Life is good.

Last night, I not only cleaned my room (I had some spare time while cooking), but I cooked dinner for Lara and her mom before her mom left town, and as an excuse for Lara to hang out a little longer while dropping of my music. We had to memorize the end of one of the sections in Handel's Messiah, which we are performing on Dec. 3.

Anyway, the food was a yeast-bread made with wheat flour and italian seasonings, green beans poached in white wine (a Riesling) and olive oil with seasonings, and potatoes boiled and chopped large with minced red onion, olive oil, and sesame seeds heated in white wine vinegar (both vegetable dishes were chilled and excellent), and sliced avacado and cheese, with the remainder of the Riesling. I highly recommend the potato dish. Seriously easy: boil potatoes, then peel and dice, pour over top of them olive oil, minced red onion, sesame seeds and heated white wine vinegar, a little salt and pepper, and diced chives; stir, chill, then serve.

I have hit a slight slowing in my writing momentum. I've written several more scenes, mapped out at least half of the first book, and know what's going to happen in terms of the major plot through the rest of the first book. It will be a trilogy eventually. The problem: it has been months, more than a year in some cases, since I wrote some of these scenes, and I don't remember them well. They are all in random places. I need to print them all out (some aren't on the computer yet) and put them in a folder, ordered, so I know which blanks to fill, and then I need to start from the beginning and tie them all together, as far as I can go.

I know what Lara means when she says that I have to keep her from writing her own book or she'll become far too addicted to it. Our dancing is going well, but one hopeful lead to a performance venue was frustrated because we have to be hired by the venue and not by the band (who love us). [sighs and laughs] In terms of teaching, we start teaching swing on thursdays, which will be interesting, since I'm well ahead of most of the people there, but Lara is very far ahead of me, and we'll need to figure out our lesson plans so we don't contradict each other, and I'll have to learn lindy before we get to it. She wants (eventually, probably starting next semester) to watch videos each night, learn a move or two from the video solidly, and then have fun dancing, which will be awesome. We just have to get there [laughs].

Back to work. I have choir tonight, so I've only got a couple hours to work. Fun fun.