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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Good morning! Dittos on the Friday rejoicing! And it's only a week until Christmas Eve! Not sure if that's good or bad...heh...still have plenty to do before then!
Amen -
Christmas potluck at work today, LSA baked a Mississippi Mud cake. Superb. Just four days next week. We're getting Friday aka Christmas Eve off.
Enjoyed the first disc of ROTK-EE last night. Second disc tonight. I can see it will need 'several' viewings. I'm impressed so far.
I probably SHOULD have waited until I coulda bugged you or another of the gurus. Actually, there's no probably to it...
See, what I was working on is...I found a place that will print a paperback book for you if you upload a Word document, and for fairly cheap - about ten dollars plus shipping, and it should be here so I can wrap it for my little sister for Christmas!
They also allow you to create a cover, but I could NOT get the picture right. If I wasn't such an obsessive freak ;-) I woulda waited until someone could have helped me with it, but as it is, I finally gave up on it and submitted it as is at a bit after one this morning. Did I mention I'm an obsessive freak?
Looking at it this morning, it's not QUITE as bad as I remembered, but still awfully ugly. However, my sister will just be thrilled to have it as a "real" book, so I suppose that's OK...however, if I decide to do anything similar in the future, it would behoove me to be a wee bit more patient, and to never make decisions after ten at night!
Oooh... do share the details on that publishing house!
http://www.lulu.com
They just do paperbacks, and I can't tell ya what the quality is like (binding and all) until I get the book...but for a quick and dirty publishing job, looks like it'll work well!
Looks like it's primarily a self-publishing site for folks that are selling their work directly, but you can do simple projects as well.
I almost hesitated to do this since I still have soooooo much editing work to do, really...but for ten dollars I can handle it. After January I'll really go to town hacking the story apart and pulling out unnecessary parts, painful as that may be. Heh...I guess the version Teresa is getting is the Extended Edition?
Yah friday, boo test. I will be much more upbeat later in the day :P
What time is your test? We can add it to the TPL! ;-)
Good morning! Guess what?? Matthew got up after supper and completed the rest of this week's schooling! He has the day off! Then we have TWO WEEKS of no school!
We still have to do joshua's school, but we should be done by mid-morning! Christmas break!! Yeah! Yeah!!!
Maybe I should just go to the website and find out, huh? :P
In an hour and 10 minutes. Thanks.
As long as the photos and drawings are embedded in the word document you upload, they can go in. It's a bit pricier for color printing, though, so there's that to consider.
And they'll do either perfect binding (the regular paperback style) or the kinda binding they usually have on cookbooks...that plastic thingie. Dunno the right term for it.
The downside is that it's pretty much straight WYSIWYG - so any mistakes you make in formatting (and I'm sure there will be a few in mine) come through in the final output. I don't think they even look at it.
I'm now remembering all the stuff I didn't do. Like adding a page with the table of contents. And a blank page between the cover and the dedication and the dedication and the actual text would have probably looked better. *sigh*
But it's a first edition! It's collectible BECAUSE it's flawed, right? Heh...
You got it!
I just saw on weather.com that they're forecasting SNOW for Christmas Day! A couple of years ago, when we had that big snow on Christmas, it was so much fun! We were settled in for the day because we always go to Midnight Mass, then the party afterwards. We don't get up until about 9 or 10, open presents, then I don't start dinner til around 1 or 2. It makes for a very relaxing Christmas. I just turn on "The Messiah" and do my Christmas dinner thing!
YUMmmmm.
Sweeeet. Thanks for the heads-up. It's very exciting.
We'll probably open presents on Christmas Eve - we almost always do. Go to Mass, come home, open presents and eat. Then the actual Christmas Day is a bit quieter...we mostly hang out and talk and play games and, of course, eat more.
Our church isn't doing a Midnight Mass this year - only one at nine in the evening, with a hymn singalong before hand. Should be nice.
Comb-binding.... I had a love-hate relationship with the comb-binding machine where I used to work.
Sounds like you'll have plenty of time to make some cookies! ;o)
I'm fixin to make a HUGH batch of Chocolate Chip cookies. The school is providing refreshments for a Christmas party for Friendly House, a local social service organization, and the Parish Baking List was called. Then, of course, I have to have some for our family, too!
I found some sugar free 'starlight' mints, so I'm going to make some sugar free peppermint bark. I've got sugar free dark chocolate for the bottom layer, and sugar free vanilla for the top layer and I'll mix crushed peppermints into it. Gonna be good!
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