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When Not Writing Is Hard

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There was the CUTEST Chihuahua puppy at school yesterday. I'm not really a dog person (sorry, Kelly and Marianne!), but it was just adorable. I love it when parents bring the dog with them to pick up their kids, because the kids get SO excited. I did have to smell his little puppy breath.
Yesterday was mostly better. Testing until 2:30 helped, though I'm achy today from being on my feet almost the whole time. More testing today, but they should be done in...

Series

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I woke up to a ROCKING review of Breaking Daylight! Will be happy dancing all day!
Man, yesterday ate my lunch. I never send kids to the office and I sent two, one because a parent complained about him bullying her child and the other because he told another student to F off. Le sigh. They were bounced back to me, though. Hopefully the VP will have time to see them today.
I had a dream that I had a new baby. I wonder what THAT means.
Okay, seems everyone I...

E-Readers and TV Shows

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That is such a CUTE kitty picture.
Last week my principal brought in the Kindle she'd bought for her dh for show and tell. She wasn't too familiar with it, so I played with it a bit. I was annoyed by the flash--the screen goes from beige to black when it's turning the page, but everyone I've heard some say they don't notice it. I accidentally turned on the wireless network and couldn't figure out how to turn it off, and I kept trying to touch the screen. I...

Goals for First Week of Writing Hiatus

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I'm already a little twitchy. What do regular people do?
It's actually quite an easy week--2 days of testing, half day of inservice. And I got new games so I've been bribing good behavior out of my kids with promises of the chance to play.

1) Judge GH entry
2) enter cover contest
3) buy paint for the bedroom
4) paperwork for Samhain
5) clean house

And because he's just adorable:

MADE IT!!!

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I'm on the MY BOOKSTORE AND MORE TOP TEN!!! I'M SO HAPPY!!!!

It's 19 degrees here. I think I lost all my plants, though they were covered. It's 60 degrees in the house---the heater can't keep up.I'm going to go make some hot chocolate and work in my bedroom.
Since, you know, I'm happy dancing anyway.
When it warms up a little, I'll hit the post office, though I bet there aren't many people there right now.

Taking Off

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I finished the edits to the bodyguard book this AM, will print it tonight and mail it tomorrow.
Then I'm going to take the rest of the month off. You heard me. No writing. No, I'm not done with the short story (which isn't so short, already 60 pages). No, I don't have anything submitted to Samhain right now. Yes, I still have revisions to do on the road trip story, and I have tons of ideas. But I've been writing almost constantly for....well, years, and I...

Texas Cold

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That looks just about right---only they don't usually leave that much space on the bed. No, I keep my door closed. No kitties when I'm sleeping.
The weatherman is predicting a serious arctic blast to hit South Texas tomorrow. They're saying Saturday morning the temp will be in the teens.
I can't remember the last time the temp in San Antonio was in the teens. See, our average high this time of year is around 60 and our average low is 40-something. Most of...

BREAKING DAYLIGHT OUT TODAY!!!!!

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It's out! And I'm all over the place promoting it.
I'm at Samhain blog with an interview with Alex, the hero.
I'm at the Samhellion with an interview with Isabella, the heroine.
I'm at Nine Naughty Novelists, doing....something.
I'm at Nikki Duncan's blog, doing something else.
Feels like I'm missing something.
Oh, and today's the last day of my Facebook contest! Go enter, comment, win!
You know what you can't do during release week? Write! I'm excited but also...

I'm Late, I'm Late!

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I snoozed the alarm three times after bad dreams and woke at 5 til 6:00! I'm usually getting dressed at 6! And I found out I'm blogging on Romance Bandits today instead of Saturday! Comes say hi! And don't forget about my Countdown to Breaking Daylight contest!
Do I know what I'm teaching today??? NOOOOO.

Goals for Week BREAKING DAYLIGHT RELEASES!!!!

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Today is my 23rd anniversary. I know. I can't believe it, either. So we're going to breakfast as usual, the grocery store, then this afternoon we'll head to Spaghetti Warehouse, then I'll come home and do some promo. Yeah, romantic. We're not really romantic people, oddly, but it works for us.

I didn't get nearly what I wanted done over the holidays. My son's gf said if you get half done you're doing good. I'll go with that.

1) Finish...