After five months of Zumba-ing on my WiiU, I have for the first time bashed my hand into the wall of my somewhat inadequate workout space.
I’m pretty sure there’s no serious damage, but… Ow!
After five months of Zumba-ing on my WiiU, I have for the first time bashed my hand into the wall of my somewhat inadequate workout space.
I’m pretty sure there’s no serious damage, but… Ow!
I got my new permanent resident card in the mail today. It was actually green–unlike my first “green card”, which was pink, and my second one, which was pale yellow. It also came with a pamphlet welcoming me to the United States. That made me chuckle a bit — I’ve been here for more than twenty years! But I guess it’s more bother than it’s worth to sort out which cards are renewals, and which are actually new.
The pink card is still my favorite, though, and I still carry it around in my wallet. I like it, not because of the color, but because it officially and with all due legality declares that I am an alien. (In big bold letters across the top!) I like to use it to pick up my badge at science fiction conventions.
Speaking of which, I will be going to Marcon this weekend. (I just hope I can get everything I want to get done really soon finished tomorrow, because I’m sure to be sick for all of next week. That’s the price I pay for revelry.)
A writer friend of mine, Ryk E. Spoor, (he has some cool space opera books out from Baen) is trying to kickstarter the funding for an Oz-based novel titled Polychrome. (I guess Baen wasn’t interested in that project.)
He says he’s reached nearly 90% with 19 days to go, so now’s a great time to jump in. You can fund at any level from $1 on up!
I recently added the “Dance Pose” to my daily yoga/strength routine on WiiFit. I couldn’t actually do the dance pose at the time, but I figured I was more likely to get better at it by trying, than waiting for some mythical “better time”.
Today, for the first time, I got through the session without either dropping my foot grabbing something, or falling off my balance board. Woot!
I read an article once that claimed that happiness came from not the big good things that you know you have, but from small good things that pop up unexpectedly. I’m not entirely convinced. Being with my family makes me happy, but it’s not at all unexpected.
But there does seem to be an extra thrill when something nice happens “out of the blue”.
Yesterday I got an email from an online friend with a link, and a message to “scroll down, you’ll like it.”
The link lead to the blog of an author named Rachel Neumeier with whom I have no prior acquaintance. (Although, clearly I need to check out her books, since she shows excellent taste.) She was discussing the difficulty in finding “self-published gems” followed up by the revelation that she had actually managed to find one.
Three guesses as to what that “self-published gem” was?
Yep. Across a Jade Sea.
Happy me. 🙂
My morning workout yesterday ended up being MUCH longer than it was supposed to be, because my WiiFit balance board abruptly decided it needed more juice, and stopped working in the middle of my routine. So I ended up having to stop and wait for a recharge.
I think whoever cracks this portable power problem is going to get rich huge.
Ironically, this happened on a day when I was feeling pretty good, and didn’t need a break at all. Today, I was getting seriously dizzy by the end of my routine. Having a break in the middle to recharge probably would have done me good.
The question seems to be being asked everywhere, but answering it always feels like I’m raining on someone’s parade, so I guess I’ll answer it in my own space instead of theirs: No, I will not be participating in NaNoWriMo.
The only possible benefit I could see it having for me, is that it would prevent me from feeling quite so lonely, when the activity on most of the online communities I participate in goes down to almost nothing for the entire month. That never seems to me like a good enough reason to sign up.
Instead, I’m going to hope that my health will be sufficiently good to allow me to be too busy to care that there’s nobody around to talk to. ::crosses fingers::
I just got my very first ever cordless phone.
At this rate, I’ll get my first cell-phone in… twenty years?
My husband’s website just made it’s first sale, and there is now a bought and paid for copy of my space pirate graphic novel out there somewhere. I hope it found a good home.
This is some cover art we are considering for one of my stories, which my husband has decided he wants to try publishing. He notes that it does not match the current trends in cover designs. So, will it attract the right kind of audience for the story inside? Will it attract anyone at all? Should we dump this approach and go for something a little more fashionable? Should we keep it, but maybe fix a few things… and if so, what? (If you left click on it and load it in another window, you can get a slightly larger version.)
Here’s the whole wrap around image without the text: