Erulisse Dances

Congratulations to all of the athletes yesterday. Great Britain won a well-deserved gold in Equestrian. They've been wiping up the field in all of the equestrian events but this one was very special because not only was Germany unable to get the gold, they were actually closed out of the medals completely! Very rare! Gold was also won by the US Women's soccer team, Usain Bolt (amazing speed in an incredible Jamaican sweep of the 200 meter), Ashton Eaton and his teammate won Gold/Silver in decathalon, the women's water polo team from the US won Gold, and Claressa Shields won our first Gold in women's boxing for the US. I caught the first bits of rhythmic gymnastics - so spectacular and beautiful, and of course the finals of women's platform diving - spectacular. What a great day for Olympics!

( SPOILER ALERT - Project Runway discussed below the cut and plumbing saga continues )

So, it is now August and the summer, which seems as if it just started last week, is already into its waning months. Oh, we still have the heat and the humidity, I am still going to have plenty of days when I fall asleep with the fan blowing on me and where I am complaining about the heat, but I am already looking at the various shades of green around me with a nostalgic feeling. Winter has its own beauty, no doubt. There are sparkling mornings after an ice storm that make me catch my breath as the sun hits the angled ice crystals. But, my preference is experiencing the snow rarely and, unfortunately, I live in the wrong state for that.

( pretty pics and talk about goals below the cut )

It's been two weeks since my last "normal" day off and I finally get one today. Call me happy! That doesn't mean that I'll be sitting around, I have a long list of things that I need to do, but I'll have a chance to do some laundry and talk with Aearwan late this afternoon - yeah...happy. I have to make serious inroads to cleaning today and I owe Lai some serious beta work, so those two things are my focii today.

( pics and thoughts about the Olympics and the Eowyn Challenge below the cut )

My AinA is complete, posted, and done. I never would have succeeded without the incredible assistance of Keiliss who generously beta read my monster twice! The final word count was extreme - more than 15,000 in nine chapters. This was certainly NOT what I had intended when I accepted the assignment in May, but as the story unwound, there wasn't any other way it could go. I just wrote the words, the story was already there just waiting for me to grasp it. I'm relieved that it is over, though. Now maybe I can work on some smaller writing projects until NaNo comes along.

( What we did Sunday and Olympics below the cut )

So I submitted my MPTT Anniversary story last night, less than 1000 words, but I'm happy with it. I revisited a side character of one of my longer words and liked this small glimpse she allowed me into her life. I still have 1/3 of my AinA to work through in a final edit, although I know I'll be tempted to run through it one final time. I like the editing process, even though sometimes it seems that I am running through the same ruts and just digging them deeper. But I always find something else to fine-tune, it's one step at a time and eventually things do get done. I envy people who can sit down and write something that will need minor tweaking at the end of their first session. My pieces are not like that. I always need fairly major work after the first write, and that gets followed by several more run-through edits, fine-tuning more and more each time.



Even though we have been watching (on and off) Olympic soccer for the past two days, today marks the official start to the 2012 Summer Olympics from London with the Opening Ceremonies tonight. The ceremony will start at 6:00 pm tonight (my time zone). Unfortunately, I work until 6:00 pm and usually don't get home until 6:30-6:45, so I'll move through closing at record speed and hope I don't miss too much. I already have dinner finished and waiting for me in the freezer, so I can munch and watch at the same time.


( ...PROJECT RUNWAY SPOILER BELOW... )