Christmas-flavoured stuff

[pensnest]

SeSa story, gone to beta. Hmm. Gibbering will continue until 26th December (at the earliest) because I shall be away from home until that evening. This is, of course, assuming my betas don't laugh and point and say, you hafta do better than *this*.

Cards - thank you patchworkdragon, bellamyrose, msktrnanny and saffronra. :-) Am just off to post office to send non-LJ cards!

Dining room currently looks like something from Ionesco play, cardboard boxes everywhere (mostly empty Lakeland ones, I think they breed) and sundry items waiting to be wrapped.

Some presents *yet to be purchased* OMG. No idea what. Note to self, look online for Beast gift.

Off to PO now.

Comments

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

Sent to beta! go team you!

Will there be a mobile phone in your vicinity over Christmas eve / day? Because I can certainly text you tell you tht your recipient said he/she loved your story when they post, if that would cut down on the gibbering.

[pensnest]

Don't worry - I *may* be able to cajole debsfarm into letting me sneak online at some point, assuming I can escape from Adorable Niece and Nephew... Whether I'll be able to dodge my social responsibilities long enough to read the story written for me, I don't know. However, I'll survive until I get back, and then read blissfully for days. The brats can cook.

[luxshine.livejournal.com]

Yay! Go you! That's great!

[luxshine.livejournal.com]

And... uhm... forgot to ask. Story of Us 16 is ready. Do you think you would have time now or you rather me waiting to send it to you after Christmas?

[pensnest]

Send it, do - I'm feeling expansive and ready-to-beta since, for the moment, I don't have to write a story. Also, it'll be grand to have new story to read!

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

YAY!! Am so jealous your SeSa is off to beta. I managed 300 more words earlier and will attempt more shortly. I NEED to get this wrapped up. *headdesk* And then FIND my beta. lol :D

[pensnest]

It's a weird feeling, isn't it - a deadline that *must not be missed*, and the words just crawling out. Whatever's the name of that curve that just gets steeper and steeper but never quite reaches the line? That's how it feels... Good luck!

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

It's wierd and frustrating and just... ARGH!

[bellamyrose.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on getting Sesa off to beta.

I'm very glad my card made it to you in time. :D

Boxes do breed. You get one, and when you look again, you have 5. That has to be the reason. :D

[pensnest]

I'm sure I can't have ordered quite that much *stuff* from Lakeland, though they do have a rather tempting craft section these days... oh, and my pa-in-law sent us cakes with apparent density of plutonium from there. No, I still think they breed.

[sola-fiamma.livejournal.com]

La, la, la, trying not to hate you, la, la, la. Seriously, I AM SO IMPRESSED I MIGHT EXPLODE. And also jealous. Bitterly, bitterly jealous. :)

[pensnest]

Hah (she said hollowly). If it had been easier to write I mightn't have felt the need for so much time to rewrite!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Woo! Go you!

You're a sesa writing machine!

[pensnest]

Yebbut it ain't done yet... Never mind, at least I've got *somewhere*! :-)

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Wooooo! You rock.

And at least you don't have a bunch of rhinoceroses (rhinocerii?) in your living room.

[pensnest]

Heee - when my Adorable Nephew visited not so very long ago, he took one disapproving look at my sitting room and announced that he thought there had been a rhinoceros rampaging through!

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Ha! Well as long as the rhinoceros has left the building you're fine.

I just finished a play where our set was made up of 6000 cardboard boxes... and they really do breed.

[pensnest]

Wow - I pity the props people and stage hands! What play was it?

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Oh to have HAD props people and stage hands.

It was a devised work about people constantly on the move - with jobs, countries, lovers, flats. Very successful - I actually made money on it!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Yay for SeSa story being beta worthy!!!

I'm totally convinced that boxes breed. Not to mention papers. And dirty dishes! You do the dishes and feel sooo accomplished, turn your back on the zink for 5 minutes, and when you turn around there's at least a glass and probably a plate or two there. And you're the ONLY ONE IN THE HOUSE! Scary, that's what it is!!

Good luck with the rest of the present buying and wrapping!

[pensnest]

Those dishes are a real pain. I seem to be the only one in the house to use the dishwasher, although when I am away for a weekend, my man does tidy the kitchen and put everything through the wash. Tis very odd.