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Was so gorgeous out, and I had Accomplished this morning, so I took bike, book (TALES BEFORE TOLKIEN, edited by Douglas Anderson), and self off to the park. Lovely few hours sitting by the banks of a lazy creek, reading short stories purely for pleasure in the sunlight, while small children played in a well-behaved fashion behind me, thinking thoughts about homes of the body, homes of the heart, and homes of the soul.

And then, of course, I came home to find that while my skin and soul enjoyed the interlude, my knees did not. I'm sitting here, heating pad wrapped around said achey knee, beng moderately cranky about my joints and the lapsed warranty thereof.

But it really was a lovely afternoon. And the felines, sensing my crankiness, have determined to entertain me: Boomer races across the dining room into the living room, allowing Pandora to leap, bridge-troll-like, from under the coffee table and swat him on the ass. He leaps onto the windowsill that leads out to the sunporch, discovers it's been closed against cooler eveing air, does a 90 degree turn and races back into the kitchen, Pandora hot on his heels.

Rinse, repeat.

Silly cats. No amount of ache is proof against felines.

And tomorrow all I have planned is to sit at the computer, leg propped up as/if needed, and do that writing thing.

Date: 2006-04-20 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] debg.livejournal.com
I see your achey knee and raise you a pair. In the past three days, carless but determined to Get Stuff Done, I have walked approximately nine miles. Not bad for a cranky old woman with MS, in a city built almost solely on hills.

I've been advance PR on the writing things (Kinkaids) and Big Names are now possible. That done, me also for the writing. What I really want is a nap.

Date: 2006-04-21 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizziebelle.livejournal.com
What is it with knees? Mine are much older than the rest of me. It stinks.

Date: 2006-04-21 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
I consider this whole knee thing to be an example of criminally flawed design and plan to file a class-action lawsuit against God. Would you like to join?

Date: 2006-04-21 04:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wyldflamingo.livejournal.com
Sorry for the soreness...nothing worse than joint soreness, really really. Because you know it will come back. Tiger balm and ThermaCare...ahhh.

Normally I don't like to leave links, because it seems odd. Like giving a personal movie review to someone on the street. But your cat talk made it seem, if you've never seen it before, that you would enjoy Solange, the cat in 9 Chickweed Lane.
I give you "annotated" Solange: http://www.cafepress.com/chickweed/2306

Date: 2006-04-21 12:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raiining.livejournal.com
Ahhh, I saw that book in Chapters the other day. Is it good? I'm in exams right now, so its a no-go for another month, but then I'm free as a spring mosquito and was thinking of picking it up.

That and Kushiel's Scion, which I'm waiting for with bated breath. But when does your third one come out???

Date: 2006-04-21 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raiining.livejournal.com
:: is caught starring at cover ::

OOoooooooo...

65 days! Hmmm ... so ... month and a half? So ... sometime in June as well. Perfect! Its going to be a book-happy summer! :: beams ::

Date: 2006-04-22 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quarkwiz.livejournal.com
Uh oh. This bodes ill for the Run/Walk. Are you still going to do it? I hope so, but not if it's going to result in knee surgery!

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