29 July 2002

This chicken pitcher is only about four inches tall. If it were actually going to be used, I'd use it for coffee cream, not milk. But I don't use it. It sits in my shadowbox along with all the other peculiar trinkets I've collected over the years.

It's ugly. I'm aware of that. My mom gave it to me as a joke. She has a full-sized chicken pitcher that she bought in Italy at a roadside stand more than ten years ago. It's hideous. Overdecorated in brilliant shades of yellow and orange and red and green, it can't decide whether it wants to be a pitcher or a planter.

She loves the damn thing.

My brother and I used to tease her about it by arguing about who would have to inherit it, someday.

But then John's wife decided she actually liked it. So Mom - to "console" me for my loss, you see - got me this little pitcher.

I am the queen of leftovers.

Thursday night, we had Chinese for dinner - I ate about one bowl of my mu shu and then put the rest in the fridge to eat later.

Friday night, Rachel came to town and we all went out to Olive Garden for dinner. I got a lovely dish of sausage and chicken on skewers, ate about half of it, and brought the rest home to eat later.

Saturday we had a late lunch at Don Pablo's, where not only could I only eat half my lunch, but I only ate half my dessert, too - two boxes!

Sunday at lunch, I cleared out the Chinese food and the dessert from Don Pablo's, but then we went to my parents' for dinner, and I came home with half a steak that I hadn't eaten at dinner...

The queen, I tell you!

In case you missed it in the blogs, KT's and my accumulated wordage for our novel is up over 100,000 words. Well over, in fact. This weekend we passed the 115,000 mark. It might turn into two novels. And perhaps a prequel, but we haven't counted the words on the bits of the prequel that are already written.

Matt and Braz were teasing us at lunch Saturday that we were threatening to turn into Robert Jordan, with his ever-expanding Wheel of Time series.

At least our novel(s) are all self-contained stories.

--Liz