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[rolanni]

Okay, you lot can design my dream kitchen when I win the Big Prize. I don't know how I've gotten on without all those neat culinary toys. However, I have to ask -- what is this dining room y'all keep talking about?

After bookkeeping writing happened on the new! or at least rearranged! original story for the Yule chapbook. What a difference a viewpoint makes.

kinzel is at chess. A little while ago a large number of police cars and a fire engine went speeding past the house, sirens blaring, and lights flashing. This is not an everyday occurrence 'way out here in the boonies, and it (not to mention the ongoing updates about the massacre in Paradise -- a fourth little girl has died of her injuries) have me on edge. My nerves aren't helped by the fact that the cats keep jerking awake and staring around as if they heard a sudden, unusual sound. They are, of course, just messing with my head, like cats do. But I wish they'd cut me some slack tonight...

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[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Hm, well if you ever get the chance, read Katherine Neville's The Eight. In it is the description of my dream kitchen. Gas stove and ovens, Industrial refrigeration, wood-fired oven, big wood-burning fireplace, dining table and chairs to one side, sofas and fat chairs by the fireplace, French doors to the snow-filled garden, counters, cabinets, an island workspace with hanging cookware...this "dining room" is what people whose children are not covered with fur must have. If you make children eat at a dinner table four evenings a week, they tend to grow up to be decent citizens instead of criminals -- or so the researchers would have one believe.