Lyda Morehouse's Blog, page 102

As they say in Wisconsin: Yippie-Skippy!

Though today I mean "yippie-skippy" in its less ironic/sarcastic form, because last night at 9:00 pm, I finished the rough draft of RESURRECTION CODE.

As usual when I write "THE END" I'm nowhere really near being done-done. There's still some actual writing to do. I have to fill-in all the [find another example?:]s and [restaurant name:]s, etc. I also have to do whatever revisions my readers suggest, as well as write the news articles that appear between chapters. BUT, I finished a few day...

Updatery

Mason and I had a crap day on Friday. Well, mostly Mason, though I was mostly responsible for making his day such a bummer. First, we had scheduled his second H1n1 shot for 3:30 pm, so I had to come get him a little early. Turns out, coming early meant Mason had to miss out on "Friday Fun" (which is usually BINGO,) but Friday was SLEDDING... which they've never done before. He was a trouper and held back tears, but I felt really badly that he had to go get a shot instead of sledding with ...

Post-caucus tired

Okay, actually, I was only at my caucus last night long enough to cast my vote for governor and leave, but I stopped to get coffee (thinking it might take longer than it did) beforehand and I ended up staying up until after midnight writing on Mouse.

Plus, and I think I've mentioned this before, but Shawn is a sleep talker. Last night... just as I was finally unjittering myself and starting to fall asleep, she WHIPPED on the light and started yelling about how she had to find a peice of plast...

Tired, but Happy

One thing I forgot to mention is that Shawn has been having migraines on and off for several days again (knock on wood, she seems to be recovering), but so a lot of my franticness has been aggrivated by the fact that my partner has been pretty much down for the count.

Last night, though, she was feeling better. We're in the middle of catching up on last season's LOST, which is kind of bad timing because there are spoilers all over thanks to the new season starting this week. Still, I'm rea...

Monday!

I thought about titling this post: "Things You Didn't Know People ACTUALLY Did..." because on Friday, when school was out for teacher professional day, I took a friend's kids and Mason to the Children's Museum. We all had an awesome time, because my strategy for dealing with multiple kids with multiple agendas at the Children's Museum is to impose one simple rule: I stand at the door to the gallery. When you want to move to a new gallery, it's your job to round everyone up and convince the...

Swamped!

If I'm not keeping up here, it's because I'm falling behind in real-life (tm).

First of all, I know it's Tuesday all ready, but I have to tell you about my weekend. It was awesome. Mason decided that he'd really like to have a read-a-thon. It was not difficult for him to convince his two moms that it would be really lovely to spend the day in bed reading (or, in my case, writing,) only getting up for necessities and the ocassional video game. I spent the entire day working on a proposal for...

A Silly Complaint

Yesterday, I wrote a totally gratutious scene that I absolutely adore. There are a number of things at play in it -- from the fact that I think science fiction novels SHOULD comment on each other/the field to the idea that, despite the fact that I've read some I've enjoyed, there's much about the whole steampunk fad I absolutely can't stand.

Mouse runs into a gaggle of what he calls "gear twinks," who are thinly disguised steampunk affectionatos.

And I have way too much fun with their conversa...

Holy Sh*t!

My friend in Egypt had this article in his Facebook status:

Egypt Flood Claims 15

It's Aswan.

This is EXACTLY what I'm writing about right now. Holy crap.

Quick Update

My life in a nutshell: writing.

Pretty much every moment of my waking hours I've been spending working on RESURRECTION CODE (and some points of my subconscious time, too. While working out at the gym I had ideas hit me and I've dreamed about this book). So a lot of my usual life stuff has gone by the way side.

However, Shawn is in Sacramento (the place of my birth) this week for work. She's having some kind of grant project meeting in the torrental rain. Well, presumably she's actually indo...

German Cover Art

First of all, yes, I finished it. What all y'all forgot to suggest was that if I'm bored of the subject of Wicca, what I really need to do is write about my absolutely-est favorite subject in the entire world: Me. Or, perhaps, Moi, as Ms. Piggy might say.

I ended up with 800 words of an autobiographical Wicca 101, which could be called: "Wicca, What it Means to Me, Lyda Morehouse (or Tate Hallaway, if you will)"

Anyway, doing this got me curious and I wondered if there was cover art yet. A ...