What A Weekend
So this weekend I:
* got blue hair
* got a haircut (courtesy of Derek down at Moe’s Barber Shop) that I really love
* bought gloves for working the heavy bag
* worked all day Saturday and them came home for COPS and AMW (I am such a plebe)
* got hit in the stomach
* had someone who is not my child throw up in my living room
* had my husband hang the 100lb heavy bag up in the garage
*engineered a housewide cleaning that ended up getting the Little Prince’s room revamped so he could share it with Froopy
* kind of helped with the garage sale across the street (buying stuff and loaning boxes does count as help, right?)
* met my kitty-corner neighbor again
* hoovered my house three times in one day
* did eight loads of laundry
* sliced and diced my TBR pile
* did NOT get the bloody love scene I have to write done; in fact, did not even turn on laptop
* got tiddly on Chilean red while playing cards last night, ending up with nine cards in a seven-card game of gin, and didn’t win a single hand.
* dreamed of Fantasia hippos
So what was your weekend like?
This morning I got up, checked the flight schedule (Christina is coming to visit and we will be doing Fun Things) and had a book delivered to my door. The nice folks at HarperCollins sent me an ARC of Vicki Pettersson’s The Scent of Shadows; further bulletins as events warrant. Christina said this book was fantastic, and it looks just my speed. So there just may be a Thursday Revue in for it.
But we’ll see. My TBR pile is monstrous despite the Saint-George number I pulled on it this weekend.


September 25th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Blue hair? cool.
A bit off topic, but I remember reading in your journal a while ago about a book you were reading on the Byzantine Empire. I’ve looked back through the journal entries and can’t find the reference–could you tell me again about the book? I’ve had a long-standing fascination with Istanbul, Turkey and the Black Sea region.
Cheers!
September 26th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Hi Lilith,
Thanks for linking to my mugshot {g} (Christina clued me in.)
And I hope you enjoy SCENT!
By the by, I believe we share an agent, no? The great Miriam Kriss?
Vicki