Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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Another review; still life with blue cats.

I went to sleep last night with a puffy blue Maine Coon guarding my doorway and a sleek blue Siamese stretched next to me on the bed. The Siamese was using a plush blue-ringed octopus as a pillow, and back-dropped by Halloween pillowcases. When I woke, the Maine Coon was puddled on the bright pumpkin-fucker orange cat tree.

I have the life I always said I'd have someday.

Oh, it has complications I didn't necessarily bank on when I was plotting it out, since I didn't understand things like "herniated disks" and "actually having too many books" when I was nine, but for the most part? I sleep in a room that looks like the inside of a pumpkin, I have four shelves of My Little Ponies and two shelves loaded with stuffed toys, I own so many books that re-reading steadily for a year wouldn't mean getting through them all, and I have both the cat I've always wanted (Lilly) and the cat I never knew I needed (Alice). And I write books, and people read them, and it's amazing.

For example, kyrielle read Rosemary and Rue.

I was chatting with my friend Adam last night (his books, How to Get Suspended and Influence People [Amazon] and Pirates of the Retail Wasteland [Amazon] are delightfully accurate flashbacks to my own days in the public school honors system), and he said that reviews never cease to be scary, since you don't know until you read them whether they'll be positive, negative, or written by angry mushroom people from Dimension X. But they never cease to be exciting, either.

Life is pretty damn good. How's yours?
Tags: good things, living in the future, reviews, so the marilyn, this is halloween
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kat_merle

June 29 2009, 07:35:37 UTC 8 years ago

Life is wonderful if busy. I am teaching ballroom dancing still, now managing a pizza place as well so I finally feel like I might be able to put some money in the bank. I have lost 40 pounds since last September and have recently found a renewed interest in getting off this plateau and started focusing on the weight loss again. I still have 60 pounds to make my goal. I don't think I will make it by the original date but I have high hopes of meeting the goal anyway. Have good books, good friends, good music and a wonderful hubby. Life is good.

seanan_mcguire

July 1 2009, 16:41:59 UTC 8 years ago

I did not know you taught ballroom!

This is relevant to my interests. What style(s)?

kat_merle

July 2 2009, 05:59:34 UTC 8 years ago

I teach american style. Waltz, Foxtrot, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Charleston, Salsa, Country Two Step, Night Club Two Step, Rumba, Cha Cha, Samba ummmm I think I am missing some but you get the idea.

seanan_mcguire

July 2 2009, 14:54:30 UTC 8 years ago

This is HIGHLY relevant to my interests. Have I told you about Discount Armageddon?

kat_merle

July 2 2009, 22:34:43 UTC 8 years ago

Only that you had talked to Betsy about the dance scenes. I pouted a little since I thought you knew I taught dance. The last time I saw you was at the studio I teach at.

seanan_mcguire

July 3 2009, 16:52:13 UTC 8 years ago

I did not know that!

You should email me. I may have a proposition which is relevant to your interests. :)