I think the band of poor SOBs that make up The Lightriders principal cast know that I'm trying to screw them over, because they keep finding reasons not to go where I'm sending them. All of chapter 23 has been like pulling teeth. GAH.

On the other hand, revisions to "Bibliotheca Magica" are proceeding much better and I'm actually enjoying the rewrite process, which may well be a first.

I've made the right choice for my SMF audition monologue, and I now have empirical evidence. Mua ha ha. I have no idea if it's going to work or not, but I'm going to have fun doing it.

Something has taken up residence in the fridge. It sort of looks like pizza dough. However, we won't know for sure until madcap_allie comes over tonight and we attempt to actually turn it into pizza. Mr. Darcy says this is Mad Science. All I know is that alcohol will be involved.

Yesterday Mr. Darcy and I drove all over north Olympia looking at land. The best candidate was 20 wooded acres, very private, accessed via an easement that a very pleasant fellow on the next property showed us how to get to. Downside: it's a drainage nightmare and what it would cost to install a septic system is beyond contemplation. OTOH we weren't seriously looking for something to buy yesterday, just getting a sense of the area. I'm making Mr. Darcy pick where we look next and I suspect he'll say the peninsula. Sometime next month, possibly.

Between my tattoo healing, catching and recovering from a cold, Jesse being in Europe for a month, and general craziness, I fell off the workout wagon this month for the longest time in years. Gah. So today I got onboard the elliptical trainer and tortured myself for 25 minutes. Much better. Mmm, endorphins.

Now I do more writing and chores before madcap_allie gets here.

Tags: exercise, food, friends, home sweet home, life, mr darcy, smf, tattoo, writing
Current Mood: okay
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Yesterday photopagan and mrs_photopagan came over. As is traditional, we ate way too much (corned beef and potatoes, which is also traditional) and drank wine. I made a pie for the second time in my life and I think I baked it a little too long but it came out pretty good, if I do say so myself. Mr. and Mrs. P. brought over a Venture Brothers DVD, a show I've never seen but really enjoyed. We also watched the "Planet of the Dead" episode of Doctor Who. I think Lady Christina is one of my favorite one-off characters. She reminds me of somebody...can't think who...

Today, for Black Friday Mr. Darcy and I are avoiding the crowds and the door-busters and all that crap to go on another land-scouting expedition. This time we're looking in north Olympia. We did pick some particular places off of Redfin to look at, but the point of these trips isn't so much to find a place per se as to figure out what general area we want to look in. We're getting a later start than planned, but the weather's much nicer than last time so I think it'll be a good day. Ta!

Tags: food, friends, holidays, home sweet home, mr darcy, road trips

This time, from sassy_fae!


Examining some root beer.


Examining a cat-hat.


The reigstration line!

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Current Location: Work
Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Inward Eye - Day After Day

"We don't have the funky attachment for whipping." — Mr. Darcy

Tags: food, holidays, mr darcy, pie, quotations
Current Mood: pie

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Current Location: Work
Current Mood: ditzy
Current Music: Puddle of Mud - She Hates Me

...trust me, it's either this or a rant about last night's programming class.

Scotch egg.

Scotch OSTRICH egg. I'm impressed that someone not only HAD this idea, but took the time to actually implement it.

On that note, time for lunch.

Tags: food, zomg!
Current Mood: impressed

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Tags: school, stupid people, wow
Current Location: school
Current Mood: amused

I had Beatles tunes (as sung by the Bee Gees and Aerosmith) stuck in my head all night, but managed to sleep soundly. The morning light streamed in bright and clear once again.


sassy_fae and I took our leave of halfelf and leonard_arlotte, and ate a mostly healthy breakfast in the con suite.


And that was that! Our time in con space was over, but we still faced the long and winding road (DUN DAH! DUN DAH! That leeeads to your doooor...) back to Hamilton...

( Driving to Toledo, whether we liked it or not )

Tags: mff2009, road trip