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Dollhouse Project
I’ve been on the lookout in classifieds for a dollhouse the girls and I can work on this summer, but most were quite expensive or already complete. Even incomplete kits cost at least a couple hundred, so imagine how thrilled I was when I spotted a nice Victorian for $40. Yay! I sent Cadillac to…
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Nutella Homemade Ice Cream without a Machine
Whilst using my StumbleUpon, as I often do, I found the Kevin & Amanda blog, where I found Easy Homemade Ice Cream without a Machine. Nutella in ice cream? Yes, please! I had to try it out. Ice cream is getting expensive these days, and I’m not even old enough to remember nickel cones. When…
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Writing Wednesday: Book Trailer Filming Recap
The video production went really well! David and Kathryn Seay showed up at the stroke of one on Friday and got right to work rearranging the furniture and plugging in enormous lights. Luckily, the gardeners had just gone, but of course the house next door, which is getting overhauled, had lots of saws going. Every…
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Summer Bucket List
The kids being older and more capable is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they’re old enough to get their own snacks and keep themselves fairly entertained, so they don’t bug me all the time. On the other hand, they’re old enough to get their own snacks, which means they eat like horses if…
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Driving Kitty Insane
We got one of those laser pointers to play with the cat, and I’m afraid he has gone around the bend because of it. See, cats can’t tell that the laser point, that little red dot, is not actually a bug out to get him. So every time we switch it off, his pupils remain…
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Book Stuff Afoot
On Friday, the paperback publisher, Berkley, is having a video production team come out to San Diego and film me for two days, to make a trailer. The paperback will be part of the “What the World is Reading” campaign, so they’ll use this to help promote it. It’s my first book trailer/official video, so…
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Day Trip: Julian
Julian, California is a gold mining town up in the San Diego Cuyamaca mountains, famous for its apple pie and apple orchards (though, interestingly, the apples in those pies are by and large not from Julian, the volume demanded being too great for those orchards to keep up). We hadn’t been back to Julian in…
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Superman’s Blood
A couple of bad things happened to people I know this past week, which have preoccupied me to some degree. The week before last, a woman from my mom’s group posted a request for blood donations. Doctors had found a tumor growing on her 2 year old son’s brain, and they needed to do immediate…
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Writing Wednesdays: Process: Final Edits
I got edits back for my new book last Tuesday morning. On Monday, my editor told me they were coming and made this suggestion, among others: “I think just a small notice about Gal’s own solitude/her solitary ways even when surrounded by ‘company’ could give us an emotional boost. Does that make sense?” Nope, it…
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What I Do: Hiking San Diego
Before the weather around here turned rainy and cold, it was nice for a few weeks. The bad weather happened concurrently with a bout of bronchitis, so I guess the lack of sun was no big loss to me, considering I didn’t want to do anything except sleep or read. Anyway, I decided to start…
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