Elaborate plans were made for February, which have been just slightly sidetracked by a scattered household. Youngest is busy housesitting, which means our menagerie has decided that I’m their favorite person. When I’m home. I’ve escaped here and there. Well, that was kind of obvious in the past two weeks’ scattered postings, wasn’t it?
I don’t like this. It’s hard to work with cats whining, dogs staring and that bird making that noise. A lot of that noise. Except when I try talking to him, and then it’s all “I don’t …

This week, I’ve got a few books for the writer in all of us, two of which tie in to the prompts posts that I do here every Thursday. Or, well… every Thursday when I’m not distracted by shiny 3D TVs.

So this post was supposed to go up last Friday, the 7th of February. Ooops! I’d gone on a mini-break, a stay-cay of sorts. As promised since, I’m using today to make up for it!

Love is in the air, right? Or should be, anyway. Instead of buying him/her flowers and chocolates and crap, why not take her/him out for a fantastic meal somewhere, and read a bit of romantic prose, a juicy poem, a heavenly haiku?

I originally posted much of this in 2010… I can’t believe it’s been so long, and I’ve since removed it for other reasons. Recently, a conversation with my cousin about my grandfather’s vegetable soup sent me scrambling for the recipe, and… as I’ve done some modifications since, I decided to share again.

Thursday night, I went to watch movies at a friend’s house (where my youngest is currently house-sitting). I came home for an hour or so the other day, but quickly wandered back over there for more movies.

Another crazy wintery cold week… have you been writing? Has your butt been in that chair for at least ten minutes a day?
Pffft. Of course it has, right?! Well, if not, here’s some help.