What's Been Up and Next Up

It's been two weeks since I turned in Convincing Leopold. The no-deadline thing lasted less than a week, but I'm already back to no-deadline bliss. And yes, the urge to clean and organize has passed, as anticipated. But I did manage to give kidlet's room a complete once-over, which resulted in 2 bags of trash and 1 bag of clothes for salvation army. Oddly enough, it doesn't look like there's any less stuff in her room now then before.

So what else has been up with me? Other highlights of the last 2 weeks involve browsing for new cookies (during which I picked up today's cookie), reading a book (Rougaroux Social Club: Bayou Dreams by Lynn Lorenz - very good book, BTW), and doing the 1st round of edits on Convincing Leopold....which made me realize I need to tweak the blurb for that book. So that's on the to-do list for this week.
I also bought an awesome new ap for my iphone. It's a white noise ap - has all sorts of sounds like rain, wind, and traffic (there's even a cat purring), and you can create your own mixes. My fav so far is air conditioning/light rain - perfect background noise that drowns out everything else (including chatty, skype-lovin' hubby). Many thanks to Sloan Parker for the head's up about the ap. The muse is lovin' it.

Speaking of the muse, next up on the to-write list is actually a to-finish book that I started last fall. I had this huge urge to write something with young lovers. Something that captured that intense first-love, young-love vibe. So I gave in to the muse and started Back to You. If you're guessing it's not all sweetness, you're right. There's some major angst, 'cause, you know, there has to be angst. ;) I need to get back to Sasha and Thomas and finish their book. So in the next week or so (but hopefully not too much 'so'), I plan to get back to them.
So that's what has been up with me. How about you? And if you have any good book recommendations, feel free to offer them up. I plan to get some more reading in before I get back to writing.