A Little of This and A Little of That

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere." Joyce A. Myers

Last night I finished issue 75 of the serial. I have 30 more issues to write or 45,000 words and it will be completed. I need to finish issues 76 and 77 by Saturday to stay on track. Yesterday's issue was fun to write. Two new characters emerged and my female protag at long last stopped trying to be what everyone else wanted her to be. It was quite refreshing both for her and for me. To be true to the era, I had to put her "in her place" as a timid and mindful young girl with a slow fire burning within. She's sixteen now and growing into herself. To think, I actually thought about killing her off with a torturous bout of typhoid.

Both the softball game and practice was rained out. I prepared pasta shells stuffed with ricotta cheese, covered with meatballs and tomato sauce for dinner. I had to make some spaghetti on the side because who knows who is going to eat what at my house. I say "prepare" and not "make" because Sam's Club has an awesome frozen food section and with my family, buying in bulk is the only way to go.

Tonight both the boys have a baseball game and so we will be having leftovers.

My younger two have to go to the dentist today. My daughter has the most georgous rack of baby teeth ever seen. But she's almost eight years old and so the permanent teeth are growing in behind them. I'm not much of a psychic but I foresee novocain and itimidating shiny dental instruments in her future. She fretted about the dentist all night and actually threw-up her milk this morning. I reassured her that there was no way the dentist would pull the teeth today. Why take care of everything in one office visit when they can charge for two?

Tonight it is on to issue 76.

What GW is listening to on his IPOD is making the news. I really could care less that he listens to George Jones or Kenny Chesney. He doesn't really seem like a Antonio Vivaldi or Johann Sebastian Bach kind of guy. I don't care if he listens to Alice in Chains or Marilyn Manson as long as he get US soldiers out of Iraq and does something about these damn high gas prices. Oh yeah, if he could put in a good word for me about the writing grant I applied for then that would be great.

BK