Mary Robinette Kowal

Housecleaning

I can tell that Rob felt better because he started cleaning the house. Mind you, this is my mother’s house which looks as if it is ready for a Better Homes and Gardens camera crew to come through the door at any moment. So Rob had to work hard to find something that needed cleaning.

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Page 123 Meme

I saw this on The Slush God Speaketh and thought I’d play along. Page 123 Meme The rules: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look

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Sick boys

Rob and Dad are both still sick. I think it hit Rob harder than Dad because Rob spent most of the day in bed. He’s got a horrid sinus headache. I think Dad is just as congested, but it doesn’t make his head hurt the way Rob’s does. The last of our boxes arrived today,

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Shimmer is off!

I sent the winter Shimmer to the printers today. Whew. Now, I’m just crossing my fingers hoping that it arrived safely. I’ve spent all of the last couple of days dealing with it so that’s why I’ve been fairly sparing with my online updates. My eyes were crossed from staring at the screen.

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Three day weekends

The trouble with being on a extended vacation is that three day weekends are darned inconvenient. I mean, I’m sure that it’s very nice for FedEx employees to have today off, but I need to mail things now.

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Happy New Year!

For New Year’s Eve we all went down to George and Julie’s house in Atlanta. Based on the amount of food, Julie seemed to be expecting more than the dozen guests attending. We dined and drank champagnes and Spanish wines. My cousin Robert, their eldest son, is off to Spain for five months of study

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Center for Puppetry Arts

After the High Museum we all went to the Center for Puppetry Arts to see Shoemaker and the Elves. Tears of Joy will be restaging it and I am slated to be the designer for their production so it seemed like a good idea to catch the show while I was here.

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High Museum

We drove down to Atlanta early so that we could go to the High Museum and see the Andrew Wyeth exhibition. He has long been one of my favorite artists.

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Over the river…

and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we went. Mom, Rob and I went to Grandma’s to do some New Year’s cleaning. I say that we cleaned Grandma’s house. In truth we just vacuumed and then I attempted to dust, but there wasn’t any dust. In between my cleaning attempts, we got to do some

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Much driving

Rob and I drove my brother to the Atlanta airport yesterday. We visited friends, stayed at George and Julie’s (my cousins) and then drove back today. In other news, I’ve spent most of my time on the computer today trying to put the finishing touches on Shimmer.

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So much food!

How can we still have so many leftovers in the house? It is staggering. At each meal, the counter is covered with food from Christmas Eve. It doesn’t help that Mom is also cooking something to supplement the leftovers, as if there isn’t enough food already. Dad took us out on tromp around the property

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Christmas Day

Ah youth. Peter knocked on our door at 8:00 to let us know that Santa had come–no, more accurately, to let us know that it was time for him to open his presents. I have to give him credit for letting us sleep past 8:00, I suppose. When all the gifts were opened, actually, by

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