Categotry Archives: Mention Monday
Birthday Season
The end of May brings with it the end of Birthday Season for my family. With one exception, we were all born in the Spring. For a few months it’s one after another. It’s not quite as intense as Christmas, but there is much the same feel. By the time it’s over I will have made three cakes, and mailed at least one package. This year I very nearly forgot Mr. Al’s birthday. Not that I overlooked him, but rather […]
Breaking Bad
It started out as research. Not factual research. Cultural research. Beautiful Spanish Hussy is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico and features a drug-lord. Knowing that the people who read the book might well have seen the show, I thought it best to check it out. I wanted to be sure that there wasn’t too much overlap. No worries. I don’t have to change a thing in my book to avoid looking like a copy cat. Beautiful Spanish Hussy takes a […]
Someone Read My Book
Sandra Nachlinger did a little promo work for me last Friday. I am tickled pink! Not merely because it’s always great to have someone draw attention to your work, but because I had no reason to expect it. I didn’t even know she had read my book. Moving in has been on my mind for quite a while now. It’s sitting there on my inner sidebar, taunting me with the fact I let so much time go by between the […]
The Homeless
My son is homeless. Again. I made him that way because I know that if he isn’t forced to see why he wants a job, he will never get one. Most kids his age are starting in college. He would be, too, if not for this little detour. He was supposed to support himself for a year so he could be clear on what he wants to do for a living and what he will be willing to do to […]
Plantar Fascitis
Yep. I’ve got it. Some weird problem with the connective tissue on the bottom side of my foot. It started in January when I was reaching up for something on a high shelf. In this house I end up doing a lot of reaching up. In fact, I often have to resort to the use of a ladder. I felt a popping sensation in my heel followed immediately by stabbing pain. Warning. Medical Diagram under the fold.
Embroidery Project
I just finished an embroidery project. This one I started over the Christmas holiday. It’s not a very big one. I would normally have finished in in a month, maybe two. Instead, I worked on three other projects at the same time and so all of them have slowed down. Actually, now that I think about it, I’m slower to embroider for other reasons too. I used to take The Girl to music lessons. The lessons were across town and […]
Where Does the Time Go?
I’ve been moving rather slow the last few days. In January and February I got all kinds of things done. But April is proving a bit of a bust. Luckily I was so effective earlier that I’m not bogged down with taxes this year. Usually I’d be in desperation mode. Maybe that’s why all I feel like doing now is kicking back?
Friday Fictioneers
I wasn’t at all sure if it would work out. The Friday Fictioneer hub posts on Wednesday and requires that you fit your fiction to their photo. But they have a huge following and the response was better than I had reason to expect. So it looks like there won’t be a major melt down here at AliceAudrey.com. For the foreseeable future you’ll be seeing fiction snippets of about 100 words from me on Fridays along with a picture that […]
End of an Era
Fiction Friday 55 is no more. G-man, who hosted it for seven years, passed it along to a couple of fine ladies who promptly moved it to Tuesday. So I guess it is now Fiction Tuesday 55. Unluckily, that doesn’t work real well for me. I already have something going on Tuesdays, and would rather not quit it or double book. Besides, that leaves a hole in my schedule on Friday.
Daylight Shavings Time
I actually like daylight savings time. Without it the sun would be rising around 5am in the middle of summer. But now is not that time. Because daylight savings time kicked in, we are once again getting up and leaving the house in the dark. I’m a night owl. I really, really hate getting up before the sun rises. I don’t mind getting up with it so much, but to have to leave in the dark is hard on me. […]
Death of a Snowman
First blizzards, then rain, then sun…. a week later we get this. The last, bitter moments of life for a snowman. The neighbors who were sure we couldn’t have Spring by the end of the month must be surprised. We didn’t have all that much flooding from the snow melt. Of course, there’s still plenty of time for it as the water from the back country hasn’t yet made it’s way down to the valleys. When it does, those folks […]
Cold
I suppose it’s to be expected that I should come down with a cold after a week like last. It’s been going around. Mr. Al went down for the count for three days and the school’s auto-post emails talk about numbers of whooping cough to show up. Yet still, I was unprepared. I’ve certainly had a runny nose often enough, and a cough as well, but half the time I couldn’t tell it from my normal allergies. This time there’s […]
The Weather Again
I’m the first to admit that I talk about the weather entirely too much, but come on. This is getting ridiculous. Up until a week ago I was still worried about our water tables and the lack of snow all winter long.I’m not worried anymore. We got totally dumped on. The schools closed both Friday and Monday. The plows have already chewed through what was left of the city budget in overtime. An avalanche wiped out a house on the […]
Sudden Decisions
A few years ago we bought this: I love this truck. It gets great gas mileage, can haul the whole family plus a payload, is distinctive, and is very simple. No electronic bells and buzzers in this thing. The windows are all hand-cranked. It’s a stick shift. I like that basic nature. Unluckily it has a major flaw. The dealership we bought it from went out of business, and no one in town can get parts for it. I can’t […]
Sunsets in Winter
I’ve never thought of Winter as a good time to catch a sunset. Maybe it’s just that I’m such a house dweller. I just don’t get out to see the sunsets much when merely standing there will send chills down your spine and make your feet turn blue. But lately I’ve been catching some real impressive ones out my window. It’s not that the view is all that good, but the colors are something else. I’ve never been any good […]
