M.J. Fredrick's Blog, page 96

Snowballing

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Friday I got the edits on my short story. Yesterday I got the galleys for DLB AND the four Merritt entries I agreed to judge even though I'm no longer in SARA, entries that are due BEFORE Spring Break, dang it.
A teacher came up at school yesterday and said she wanted us to vote on the new reading textbooks by today. I just found out about them on Monday! We have a meeting after school today and another meeting to prepare for during planning time on Friday, and...

Doctor, iPhone, Shake weight, Revisions and SmartPop

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Yesterday I left my inservice to go to the Med Clinic down the road from school. I've had a sore throat for a week, and started coughing Sunday so bad I couldn't sleep. I felt out of sorts but wasn't sure if it was the medicine or if I was getting pneumoniaagain. So I went. Turns out it's a virus, and I got some cough medicine. My chest is tight, though the doctor said my lungs sounded good.
While I was waiting, I was so happy to have my iPhone. I read a TON...

Finito

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I finished the short story I was working on. Now I'm working on two sets of edits, and both heroes are based on Jared. One story's only 80 pages, so I should be able to start a new short story by the end of the week. Go, me!
Inservice today. I don't mind, but it's supposed to be gorgeous out. I wonder if we can take it outside to the park!

Goals for the Week of Valentine's Day

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Happy Valentine's Day!
The dh and I went to dinner last night, then shopping at Best Buy last night...oh, how I would love one of those plasma TVs. We saw one, a HUGE one, for $900, which was pretty good. Still, we resisted. There are things we need more, like a washer and dryer and a new computer. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get a Dell netbook until I can afford a new MacBook. My little pink baby keeps freezing.
This week is a lot of school stuff. Yay.
1) finish...

Yes, Yes, ANOTHER Workshop

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I was listening to the Avatar soundtrack yesterday and this AM but I can't hear it unless it's cranked to like 50 (I love my Scion, she's almost paid off, but she doesn't mask road noise and she eats CDs, so I have to load stuff on my iPod, and well, it's not too loud.) So I said forget it and went back to the workshops. The one today was "You Get Me Where I Live: Why Your Manuscript's Missing Your Reader." I wasn't sure what it was about at first, the...

Casting

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The news from Variety is that Katherine Heigl (Izzy from Grey's Anatomy) is attached to the Stephanie Plum series. I like Katherine, but as Stephanie Plum, the ultimate Jersey girl? No. No no no no no. Now, I'm not sure who I see....a brunette, with big hair and a nasal voice, I guess. I listened to some of the books on tape and the woman who's Castle's agent was the narrator. She was awesome. A bit old for the role now, I guess. I can't actually think of a...

More Workshops

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Okay, this was me last night :) DH brought home BIG burgers, though, and I'm not used to eating big burgers anymore. (I get the junior size.)
I listened to a workshop yesterday on how to create a web presence in an hour, and ended up playing with Wordpress most of the evening because supposedly you can have static pages with the same look as your blog. I never could figure out how to link the two, and I would hate to give up all the fun widgets on Blogger...

One Lovely Blog

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That was me yesterday. No sleep, sore throat, earache, no fun.

Natalie nominated me for this weeks ago and I've been too scattered to address it. Thanks, Natalie!

Okay, ten things about me you may not already know.

1) I waffle. I can never make a straight decision. Everything has to be weighed and measured, and even then I second-guess myself. For heaven's sake, I still have $20 from the Amazon gift card I won last month. Can't decide how to spend ...

The Urge to Write

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I love the show Mercy. I came to it late, but caught up some when Oxygen had a marathon. I love the relationships and the humor and the will-they-won't-they. And it makes me itch to write. I don't write medical dramas, I rarely write straight relationship stuff--there's always a gun or bomb or bad guy--but watching this show makes me want to write.
Grey's used to do that for me, and the movie The Divine Secerts of the YaYa Sisterhood, every time. I don't...

Goals for the Week Before Valentine's Day

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Not too bad this week, I don't think.

1) 70 pages revised on Road Signs

2) Finish short story

3) Get treats for kids for V-Day. It's a big deal at school, which I just don't understand.

4) Big grocery trip

5) Get stuff together for taxes. Decided to pay someone to do it this year, thanks to MIL's house and the boy's college. Also the crying last year.

6) Progress reports

7) Exercise

8) Keep up house

Oh, and I recast the hero...