05 Jan 2009, Posted by Cat in News, 10 Comments. Tagged shopping, writing

knocking myself out

Rob and I went couch shopping yesterday. Yeah, so we *should* be fixing the guttering with that money we barely have, but where’s the fun in that? After spending hours literally on our arses, sitting down and getting up again all over Warrawong, we finally decided on a big fuckoff 3-seater plus chaise arrangement in chocolate brown leather. We don’t get it for a few weeks yet, but already I can barely stand the old one any more.

The saleswoman who sold it to us was good at her job. Not pushy, knew the answers to all our questions, etc. But she had the worst Christian name I have ever encountered. Nedeen. And no, it wasn’t  a foreign language name. Nedeen was her mother’s alternative interpretation of Nadine, so she told us as she was processing our purchase order. Man, if my parents had saddled me with a name like that, I’d have divorced them and left home long before my tenth birthday.

In other news, I have completed my novella for Couer de Lion and determined that one of my short stories in progress seems to be utterly lacking in the satisfactory ending department. Today I begin the final cosmetic overhaul of Sammarynda Deep, starting with its name. it is now just plain Sammarynda and its all going into first person.

wish me luck