Catching Up

Photo above courtesy Jon and Nataline’s Crazybooth at BoardGameGeek.con.

This is a test post from the desktop MacJournal app, to see if I can successfully use it to post to Blatherings. Why use a separate app instead of post directly into Squarespace? Because as much as I love Squarespace, I get impatient with the interface sometimes, which gets a bit laggy -- possibly because of all the blogs I have.

I’ll post more often in Blatherings if it’s easier to post...hence this test. Fingers crossed that this gets posted okay, and with a blank line inserted before “I’ll post more often.”

Joy and Gratitude

Photo by A.T.I write and draw for a living. Every so often I'll stop and think about this and wonder when I'm going to wake up.

And then I fall in love with Jeff all over again, remembering how he convinced me to quit my programmer/analyst job at a bank many years ago so I could pursue my dream.

I am so very, very lucky.

Cottage Weekend

Sunset at the cottage. Photo taken on my iPhone.

Spent the weekend at the cottage with Jeff. It was the first time in years (possibly seven years...we were trying to remember) that the two of us have had time alone up at the cottage together. We spent the weekend reading, napping, and swimming.

I read TWO ENTIRE BOOKS on Saturday (SCARS by Cheryl Rainfield and WONDROUS STRANGE by Lesley Livingston), sitting on the dock in the sunshine, with a breeze coming off the lake. Both books were very good.

Played a game of Race For The Galaxy as well as Smallworld with Jeff, the latter game on the iPad. One of my goals for Race For The Galaxy is to be able to play this game at BGG.con without being quite as lost as I was last year.

PERFECT weather. Jeff and I had both braced ourselves for a sweltering weekend, but the temperature eased off the recent hot spell. I even needed an extra layer in the evening (!).

Wonderful, wonderful weekend. Which is good, since the coming week is going to be incredibly busy as I get ready for the SCBWI conference out in L.A.