mike I should just have my main characters meet and have a hugely long sex scene for the last [...]

Thank goodness my depression was short lived. Twenty four hours is quite enough for me. Things are looking much brighter today. I have my quilt hanging up on the wall! We have our new dining room table! It’s huge! It doesn’t exactly match the decor of our house totally, but it is a really nice [...]

I am so tempted to quit Nanowrimo right now. I don’t like my story at all, so what’s the point in continuing? It’s just causing me great amounts of stress with very little satisfaction. Maybe it’s the hormones talking. I shouldn’t do anything rash, even though I feel like it. Of course, I also feel [...]

My sister’s boyfriend blew into town last night. The DA had told my mom he would be in prison for at least four years. He was in jail for less than three months. Now he’s back and poised to continue to ruin my sister’s life. Not that it is all his fault. If she wasn’t [...]

Ok, ok, so you don’t want to hear anymore about the disappointments of the election. You either feel totally triumphant and justified and happy or completely despondent. I know very few people who have neutral emotions in this round of elections. This is the first election I’ve ever cared about. I have literally been in [...]