Five Random Things Make A Post

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1. I have planted flowers -- crocuses, irises, white daffodils, and hyacinth, mostly in shades of blue and purple -- in the front planter. The crocuses have produced buds that look like they're ready to bloom at any second, and one of the irises has already opened. Whee! Next plan: keep track of how much sunlight the front beds get (to determine whether I need to be looking for part-shade or full-shade flowers and herbs to put there), figure out if I want sun-loving herbs/vegetables badly enough to put a box planter on the deck, and decide what to put in the planter once the bulbs' season ends in six weeks or so.

2. I am thinking of going to Norwescon, the Seattle Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, in March. I wouldn't be getting a room, so it'd be a daytrippy thing, but I might take the Friday off and go during the days for Friday and Saturday. (For those of you who haven't been to a science fiction/fantasy con, versus a gaming or anime con, they tend to be a lot more panel-heavy -- lots of panels discussing books, as well as things like filk and writing and medieval history and stuff. The ) Is anyone else in the area interested in going, or knows someone who is going? (It's also the weekend before Sakuracon, the local anime convention; I think Pav and I will be going to at least one day of that, too.)

3. avani and ceph, would you mind awfully if I borrowed your (first) names as names of planets for a short story? (I should go back to posting writing-status updates.)

4. jmpava and I spent the weekend at the Yakima Valley Red Wine and Chocolate tour. The wine was, as it usually is, exceptional -- and the chocolate in several places was also exceptional. We had a chocolate mousse cookie crumbe thing, several wonderful brownies, and a taste of a dark-chocolate-and-pink-peppercorn bar. (The peppercorn-chocolate was delicious, but we agreed that it was probably too potent for an eating chocolate except in very small fragments. It would have made quite a good brownie, though...) I also found some red wines that I like; I'm usually a white-wine girl all round. (I have been told that I have kool-aid tastes in wine, and it's probably not far off; I like sweet, fruity wines, and don't care at all for tannin-heavy wines.)

5. I've been reading a lot lately -- The Mislaid Magician (followed by a reread of Sorcery and Cecelia) and The Eustace Diamonds most recently, plus several cookbooks and beadwork books, because that's how my neep goes. Expect neepery and book reviews soon.

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Rgd 3: Dude! awesome! :-)