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prosodicSo I am now maintaining 3 blogs. I started a new one today. Not ready to release the URL for it just yet until I have a few more things posted on it.
This is madness, I swear. And each of these blogs serve completely different purposes. I hope the new one gets a lot of visitors, because it's not really writing-focused. It'll mostly be links - just trying to compile information in one place that is otherwise scattered throughout the internet.
I'll probably wake up tomorrow thinking I'm insane, and then I'll end up deleting it. But it's something I've been contemplating for weeks. And I've mentioned the idea to a few people and they thought it was very useful. So we'll see.
Anyway, I spent part of the afternoon at Kathy's. It seems her son has acquired a big box (a plastic backyard playset came in it) and she wanted to do something crafty with it, since he wants to play with the box. We contemplated turning it into a castle or a boat...and I even thought it would be fun to turn it upright and make a refrigerator/freezer out of it. We both really loved that idea, but Beck wanted to have the box horizontal instead of vertical. So we just cut random shapes into it...made random little doors and windows (I even cut a big B-shaped door into it). We wrapped it in white paper. Beck took his colored pencils and scribbled all over it and we had a bunch of stick-on stuff to decorate it.
So that was our crafty thing for today, although we're both anxious to do a girls' only craft afternoon with decoupage. She has a bunch of small wooden boxes.
Also, the birthday present she got me arrived today while I was there - the t-shirt she bought from Mental Floss. *points to icon*
She wants to get together soon - all of us - and have a picnic or go somewhere new and interesting. I'm kind of digging Wright Park in Tacoma. Although it doesn't look to have picnic facilities. But it has a conservatory and a sculpture park. Fantastic photo opportunities.
I came home at 5, about half an hour after Lance called me from McChord to tell me that he was on his way home. And I found a package of books from my editor on the doorstep:
The Wandering Heart - Mary Malloy
The House Always Wins - Marni Jameson (a home improvement book)
Writing Places - William Zinsser
The Devlin Diary - Christi Phillips (this is the one I'm reading first)
The Wandering Heart was compared by one reviewer to A.S. Byatt's Possession, so I hope it's really that good. Possession is an amazing book.
This is madness, I swear. And each of these blogs serve completely different purposes. I hope the new one gets a lot of visitors, because it's not really writing-focused. It'll mostly be links - just trying to compile information in one place that is otherwise scattered throughout the internet.
I'll probably wake up tomorrow thinking I'm insane, and then I'll end up deleting it. But it's something I've been contemplating for weeks. And I've mentioned the idea to a few people and they thought it was very useful. So we'll see.
Anyway, I spent part of the afternoon at Kathy's. It seems her son has acquired a big box (a plastic backyard playset came in it) and she wanted to do something crafty with it, since he wants to play with the box. We contemplated turning it into a castle or a boat...and I even thought it would be fun to turn it upright and make a refrigerator/freezer out of it. We both really loved that idea, but Beck wanted to have the box horizontal instead of vertical. So we just cut random shapes into it...made random little doors and windows (I even cut a big B-shaped door into it). We wrapped it in white paper. Beck took his colored pencils and scribbled all over it and we had a bunch of stick-on stuff to decorate it.
So that was our crafty thing for today, although we're both anxious to do a girls' only craft afternoon with decoupage. She has a bunch of small wooden boxes.
Also, the birthday present she got me arrived today while I was there - the t-shirt she bought from Mental Floss. *points to icon*
She wants to get together soon - all of us - and have a picnic or go somewhere new and interesting. I'm kind of digging Wright Park in Tacoma. Although it doesn't look to have picnic facilities. But it has a conservatory and a sculpture park. Fantastic photo opportunities.
I came home at 5, about half an hour after Lance called me from McChord to tell me that he was on his way home. And I found a package of books from my editor on the doorstep:
The Wandering Heart - Mary Malloy
The House Always Wins - Marni Jameson (a home improvement book)
Writing Places - William Zinsser
The Devlin Diary - Christi Phillips (this is the one I'm reading first)
The Wandering Heart was compared by one reviewer to A.S. Byatt's Possession, so I hope it's really that good. Possession is an amazing book.