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Used Up My Blogging Time Budget Here

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Wow, yesterday was a long day keeping kids quiet. Another day like that today, but we wised up and are giving the kids a practice reading test while 5th grade takes the real one. Ours is in 3 weeks.
I struggled for word count yesterday, barely made it before the end of LOST, so no time for a thoughtful post here. I did spend a good chunk of Monday working on the Supernatural blog, though! Go, enjoy!

Facebook

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I joined Facebook last summer with my pen name, thinking, you know, promotion. I never expected the level of involvement I'd have with it.

My California family is on. I haven't been in contact with them in years, and now I'm trading weekly (if not daily) updates with my cousin and aunt. The cousin who came to visit last week had just joined Facebook, too, so now we connect.

My mom is on. Yes, she lives 7 minutes away, but we still send each...

A New Series

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I am very intrigued by this new series for The Wild Rose Press. I have an idea, now to find time to write it! I have a plan for now until June, including finishing this romantic suspense, revising vampire hunters and a sweet romance I wrote about 10 years ago, writing a novella for TWRP and one other novella. I'm very excited! Only about a third of the way through the RS, though.
The following is a new series we're kicking off for LROS. There is a yahoo loop...

Post 1800--Goals for the week of Easter

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We can wear jeans all week because 5th grade is taking the TAKS. Yay!

1) celebrate Easter

2) make skirt

3) cut out dress

4) work on RS

5) pull out my vampire hunter book and start revising. Again.

6) Dinner with middle school friends (?) We reconnected on Facebook and I would love to see them again.

7) Tutoring (6 more days this year!!)

8) Exercise

9) Keep up house (I did pretty well with both of those last...

Rant Ahead

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We just got back from the movies and holy cow, there were a lot of people. Every seat was full. I enjoyed the movie (duh) BUT...
WHY DON'T PEOPLE SHUT UP? OMG!!! There were three teens behind the dh who Never. Stopped. Talking. I gave them my bestteacher glares but none of it worked. I wanted to say something but didn't think the dh would appreciate me getting him in a fight.
Then the family beside me. A mother, two kids and an older woman (grandma, maybe?...

Fathers and Sons Again

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I got all my goals met by 6 PM last night! Awesome. I had a moment of panic when I thought I lost my 850 words on Write or Die but I found them. Whew. I think I had so much energy because it was a gorgeous day and Problem Child gave me a bit of a break.

This weekend my favorite subject was brought to the forefront again—the relationship between fathers and sons. Several things made me think about it—my cousin Greg and his son, the movie The Proposal...

Books and Movies

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I bought...I think 8 novellas this weekend and read 3 1/2 of them. 4 were Harlequin Undones and 4 were Samhain books. I also bought a Julie James book, I think. Really, I need to stay off the internet where I'm bombarded with books, say, "Oh, that sounds good," and then I go buy them.
I have decided urban fantasy isn't for me. I started reading Julie Kenner's first UF and just didn't get into it. Glad I didn't buy the whole series.
I'm also not a huge paranormal...

Goals for Week of CLASH OF THE TITANS (I mean, EASTER!)

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1) Go see Clash of the Titans

2) Big grocery trip

3) Work a bit at MIL's house

4) Work on edits on short story

5) Submit other short story

6) Work on romantic suspense

7) Testing

8) Faculty meeting

9) Self-evaluation form for work

10) Exercise

11) Keep up house (didn't do either of these too well last week)

Writing Kids

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Writing kids has never been something I wanted to do, probably because I'm a teacher, and dang, I want to have some away time. I definitely never wanted to write teen-agers. I mean, they're moody and make bad decisions and, well, you know. It's hard to focus on romance when you have to worry about kids.

Except…I'm watching Parenthood. I love love love Peter Krause and Monica Potter's characters. Their relationship is so real and solid as they...

Friday, eBooks and Exhaustion

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I don't actually have writer's block. In fact, during today's very stressful hours, I was wishing to write, just to escape for that little bit. Of course right now I'm too tired. I even took an Ambien last night and STILL managed to wake up for an hour and a half around 3. Problem Child is completely kicking my butt. I recalled today that I had a child like him my first year at this school, with such hatred that I couldn't reach around her, and I absolutely...