Yet another Tessa + Box = TRUE LOVE story that will leave the kitten crushed and broken-hearted when I must recycle the box.
She’ll find another (inevitably doomed) cardboard love. She’s resilient.
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salem in october
We went to the Salem Haunted Happenings Grand Parade tonight.
Most of my photos are blurry, but some of them are fun anyway.
I think the best part was likely the East Beverly All-Star Lawn Chair Drill Team, as always, but the band playing industrial goth covers of 80s songs was also made of win. I never knew Genesis songs could sound so hardcore.
There were also a number of adorable doggies. Some of them in costume.
And pirates.
And after getting a Pumpkinfest beer, we passed this guy on the way home:
I love this crazy town. A few more occasionally blurry photos are over on my Flickr photostream.
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regularly scheduled kittens
There’s been far too much book excitement around here, and not enough of what is truly the heart of this blog: the kittens.
So, here are the fluffmonsters in their natural habitat, cardboard boxes.
Tessa is actually sitting on even more of the crumply paper. She’s been in there for hours, though, so it must be more comfortable than it looks.
Bucket is managing to sit in the sunshine and in a cardboard box at the same time. Talented, talented kitty that she is.
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tousled & autumnal
It’s autumn! For reals! I have socks on! My coffee was pumpkin flavored this morning! It was iced coffee, but still. Autumn! Oh, how I adore you, season of mists & mellow fruitfulness.
The circus is officially out of my hands. It’s strange, but it’s been a long time coming. So while occasionally glancing wistfully in the direction of the Revisionland Hotel, I’m working on a new novel. Right now it’s grown-up Alice in a 40s noir-inspired Wonderland. I have a couple of languishing works in progress that I probably could have gotten back to, but my brain was craving something new. I’ve written 25k in just over a week. I need to read some more detective novels to get the flavor right, but so far it’s interesting.
And I decided I needed some updated photos of myself, so the boy indulged me in a photo session yesterday. Still getting used to the new camera lens, but after some trial & error, I’m pretty pleased with the results. The best ones are now on the about page, and here’s how the rest of that hair tousle went:
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nine things for the ninth day of the ninth month
- I sent my completed revisions back to Agentland last week.
- My revisions did not reach Agentland last week, due to the inconsistent wonderment that is the internet. I blame Mercury in stupid, stupid retrograde.
- Revisions are safe & sound in Agentland now, for real & for true.
- Instead of being a normal person & taking some time off post-Revisionland, I currently have 22k of a new novel that I started last Wednesday. Yeah.
- I really don’t know why I didn’t get Florence + the Machine’s Lungs ages ago instead of this afternoon. Am in music love. Reminds me of Bat for Lashes.
- Still fooling around with the new camera lens, thus, low-light photo of the statue of Thoth next to the computer:
- I wish I’d discovered that BPAL sugar notes smell divine on me years ago, because I feel like I’ve missed out on a lot of lovely scents. I have the 2010 version of Sugar Skull on right now and it’s gooooooorgeous.
- Nine things was probably too ambitious, wasn’t it? I just liked the theme, what with the date.
- Yeah, I got nothing. Ah well.
