Wahoo! RIDER took 1st place in the Futuristic category! And garnered a request for a full by the editor-judge, Alicia Condon of Dorchester!
This story has just been a delight to write. I've loved every minute...well, except for those minutes when the characters adamantly refused to say/do what I thought they should...and those moments when I had no idea what they needed to say or do to get to the next scene, LOL. Other than that, though, RIDER has been a treasure. I can't wait to finish the final revisions and send it off because that means...
Drummer's story is next!
Monday, November 14, 2005
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Curio
We bought a curio cabinet the other day. When I say we, I mean me. My darling husband has wanted a curio for the livingroom for ages but, well, let's just say he's a wee bit tight with his money. I am too--to an extent--but it's not like we're paupers and why not have something special to display our collectibles in? Right? Right.
So the curio was delivered last Friday. The first thing was to polish the glass, mirrors and wood. Polish until it shined. Um. Anyone who knows me also knows that I'm not Susie Homemaker. Not at all. Oh, I manage to keep up with the housework but, really, there are more interesting and usually important things to do with my time.
Anyway, my husband works midnights so he's used to sleeping during the day (kind of like a vampire, LOL). We had planned to put my crystal and collectible plates in the cabinet as well as the miniature figures we both collect. Being a typical woman, eager to see the cabinet filled with all my glorious items, I went to work.
This cabinet has five shelves. I'd filled three of them with just my things before I realized it. But generously, I put some of the oriental styled figures and plates on one shelf so my dh could put his miniature oriental figures (they're only about two inches tall so they need something in the back--that's my story and I'm sticking to it). Then I realized he had once collected miniature houses from Lillyput Lane. These little gems come in a variety of sizes from golf-ball to the size of my two fists put together. They're so full of detail too! You can almost identify every leaf, blade of grass, pebble or rock in the landscaping. For sure you can see the bricks or pieces of thatch on the houses themselves. Truly, you need an hour just to sit and study them before you've seen every detail.
I'd filled, or planned out, the top four shelves when I remembered the Lillyputs. So I went to find them and did. The poor things were dusty beyond belief (I wasn't exagerating about housecleaning, you know) so I washed them and dried them and put them on the bottom shelf. Meanwhile, my husband who'd become alarmed when I'd come into the bedroom looking for the Lillyputs (especially when I answered that I was playing 'decorator') decided he'd better make an appearance. I get the feeling he doesn't always trust me, silly man.
I'd put the now quite lovely Lillyputs on the lower, wood shelf but, to my mind, they faded into the wood even with the light on. But I'd already done enough. I didn't want to further impose on the two shelves I'd generously given him, ahem, and explained my thoughts about the 'oriental' shelf. After he agreed, he started placing some of his figures on the shelf interspersed with the other items I'd already put there and it looked good.
The Lillyputs, however, seemed drab and a bit lonely down on that bottom shelf. It took about half an hour, but I convinced him that the oriental and the Lillyput needed to change places. When we got those little houses onto the middle shelf where they'd have more light and be more visible they just bloomed.
It's hard not to look at this new cabinet filled with our small collection of treasures. It's quite lovely.
But it does make the rest of the room look a little shabby.
I feel another spurt of housework coming on. This can't be good.
I wonder if there's a medicine for it?
So the curio was delivered last Friday. The first thing was to polish the glass, mirrors and wood. Polish until it shined. Um. Anyone who knows me also knows that I'm not Susie Homemaker. Not at all. Oh, I manage to keep up with the housework but, really, there are more interesting and usually important things to do with my time.
Anyway, my husband works midnights so he's used to sleeping during the day (kind of like a vampire, LOL). We had planned to put my crystal and collectible plates in the cabinet as well as the miniature figures we both collect. Being a typical woman, eager to see the cabinet filled with all my glorious items, I went to work.
