estepheia | Miscellaneous stuff

Countdown for the final Friendship Ficathon Masterlist: four stories! Whohooo.

My garden looks fabulous! *gives evil neighboring landlady the two-fingered salute*

Finished another book: Lois McMaster's Paladin of Souls. Have to say that I like her Barrayar books waaaay better.

I think reading is good for me. Since I was ten I read every day. In my heydays (sp?) I read up to one paperback per day. And then, a few years ago, it just stopped, petered out (after the pregnancies, I think). Fanfic filled that void for a while, but even that petered out. Feeling lackluster about reading actually had me worried. It was as though part of me was missing. I hope that my current interest in reading is a sign that I'm slowly leaving my depression behind.

Could have strangled my children yesterday. Went into a toy store with them. Recon mission. It's Toyah's b-day at the end of next month. She has no sense of time. She's been asking since Christmas: "how many days till my birthday?" Grrrr. Toyah is also dreadfully materialistic. She wants EVERYTHING. Have I mentioned that her 5 my little pony thingies got stolen at kindergarten? Grrrrr. And she'd bought them with her own pocket money. That sucks so much!!!

I think I mentioned that we are semi-friends with a local shamanistic pop band called Osiris Taurus (they have little demo-clips on their site, btw). I translated some lyrics for them and translated texts for their website. Well, they sent me the peek versions of their new songs. And now they want to discuss them. Shriek! I totally lack the knowledge (and vocabulary) needed to intelligently discuss music. I'm pretty sure "I like it" isn't enough.

Usually, I have about one headache per month. Why do I have two headaches a week now?