Groan...

Relena's back.

Using a different name, but she's still Relena. I've called her on it in an email and Hobbeth called her on it on the boards. Like she could hide herself. Same place of origin, same writing style, same obsession with Virgil and with anime (Gundam SEED in particular). She has admitted it on the boards, and she knows that if she steps out of line again, next time she will be banned.

Mari's back.

But not in my backyard, fortunately. She went all pitbull on Bluegrass, accusing her of stealing Miz Sam's rescue and rewriting it in her fic, Road To Recovery. But, to my delight, Mari got stomped on. Royally. In public. Makes me regret that I didn't send that reply to her nasty letter so long ago. Still, as far as I'm concerned, my ignoring the letter and not fanning the flames was the better way to go.

And "Lucie's" back.

But so far she hasn't stolen any fics. It's really laughable, most all of the members on her new MSN site (yeah, she's on MSN again) are there for the purpose of keeping an eye on her. She's taken some pictures from various places and is trying to funnel them through Caterina, who seems to be refusing to do it. She has warned that she's going to put some of her own "fics" up; we'll see what happens there. And she admits to taking the canon character biographies from the Carlton site (which is laughable because her site is supposed to be about the 2004 movie...)

School has two more half days to go. The boys were a bit disappointed on the Gatti-Town trip; turns out than anyone who was on the Principal's Honor Roll at least once during the year went. I've emailed the principal about that. The Girl will probably get her new bicycle on Wednesday. The boys did get trophies on Monday evening for their hard work, and Boy #1 got an award for academic excellence from President Bush (The Girl had received the same award in 6th grade).

Masquerade 14 and The White Winds 2 are up, and I've gotten a good start on the subsequent chapters. People are surprised that I'm writing a movie-oriented fic; I'm a bit surprised myself.

Well, dinner's almost ready and I need to skedaddle.

Good news from the retinal specialist

Boy #2's retinal scarring is gone! He's been released from the retinal specialist and I couldn't be happier! Now if we could just figure out what's going on with The Girl, and if this stupid hole in my foot would heal.... I go to see the vascular surgeon again on Tuesday.

More work done on Masquerade and The White Winds. I hope to have chapter three of the latter done tomorrow. But I've also got a lot of betareading to do; for andrewjameswilliams and for purupuss, whose our author of the month for June at Classic Thunderbirds Showcase.

The Girl is at her cousin's for the weekend. We'll be celebrating the Niece's birthday sometime this weekend, possibly Monday seeing as it's a holiday. Had the Hubby out trimming back the maple in the front yard. Ever since the utility people came through and cut off a lot of the top, the lower branches have been growing wild and obscuring the view down the street, not to mention creating a curtain of low hanging branches that brush against the top of the van when I pull into the drive. So now things are cut back on the lower end and I can see down the street when I back out. Much safer.