A day off!

I have a dr. appt. at 2, and knitting circle this evening, but I'm hoping to spend most of today working on my Big Bang stuff! I also need to catch up my laundry, which we neglected this weekend (the DH usually does it when I'm working while he's off, but this weekend he had lots of yard stuff to catch up on, so I have a veritable Pike's Peak of dirty clothes this morning.)

In other great news: my application for writer has been accepted by Demand Studio, so I am hoping to join dawn_felagund, pearltook1 and ceshaughnessy in earning a little extra money writing how-to articles.

And last night I had a hobbity dream: it started out with my family on a road trip. My husband and I, who were our present selves, and our son who was about 12 in the dream, were in a car driving on a mountain road. Now this is something I remember vividly from childhood, driving up and up on a two-lane asphalt highway over hairpin turns with steep pine-covered slopes on one side, and sheer drops into the mist on the other side. (Our family took frequent summer vacations to the Smokey Mountains in the late 50s and early 60s.) So the three of us pull over to one of those roadside parks that used to be around-- the sort that were little more than a wide spot on the side of the road with a picnic table, a metal BBQ grill and a rusty steel drum of a trashcan. We pull out our cooler and are setting up our meal, when we are joined by the four hobbits. We're happy to see them, and greet them like old acquaintances met by chance, and invite them to join us. We chattered away for a while as we ate our sandwiches, but I don't recall much of the conversation. I do think at one point we were talking of gardening, and Merry and Sam were giving me advice on how to increase my carrot yield-- *sigh* I'm sure it was very useful, but I don't remember a lick of it. After a while the dream morphed into something else, and the hobbits faded away. Still, it was nice to see them again...

I've been reading quite a few older fics lately. I just finished re-reading a wonderful series, and may make a separate post about it later on.

A day off!

I have a dr. appt. at 2, and knitting circle this evening, but I'm hoping to spend most of today working on my Big Bang stuff! I also need to catch up my laundry, which we neglected this weekend (the DH usually does it when I'm working while he's off, but this weekend he had lots of yard stuff to catch up on, so I have a veritable Pike's Peak of dirty clothes this morning.)

In other great news: my application for writer has been accepted by Demand Studio, so I am hoping to join dawn_felagund, pearltook1 and ceshaughnessy in earning a little extra money writing how-to articles.

And last night I had a hobbity dream: it started out with my family on a road trip. My husband and I, who were our present selves, and our son who was about 12 in the dream, were in a car driving on a mountain road. Now this is something I remember vividly from childhood, driving up and up on a two-lane asphalt highway over hairpin turns with steep pine-covered slopes on one side, and sheer drops into the mist on the other side. (Our family took frequent summer vacations to the Smokey Mountains in the late 50s and early 60s.) So the three of us pull over to one of those roadside parks that used to be around-- the sort that were little more than a wide spot on the side of the road with a picnic table, a metal BBQ grill and a rusty steel drum of a trashcan. We pull out our cooler and are setting up our meal, when we are joined by the four hobbits. We're happy to see them, and greet them like old acquaintances met by chance, and invite them to join us. We chattered away for a while as we ate our sandwiches, but I don't recall much of the conversation. I do think at one point we were talking of gardening, and Merry and Sam were giving me advice on how to increase my carrot yield-- *sigh* I'm sure it was very useful, but I don't remember a lick of it. After a while the dream morphed into something else, and the hobbits faded away. Still, it was nice to see them again...

I've been reading quite a few older fics lately. I just finished re-reading a wonderful series, and may make a separate post about it later on.

Oldies but goodies...

I've been uploading a lot of my favorite old fics onto my Nook and re-reading them. It's pleasant to discover that the stories are as interesting and moving as they were when new, and since it's been a while since I read most of them I have forgotten enough since the last time that I'm still a little surprised by parts of them.

The main criteria I have been using (other than "I liked them") is that they are longer stories—multi-chapter, or if not, connected into a series so that I have a nice long block of reading, for when I am riding in the car, or in the waiting room at the doctor, or having lunch out by myself, and I can get engrossed in a story that will not end too soon.

Anyway I thought I might rec some of them. They've been posted long enough that perhaps some of you newer folk on my flist have missed them, or perhaps some of you who remember them from before might like to re-read them too.

I just finished a series by Jeodo Brandybuck. I have not seen anything new from Jeodo in a very long time, but these stories not only are favorites of mine as stories, but also they are my favorite type of story: pre-Quest friendship fic featuring our four lads! ( Read more... )

Oldies but goodies...

I've been uploading a lot of my favorite old fics onto my Nook and re-reading them. It's pleasant to discover that the stories are as interesting and moving as they were when new, and since it's been a while since I read most of them I have forgotten enough since the last time that I'm still a little surprised by parts of them.

The main criteria I have been using (other than "I liked them") is that they are longer stories—multi-chapter, or if not, connected into a series so that I have a nice long block of reading, for when I am riding in the car, or in the waiting room at the doctor, or having lunch out by myself, and I can get engrossed in a story that will not end too soon.

Anyway I thought I might rec some of them. They've been posted long enough that perhaps some of you newer folk on my flist have missed them, or perhaps some of you who remember them from before might like to re-read them too.

I just finished a series by Jeodo Brandybuck. I have not seen anything new from Jeodo in a very long time, but these stories not only are favorites of mine as stories, but also they are my favorite type of story: pre-Quest friendship fic featuring our four lads! ( Read more... )