Do ant bait traps work? I’ve discovered that ants have been getting into my kitchen via a very small tear in the weather-stripping on the back door. I hate ants. Sure, they’re harmless. But they’re all buggy and twitchy and make me feel itchy and seeing one crawl across the kitchen counter makes me jump about ten feet. I bought some ant bait thingies, but I’m skeptical on whether they’ll actually work. We’ll see I guess. I fixed the weather-stripping hole so maybe they won’t be able to get in now and the traps will kill the ones who did make it. We rarely use the backdoor, so I never even realized the hole was there.

The weather’s been nice – a break from the storms – and I went for a walk yesterday with the cam. Didn’t take any stunning pics or anything, but just knowing that I *could* take a stunning pic while on a walk makes me happy 🙂 Shan’s had the car this weekend while she worked, so I’ve been stuck at home. I did not make any progress on CherryPop, but I’m okay with that for now. I’m not feeling the guilt just now. Some ideas are percolating in the noggin and I’m pretty sure at some point I’ll just have an uncontrollable, overwhelming urge to spew out volumes on the story. I’m looking forward to that.

I do have a new project for the summer that I’m very excited about. I hope it’s okay to mention it – not sure if it’s a big secret or anything. The Buffy Between the Lines folks, as I’ve mentioned before, have grand plans to produce Angel Between the Lines as well as Firefly Between the Lines. Apparently, planning has been underway on Angel for a fair bit now, but unfortunately (but fortunately for me) one of the writers had to drop out. So I jumped at the chance to write for ABtL when the email went out asking if anyone was interested. I will get to co-write the first episode 🙂

First drafts are due on September 1st, so I actually have a deadline to work towards. The Fabz Tabz (“The Joss” of this whole Between the Lines phenomenon) gave my writing partner and me a great outline to work with and I think this will be a very good learning experience. Seeing the outline and spending the past few days making notes and working within the confines of the storyline someone else made up is going to be a lot of fun. My writing partner had great notes herself and I think she’s going to be a lot of fun to work with. I just can’t express enough how exciting this is to me 🙂

And it just may stimulate the whole CherryPop storyline too, or at least give me new ways to work on it.

I think I had more to write about but I’m trying to fight on oncoming migraine so I’m not very focusy. Might go for another walk and see if the fresh air helps.