Plans are coming together

I'm still waiting on confirmation of a few not-so-minor details like where I'm going to stay, but it looks like I'll be heading back to Pgh in about two and a half weeks. I'll tell my boss that my last day at the preschool will be Friday, May 12. I can get a pretty cheap flight out of Boston on the 14, so lyda_pearl and I will drive down on Saturday, spend the day doing Bostony things and then she'll take me to the airport on Sunday and I'll be on my way.

Much as I'm looking forward to going home, it will be hard to say goodbye to my sister. She has been amazingly supportive in any number of ways this past year and I think I would probably have gone insane without her.

Okay, now I'm going to go off and write *gasp* hobbit-fic. I really have to get to get Luster finished before I lose all interest in it (I've been a bad fic!mom and have pretty much abandoned my poor little baby fic). Finding any level of concentration is going to be difficult because they started a way cool 'sex, drugs and rock & roll' challenge at sga_flashfic and I want to go read everything, Right Now. But Pippin has been lingering in the hurt part of h/c for months now and really, we need to get that lad some comfort. *pets Pippin and promises to make him all better*

Edit: Poor Pippin is still sadly lingering (I am working on him though, promise), but the travel plans have been cemented! I made my purchase and I'm all set to go. Yay! Okay, now that old 'fear of flying' thing kicks in; my chest already feels tight. Yippee.

fic update: Luster of Snow

I've decided that in order to move Luster along, I need to just post a little bit each day. So, this is only a little snippet really, and unbetaed, but it's better than nothing, I hope. There's actually not a lot of Pippin in this segment, other events taking center stage.

Chapters 1-5

( The Luster of Snow, chapter 6a )