Life and Story Updates

[amberfocus]

My faithful beta JeopardyFriendly is sick.  Too sick to beta right now. :o{  Poor girl.  It sounds like she has what my kids have.  All kinds of nasties circulating in the county right now, so I'm not surprised.  If my kids were well, I'd go take her some soup.  She likes the egg flower soup from the same Chinese place I do.  Of course, she's in town so it'd be easier for her to get there than me anyway, even if she would have to take the transit down from the university, the busline goes right in front of the restaurant and it's on one of the go routes so there's a bus every fifteen minutes past it.  She's going into finals with this awful bug.  I feel so bad for her.  What a way to end your junior year.

Meanwhile, I've shipped my chapters over to my backup beta raspberrykitten2717, but she's a lot slower at getting stuff back to me because she has a much busier real life than Jep does.  She was hoping to have one done tonight, though.  We'll see.

Rose went to school today but called me at 2:00 to come and pick her up, so I'm going to just keep them both out through the end of the week.  The school talent show is tomorrow and neither one wants to miss it, but its not worth it to contaminate their classmates.  Although they picked it up from school, I'm sure.  Still, I don't want to be galivanting in this lovely rain halfway through the school day because they decided they can't make it through a whole day.  That'll give them the weekend at home and then maybe they can get through the last six days of school uninterupted.

Having them home is really interupting my writing time, so things will probably be slower on updates for that reason, too.  But I do have three finished chapters with raspberrykitten2717 so something will be coming.  And I'll be posting You Reap What You Sow regularly since it was beta'd the first time I posted it somewhere.

Comments

[nattieb.livejournal.com]

There really is something going around. I was down with it all last week and only am just staring to feel better.

I hope your kids are feeling well soon.

Oh and in regards to You Reap What You Sow, I started last night and had to jump over to Teaspoon and read the next few chapters. *loves that story*

[wiggiemomsi.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, so sorry to hear about the mass illnesses! Sounds very, very nasty.

*Sympathy & Hugs* ... and a little chocolate?

[amyo67.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the illnesses. I hope everyone feels better soon. I know what you mean about having everyone home. I sometimes have more trouble getting housework finished when I'd like during the summer because both kids are home and a lot of the time Brendan's nurse is here so it's harder to get things done around everyone.
Take care. **Hugs to the kids**

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

It's really bad around here. Just awful. The school has an absence rate right now of 60%!

You and your impatience! *giggles* I'm glad you enjoy the story enough to read it again. And again. And again. *laughs*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It is nasty. Hopefully it will pass soon.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Yeah, it's hard with people underfoot all the time. But mostly I just want them to get well.

[nonlinearmusing.livejournal.com]

I hope everyone gets to feeling better soon- beta included. ;) I know first-hand that there is no rest for mom when the kids are ill. Hang in there!

I have to ask: What exactly is egg flower soup? Is it like egg drop soup?

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Egg flower soup is the same thing as egg drop soup. The shape of the egg when you swirl it into the boiling broth looks like a flower. I think it's a regional thing whether it's called drop or flower.

[nonlinearmusing.livejournal.com]

Let's see you're in the Northwest, right? Hmm. I rather like the sound of egg flower soup. It sounds more dignified than egg drop soup. hahahaha

Thanks for the clarification.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'm about as North and as West as you can get and still be in the contiguous states and not be Canadian.

[nonlinearmusing.livejournal.com]

Ah. You're in beautiful territory! I've been in that region a few times during my travels. I loved every minute of it! The culture was most refreshing...

Funny how one area can be so vastly different from another. Yet, all be part of the same country.

[amyo67.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I understand that. I hope they all feel better soon. ANd I am sending you good wishes that you will not catch it again. Good thoughts to you and yours.