This cabinet has five shelves. I'd filled three of them with just my things before I realized it. But generously, I put some of the oriental styled figures and plates on one shelf so my dh could put his miniature oriental figures (they're only about two inches tall so they need something in the back--that's my story and I'm sticking to it). Then I realized he had once collected miniature houses from Lillyput Lane. These little gems come in a variety of sizes from golf-ball to the size of my two fists put together. They're so full of detail too! You can almost identify every leaf, blade of grass, pebble or rock in the landscaping. For sure you can see the bricks or pieces of thatch on the houses themselves. Truly, you need an hour just to sit and study them before you've seen every detail.
I'd filled, or planned out, the top four shelves when I remembered the Lillyputs. So I went to find them and did. The poor things were dusty beyond belief (I wasn't exagerating about housecleaning, you know) so I washed them and dried them and put them on the bottom shelf. Meanwhile, my husband who'd become alarmed when I'd come into the bedroom looking for the Lillyputs (especially when I answered that I was playing 'decorator') decided he'd better make an appearance. I get the feeling he doesn't always trust me, silly man.
I'd put the now quite lovely Lillyputs on the lower, wood shelf but, to my mind, they faded into the wood even with the light on. But I'd already done enough. I didn't want to further impose on the two shelves I'd generously given him, ahem, and explained my thoughts about the 'oriental' shelf. After he agreed, he started placing some of his figures on the shelf interspersed with the other items I'd already put there and it looked good.
The Lillyputs, however, seemed drab and a bit lonely down on that bottom shelf. It took about half an hour, but I convinced him that the oriental and the Lillyput needed to change places. When we got those little houses onto the middle shelf where they'd have more light and be more visible they just bloomed.
It's hard not to look at this new cabinet filled with our small collection of treasures. It's quite lovely.
But it does make the rest of the room look a little shabby.
I feel another spurt of housework coming on. This can't be good.
I wonder if there's a medicine for it?
Thursday, November 03, 2005
I need a day as long as Venus's
Venus has one rotation every 243 Earth days. That's pretty long. It might even be long enough to get this book finished, to complete my web page, to fix the template on this log, get ready for both my daughter's birthday and for the coming holidays. You think?
I'm getting new end tables and a new cocktail (coffee table if you're pretty much a teetotaler like me, lol) plus a new curio cabinet for my livingroom. That's tomorrow. It's taken a week to get the area for the curio ready but it's almost there. All I have to do is help my dh move my old computer desk out of the way. Then comes the purely happy pleasure of putting all my collectibles in it...well, maybe not 'all' of them. I have a lot.
The worst problem, and this isn't a pleasure at all, is now all the general crap that inhabited the spot where the old desk (and an accompanying bookshelf) sat is now in my new office. You guessed it. My office looks like the results of a terrorist attack--in books and paper. I'm hoping to repaint the room before Christmas but first I'll have to do something with ALL THIS CRAP.
Not all of it can be trashed so I'll have to box it or buy the file cabinet I wanted (imagine trying to paint around a file cabinet--uh huh, my thoughts exactly).
As Earl in Tremors was wont to say--I need a plan.
It better be a good one.
I'm getting new end tables and a new cocktail (coffee table if you're pretty much a teetotaler like me, lol) plus a new curio cabinet for my livingroom. That's tomorrow. It's taken a week to get the area for the curio ready but it's almost there. All I have to do is help my dh move my old computer desk out of the way. Then comes the purely happy pleasure of putting all my collectibles in it...well, maybe not 'all' of them. I have a lot.
The worst problem, and this isn't a pleasure at all, is now all the general crap that inhabited the spot where the old desk (and an accompanying bookshelf) sat is now in my new office. You guessed it. My office looks like the results of a terrorist attack--in books and paper. I'm hoping to repaint the room before Christmas but first I'll have to do something with ALL THIS CRAP.
Not all of it can be trashed so I'll have to box it or buy the file cabinet I wanted (imagine trying to paint around a file cabinet--uh huh, my thoughts exactly).
As Earl in Tremors was wont to say--I need a plan.
It better be a good one.
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