Sommer Marsden's Blog, page 130

pros and cons of leaving the house like a 'normal' person

my lists i kept via my desktop sticky notes whilst writing 1500 words during a 1.5 hour span riddled with anxiety, ADD, trucker hats, cold spots and sniffling women (see blog below!).

I will do it again, no worries, but it seemed like a huge amount of rigamarole for 1500 words that I could have done here and done laundry and been WARM and had The People's Court on in the background.

However, occasionally I do miss working in an office with actual people around me. So beyond the rogue (and extremely stupid birds!) and the frigid temperatures and the sniffling...it was good and I will go back!

Because I am a masochist dontchaknow?

XOXO
Sommer
p.s. 'allowed' is totally supposed to be 'aloud' but my brain was frozen by then
p.p.s. can't read it? click it. it gets bigger! (yeah, yeah, buddy, i've been fooled by that one before...heh ;)~ )

My Big Day Out or What Happens When You Put A Writer-Recluse Person Out In The "Real" World For A Day:

And the day isn't even half over and here I am reporting!

I decided for some odd reason yesterday that I should change venue and write somewhere that is not here (home) today. So that is what I set out to do.

I would go to a new (undisclosed for my safety heh) location and write.

Hmm. Funny. I did not realize how much I have alienated myself these last five years—that's how long I've been a full-time writer—until I set out to um…leave the house.

Don't get me wrong. I got to my local library and the other local library and my mother's and the folks at the grocery store practically high five me when I walk in for god's sake, but here I was going somewhere I've been before (duh) but doing it with the intention to write.

First obstacle: my laptop does not fit in my laptop bag (I should say that the actual first obstacle was getting dressed. I was pole axed on what to wear to leave the house to sit in another location and type for a few hours). I tried and tried but my new laptop is too wide for my old laptop bag. No matter how much I mutter or try and convince it to fit. So I wrapped laptop in a scarf and put it in another tote bag (last year's b/d gift from the lovely AT)

Second obstacle: Have I gotten lost? It seemed to take forever to get here. I mean seriously. I had one blinding moment of panic where I was sure I had totally flaked on how to get where I was going. (I have done that FYI. Forgotten how to get somewhere that is about seven minutes from my home and I've been a bazillion times. You call it funny, I call it Alzheimer's)

Third obstacle: How did I get so many bags? Getting out of the car when I finally got here (after my round of ADD for the morning. Oh, a park! I should walk there! Oh, a corn field! Why have I never noticed that before? I should walk there…prolly not since it would be creepy and the farmer person who owns it will probably be mad). I had my laptop (tote)bag, my actual (book) tote bag, and my giant purse that could be a tote bag. Finally, I managed

Then…I got inside and there was a slot that said: Do not put hand in this slot. Man…I so wanted to put my hand in that slot. But I did not! And I got inside and I realized a class was going on (okay, yes, I am in an alternate library in case you have not figured that out yet) and I had to sneak back to the quiet section. It is marked QUIET SECTION.

There were two women in the quiet section (a super fancy QS if I do say so myself). They were putting away quiet things. There are quiet tables and quiet windows and it really is gorgeous (despite the woman over there who is sniffling too much and is sooooo not being quiet). So I say to one woman, "Is it okay if I work on my laptop in here?"

Which is the world's dumbest question, I know because she looked at me like I was on drugs and said "OF course"

So here I am! Working out of the house! Feeling a bit anxious about it. In the quiet room with the sniffly lady and who just walked in…oh! A man with glasses and a trucker's cap. Hello trucker cap man.

What have I written? This blog.

Stay tuned to find out if I actually…did anything. More later

XOXO
Sommer
p.s. hey look my wifi works! have had this new laptop for about two months and am just now testing it out. i feel like a space alien being able to connect to the interent with my fancy laptop at a remote location. beam me up, Scottie? Scotty? Beam me up, Spock!

I took a little...

trip back to Dirtyville and Kinkyville today! I found this traipsing around my old blog and love, love, love it. I wanted some of my new visitors to see it in case they hadn't. So, I'm posting it on my recently moved to brand new shiny blog...here!

The only diff is, if you are new to me and my stuff, at the end it would now read http://decemberink.blogspot.com/ as SGP is now gone poof. :D

Beyond that I managed to drag self to American Education Week day for girl child's school, boy is home because our neighborhood had a mini tornado last night (oh no, Toto!) and the high school has no power so they sent students home. Yes, he is devastated. Hahaha! ha! It's funny because it's not true. Let's see, also, I sat down to watch a show for research for the paranormal I am neck deep in writing right now and fell asleep and then made GF chocolate cherry mini loaves to test out in case I want to give them for Xmas (when I woke up, obviously. I did not bake whilst asleep. Though that would be super cool and a huge time saver).

