Since there’s nothing I can do about the wallet situation at the moment–the Lost and Found isn’t open on Christmas, but my options look like A) have it overnighted if possible, B) Fly without ID, be searched, and hopefully retrieve it in MN, and C) have my long-suffering but willing parents drive me seven hours […]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Well. I am in Michigan. My wallet, however, is in Minneapolis. I cannot leave Michigan until I get my wallet back, as I cannot get on a plane without ID. The airline had found it, but I am still required to navigate the maze of Lost & Found to get it back. 2007 was not […]
Off to the wilds of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan I go! Happy Hogswatch, one and all. I don’t know what my internet connectivity will be like, so if I don’t post again between now and then–Happy New Year! I will not do a year in review, because…well…I lived through it once already, and that […]
A grey, wet, gloomy, miserable day. Went out to run errands. Got soaked. Brooded. Errands only partially successful. Wild goose chase in pursuit of duplicate car keys eventually ended sans goose. Discouraged, I headed home, to discover that the power was out. Oh…yay. Somedays even my native optimism and determined cheer falter and I just […]
It is difficult to dance to “The Ecstasy of Gold” (better known as the theme to The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.) Even if one is cleaning the house and boogieing down in the embarassing way that one does when alone and wielding a vaccuum, this tends to halt the boogie. (Why did I […]
Every night, I crawl into bed, and a few minutes later, having done a last sweep for ninjas, Ben follows. He plops down between my ankles, reclines majestically, and begins to groom. Ben is not a quiet groomer. Some cats may settle their fur in silent dignity, but Ben slurps. And he chews his claws […]
Ben is too goddamn smart. He figured out the connection between “moving red dot” and “human holding thing in hand” in about five minutes flat.
Ahhhh…life is good. I have hot cider and the latest Robin McKinley, I have eaten an excellent and fattening meal, my agent just got off the phone with what will hopefully be some promising leads (she’s talking to a lot of film people about various things, a notion which strikes me as simultaneously thrilling and […]
Neat! A major library book club apparently just bought the rights to print 7300 hardcover copies of Nurk! …apparently this is good. (I have no freakin’ clue, but my editor says it’s fantastic news, and my buddy Deb, the romance writer, concurs, so, um…yay!) …See above post about success and dumb luck.
My recent baking experiments–and actually my life in general!–reminds me of one of my all time favorite quotes… “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” — Mark Twain I was telling mizkit t’other day that I thought the keys to success were hard work and dumb luck, […]