Thises and Thats

* OMG, sooooo tired today. In desperate need of a nap. Unfortunately, I'm lacking the time to nap right now.

* Had a very... graphic dream about Eddie Izzard the other night. I blame zagzagael. Last night I dreamt about living on the bayou and it took an incredibly strange turn shortly before I woke up.

* Been writing. On the next chapter of TLotS and on my percy_ficathon fic and on a few original things. I might not churn out prose as quickly as I used to, but I'm much happier with the final results.

* Been reading as well. I have a stack of books from the library a mile high waiting for me and another stack from thistle_verse's personal stash, but right now I've cracked open both "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen (on butter_cup_'s most excellent recommendation), and "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which I've never read.

* With the hellmonkeys, I've been reading "Inkheart" aloud and loving it to death. Paul Bettany is perfectly cast in the upcoming film, IMO. We're still reading "Mariel of Redwall" little by little (it's a bit dense, and we're having fun tackling it slowly), and we've also started "The Birchbark House" by Louise Eldrich and "The Magician's Nephew" aloud recently. It's not our first attempt to read a Narnia book, but we're hoping it ends up being more successful than HP was around here. (I'm the only fan in the house.) Eldest hellmonkey is starting in on "Pippi Longstocking" on her own. She's listened to it on tape a couple of times and we saw a stage adaptation in January. We've also started reading Death Note graphic novels together.

* The Boyfriend got out of a warm bed to go get me Taco Bell at 1 am this morning. It made me giddy enough that I thought it needed to be mentioned.

* The house is relatively clean.

* Tomorrow I go to see thistle_verse and I cannot wait!