Jennifer Crusie's Blog

Happiness is Mac and Cheese

So one of the most important things about being an invalid is comfort food. What I have discovered, to my surprise, is that my comfort food is mac and cheese. I discovered this by cracking my pelvis and buying food that was easy to make from a wheelchair. (I always felt bad for people in wheelchairs, but I have to tell you, wheelchairs are awesome.) Those little cups of mac and cheese turned out to be perfect. They come eight to a box and they’re a piece of cake (piece of cheese?) to make. You peel off the cover, take out the foil cheese packet, add water to the fill line in the cup, microwave on high for three minutes and thirty seconds, tear open the packet, dump the cheese in, stir vigorously, and you have a cup of comfort. This is true whether you use Velveeta or Kraft (I go for the classics) but these things are not the same: Choose Velveeta. Its packet is full of thick cheese sauce that smooths out beautifully in hot pasta water. The Kraft? It’s POWDER. I cannot begin to describe how appalled I was. Then I remembered it’s always been powder, even in the big boxes, but I was a child the last time I paid this much attention to instant mac and cheese. Now I am adult. I have Standards. Buy Velveeta.

So how did you make happiness this week?

This is a Good Book Thursday: The Scholomance Issue

Last week I read all three of Naomi Novik’s Scholomance novels which are just freaking brilliant. This week it’s been Loretta Chase’s Carsingtons books, starting with the last one because I do love Lisle and Olivia. Next week . . . not sure yet. Pratchett? Aaronovitch? Rereading is so comforting.

So what did you read this week?

Working Wednesday: Is September Over Yet?

September is my favorite month, except not this year. Big achievement this week: Microsoft Word has been acting so weird I couldn’t use it to write, but this week, I FIXED IT. I am very proud. Fingers crossed the rest of this cursed month is good.

What did you work on this month?

This is a Good Book Thursday: The ReRead Edition

This week I’m rereading Aaronovitch, Pratchett, Novik, and Crusie-Mayer. It’s a certified comfort week.

What did you read this week?

Working Wednesday, the Ouch Ouch Ouch Edition

This week, I’m working on walking again after cracking my pelvis. Yes, I am not only a slow writer, I’m a sloppy walker.

What are you working on this week?

Happiness is What You Make Of It

So I had another setback which I am not sharing because how depressing is can I be? But I have a lot to be grateful for, too, so I’m concentrating on that.

What are you concentrating on for happiness this week?

This is a Good Book Thursday: Davy and Sendak

This week I’ve been reading about Maurice Sendak because I wanted to, and Faking It because I need to see what I was doing with Nadine in there, even though sixteen (?) years have passed since she was a teenager stealing things for Davy. That’s one of my favorite books, so that was fun.

What did you read this week?

Working Wednesday: The Second Book Edition

We are very close to the end of the first book in the trilogy, and we’re both under a lot of stress from stuff happening outside the book, and then I lost wifi and Bob had to hit the road for family stuff, so he told me to write a doc for him about what I wanted in the second book (YEC, lots of YEC) and in particular he asked me to tell him about Nadine. Which made me happy, except it’s been a long time since I’ve written about Nadine (I think she was sixteen in Faking It) and now she’s in her thirties and having a one-night-stand with Carter Archer, so it’s just fun. And Bob was working on You Again, which was a real mess when he got it, and I’ve been reading his pass at that, and it turns out that Rosemore, the big house on the Ohio River, is just outside of Burney, and Vince stops James and family to tell them the road ahead is closing due to snow. That was fun, too. So that’s three different books we’re working on, plus a short story or novella (don’t know yet) about Nadine meeting Carter because they’ve already met in the second book of the trilogy, so I have lots of stuff to work on. And it’s all fun. My next move: Reread Faking It. Nothing but good times ahead.

So what did you work on this week?

FREE!

Well, it’s been a helluva September already, but now there’s this freebie from Bob (and me):

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Admin Notice: WiFi Problems

My wifi is down, ending an awful week with calamity. I am trying to get it back up again, but basically, if you don’t hear from me, it’s not because I’m dead, I’m just in internet hell. Carry on.