Eve Langlais's Blog, page 172
July 19, 2010
Garage Sales
I don't have the patience to hold a garage sale, but boy, do I love shopping at them. This past weekend, we packed up the kids into the minivan, grabbed our change, and off we went to prowl the neighborhood looking for the handwritten signs. Kind of like a treasure map, we follow the tiny writing with the arrows to the spot crowded with cars and other treasure seekers. We pile out of the van and browse amongst the mismatched dishes, books and various junk that has been cluttering someone's...
July 12, 2010
Pools and Filters
I dream of clear blue water in my pool. I haven't seen that in 2 summers, instead we swim in a haze. We've shocked, we've flocced, we've poured algaecide, we've balanced but our water stayed cloudy.
For a little history, when we bought this house almost 5 yrs ago, the above ground pool came with it. Our experience with pools until we inherited our above ground, involved the little kiddy kind you filled with a hose and emptied nightly because of grass and possible toddler pee. We had no...
July 7, 2010
Heat Wave
We are now heading into day three of a heat wave in southern Ontario and is it ever bloody HOT! Especially since we don't have air conditioning. Our lovely house has no furnace or ductwork making it very expensive to even think of installing for the moment and our windows are too tall for window shakers. Ceiling fans are running non stop as are about 6 other smaller fans lol. The dehumidifier is keeping the basement cool at least and the pool out back is coming in handy for reducing body...
June 30, 2010
School is out for summer!
Sob! I know I should be excited at the chance to spend quality time with my three children, however 70 days of 'Mom I'm bored.', 'Mom she touched me.', 'Mom! Mom! Mom!' leave me looking for a place to hide. One of my tricks I used when the sound of my mommy title makes me cringe is I smile at them and say, 'I've changed my name. I'll listen to you once you figure it out.' Dumbfounded looks usually greet me at this declaration along with, 'But your name is mommy, you can't change it.' Sigh...
June 23, 2010
Shaking all over
Moment of disbelief an hour ago as my house and desk all began to shake. No it wasn't a big truck, a train or even the cement factory blasting again, it was an honest to goodness earthquake. Of course, I wasn't sure until I finally convinced my little one to change her cartoons as my usual online news networks were down. But once I wrestled the remote away and flipped to CP24, I found yes indeed, I'd experienced my first earthly tremor.
Cool.
Yes, I know, not something to joke about, but for a ...
June 21, 2010
Our Father's Day
So, the plan was to let Daddy–my hubby–sleep in 'cause he likes that usually having to get up at five thirty during the week. Of course the three children, as if synchronized, decided to wake up at six thirty, but that was okay, I kept them away from their father so he could snore happily away. We'd almost made it to eight o'clock before the cat–our very fat and lazy cat I might add–brought in the LIVE mouse. Needless to say, the screaming of 'Catch the mouse!' woke Daddy up. I almost had...
June 17, 2010
Woo Moment
Please allow me to do a song and dance for my novella Wickedest Witch has found a home with Liquid Silver. WW, for short, is about an actual witch and she's not very nice. She's got attitude and magic, best of all she's not afraid to use either. Ryker is a big cat shifter. He's sarcastic and cocky, in other words a total alpha. When these two meet it's the war of the words–and tongues.
I'll admit this story, like Lucifer's Daughter, was super fun to write. There's something about having...
June 13, 2010
Snowballing Projects
It all started when the toilet upstairs wouldn't flush completely. We plunged, we snaked, we cursed, we blamed the children. But no matter what we did the damned toilet wouldn't flush and the water kept rising perilously high. So we took the sucker off .My hubbie pulled out his tools and his gloves–he doesn't like icky poop things–and he unbolted the tank and toilet from the plumbing. Sticking it in the tub to avoid icky water on the floor, we looked in the hole with a flashlight. I even...
June 11, 2010
And we had a winner!
What a wonderful time I had in the Goodreads spotlight corner. Alot of readers came out and great questions were asked by all. I don't want to mention who the winner is in case she'd rather not have her identity broadcast to the world, but I do hope she enjoys the free book she's won.
In other news, I'm hard at work on Alien Mate 2. This time the big blue guy is stuck on earth looking for his mate. Only one big problem, and it's a hard one–the one he wants isn't who his ancestors chose. But...
