babysitting, hollylisle.com, blatherchat

Thanks for the advice about running outdoors, Andrea and Lissa. The neck gaitor thingy definitely sounds like something I need; I'm going to see if Mountain Co-op has any, else I'll check The Running Room.

Did some babysitting late yesterday afternoon. Jeff had offered to help out, but I asked him not to show up until just before bedtime. I don't often get Annie and Sara to myself, so it was a nice treat for me.

Annie proudly showed me her First Permanent Tooth, just starting to come in. I expressed much admiration. After Sara did her homework (1.5 hours!) and we had dinner, the girls and I played Labyrinth and then Junior Monopoly. From time to time, Annie would offer to show me her tooth again.

Jeff showed up in time for the bedtime story ritual, and the girls immediately jumped all over him. :-)

'Twas a wonderful evening.





So remember a while back, I had mentioned that I wished there was something like the public NaNoWriMo boards to post about writing goals? Turns out that HollyLisle.com has exactly what I was looking for! (Thanks to Harald for the tip) I spent a few hours over the weekend exploring this site. I made a donation.

Wow, what a fantastic online community for writers! This is pretty much exactly what I had envisioned for the community area for Inkspot, had Inkspot survived. There is a ton of stuff here, and I haven't even started exploring the rest of the site yet. One of the staff reminded me that Inklings was the first place that ever highlighted the Holly Lisle's Vision newsletter.

Anyway, I think I'll mainly be hanging about the Challenges & Inspiration section of the board, where writers are encouraged to publicly set reasonable deadlines as well as set and meet their own challenges.

Have to admit I'm really enjoying being on the user end of things rather than on the management end, and I'm grateful that there are others who are willing to create and maintain communities like this.





Thanks to those who answered my Blatherchat poll. Most of you seem to prefer keeping the comments posting venue as it is. To make it easier for the others, I'm going to be making the in-entry Blatherchat link directly access the specific Blatherchat forum for the central discussion. The lefthand sidebar will still access the general index. Those of you who prefer posting your comments in my Livejournal Blatherings feed can continue to do so; comments are automatically e-mailed to me.

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Links/News:

Looks like the fifth Harry Potter book is coming out on June 21st, yay! Thanks to Lissa for the alert in Blatherchat.

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Picture by Annie.
	Annie proudly showing me her window art. She drew them with special pens specifically made for children's window art (can be easily cleaned off).
	Jeff's Geomags creation last night.