Random Observations for the Week

It’s Friday, I’m feeling a little random and just a touch ranty. So here are my observations for the week:

1. This is my hands-down obsession for the week. OBSESSION.

2. Scarlet on Nashville has to be one of the most annoying characters ever written for television. After watching this week’s episode (yes, I’m still watching because yes, I am that in love with Tami Taylor), I found myself hoping homegirl will just OD on those stupid pills she’s ingesting (I mean, come on, really? Are we supposed to believe she’s just so sweet and naive that she’s going to start throwing back some pills without asking any questions? You know what that looks like to me? Nothing but some dumbassery. She’s an idiot. Plain and simple.) and put us all out of our misery. It’s bad enough that she has horrible hair and her clothes are atrocious, but then add that drippy personality of hers and you’ve got me cringing every time she’s on screen. I used to give her a pass because her voice is amazing, but even that’s not helping her these days.

3. My job cutting off Facebook, Gmail, Pinterest, Evite, Instagram, and any other site you might visit for all of two seconds to make the day just a bit more pleasant is total fuckery.

 

4. After being sick for almost two weeks, I’m back in the gym and hitting my slew of weekly classes and all I have to say is ouch. Yesterday’s MetCon 3 class was a killer (it always is, but after being gone for so long, it was especially brutal); I think I want to die. Or at least my thigh muscles would like to.

5. I’ve suffered from writer’s block all week and it’s been rather depressing. I’ve been stuck on chapter 26 of Book II, the same paragraph, day in and day out, getting nowhere fast. Then wouldn’t you know, last night around 2 in the morning, I worked my way out of it but by that point, it was so freaking late, I made myself close down the lap top and go to sleep. But at least I moved past that damn paragraph. (this is the offender…little fucker!)

6. The snow and the extreme cold can blow me. I’m over all of it and cannot wait to escape for a bit to somewhere warm that serves lots of super strong rum punch and is flooded with sunshine. I’m starved for some sun. And not that I want to sit out in it and fry my skin, I’m far too vain of a bitch to do a thing like that, but a little warmth on my shoulders would be nice. I’m certainly not going to complain about a few days, running around in shorts and flip-flops. (Of course, come find me this summer, when it’s 2000 degrees outside, because after this winter we’re having, you know that’s exactly the kind of summer we’re going to get, and I’ll be bitching up a storm, cursing the sun and the heat up and down, right and left.)

7. Attended my first book club for THE GIRL and had a blast with Greg and the crew down at 9th & Coles Tavern in Jersey City. By the way, if you haven’t been there, you should go. What a cool spot to stop by, grab a drink and hang. It’s exactly the type of bar I would love to own. Anyway, I digress. The book club. I stopped in, we chatted about the book, we drank and generally had a good time. In my humble opinion, all book clubs should involve alcohol. Interestingly, they pointed something out to me about the book which I hadn’t really thought about but now realize needs to be addressed in book II. Smarties!

8. I started reading Niko this week. This is major. I haven’t read a book since I started writing THE GIRL last May! I usually read 1-2 books a week. But I’ve found writing to be all-consuming and so have stayed away from reading, while amassing quite a “To- Read” list along the way. Niko’s author read my book and we’ve become friends and support one another in our writing endeavors, so I thought the least I could do is return the favor and read Kayti’s book. So I started it and now I’m sucked into her world of acid rain, Slithers and the Rose Circle. It’s a good read, so if you’re looking for something new to pick up, give Niko a shot. I’ll even give you the Amazon link, which means now you really have no excuse not to check it out: Amazon link to Niko

That’s it. Nothing else. At least for the moment, I have nothing else. I’m sure, three minutes from now I’ll have another morsel or two, but by then it will be too late, as I will have already published this week’s random observations.

Oh! Actually, I do have one more. This morning, on the way to taking The Kid to school, and he’s chatting away in the back seat about something completely random and ridiculous, I looked back at him and was simply blown away by the cuteness. You know when you have those moments where you’re just like “wow! I made that and he’s just so freaking awesome”, that was me this morning.

HOLLA!