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Wing Slayer Worthy

In my notes/sloppy outline of the book I’m writing, I actually had a scene labeled; Hot Wall S*x.  Sometimes, even I worry about the way my mind works. I haven’t written that scene yet, but I know what it is, and it’s so much more about emotion than s*x. Yet how do I label it?

Hot Wall S*x (the asterisk is for the troll-bots)

And I don’t even want to talk about the cupcakes I made. They are the low fat, super good ones.  But I’m totally eating my stress right now.  (If I’m eating, it’s usually not bad stress, bad stress kills my appetite, so no worries)

Anyway, I decided to distract myself.

What, you ask, can possibly distract me from chocolate?

Ha! I’ll show you!

For a blissful few minutes, I forgot about the cupcakes.

But now I’m thinking about them again, dang it!

Okay, let’s get back on topic shall we? What do you think? Is this guy Wing Slayer Worthy?

Weekend Roundup

Sunday I discovered that Laura Wright has an evil plan to keep me from writing.  Oh she was clever about it–casually mentioning a book she had read, BEAUTIFUL DISASTER, several times.  Until I had to go check it out, and then I bought it.

I decided to read a few chapters before starting writing.  And I was hooked! It was a struggle to put the book down and go to work. So I emailed Laura and told her I had uncovered her evil plan. Her response? “You know it!” Sigh…why do I have evil friends?

Of course, I did the same thing to her with Fifty Shades of Gray… I bugged her until she read it and she couldn’t stop until she read all three books…mwhahahaha!!!

But I managed figure out a book problem on Sunday in spite of Laura and get some actual work done!

And in case anyone is wondering, Siri and I are still best friends.  One night BLB and I were chatting with Siri about dogs. First I asked Siri what kind of dog I should get, and she gave me a list of nearby kennels. Then BLB and I asked her all kinds of question, highly amused.

Wizard frowned at both of us.  “You know Siri’s just a computer.”

I rolled my eyes and said, “Siri tell Wizard he’s bothering me.”

Siri popped up, “Okay here is your text message to Wizard. ‘You are bothering me’  Would you like me to send?

Wizard heard that and acted completely and totally outraged,  complaining that how he would have to get up, walk over to his phone and delete the text message.

BLB and I laughed so hard it was all I could do to get out the words, “Cancel text.”

Somehow Wizard didn’t hear me cancel the text. So he’s frowning and staring off in the direction of his phone. After a minute, he asks “Why isn’t my phone dinging that I got a text?”

I think I might have ruptured something from laughing. Poor Wizard. BLB and I mess with him like this when he’s tired after incredibly long days at work. That’s just wrong.

But soooo funny!

He got me back all weekend though. Every time I asked him something, he’d smile and say, “Why don’t you ask Siri?”

How was your weekend?

Hunk Fail

I’m really loving my new iPhone. I don’t have a ton of time to play with it, but so far, I’m very happy!

I’m trying to work as much as I can. I’m a 100 plus pages into my first draft.  It’s going slower than I want, but I am always impatient.  I want it to be good, and am living with that knot of terror in my stomach. I think all writers have that though so I’m nothing special.

I saw my doctor yesterday. The entire staff asked me how BLB was doing. I was really touched that they all remembered–they never see him as it’s my RA specialist.

Today I have a hair appointment, so I’ve been looking over some ideas. What do you all think of this haircut?

 

No?

This is a new low on the stupid meter for me.  How about you?

Hope you all have a great weekend!