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Spirited Away was almost too bizarre for me, and terrified Babette when she first saw it several years ago. We might try that again, but that big giant baby was too weird.
Would they like Princess Mononoke? I've always wanted to see that one, but never had a chance.
Any suggestions?

You are The Moon
Hope, expectation, Bright promises.
The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.
The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
- Mood:
depressed
I'm having lunch with my mother tomorrow and I'm almost done with a hat I'm knitting her, so I'm giving her that as a gift.
Babette made me some cards and a bead necklace which I am wearing right now. I hope I don't break it.
George is still asleep. He went and saw Ironman last night and came in very late and now he's sleeping in. Baboo is playing video games. Babette is reading "Matilda" because she has to read it before I will let her watch the movie.
- Mood:headachey
I just wanted to let you know that 'Dust for Mickey' has been published in the online flash fiction 'zine Tragic Pens!
You can find it here.
This originated from the Word Prompt challenge and I wanted to thank you all for helping mould it and cheer me along!
- Mood:ecstatic
Also, the story I'm best known for, Sister Margaret was found to be suitable for inclusion at Anthology Builder and is now available there. Sister Margaret was written in response to a character sketch assignment posted here on NaNoLJers a couple years ago.
- Mood:accomplished
Tomorrow is for traveling, but Sunday I'll catch up on e-mail and discussion boards and all the other bits and pieces I've been away from this week. I just wanted to let you all know how marvelous the dolphins are.
- Mood:
thankful
I'm off to Seattle to shop at Uwajimaya (Rement mini meals, Hello Kitty tchotchkes and I hope some Pokemon stuff - seriously, I'm really ten years old). Then the fortune cookie factory, then Chinese food. Woohoo!
But first, I have to wake up the kids and get them moving. So I'll see you on the flip side - with pics, I hope!
- Mood:
excited
I would also like to point you all to the extremely shiny jewelry auction currently underway to benefit the Interstitial Arts Foundation, the publishers of Interfictions. Fabulous stuff for a fabulous cause! (You can also subscribe to
Life has been a little mad lately mostly for very fun reasons, particularly because I ended up with three separate theater dates in six days -- the one I had planned, and the two unexpected sets of birthday presents. My verdicts: Macbeth: director Rupert Goold & Patrick Stewart both brilliant, see this if you possibly can. Rent: great dancing and fun energy, but badly over-amplified. Dangerous Liaisons: fabulous costumes and a Valmont I actually believed in as a seducer, some v. clunky dialogue in bits, rape scene extra-creepy because Cécile didn't feel like a period character.
Then there was the Cinco de Mayo get-together and the lunch with family and the planning for the Victory of Eagles launch and tour and somewhere in there there's been some OTW meetings, and recruiting another twenty coders and another forty revisions committed to the archive code, and finishing a short story (set in the past of the Temeraire universe, for Gardner Dozois's upcoming DRAGONS anthology), and hours watching david cook performances on youtube, don't mock me, and at the end of it all there is a slightly enervated me. *forms puddle and quivers*
And on that note, I will now go to bed before it hits 4am, oh dear.
Anyway. Here's a 525-word story based on the prompts "dragon" and "forgotten." This features characters from and may or may not end up in my incomplete novel. It also features some fairly coarse language, if anyone's sensitive.
( ...he needed a cigarette. )
2. I also can't find Molly and Shu Lien. They must have been put in an AG box together and not labeled well. Perhaps they are with the muffin tins.
3. Another thing I can't find: my monitor cable. So annoying.
4. I had to take appetizers to the school this morning for a staff appreciation lunch. I'm trying so hard to be a good suburban mother! I've met some nice people though, so yay!
5. I took advantage of the AG free shipping today. I ordered "Welcome to Kirsten's World" and Polly and her cradle. Don't hate me, anti-Polly faction. I think she's cute! And she can share her cradle with Esther, who has been sleeping in a cardboard box which is very upsetting to me and Addy.
6. Another thing I can't find: my sewing machine. I can find the serger, but I can't find the Viking. Perhaps George should buy me a new one for mother's day!
7. I am quite taken with my Pokemon icon.
8. Tomorrow Baboo and I are going to Seattle to meet his class from the previous school. We are going to shop at Uwajimaya, and go to the fortune cookie factory and buy big bags of the unfortunate cookies. Woo hoo!
- Mood:
tired
only 188 words but it adds to todays totals. Decided my 30k will include Everything fiction wise i write this month.
He sat in the doorway, collar pulled up against the bitter chill of the wind. The tattered coat tugged tightly round him offered little in the way of protection but it was all he had. By his feet sat his one friend, a dog called Reg. Any money he got went towards feeding him first. As long as there was enough left for a mug of tea and a roll he'd be fine.
Scraps of newspaper tucked inside his boots would stop his feet from freezing tonight. His breath hung in the still air. He'd been colder and hungrier but the people passing him didn't know that. they didn't know him or what he'd done.
To this generation he was an unknown, but it was because of him and others like him, that they had the freedoms they had now. The medals on his chest worn with pride but hidden from view in case he was beaten up for them. Another sign of the time. He was a forgotten hero, a memorial to an old world, lost in a new world that didn't remember or even care to.
We also need a weekend challenge, don't we? Post your ideas here and I'll pick one and post it up later this afternoon.
If you do share as a separate post, please use the tag 'wotw story' not 'wotw' :)
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