Lyda Morehouse's Blog, page 104

Ai, Ai, Ai, What a Weekend!

I'm not even sure I can list everything that I did over the weekend in the amount of space LJ allows!

Let's give it a try, though, shall we?

First of all, I've still be plagued by this lingering cough. It's morphed into something more sinus related, but, whatever it is, it's killing me... slowly.

On Friday, I attended a birthday party for jiawen at Mirror of Korea, which was a whole lot of awesome. I met some cool new people and got to know some people I'd met before a lot better. In fact, I ...

Snow!

Unbelievably, Mason is at school today. We had to fight blinding snow-filled winds, stupid drivers, and slippery streets to get him there on time. I also had to delay getting my coffee, which made navigating the above that much tricker.

It's also COLD. Our first minus degree (F) day this winter.

My cough still lingers, but after a very rough night it's a bit more productive and less painful. I think I shall survive after all.

I spent yesterday nursing my cough, writing my murder mystery sy...

*cough*

I have a really bad cough this morning. The kind that rattles your lungs. No other symtoms, though, but, man, is the coughing annoying.

I need to spend today finishing up the proposal(s) I want to send to my agent. The problem is that I suddenly realized that what I want the book to be is a cross between a paranormal romance and a murder mystery. While I have *technically* won an award for mystery writing, I think we can all agree that was not on the strength of my mystery plotting. So I'...

In Case Anyone Worries...

I went through my comments/replies to the copy editor and made SURE they weren't snarky. These days at my publisher the comments are all using Word's track changes features and are electronic. They used to come in paper, and were far easier, IMHO, to just shrug off and make corrections or not. But with the ease of a click I can fire back a pretty snarky comeback.

I held back. Where I couldn't, I allowed myself a rant and then made sure to change it to a simple "stet" or "OK" on my next pas...

The Goings-On

Well, there's a bunch of things going on in my life right now. In about 15 minutes, I'm off to hang out with Eleanor and Naomi (and possibly my friend Rosanne) for our writing "date." So, I have to make this kind of quick.

First, we woke up this morning to the sound of Mason barfing. I would be more worried about him, but he seems to do this on ocassion. He's sick for part of the morning, and then he completely rebounds. So, though he's missing the half day of school today, I'm going to b...

Turkeys and Such

Yeah, I wasn't here because I was busy with house guests for turkey day. Our usually quiet, unhurried house filled up with the chaos and the awesome that is our friends the Jacksons. They came from Colorado on Tuesday LATE, as I would say, but really it was only nine or ten o'clock when they arrived. (See previous post about how I am now, officialy, old, and nine o'clock is getting to be way past my bedtime.)

Mason alternately had crushes/deep admiration for Maggie and Jack the two "kids" (w...

Dexter and More

I'm off to Normandale College this morning to talk about science fiction and give away copies of MESSIAH NODE. (MN was the first of my books to go out of print and I _way_ over bought.) After this big give-away, however, I'm going to have to be more judicious. I'm down to less than one box per title.

Shawn and I have finally caught up on the DVDs of last season's "Dexter." I have to say that I was surprised how much I enjoyed the season finale (the wedding.)

However, "Dexter" is one of t...

Growing Older

On Saturday, I had my forty-second birthday party, and I learned something important about myself. I'm old.

Also, my friends are old.

This is not a bad thing, not at all. But I'd sort of forgotten about that when I'd been planning it in my head. When I'd been thinking about this party, I was remembering the sorts of parties that Shawn and I threw when we were in our twenties and thirties. You know the sorts, where the party was technically still on the next day because someone had cras...

Apologies and an art review

First of all, I have to apologize. I've been very off-line. Part of it has to do with the fact that Mason is off school right now. We've been spending our days enjoying his vacation by doing nothing together. Plus, the big computer has been occupied, as we're trying to beat the "insane" level of Luxor 3. Important stuff, don't ya know?

A lot has happened since last we talked.

First of all, my folks came to town and we checked out the Minneapolis Institute of Art's "Louvre" traveling exhibit...

General Updatery

I'm at my favorite coffee shop today because today is Thursday, and Thursday is my busy day.

First of all, it's always recycling. It's also fish tank changing day. Thursday is the day that I volunteer to stuff folders at Mason's school, as well. Tonight is Wyrdsmiths, which means that soon I need to go home find the handouts from last week, read and critique them, AND print out what I'm going to hand out tonight. By chance this evening is also a meeting for parents, etc., of gifted student...