Monthly archive June 2005

This is the week from hell, but thank God this is the only truly awful week this summer. I've got 4 kids going 5 different directions this week and only one of me to drive them. Take #2 son to summer school at the community college campus 15 miles away, while I'm gone neighbor across the street takes #3 son to band camp, hurry home to take #1 son to aviation camp, leave #4 son home alone while I go clean my neighbor's house, hurry home to take #4 son to music lesson, while he's there pick up #2 son, then pick up #4 son on way home, stuff food down #2 son and take him to other summer school class at other community college campus, thankfully the close one that he can walk home from, then I have 1.5 hours to stuff food down me and do everything that needs to be done for day, go pick up #1 son, shop for dinner fixings, go pick up #3 son, make dinner and collapse.

I finally feel like I'm back in the world of the living, although I'm not totally sure why I left. Mostly I've been busy recovering from the DucKon convention. But other than that, my car's been into the shop twice ($750 the first time, then something they did broke something else so it's back in). My kids are out of school, and this week I'm running two kids to three different summer activities, next week I run 4 kids to 5 daily activities... HELP!! Then, the house was a disaster after the con, and I had to make up hours at my friend's that I clean house for.

But the big news is that finally, last weekend, I blocked off the chunk of time necessary to re-edit the first three chapters of "A Happy Medium", printed it off and got it in the mail.

I've read Susan Squires book "The Companion" twice now, and been wondering why it appeals so much to me.

Usually I don't like dark books, and this one definitely has some dark spots with dark-sexual stuff, not my cup of tea. (Oh, jeez! I just realized what a lie that is... Laurell Hamilton is my favorite author and what is she but dark and sex... interesting... ) Anyway... sitting here playing Mahjongg and resolutely watching the message light blinking and refusing to return a call of somebody who thinks her to-do-something is more important than the rest of the somethings on my list, because she got it to me late--another way of saying I'm ticked at the world--again anyway... I suddenly realized I liked "The Companion" because it's a story about overcoming darkness, especially sexual-darkness, and living in a lighter world. Which, of course, applies to most of LKH's books too.