My roommate bakes for fun, y’all. And though we are very much not “we need space for entertaining!” people, she does love to feed people. Enter Christmas, and a visit from her parents. Roomie made chocolate crinkle cookies. She fixed Tuscan Sausage Pasta. She baked pfeffernüsse. She made bread (to go with the apple butter […]
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I have a new cat! His name is Earl. I mean, Duke. Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earl, Duke, Duke… Yeah, I keep singing that. Today we went to the volunteer orientation at the Humane Society. We signed up for the other classes we want–dog handling, to be followed by dog walking, fostering, and cat
Made wordcount again. I just have to keep telling myself it doesn’t matter if I’m getting the characters’ voices wrong. Writing is how I’ll figure that out. Yes, my first drafts are often more like elaborate outlines. I’ve known that for a while. And sometimes, they’re a map to what I don’t want to do.
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My loving kitty doesn’t feel good, so it’s off to the vet we went. He was, you may guess, delighted. He got to get a shot, and I got banana-flavored (why banana? I have no idea) antibiotics to force down his throat, and I got special food to feed him so now the kitty-feeding has
So I got new sheets over the weekend, and I can finally give the ones borrowed from Bly back. (Hey, how was I to know I had not a single set of twin sheets to go on the new bed when I gave up my–sigh–waterbed mattress?) I washed them, dried them, and tonight I was
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