Pre-conference progress

I leave for the OWFI conference Thursday evening. My brother’s coming to pick me up so Richard can keep the van. They have a fun-filled weekend planned sans Momma. (Begone, mommy guilt!)
Today I polished my synopsis. One page, as requested, single-spaced, 1-inch margins. I’ve probably spent 12 hours agonizing over that single page, but it [...]

The key to a successful garage sale: Don’t give a crap.

Sunday afternoon:
Relaxing on the van seat I’m using as a couch in my garage. Waiting for all the churchgoers to get out and come to my sale. The blustery, overcast morning kept away the non-churchgoing heathens (a group of which I am a part) but the afternoon looks promising. The Godly people should be here [...]

Want to boost your wifi signal? Put your router in a pie pan.

[Editors note: comments are closed on this post due to crazy spam.]
I’m totally serious. A pie-pan, a collander, or any other dish-shaped metal object.
In changing desks I had to disconnect all the cables, and when I started everything back up I couldn’t keep a wifi connection. I still don’t know what changed, since the router [...]

An apology to Antonio Banderas

In a post giving linky love to my critters, I joked that Marta has a problem with Antonio Banderas. It wasn’t just her. Most of my critters have a problem with Antonio Banderas. Why you gotta be hatin’ on Antonio?
Just kidding. I don’t know how they feel about Antonio personally, but when five out of [...]

Okay, Don, you asked for it

Don over at Orbis Writings tagged me. I love this meme with its focus on the blog. This will give you a chance to rediscover some things about your old friend, Sherri Blossoms, and maybe discover something you didn’t know before.

Link one must be about family: From the mouths of babes
Link two must be about [...]

Life is good

I took some pictures this weekend, but I can’t find my rackin-frackin upload cable. And I’m typing this on my laptop, but my rackin-frackin wi-fi has decided to go iffy on my this weekend so I’ll have to go kick Little Bubba off the PC to post it. (Little Bubba is home from school because [...]

Linky love to my critters

A while back I wrote a post about the first time I had been ALL ALONE in the house in years, without children. That day I nearly went crazy. I think I’m getting used to extended periods of alone time.
It’s not a regular schedule or anything, but it works out to where I get upstairs [...]

Accidental writing

I felt so lethargic yesterday, really and truly crappy. I figured I wouldn’t be able to write a coherent sentence, but I needed some office time, so at seven o’clock I dragged my ass and laptop up the stairs. I was going to take it easy, probably do some free writing, maybe lie back [...]

Disjointed thoughts on critting

Last week I put out a call for beta readers, and the most wonderful people in the world responded. Over the weekend I had plenty to keep me from obsessing about it, even though my mom and brother gave me comments the next day, and Ian over the weekend. Started on my one-page synopsis last [...]

My Weekend in … No Pictures

I did take some pictures, but I’m way too unmotivated to upload them after a non-stop weekend. I be tired.
High point: Getting a new washing machine. My husband works at a retail salvage company, inventorying merchandise as it comes in and distributing it to the stores, so he sees the really good deals before anyone. [...]