Harry Dresden draws blood

[cornerofmadness]

After a spectacular cock up of a first day I come home and settle in with Ghost Story and DROP the damn book. It slices a four inch bloody gouge in my breast. Sigh. Also I do not like the idea of this story at all. I do not like Harry dead. As a testament to that, in 3 days I've only gotten 30 pages into this.

Soul is making progress, guys. Last night he slept in the living room. He peed in the litter and today he sat on the couch watching me eat like he always used to do. He's in here with me holding onto the carpet like he doesn't trust gravity but he's not hiding. He almost ate in the kitchen.

I'm a bit stunned by what's going on in Libya right now. Gadhafi has been dictator since I've turned 2 years old. let's just hope they grind him completely down.

I did find out what the community chat was about. It's just what I thought. a) assholes throwing their trash all over the place b) kids running everywhere. Mostly this is directed at the two newcomers who just let their kids run wild all over everyone's porches. The one neighbor, the one who failed my plants, has FIVE kids under the age of 8 and does not watching them that closely. She's one of your former clients ELD

Roy was not a problem

thanks to salomesensei for the heads up on wolf storm press. (I've seen their stuff around as it turns out) I can definitely use this.





I mean MY GOD that wallpaper. It is reproduction but it's an exact copy of what was in there. I think this is what summoned the demons in my story. This is in the George Rapp house. If we paint psych wards pale blue/pink to calm people, what the hell does THIS do to you?


and here have a two-fer



I call this modest harvest. Some yellow pear tomatoes, strawberries, san marzano tomatoes and a green german queen that I think was knocked off by the kids/cat/raccoon

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I think the wallpaper is fun?

I finished Ghost Story today and still enjoyed it. I didn't keep it to write a review, though. I still thought it was a good book. The ending didn't really surprise me; but the denouement did.

Mmm, tomatoes.

I'm glad to hear Soul's doing better. Tentatively hopeful, here.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you would

i might not get to finish this. I will never get thru this in a week

tomatos and mozzarelli and basil.

we'll see

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, tomatoes, mozzerella and basil...mmmmmm

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

oh gods, that pattern! That's the American/colonial version of Baroque. Hideous and overdone- thank god for the gothic revival.

ETA: oh god the wainscotting!!

seriously, what were our fore-designers thinking!!?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I suspect they were sucking down hallucinogens frankly

[rahirah]

What was that story? "The Yellow Wallpaper?"

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

That wallpaper could wrestle the yellow wallpaper to the ground and stomp its ass. Jeebus gawd. And I thought my Aunt Hethylyn's yellow flocked wallpaper pattern was hideous.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

and there is more hideous wall paper to come

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

nods nods, i think this might beat that

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

OMG, MY EYES. I knew Victorian-era wallpaper could be garish and overblown with big patterns, but OMG. That is guaranteed to make you see ghosts.

Only you. You have to be the only person to assault yourself with a deadly book. :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

It's a miracle Sean Patrick didn't just go insane along with Sulien and Maddie. Do you know how hard it was not to burst out laughing at this stuff while the poor guide was doing her spiel.

this is twice now. I did it in June and ripped up my arm

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Yes, the old ranch house had its share of this stuff. The fully restored hacienda "as it was when it was built," which, Sean Patrick was sad to see, the original wallpaper...

And here I thought I had bad luck with paper cuts...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Poor SP

I have the worst luck

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Man, could I have left any more words out of that sentence? (I got my meaning across, at least, but some writer I am.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snort

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

That is wallpaper of supernatural evil.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it is. I'm, surprised the 1970's didn't jump all over this one

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Owie, owie, ow!

I have a scratch across my forehead that I don't remember getting. Might have been the cat, or I might have cut myself with a fingernail while I was asleep. It's a mystery.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

don't you love just waking up with mystery injuries