Monthly Archives: April 2010

Every now and then, you start painting and it works and it flows and you find yourself going "I AM A GODDAMN MAGICIAN." Unfortunately, in order to get to this point, you generally have to spend about six hours earlier (in my case, last night) going "This is horrible. This is not working. This is awful. I am a […]

Cracked my head on the towel bar in the bathroom, in one of those blindingly idiotic moves to which most of us are prone. Kevin winced. I held my stinging scalp and said "I’m an adult. Really. I can do my own paperwork and everything." "That’s what I say whenever I hit my head on that thing, too," […]

I found myself today in the unenviable position of assembling an Easter basket for a small child. This is not in my usual repertoire, but I was the one going out, and Kevin’s youngest really wanted an Easter basket this year (I suspect it is the last year of such things) so I swung by the drug […]

It was nearly ninety here today. Good lord. It seems that spring was about a week long this year, and now it has decided to be summer. A lovely pine warbler was on the suet feeder, (the first of the season!) mourning doves prowling through the garden and sitting sullenly in the birdbath, the big […]

The great blog migration commences!

Hi, guys! If you’re here–probably from Red Wombat, maybe from LJ–you’ve caught me in the middle of migrating my blog. It’s taking awhile–there’s what, eight years worth?–and at the moment there’s nothing much to look at, except the snazzy header with everybody’s favorite squash god. However, check back and hopefully we’ll have more to look […]

Other than being mildly ill–the Theraflu helps–today continued to be pure awesome. I went in to town to mail stuff, swung by Borders and Barnes & Noble to sign books, and found myself holding, in my hot little hand, a sixth edition of Dragonbreath.* Good lord!  I just found that they’d gone to fifth a month ago! […]