So this is Christmas

[mamculuna]

I'm wandering the world in various hazes of fuzziness, due to trying out new prescription for contacts, which is NOT better than old ones. Yesterday I couldn't recognize a friend halfway down the block. Today I put my old contacts back in. Nevertheless, I'm having a good Christmas so far. I've bought most of my presents, and in the last couple of days, we:

Put lights on the outside tree and decorated the inside tree, with NO cross words!

Did a crossword, for that matter.

Went to see a friend who'd just had surgery, then stopped by a neighborhood party, tonight--nice to see some old faces and some new ones. I had a very good talk with a young woman from Cameroon about her realization that her culture had a lot to treasure and her longing to go back and help there. I had thought before that she was just into money and clothes--glad I saw her differently.

Made the site for my husband's book work, sort of.

Looked at all it's going to take to do the living and dining rooms: strip grasscloth, patch plaster, clean, sand, paint...pulled covers back over head

Walked to Dollar Tree and bought junk we didn't need--but it's only $1! How can we resist gold ribbon, baskets, lint roller, locarb bars, ornament hangers, sponges, spare reading glasses (blue plastic with pink dots--really), corned beef hash, and toothpaste?

Sold fireworks, but not many, to benefit the Dharma Center. We should run a Dollar Tree, instead.

Helped my writing buddy with her computer, and she gave me cilantro seeds.

Added a nice murder to first chapter of my first book and tried to think of new title.

Murder, fireworks, lint rollers, Cameroon. It's a good time of year.

Comments

[ladystarlightsj.livejournal.com]

That would make a good title, actually. "A Nice Murder". Think it's been used before, but still.

[ann1962]

http://www.ecbooksltd.com/si/006470.html A Nice Murder for Mom

Not the complete title, so Mamculuna, it is still up for grabs!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's pretty old and not quite the same.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Good idea! I think all titles have been used before. I may use that!

[graffitiandsara.livejournal.com]

Just wanted you to know that I'm about a third of the way through your book and I'm enjoying it. Is it ok to write on it, when I see a small proof reading type of mistake? I'm going to save my real comments until I'm finished so I can look at the work as a whole, but it's grabbed my interest and that's the first thing that counts! (I'm reading at night before I go to sleep so I'm only doing a chapter at a time - it's taking a little bit longer than I was expecting, but all the books I read do. The days of staying up until 4:00a.m. to finish a book are sadly gone if I want to function. Grrr.)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you're able to keep reading it--don't feel obliged, though, if it gets too boring. That would be helpful to know in itself, in fact. Write away! I'm already making some revisions, and will be delighted to have yours. I found one repeated sentence early on, and apologize--thought it would be clean, but I put in new mistakes when I correct old ones. Double grrr.

Thanks so much for staying with this, and take all the time you need. BTW, LadyS suggested "A Nice Murder" as the new title (another SC writer has already and recently used "Dead Low Tide").

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

What an interesting post!

Selling fireworks to help the Dharma Center--how droll! I love it.
Around here, we sell cupcakes and clothing for benefit money. Fireworks is very cool!

And who would think about a gift of cilantro seeds? A most elegant present.

And the delightful oxymoron: "...a nice murder."

And lint rollers.

Smiling-Jackie

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Fireworks for Buddha. Yes. Actually it's a weird strange deal--the big fireworks entrepreneur here has these little stands at flea markets, etc., and most of his profits, if any, really go to the SC Law Enforcement Officers Association, but he pays our group a flat rate, a pretty good one, to do the actual selling. Of course, in some parts of the country, fireworks for Christmas may seem strange, but not here...

As we were driving through Tennessee a few years ago, we thought an alien spaceship was landing on the road ahead of us, but it turned out to be the world's biggest fireworks stand. So I guess you know what I mean.