Slices of life

[bookaddict43]

Or in other words - a rambling ramble from me :)

There's too much sand in the world :)

Of course living where I do I'm used to sand. I've never had a car that isn't inches deep in the stuff and the carpet hosts sand really well. But sand in the pockets of clothes?

I've just washed the LG's shorts only to have half the beach (the other half is still in the washing machine) fall out of the pockets onto my other clean washing. *sigh* Why is there sand in his pockets you ask? Because he, and all his mates, go swimming in their clothes. Even if you supply them with swimming gear, they still swim in their clothes!

I struck it lucky this week at the supermarket and got to the butcher's just when the meat got marked down. So roast lamb and veges last night for dinner and leftover roast lamb again tonight - yummmmmm.

Thank god for friends! As a single mum with little family close by, I rely on them a lot.

I've got a workshop/meeting in Cairns tomorrow, which means a three hour drive there and back. The little guy is getting dropped at my friend's at 6am and she takes him to and from school and to football practice too. I'll pick him up on my way to the Surf club meeting at 7.30pm and then he stays at another friend's place for that.

I'm thinking of signing up for Firefly Big Bang. But will I be able to do it? Positives and negatives abound!

Fortunately the word limit is 20,000 not 50,000 like some BBs, so that's a positive.

I have two half-written and never posted fics I'd love to finish and post. But given that I haven't finished them, or anything else much, for a very long time; I have my doubts. But maybe the timeline will help?

Of course there's also the fact that most of my fics, even the multi-chaptered ones very rarely reach 20,000 words. I think Letters and Corresponding notes are probably the only ones to get over that amount.

I'm bored and I want to write. I have so many half-way finished ideas and WIPs that I'm hoping the Big Bang will be the impetus to get me back on the bandwagon.

And of course I want to read Firefly fic, so maybe I can join the BB as a cheerleader instead?

It's a public holiday today and I'm supposedly catching up with housework; with intermittent Internet breaks. In reality I'm sitting here re-reading all my favourite Jaylee fics (instead of writing) while the little guy and his friend are out in the yard catching lizards. The poor things, the lizards I mean, have had a quite few weeks due to sports and school commitments. But today the hunt's back on!

And last, but not least...Why, if you post a graphics tutorial, do you direct everyone to your friendslocked journal? Why not make that post public? Hmmmmmmm?

Comments

[wildannuette.livejournal.com]

friends are great, they make the world go around.

You should definitely sign up, which one of your fics is calling you?

If you like the reading...can i be cheeky and ask if you'd mind betaing the epilogue of that wip that's been annoying me?

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

Of course I don't mind betaing. Send it along! I'm at meetings all day today and tonight, but will probably get to it tomorrow night :D

[wildannuette.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) It will probably be finished later on in the week, the damn tube strike here's thrown out all my week night finishing plans :(

[elsibet34.livejournal.com]

Sand, wire hangers, glitter, plastic easter basket grass. These are all thing which self-propagate once in your home. :P Ickies.

I've never understood linking to locked posts, either. Maybe it's some bizarre cry for attention...