Sparklies, Sneakies, and Roo.

Words today:  150

Novel Revision:  Scribbled notes on a corner of a page.  Does that count?

Steps before treadmill:  1500 + 1840
Times pedometer crapped out:  2
Steps after treadmill:  9100

Spent the morning watching what physical therapists do.  Spent the afternoon struggling with a professional bio for the new job, as apparently they want to start "marketing me" in the next month or two.

Their words, not mine, and I don't know how much I'm being sold off for.

Got to spend some time with the fabulous Elise this afternoon, seeing cool things, touching cool things, and just talking and learning more about who she is and where she comes from. Always a good thing.

Somehow we got talking about gender, intersexuality, and a variety of other topics.  If I hadn't had to pick the kid up, I could cheerfully have stayed there for the rest of the afternoon.

Next time, though, perhaps she'll come over here for coffee or tea, and watch my cat pretend that he doesn't really like her.

(I came downstairs to find that Aragorn Sophocles Xylophone Cattus Maximus had made a bed of my down-filled winter coat.  Made me feel right at home!)

So the short version is that I have acquired Daily Rounds, and via the sneakiness of Timprov and Mrissa, some earrings to go with it. 

Or rather, I should say, *Roo* has acquired Daily Rounds, because he would not let go of the ladybug bead in that necklace for any bribe I tried short of chocolate.

Roo sat with me this evening as I sorted through some beads; I gave him some string and some of the larger glass/Venetian glass/furnace glass beads. 

Darned if he didn't manage to string them on the string I gave him. 

He then appropriated my crimping pliers.  Did you know crimping pliers walk around the table and laugh villainously? 

Well, they do.  They also say things like, "I am YOUR pliers, Mommy!  Muwa-hahahaha!"

And...

"Mommy, dis KING of Pliers want-want-need POPCORN.  MUahaha!"

And so forth.