Tessa & a Rather Small USPS Priority Mail Box
a love story in photos
She’s been in there practically nonstop for a week.
She’s never going to let me recycle that box.
miscellany
miscellany for the 29th day of july
Revisionland has destroyed my ability to blog, have you noticed?
Probably because it means I’m typing most of the day, so then when I go to blog my brain thinks “More typing? Can’t we go do yoga or something?” so then I go and drink iced green tea while I think about maybe doing yoga.
So, miscellaneous things that may or may not be of interest to you, dear reader.
- My very first phone that does more than making phone calls is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. I probably will tell you, actually, in some sort of dedicated phone lust post next week.
- Zebradonkey. I love his stripey legs.
- Revising is actually going really well. It’s slow, but since it’s more expanding & adding things than just polishing, I think that’s to be expected. Almost at the halfway mark, I think.
- This bunny is brilliant and I wants it but I do not have $500 for awesome bunny sculpture, which is tragique.
Yeah, that’s all I’ve got. I’m in nonstop work mode. I saw Inception but I’m incapable of talking about it articulately without babbling and I’m very opinionated about the ending. I have flopsy kittens, which is typical for this time of year. I want it to be autumn, cinnamon-spiced and crisp.
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new office
Months ago, the boy asked me what I wanted for my birthday.
I said I wanted a new desk chair, because I’m boring. Also, because I spend a large amount of time sitting in it, and the one I had lacked any real back support.
Somehow that turned into maybe also getting a new desk. So we had a planned before-birthday excursion to IKEA to spin around in chairs and see if any of their desks would fit the studio.
And the day before said excursion, my iMac decided to be cranky to the point of being worrisome, especially considering it’s my primary writing computer and no longer covered by AppleCare.
So, even though my birthday is not until Thursday, I have a brand new home office.
Old version:
Apologies for the glare. This was, I believe, my dad’s desk from high school, painted over several times.
New version:
We actually found an IKEA desk that fit perfectly, including a shelf that runs along the back of the drawers that collects all the cords and protects them from cord-gnawing kittens. My new chair is fabulous, and I cannot even tell you how shiny & wonderful the new iMac is, it’s amazing what only a few years difference in technology makes. I keep scrolling on any screen that will scroll just because the mouse has touch-screen-esque scrolling.
So happy happy early birthday to me, especially since I’m going to be glued to this spot for the foreseeable future.
We moved the old desk out into the hall for now. It has been claimed already.
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cake & kitten
Other than the fact that I am still coughing, after over a month of lingering chest cold, this weekend was lovely and springy.
Not really knowing what to do with myself now that I am out of Revisionland for the moment, I thought I would bake muffins. But then I couldn’t find poppy seeds and I really, really wanted lemon poppy muffins. So while I wandered dejected and sad-faced through Whole Foods, the boy & I stumbled upon a tower of bundt cakes, and one of them was lemon with this lovely drippy icing and white chocolate shavings on top and we decided it was like muffins, but better.
So we pretty much ate lemon bundt cake all weekend in the sunshine.
It was really good. Likely better than any thwarted muffin attempt.
While I had the camera out I tried to take photos of Tessa, and while she is usually a very photogenic kitten she was not particularly obliging this time.
I set this photo as the wallpaper on the iMac and I keep laughing maniacally at it. I think this was actually mid-tail-lick rather than proper yawn.
I spent the cake-less, kitten-less hours of the weekend reading and cleaning the studio while the boy read the new revisions. Other than some minor things that still need tweaking, he really likes the major changes so that’s good. He’s read like, every incarnation of this thing and he’s a Virgo so I’m going to take that as a sign that I’m on the right track. Still have it out with other beta readers, so I’m going to try not to obsess over it while I wait and actually get other, non-revising things done for a change.
Also, my windows are open and it is sunshiny and that is happy-making.
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bucket in spring
Today is Bucket’s birthday. She is seven years old.
Normally she is an equinox baby, but this year the equinox was yesterday. Maybe that’s why she was so cranky about letting me take birthday photos.
I tried. I did. She would not look at the camera no matter how I pleaded and waved things. I think she was shunning me because I brushed her first.
Ah well. She is not as much of a camera lover as her sister, but she’s still a pretty princess.
Happy Birthday, fluffiest of Fluffy Buckets!