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¡abuelita!

today the car is still covered in a force field of ice. the icicles are growing long and sharp from the eaves of the porch. i am trying very, very hard to write. after over four hours, i'm up to 236 words. the intro to the intro of the book i am writing. progress.

meanwhile, austin is still a mess of accidents on icy roads, and we ran out of paper towels and toilet paper.
i forgot to stock up the other day. my mind was on the wine.

naturally, we ran out of papertowels five minutes before lucy decided to pee a great puddle on the floor. poor girl, she hates wet things. so much so that she refuses to do her business on wet muddy ground. hence the accident. everyone knows that i have a long history with peeing outside, and i can honestly say that i could never create as huge a pee puddle as lucy. seriously. and i had to clean it up with a bath towel.

not an hour later, moe vomited about three years worth of half digested food. i cleaned that bitch up with a plastic bag.

luckily the pet mishaps happened in front of friends: vee and brockett and melissa all braved the roads in flannel jammies to play cards with us.

so back to my story. helen, the cabin-feverish, decided to walk (with moe) to the city market this afternoon. being an ethnically diverse store, helen was able to score this:

good old fashioned mexican hot chocolate that you stir on the stove. yum!

it's six o'clock. now that i've downed 2 mugs of abuelita (with the same smug look on my face as la abuelita), i am shooting for another five words or so in the next hour. back to work!

Posted by bananie at January 17, 2007 5:54 PM | TrackBack