Enjoying a Monday off from work today. We've been balls to the wall for the last three weeks; it's nice to have a few days of down time. Menopause is my constant companion, but I'm just riding it on through - like you can do anything else, am I right?

Writing is going well - two chapters of the novel are with stgulik, and my hp_silencio is done and ready to submit. (Memo to self: submit Silencio) What an enjoyable experience that was - dialogue-free writing. I've been looking through some of my grangersnape100 drabbles and I realise I do a lot of dialogue-less things there, so I shouldn't be so surprised that I enjoy that genre.

Speaking of which, I have set up a new Weblog at WordPress. It will be writing only - no personal things - that's what this account is about. It will be purely fanfics, original fics, news about fics, etc. Well, you get the point. I would love for you to drop by and say hello HERE.

I got my contracts from the HoE anthology Complete Control today, and I'm thrilled to bits over that.

And RUN, NOW, over to deviantArt to see the wondrous deslea's SSHG Piece After Hours. His fingers at her throat! *DIES*

I hope you've had the chance to look and comment on all the awesome art and fic over at sshg_promptfest. There's been some absolute jewels there, both art and fic. I'm enjoying it very much. I've also signed up for samhain_smut and minerva_fest, which is terrifying. S_Smut I feel fairly confident in doing but Minerva_Fest? I have got to bring my a-game to this one, and that frightens the divvil out of me. However, I have a great prompt, and if I can honour it properly, I hope to do something good with it. I'm not 100% confident I'm up to their standards, because they have very high ones, but I'm going to do my best.

Work remains work, my health is what it is, and life is pretty good. We have family coming round for my birthday on Saturday, and the house must be blitzed within an inch of its life. We've let a lot of stuff slide, and consequently we have a bit of clutter here and there. Bosco, our orange cat, has set himself a personal best of vomiting over every square inch of our carpet, and it looks as if he may reach his goal in the next two or three months. We've ceased trying to get out the stains left behind and have merely settled for just ignoring them and throwing rugs over them.

Well, I must go and prepare my Jim'll Fix It list for all our chores tomorrow, but please drop by the Wordpress blog if you feel so inclined. Hugs to all who needs 'em.