Happy Fourth! Hope everyone else has found fun things to do today, uhm... I'm collecting recipes just now, and have both a story and a drawing that've been in my head since last night I might delve in to. Tom is on his computer, having a blast playing dodgeball in Guild Wars. *giggles* (There's an in-game festival that's been going on the past few days, today seems to be the main day of it.)

Chautauqua County Fair is coming up in a few weeks, and we're like a five-minute bikeride from the fair grounds. I wanna go. *bounces* $9 to get in - and that includes ALL rides. *bounces more!* $6 for advance tickets, only I need to convince Tom that this is going to be worth going to. (I miss the Wyoming County Fair, so much...) Anyone wanna come down and go with us?

Anyone wanna come down and visit in general? *giggles* It's so quiet around here. Tom's leaning toward quitting the factory (though he hasn't quite decided...it's not good for him to be working there, but he worries a lot about money), I if not both of us will be spending this week nosing around possible jobs again. I-- well, I *was* losing motivation for artwork and all, but then I read Orson Scott Card's "Songmaster".

"Songmaster", by Orson Scott Card.

Most of you who read this are music people. You need to read this book. It's amazing. I started in day before yesterday, and read more than half of it in a night, finished it last night... and it's one of those books that stays with you awhile, though I wasn't quite ready to sleep, I didn't get anything else to read, I just let the images from it linger awhile... So, so beautiful and powerful and emotional and bittersweet and---
It's really, really amazing.

Read "Ender's Game", too. (Tom's currently re-reading it for probably the tenth time. I'd re-read it after him, but it's stayed in my mind so strongly after a year that I don't need to re-read it yet.)

In other random amusements: Rube Goldberg Ramen. XD