Looking into service dog breeds for The Kid. To my surprise, poodles seem a decent choice: smart, relatively long-lived, surprisingly easy to keep clean.
\nNone of this will please the cats.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/11/10/i-have-to.html","date_published":"2022-11-10T17:45:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-10 17:45","date_timestamp":1668102345,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13768463","content_html":"I like this stage of drafting, when everything is new and perfection still seems possible. I let my characters meander a little, and they tell me about themselves, and we work together to build the shape of the narrative.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lizmonster/13740737","date_published":"2022-11-06T22:29:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-06 22:29","date_timestamp":1667773766,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"13725845","content_html":"My kid went to the Boston Museum of Science yesterday, and reports it’s pretty much all aimed at little kids now. If true, this is a shame - I spent many wonderful hours at the MoS, at all stages of my life. There was something fundamentally soothing about it. I don’t think I ever relax... lizmonster.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/11/06/my-kid-went.html","date_published":"2022-11-06T15:02:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-06 15:02","date_timestamp":1667746921,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13698394","content_html":"Also spent time blurting out the Big Amorphous Blob of a plot I have right now. :) But I know some of the big emotional beats, and I know the ending. The rest is just getting it down.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/11/05/also-spent-time.html","date_published":"2022-11-05T17:33:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-05 17:33","date_timestamp":1667669588,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13698326","content_html":"Long convo with Spouse over lunch about what I want for my next book. (Not that one, the one I was supposed to have finished by now. The other one. The new one that I’m trying to write while revising the supposed-to-have-finished one.)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/11/05/long-convo-with.html","date_published":"2022-11-05T17:29:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-05 17:29","date_timestamp":1667669368,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13694272","content_html":"@mattgemmell I am just beginning to get a sense of marketing. There’s so much to keep track of. It’s also weirdly…fun? But don’t tell anyone I said so. :)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lizmonster/13694272","date_published":"2022-11-05T14:22:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-05 14:22","date_timestamp":1667658170,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"13694137","content_html":"Drawing: lizmonster.micro.blog
","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/11/05/drawing.html","date_published":"2022-11-05T14:21:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-05 14:21","date_timestamp":1667658106,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13694097","content_html":"Been gone from here for a while, so I offer you a ProCreate drawing of a cat (from a photograph):
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Flizmonster.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2022%2Ff11d310ba8.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/11/05/been-gone-from.html","date_published":"2022-11-05T14:19:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-05 14:19","date_timestamp":1667657961,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13693575","content_html":"@mattgemmell This resonates more than it should :)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lizmonster/13693575","date_published":"2022-11-05T13:57:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-11-05 13:57","date_timestamp":1667656640,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"12867937","content_html":"Every other living creature in my house is asleep.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/05/12/every-other-living.html","date_published":"2022-05-12T23:15:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-05-12 23:15","date_timestamp":1652397323,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12839357","content_html":"This afternoon I made a cheesecake and a loaf of bread at the same time.\nI’ve realize the main thing that keeps me off shows like Bake-Off - apart from talent, skill, and desire - is endurance. Ow, my back.\nCheesecake smells nice though.\n(I don’t know how to tag anything here, but: cook... lizmonster.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/05/07/this-afternoon-i.html","date_published":"2022-05-07T20:40:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-05-07 20:40","date_timestamp":1651956050,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12827490","content_html":"I just realized my kid’s HS graduation is two weeks after her 18th birthday, and as the world’s worst gift giver I am now incredibly stressed.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/05/05/i-just-realized.html","date_published":"2022-05-05T17:34:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-05-05 17:34","date_timestamp":1651772079,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12812832","content_html":"The world is a Thing, and yet there are practicalities that need to be dealt with that don’t go away in the flood of existential angst.
\nAlso one of my cats is staring at me and I don’t know why.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/05/03/the-world-is.html","date_published":"2022-05-03T14:35:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-05-03 14:35","date_timestamp":1651588552,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12812025","content_html":"Still working out discoverability in this place.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/05/03/still-working-out.html","date_published":"2022-05-03T11:49:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-05-03 11:49","date_timestamp":1651578547,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12806727","content_html":"@lizmonster It’s good to have a lot of words, it’s true! This beats being blocked. But if I think about how much work I have to do it gets paralyzing.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lizmonster/12806727","date_published":"2022-05-02T17:05:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-05-02 17:05","date_timestamp":1651511117,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"12806681","content_html":"Okay this revision is now 7,000 words longer than it was when I started.
\nPretty sure that’s not how this is supposed to work.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/05/02/okay-this-revision.html","date_published":"2022-05-02T16:56:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-05-02 16:56","date_timestamp":1651510618,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12792400","content_html":"It’s always fun learning new things and my presence here has nothing at all to do with procrastinating on my revisions.
\nReally.
\nHonest.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/2022/04/30/its-always-fun.html","date_published":"2022-04-30T14:40:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Elizabeth Bonesteel","url":"https://lizmonster.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F116017.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lizmonster"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-04-30 14:40","date_timestamp":1651329606,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}