As a bizarre aside; You really see that you are an odd recluse type person--if you work for yourself--when you attend school events. Other parents are coming in all gussied up from work or heading out to work or whatnot. They have their phones clipped to their belts or purse straps. They're wearing suits and ties and heels and all that jazz. Me? I'm all "What day is it, anyway?"

(o_O)
XOXO
Sommer

Later... Author's Note: Man, this is the blog of run on sentences--I don't know why--it's like my sentences will not die, I say unto thee, and now I am just doing it to fuck with you...or maybe because I had too much of that mini chocolate cherry loaf thingamabob...

would you like whipped cream with that?

and I got four cherries from Ambrosia over at Whipped Cream Erotic Romance Reviews for Man In The Middle . Woo and also hoo. Thanks to her for taking the time to read and review (and like!) my little novella. :)

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go will myself not to be getting this cold I feel like I'm getting. But I'm not getting it because I'm refusing to um...get it.

XOXO
Sommer
p.s. My mother-in-law bought me a fancy little heater that looks like fireplace and the man is reading the directions aloud (for whatever reason). First line in the book: Warning, this heater is hot...
p.p.s. I love how I started this blog with 'and' as if it continues on from the title. Which I often do. I start a thought or a sentence in the title and finish it first line in. But see, I did not do that this time, but wrote it as if I had. Hmm. I blame this cold I am so totally NOT getting.

the sofa

lulled me yesterday. I sort of had a slow motion day and the migraine waxed and waned and basically refused to simply vacate the premises all together. But I had good company. Mmm. Mitchell, George and Annie. And I got in SUPER BIG trouble with girl child when she got home from school because we had been watching season 1 of BBC's Being Human together. So then she and boy child had to hurry up and have a three episode marathon last night so we can all start season two today...*cough* stupid migraine. Making me watch ahead. I had nothing else to watch...I swear (((Supernatural seasons 1,2,3,4; Monk seasons 1,2,3,4,5; Psych season 1, Buffy season 1,2,; CSI; Burn Notice; and about 800 active TV channels. But beyond that...nothing)))

I did still manage about 2K on the current book between pain bouts. And today I feel sort of...hollow. If that makes any sense. But feeling much, much better, thanks to those of you who sent well-wishes. You rock!

XOXO
Sommer
p.s. Just in case anyone from the BBC is reading, I would not be against doing a guest spot as a woman woefully caught in a love triangle with Mitchell and George. Just saying...

sorry

today due to migraine. Went to bed early with it last night...joy, oh joy, it was still around when I woke up. So I'm bugging out for the day. It's wiped me out. You know, I used to live with these on a super regular basis. Several a week from the ages of 5-30. Now...I have no fucking clue how I did that.

XOXOSommer

oh. my. god...

such a fierce cover. Thanks to Willsin Rowe my new December Ink release Justine (previously published 'back in the day' at Ruthie's Club) has a smoking hot cover. And it's out today at ARe, Bookstrand, etc, etc, etc...

And speaking of covers, this is my ham-handed segue into the fact that I've blogged on that very topic over at The Self Publishing Revolution. It's the 13th of the month, which means I'm over there running my mouth. Heh.

XOXO
Sommer

It's gonna be a hot, hot winter...

Cause...I am the lucky super duper awesomely lucky winner of both of these sexy books! Both new titles from Xcite. Justine Elyot is a writer I lurve and K D Grace is new to me so I'm super excited.

I plan to keep cozy this winter with some steamy smut. Yay. Me.
How am I winning these you ask? Go to Erotica For All and click Competitions and keep current with the giveaways.

You could keep warm too.

XOXO
Sommer

things that make me smile...

Seeing a seventy-plus year-old man raking and bagging leaves in a Buffy tee shirt. I was out walking his fatness and when I spotted it I was all...Is that Buffy? And then he turned around and I saw: Into each generation, a slayer is born...on his back.

Rock on, Mr. Leaf Man. Heh.XOXOSommer

things that bug me...

Dentists recommend we drink everything (including coffee and wine) through straws to avoid staining our teeth. It will help keep them white, they say!

Dermatologists say never drink through straws as then you get those old lady wrinkles around your lips and you look like you've taken your dentures out (though you don't have dentures and could not possibly take out all your natural teeth).

So...I can have wrinkly old lady mouth or jacked up teeth...choose now! (O_O)

XOXO
Sommer