Month: October 2007
Thumper’s first sentence
Thumper has been talking for quite some time now. Months and months, and I wish I could recall exactly when it started (or I wish I’d written it down, rather than assuming I would remember). His first word was daddy, …
ten minutes turns into twenty…and not even any photos for you
Its Wednesday evening, so its writing time again. Thumper and Billy dropped me off at Tandem so that they would have the option of either going out or staying home (we only have one car and I need a new …
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Not a Rhinebeck post
I may not be at Rhinebeck with most of my knitty friends, but I’m still managing to have the best weekend I’ve had in…well…maybe since Rhinebeck last year? Yesterday morning, Billy, Thumper, and I met my friend Tereza and her …
I am a spammer, apparently.
Today I accepted an invitation to Shelfari. I won’t link to it because I’m pissed at them right now. I let the system access my gmail account so I could see what friends were already on there. I clicked to …
Ten minutes to blog
And…GO. Billy and Thumper just headed out the door for their boy time and my Wednesday evening writing time. I’m allowing myself ten minutes of blogging before I dive into the writing. Shouldn’t take that long, even, because I don’t …
Since last we spoke…
…the vegetable garden bed has been finished and the cover crop (Crimson Clover) sown. Thumper was a big help. He also helped me do some recycling. Our new couch arrived today, so the living room now looks like a living …
No knitting! Just writing!
Except that…well…Thumper is about to outgrow his Accordion sweater and has long outgrown his other sweaters. And I’ve just thrown out two pairs of socks due to acute heel blowouts. And it’s pretty much always sweater and knit sock weather …
Building up the soil
Two important developments on the settling-into-the-new-home front: I’ve set up my office and gotten back to the work of writing the next novel. I started this book when I was first pregnant with Thumper, after sending the first novel out …
Getting better…
We’re about 80% or so unpacked now, which feels a hell of a lot better than being totally hemmed in by boxes did. Now we need to hang our chandelier in the dining room, buy a new couch for the …