Posted in Child Musing, Daniel, Potty Training on September 29, 2006 | No Comments »
Okay…I don’t know how I did it, but it appears Daniel is potty trained.
Yesterday, he finally learned how to do #2 in the potty. I wasn’t actually there when it happened. Looks like my hubby had the pleasure of teaching him. That’s good, because I sure didn’t know how I was going to teach him [...]
Posted in Writing on September 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman: 96,626 Not as much as I thought it would be.
Prince of Dogs by Kate Elliott: 202,450 I know–not a debut novel; in fact the second book in her Crown of Stars series. But Amazon only had the stats for this one.
Wolfskin by Juliet Marillier: 214,238 I didn’t read this one.
Murder [...]
Posted in Weeping of the Willows, Writing on September 25, 2006 | 3 Comments »
As you can see, I did a little fine-tuning of the sidebar yesterday. One thing I really wanted to do was fine-tune the novel meter so it can show how many words I’ve written on Willow so far and how much should be my goal. In order to do that, I needed to count how [...]
Posted in General Musings on September 23, 2006 | No Comments »
First of all, before I say anything, obviously we are fine.
The potty training was stressing all of us out, Daniel, me, even my hubby who stayed home to work. I decided it was time for a change of venue and slapped a diaper on the kid, deciding to take him shopping and do some other [...]
Posted in Child Musing, Daniel, Potty Training, tagged Book signing on September 21, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday was pretty rough for Daniel’s first day of potty training. To give you an idea of what it’s like, I want you to go ahead and pee in your pants. Go ahead. Do it. It’s all right. You’ll be fine. Just pee in your pants. Go on.
Won’t do it, huh? Going to the toilet [...]
Posted in Blogging, Writing on September 20, 2006 | No Comments »
So I’m facing my first dilemma.
I learned of an anthology that’s publishing essays which deadline is due at the end of this month. As I read their essay topics, I thought “You know what would be perfect? My story on meeting Tad Williams at the Festival last year.” It would be perfect. I know it [...]
Posted in Writing Conferences on September 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Before I ponder this past weekend…got an email today from Mytholog saying that they’ve accepted my poem, “The Autumn Queen”. This will be the second piece I’ve had published there. Very nice to come home to that. I’m building up my writing portfolio slowly but surely! Once it’s online, I’ll put up the link to [...]
Posted in Writing, Writing Conferences on September 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »
And it continues…
11:05am I tear out of church hoping to try to make the tail end of the first workshop, Working with Computers. I only made it for the last five minutes, but turns out, I needn’t have rushed. The woman I sit next to gives me a rundown of what the talk was about, [...]
Posted in Writing, Writing Conferences on September 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
9:33am Stupid Amoco BP. What the heck is this prepay thing you have to do now? Trying to get my card to work at two pumps makes me storm inside the store in exasperation to prepay the cashier and tell the lady at the food counter that I want a breakfast panini. 15 minutes later….I’m [...]
Posted in Child Musing, Daniel, Potty Training on September 16, 2006 | No Comments »
Bees circle around my boy.
He knows about bees because he sees them a lot in our Dr. Seuss books. But this is the first time he is confronted with their lumbering, yellow striped bodies as they hover around him and his fire engine pushcar. Daniel’s amazed and delighted. “Bee!” He calls out to me.
“Yes, bee,” I [...]
