Summer Report #5: New Dishwasher

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Hello my friends! Hard to believe that it’s almost July, but that’s the summer for you.

As you probably guessed from the title of this post, we have a new dishwasher! It is wonderful! No more pruny fingers and horrible smells! And it runs so quietly, you have to listen twice in order to see if its really washing the dishes! Ah, technology is wonderful…

The kitchen is also finished now. (Hurray for that) There was some discussion of refinishing the kitchen table and benches, but I immediately tuned out that conversation. I want nothing to do with it (I have a feeling Mumsy will coerce Father Dearest into aiding her…).

Anyway, in other news, I finished the first draft of my second novel – 44 chapters! 44 whole chapters! The one I wrote last summer was 38 chapters long, and I thought that was mammoth! I still have a bit of editing to do on it, I think, but I am going to wait on that. I’m just a wee bit sick of that story for the time being.

I started work yesterday, and it went well. I had to take one of my wards to the doctor’s for a summer physical early in the morning, which involved a minor adventure looking for the building the office was in and then finding the corresponding parking lot, but after that was done I spent four hours sitting by the poolside reading ‘Good Omens’ for about the fiftieth time. Can’t complain.

Let’s see…what else?

Saw ‘Year One’ last week; I laughed, but I will say that I was slightly disappointed. It had its funny moments (a lot of which were in the TV trailers), but there were also a lot of other super-raunchy bits that I didn’t particularly care for. That, added to the fact that all of the other people in the audience, besides Wee Baby Sis, Little Brother, and myself, were fifteen years old with the maturity of eight year olds. Made me glad to be out of high school.

So, that’s that. My family’s been listening to the Chronicles of Narnia on audiotape, which is more entertaining than anything on TV these days. We made it through ‘The Magician’s Nephew’, ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’, and ‘The Horse and His Boy’, and now we are on ‘Prince Caspian.’ I think my favorite one so far has been the ‘The Horse and His Boy’, read by Alex Jennings, though they are all wonderful. The only downside to it all is that listening to these stories makes me want to write more of my own.

I want to go to Narnia...but the closets around my house suck.

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