How do I keep from going months without posting?

Wait, I know, find more time in the day! hahahahaahahaaa… oh, wow, that was a knee slapper, wasn’t it?

I’ve been well, these past few months. Overtired, overbusy, overworked — but well. Knitting somewhat took a summer holiday, although it’s picked back up now-a-bouts, and if the sun comes out today, I will see if I can take everything outside and give you some works in progress to ogle, but I promise nothing.

Last night, we had my brother and his new girlfriend over for dinner — we like her much better than the last girlfriend — and dinner was a huge success. I haven’t cooked tofu since I tried to be a vegetarian in high school, and it always came out slimy and bland. An online recipe suggested frying the tofu BEFORE you do anything else to it, and then marinating it, and that came out very well. I also roasted some potatoes and zucchini with olive oil, which would be uneventful, except the potatoes were the VERY SAME POTATOES that I had grown THIS VERY SAME YEAR. None of them were as big as my hand, even, but oh my goodness they were good. I never knew that potatoes were a different (whiter) color when you took them straight out of the ground, instead of buying them at the store.

And then, Natalie and Chris had been asked to bring over ice cream to go with brownies; they brought all the fixings for sundaes that a girl could want. Delish.

Other news is that I finally got my courage together and mailed off some query letters to agents. (!!!) So far, most of them came back within 24 hours with a thanks-but-no-thanks, but the most recent agent has had it for three of the four weeks that they state is their response time. Of course, I’ve turned the peak of the mountain, and instead of being convinced that they are interested, I’m convinced that they’ve lost it; the official “four weeks” will pass this Wednesday, and if I haven’t heard back, I will send a polite check-in email on Monday. But I’m just excited to be trying to start this process, this business of becoming more “professional.”

Robb starts school at the end of the month; Lucy is talking in three and four word sentences. It’s crazy around here, I tell ya.