What a day!
I was sitting out on my front porch this morning when I heard a thud and a cry. Looked across the street, and Rita had tripped over an uneven edge of the sidewalk. We had a hard time getting her up, because she had really wracked one knee, and her wrist was swelling. I offered to cal 911, but she wanted to call a family member to take her to the hospital instead, so I let her. Turns out she broke her arm in two places. Poor thing.
Lauren and “Rapunzel,” as my father calls her, got there shortly after, and we went and got something to eat at Kerbey Lane before we settled in to cleaning. What little Lauren would let me do. She kept insisting it was my birthday present so I should just sit down and let her do it all.
Well, I didn’t quite go for that, but she did do the majority of what got done today. The dishes are finished, the cat fountain is cleaned out again, the floors are swept and mopped, the stove and microwave got wiped down (I did that part.) The small bathroom was straightened and swept. Not a bad day. Here are my helpers at work:
Lauren sweeps up Rapunzel looks more like Cinderella…
I like the silhouette quality here… She loved the magnets (my job was distraction)
The Princess in her handmade crown. I sent her home with a few magnets of her own.
I took Rita one of the rosebuds from the dozen that Lauren had given me Sunday along with some Hersey’s Kisses I had in the fridge. And I sent the girls home with a bag too. I can’t really eat them any more, and Newell isn’t a chocolate fan. But this way, everybody won.
Here are my roses as they were Sunday. Now they are on my bedside table, perfuming my sleep. I gave Rita one of the little red ones. There were three each of four colors…or maybe it was four each of three colors…doesn’t really matter. They were gorgeous–and still are. It is almost time to start to dry them, but I have really been enjoying the scent.
After the busy bees left, I walked over to meet Newell at Chuy’s for our Friday night dinner. It was lovely. I had a passionfruit margarita. Hadn’t had one of those before, but it was yummy. Not on my diet…but sometimes you just gotta live a little.
Well, that’s it for me tonight. See y’all tomorrow.
by Laura Joh Rowland on the Kindle. First of a series set in feudal Japan. LOVE it. Highly recommend them. I already have two or three more in my queue.
. That is a franchise I have always enjoyed.
Rie Sheridan Rose 
7/23/12
Ran some errands, did some laundry, wrote some on my rewrite today. Not a terribly productive day, but at least I worked on both cleaning stuff and writing stuff. Pretty good considering I went to bed at about 3 AM.
The Dark Knight Rises was great. I really loved it. I can see where some of the flaws people are complaining about are coming from, but the only thing that bothered me particularly was Bane’s dialog being mostly incomprehensible. All the other things people are griping about in the reviews didn’t really bother me. And I didn’t get sleepy, even though it was almost 1AM when it was over. I did get slightly nauseous in places, as much from the sound overload as the action, I think. In one scene, I actually had my fingers in my ears and still heard everything just fine. There were some silly bits from a writing perspective, but the acting was very nice, and I enjoyed seeing familiar faces in some bit/small parts.
It drove me crazy half the pit scenes until I finally remembered Tom Conti’s name… One of my prized possessions is the letter that I received from him in response to a fan letter I wrote over 20 years ago. When an actor/writer/celebrity of any ilk takes time to write something personal, they win a fan for life in my book. 🙂
Till tomorrow–