Blatherings

Ha!!

I feel like I totally WON a prize! Parajunkee has listed step-by-step instructions on how to add those lil' button-thing-amies!!  I'm totally gonna DO IT!!

When I find my brain.

I left it somewhere. It feels lodged behind Too Many Kids In Sports. There should be a rule about how many kids can sign up for sports in one family... three is too much unless nobody has homework. And everyone has homework.

There is race after school to see how quickly we can spread peanut butter on various edible things while changing for practice or a game. Inevitably I panic and run around in circles shouting "water bottles! Don't forget your water!" Every night one kid tries to get away with not bringing water and drinking mine. *eye roll* And another kid plays "innocent" in hopes I'll fill his water bottle for him. Wonder how many times I have unbeknownst to me? That kid has skills, I tell ya... skills!

Tonight I forgot some gear back at the house, so I got to make an extra trip back home in the middle of delivering everyone.

I try to stuff homework in there before sports. I try to stuff it in between sports and Mine Craft - which is obscenely high on everyone's "To-Do" list around here. Then I try to wake everyone up early to stuff homework into their mornings.

You can find me parroting math tables in weird sing-songy voices. Or following people around with notebooks and pencils. Oh... there's sharp pencils everywhere. I have buckets of sharpened pencils at four different locations that we might find ourselves doing something.

I'm not making sense.

I'm also not blogging even HALF as much as I wanted to. I mean... Saturday will be ONE YEAR!!  But since June, my life has been a tumble of scrambling around to find time. Like... 1800 of my followers are from the first 9 months of blogging. When I was blogging!  If you've been wondering where I went... well... ME, TOO!!  jajajajajajaja

*sigh*

I may be blogging by the tippy ends of my fingers... eeking in odd minutes at 10:30pm when everyone ought to be asleep already so I can wake 'em up early to catch up on whatever we didn't get to today... but I'm still here.

Seriously... what would I do without books? (That's rhetorical. Don't answer.)

I'm reading Sierra by Taylor Dean and I came to this unsuspected tender moment all of a sudden while huddled on the soccer field in two coats and a hat, shivering but reading. It caught me off guard and I burst into tears right in front of the coach. He wasn't paying attention to me, of course, and no other moms were braving the chill winds, so I got away with another awesome reading moment. *sigh*

I can't wait to read some more... so I'll be up even earlier than the kiddledids. If I go to bed.

This post has nothing to do with anything much... except... sorry for not writing more often or more interesting. Especially this week, of all weeks. Maybe I'll finally get those cute buttons, though... wouldn't that be awesome?!

Welcome, October!! Tea -n- Crumpets

October. I don't know why I love it so much. There's a chill in the air... birthdays looming on the horizon... chocolate miniatures everywhere... October.


A year ago, it was already raining:

 "It's chilly inside and out.  The rain has moved in to stay, it feels like."

I'm enjoying the comments for the Fang-n-Fur Giveaway on why everyone likes October. I'm thinking about pumpkin pie and baking... time to bring out the slow-cooker recipes again, right? Not to mention blankies to read books in!! I love reading all snuggled up with slippers & wraps.


Kind of like this... I was quoted recently, which is soooo exciting:

"The writing is like snuggling down into a huge pile of feathers and getting lost in the softness until you don't know which way's up."Colorimetry

The author quoted my review of The Palace of Stone... the author... as in Ms Squeetus herself!!  (Please *gasp* appropriately so I can nod like we're on the same page). I keep some authors on unrealistic pedestals and Shannon Hale is one of 'em.

Last year at this time I was thinking about blogging. I had already claimed "Burgandy Ice", but Twitter was still a confusing flock of obnoxious questions. (It's still confusing, but bigger, now, like a mountain range of birds.)  I suppose I shall have to 'fess up about my name. Maybe. Later.

I have so many grand ideas of what I'd like to do for my Bloggiversary. *rubs hands gleefully* It's a pity I can't dedicate umpteen hours a day to blogging as I did a year ago. Unintentionally, I chose a perfect empty space of time in my otherwise panicked rush of a life.


Which is good... Blogging requires TIME, especially at the beginning. Am I right?

For our visit today I've found a recipe for crumpets.

I know... you're welcome!!

The author suggests making these in the evening so you can have one for desert and breakfast the following morning. Genius.

trotski & ash

Every October I brainstorm ideas. This year I'm thinking of how to make a little side money. I'm not buying nearly as many books as I'd like to... not by half. Plus, there's always some little extra I want.

For example... Pick Pocket Molly is this weekend. It's a women's resale event in Clackamas, Oregon that gives 10% of the profits to women in need. I like to sell stuff in the sale, so I'm gathering some cute items I never wear. But mostly I like to buy. :-D

I'm going to start a regular feature called The Hub (I think. Takes me forever to pick names.) I started something similar last spring, but didn't keep it up. I want to buy stuff from people I know... or from people who know people I know... or from people who know people who know people I know... you know?

:-)

I'd like to figure out how to sell stuff, too. I've always wanted my own bookstore... maybe an online one? Only... all I can think of is buying books. Lol. I'm not sure I'd let anyone buy my books. (Mine!)

I have these great vacation resort rentals available... I don't know why I never thought of posting about them before. They're not exactly book-related... although I can recommend some great vacation reading!

Does anyone else have cool connections to great lil' businesses for my Hub?  

I'm gathering a list of who all I know on Etsy, 

so... send me links!!