Yet another untimely update
I'm going to try to get back to more regular posting...meanwhile, it'd be cool if anyone who does actually read here were moved to mention that they read...it would inspire me to heights as yet untrod--or something.
John Henry flunked his blood test this week so instead of getting chemo he'll go back next week and most likely get it then. Billie has had another couple of seizures so I also took her to the vet school this week. She's going to go back next week and get a CT scan and, assuming all looks normal (which is what we suspect will be the case, but if we were sure, then we wouldn't be doing it), she will start medication to control the seizures.
I had a physical too this week (because you can never spend too much time in doctors' offices) and...so far so good.
I have been writing fairly regularly, but have had two stories go south on me in the last week or so. One of them looks to have a very complicated structure that I'm not sure I have the skill to pull off yet. The other...well, I have no idea what it's about. which makes it tricky to finish.
The weather is beautiful here, though it went from 85 to 40 overnight one night this week so I had the pleasure of going from air conditioning to heat in the course of 24 hours.
There's a first lines meme floating around and I'll try to post a few of the first lines of things I'm working on in a bit. Not everything I have in progress, you understand, because that would constitute, like, 36 stories (yes, I'm pathetic, but you knew that already, right?) Meanwhile, I'm looking for a story I can actually finish and mail out.
Oh yeah...house hunting. I had a dream house and someone else bought it. Then I had a compromise house and the owners didn't care to sell it to me. Then I found a really pretty nice house for a really pretty decent price, but the back yard was 60 percent concrete. Now, I'm a tad discouraged. If I could move my current house onto a big interior lot with no shared driveway, I'd be so tempted to do it. My current house is too small, but it's very nice. The woodwork is amazing (the thing I will most regret losing in this house is the fireplace with its built-in bookshelves). I can, (though I don't often do it) walk to the grocery store, the library, the coffee shop, lots of other stores, and work.