Back from the little jaunt.

It was a nice trip. My mother made enough food to feed approximately 34,732,351,754 people, so I am, actually, munching on leftovers as I type. Friday she made pigs-in-a-blanket and city chicken, and they were both quite tasty. Today for brunch we had lovely brunch items.

I stayed at the B&B in town, and it was absolutely lovely, except the teeny bathroom. The owner cooked two fabulous breakfasts and I loved them both quite a lot. Broiled peaches with granola and yogurt, and banana & pecan multi-grain pancakes...absolutely delightful.

My dad drove us all around for hours on Saturday. We ended up at a bookstore, and I (of course) had to spend half of the thirty minutes looking at unauthorized HP guides. (I'd never buy them; they seem to be a waste to me.) I also looked through a Photoshop magazine and was astonished at the wizardry within. They showed a picture of a model and took it step by step into a model with perfect skin, eye makeup, dress re-touching, and a completely different background. I mean, I understand that a lot of our ads and movies nowadays are altered, but still, it really drove it home.

We stopped at a little restaurant for lunch and they had a dry-erase board with specials on it. I am so internet obsessed that I thought one food item was listed as jalapeño.com when it actually was jalapeño, corn. I need to get out of the house more.

I remembered a really, really, really important plot point at some time in the last five days. So important that I was quite dismayed to see that I had left it out of the last chapter. Did I mention it was important? Ugh. So I spent about a half hour thinking how exactly I could fit it in and I came up with two mature, realistic options: squeeze it in, re-upload the chapters, and point everyone back to it at the next chapter; or just include it in the next chapter as part of a dream sequence. Great, right?

I've forgotten what the %*#&@^&* plot point was!!!

I've now wasted hours today trying to recall what it was. And I was all set to write the next chapter. (Somebody left me a review that said "OH MY GOD YOU BITCH" because I left it at such a cliffhanger! w00t!) I am just going to barge ahead wildly and hope that I recall it at some point.

Happy Birthday todayiamadaisy! I know I'm late, sorry. But happy to you anyway!

Snape Dogma 05

While I was driving I had this thought about Snapefic.

Dogma 95 was a set of rules meant to revitalize artistic filmmaking. There were several rules, including using only natural light sources, no filters, no music unless it naturally occurred during filming, hand-held cameras, etc. (About Dogma 95 and Rules of Dogma 95)

I was thinking, wouldn't it be fun to have a set of rules like that for writing Snapefic? You know, post a set of "Vows" and promise to uphold them.

So of course my Snape-obsessed brain would not leave the idea alone and all weekend I kept thinking of vows.

( Snape Dogma 05 )

Disclaimer: I'm certain that I can't be the first person to have thought of this; I just thought it would be fun.

Even More Important Disclaimer: And yes, I realize that meaningful, moving, and funny Snape!fics can be and have been written, absolutely, disregarding all of these Vows at once. These are just my Vows...disregard them as you wish!

Vows of your own? Comment and share.