Me vs. the Vikings

Me: I’m tired of you. I’ve hauled you around for years, I finally sold you and finished you, I wrote a blurb and filled out a cover art form for you, but are you gone? No. If you were gone, I wouldn’t still be here doing edits.

The Vikings: More mead!

I will get rid of these overgrown carriers of the Y chromosome today or bust.

Rainy days and books

We did get a chance to walk with sprouts in the nearby park. It’s a nice one, trails are well maintained, and about 4 minutes away. We find that in general all Washington parks are well maintained and this entire area is pretty much a hiker’s paradise. Will do it again today.

It’s the rainy season here, but it’s not a continual torrential downpour. If you don’t mind walking in a light rain, which we don’t, it’s still fine outdoor weather through the rainy fall, winter and early spring days. It’s a wonderful sound to wake up to, rain falling outside the window, and something about the rain outside makes me want to spend the day curled up with a good book. One I’m reading or writing, doesn’t matter. Rainy days are good book days! I wonder if this is why this area is so heavily populated by writers. Well, that and the connection between ions and creativity.

Speaking of books, most of my reading lately has been nonfiction. I’m currently re-reading Be Your Own Literary Agent, which has lots of good information. I did finish another Dean Koontz book, but it was too dark and I’ve been bothered by it ever since. I kind of got lucky with two fairly light reads by him, but I’ll go back to treading cautiously with his books. I love the writing and his characters are wonderful, but I can only take so much dark subject matter. This is why I’m not a suspense reader in general. But for sheer lyrical language, Koontz is hard to beat. And he does create characters you have to keep reading about. And his action sequences. There’s a lot to admire and learn from in his work.

So, Koontz and nonfiction, that’s what I’ve been reading lately. What about you?

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everybody out there. It’s a stormy day here, rain and wind. We were planning to put the sprouts in their Snuggli packs and go walking in a park later today, but not if the storm doesn’t let up. Hopefully the weather will clear and we’ll be able to get outside. We haven’t been doing our long weekend hikes since the move and we miss them. That’s a good habit to get back into. Good for the body and the brain! Now that we’re settling into a routine we can work on that. Um, lights are flickering (the storm) so I’m shutting down.

Christmas eve!

Christmas eve is here. Time to sing carols and eat cookies and hang out with my favorite people. One of them will be using me as a chew toy (Morgan), but that’s okay.

The husband fixed the blog archives last night to the calendar system, since the monthly archive links only displayed 7 entries. This way the entire archive is viewable by clicking on whatever date you want. Hurrah!

I suppose I should be working on edits or new words or something but I’m just looking out my window at the trees and the rain and singing carols along with Harry Connick, Jr. Well, that’s no bad way to spend Christmas eve.

Updated to add: I’ve finally figured out how to add links to the blog page (thanks husband) and have started adding the blogs I regularly visit. I think I’ve forgotten a couple, but I’ll keep at it. Links, yippee!