Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
It goes back to the "one size doesn't fit all" rule.
Thank goodness! Continued prayers for an excellent outcome.
I had a very interesting day today. I sat in a BigLeagues meeting all day. Most of the people were new to me and the discussion was so heated that there was a bona fide "Cuss Jar". You drop a quarter in every time you drop an F-bomb, or a S-bomb, a GD-bomb, etc... And there was well over 2 bucks at the end of the mtg. That will take some getting used to.
But not as much as getting used to my Main Male NaNoWriMo Character sitting across the table from me. Spitting image of what I had imagined for my novel, brown eyes instead of slate gray, a Maryland accent instead of Scottish - but still. There he was. I couldn't believe it when he walked in the room.
Vey unsettling.
Maybe your character came to life? lol
Hmm, that would be disturbing for me if any of my Male Leads showed up.
Now that I’m married, anyway.
[I had this all ready to post and got that darn proxy error message]
This can give you the plot for next year's Nano. You write a book and send it off to be published. Over the next year you begin to meet your characters and you realize that you're actually the MC. That's disturbing because you off'd her in the last chapter.
So the drama comes as you try to get to the publisher and rewrite the final chapter before it really happens to you.
Kewl plot!! I’d read the book. LSA
Heh...I had something of that plot written as a blurb in my notebook, but minus the author being the main character, and minus the difference in time. I like it.
Well, if’n she won’t write it, maybe I will...
Maybe we should all use that plot next November...
But it’s not quite the same when the MMNaNoWriMoC says “wooter” for “water” is it?
Heh...a year where we all write variations of a particular plot could be interesting...
BTW, if it helps, I’ve been absolutely worthless today.
But I’m feeling better...
I feel like being worthless tomorrow...but hopefully I can get some more organizing done.
Last weekend I went to Bed Bath and Beyond after the faucet ordeal...mostly just to wander, I didn’t care where. But I got a cheap little lazy-susan thing for one of the cabinets (where the spices are), and I’m astounded at how much one little thing can help an area. Most of my usable cabinets are up pretty high, and I was forever shuffling stuff in and out of that one in order to find any one thing. Now I just spin the wheel and grab what I need.
I think I need to go back and look at more of their organizing stuff. If nothing else, maybe it’ll give me ideas for how to make my space (such as it is) work a little better. So’s I don’t despair. *sigh*
Well, I did sort of look around at kitchen design. Our cabinets need help and the whole room needs painting. I’m trying to decide what we can do for the least amount of money until we can swing all new cabinets...and that’s a long way down the road.
A lot of my cabinets slope. :-\ The whole place sags in places. And most cabinet doors are cracked on the edges.
At least I don’t really *own* them, I guess!
Ours are stable. It’s just cosmetics. I painted them about 10 years ago and they looked good for a while, but I didn’t use washable paint. Plus we’re tired of the dark green walls.
I gots Chief Architect, a nifty Architecture CAD program. If you send me the floor plan and give me some ideas I could do a design for you! We’re re-doing our kitchen, keeping the old drawer and door fronts. SirKit is building new boxes, only because the old ones were standard builder grade and after twenty years, they’re just worn out. We’re painting the doors and drawer fronts, along with the new boxes a warm white. We’re moving the cabinets around to work with the new plan. They’re gonna be nice.
I think if I had a choice, I’d want red cabinets and white walls. ;-) Something bright like that.
I have busted wood...with avocado linoleum and a mustard yellow wall oven that doesn’t work. Loverly.
Heh...we ain’t gonna move that much. At the most right now I’ll be refacing the cabinets.
I need to replace the doors and the door fronts. And we’ve got several drawers that the previous owner just boarded up rather than fixing the drawer.
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