Another Dead Deadline

Back in August I made a pact with myself that I would try to finish my novel by my birthday.  Well, with only 5 days to go and not a single word written in the 10 weeks that Nephew was here it looks like I’m going to have to concede failure on this one.
In a [...]

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Writing A Book Is Work

Determined, I set up shop on the dining room table yesterday morning.

First, I set up my laptop with an external keyboard…because I can’t type for shit on a laptop keyboard.  My 70 words a minute screeches to a 15 words per minute halt on those things.  Not at all conducive to free flow writing.
Then I [...]

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Author, Author

It’s amazing how easy it is to forget that I’m writing working on ignoring a book.
Of course a lot has happened since I started it almost 7 years ago.  I’ve had the oldest bird leave the nest, only to come back and leave again several times.  We started homeschooling and even though it’s without doubt [...]

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Spring Forward, Fall Behind

We had a full Easter weekend with two family dinners back to back…yummy but exhausting.  We did manage to get the majority of the housework done on Friday so today has been a slow moving, puttering kind of day.
Hubby and I finally got around to going over our finances and as we both suspected, we [...]

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Book Binge Time

MaryP @ It’s Not All Mary Poppins is hosting her annual book binge and it starts today!
Check out Mary’s blog for details and to sign up (just leave a comment saying you are in).
I have a lofty stack of books ready to go and I can’t wait to get started.   Ready, set, read!

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Finally Getting Around To

One of the presents Hubby got me for Christmas this year is a recipe book.  Not a cook book, but a book where I can record and otherwise keep my own and my favourite recipes.  See, see…that’s it there.

Along with blank pages to write in my own recipes, it has these neat folders to hold [...]

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The Library – Day One

Not one to shirk the enthusiasm of a new idea, I’ve already (after the drafting enlistment of Hubby’s back and arms) de-cluttered the space, moved furniture both out and in and have built the bare bones of a makeshift home library.
Of course, my ideal is this…

But, I live in the real world and what I’ve [...]

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A Library It Is

I had little trouble convincing Hubby that we should turn Son’s old space into a library/media/craft room.  It’s a huge space that’s just being wasted at the moment and it makes sense to move all the random books, movies and craft supplies into one place.
The easiest part of this task will be the decluttering and [...]

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Lawn Volcanoes and the Library

Our “no back to school” first week was great fun.
We went to the library on Tuesday and got a very cheerful Hello from our favourite librarian. Daughter took out six books, four from the Our Canadian Girl series and has already read them all. I suggested that she might want to consider [...]

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Okay, Now I’m Complaining

And at least it’s not just all in my head. See this story from the CBC.
“It’s been more than five days since Southern Ontario and parts of Quebec first faced temperatures that approached or topped 30 C – which felt like 41 because of the humidity.
That’s about 10 degrees hotter than normal.”
Reminds [...]

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