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Dec 22, 2012 04:45AM
What's the name of the book that your reading?
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I am very sorry that you don't seem all that happy here, Kyle...:( We certainly don't ev..."
Oh, that is not true, Kyle. I would certainly miss talking with one of my best GR friends. I understand the need to get your priorities straight, though.
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:) I could not agree more about the utter brilliance of No Country For Old Men... the novel and film.
6:42pm ET. Spending time with my daughter after a productive day, and then some reading. :)cocoa sounds good right about now...
@Kyle; really? You just made my brain hurt... i should google it; but i am afraid... :D7:44pm ET. Reading Boy's Life and not sure what i expected, but this goes beyond anything i thought this book would be. The latter part of this year has been fantastic reading for me, and i am absolutely loving this book. I am only a third of the way through and highly recommend it to everyone!!
I googled it@!!!! You are so bad, Kyle! I thought we were GR buddies... :(*slinks away, sadly*
:D
Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "@AlondraBoy's Life is one of my all time favorites. I read it twice."
it is awesome; and i still know what you said... humpf!!
You are right, though. The book is so awesome. So glad I didn't really read the description first. This book gives me the warm-fuzzies.... (don't say a word, Kyle!!)
:)
4:02pm ET. debating about going to a christmas eve party... i am tired. :/
Merry Christmas!!!It's 2:14 pm and I'm waiting to go to Christmas dinner #1. Fixed cinnamon french toast for breakfast .... good stuff.
9:17pm ET. Getting ready to read and prepare for a cruddy day of working with one of the doctors.... i see much coffee in my future. :O
11:08pmMust go to bed now, but would much rather stay on GR!
7:50pm ET. I am whooped. I slept 4 hours last night and was on my feet all day, with a 20 minute lunch. I am off to bed. I am even too tired to read... but i did read this morning :D
It's 10:21 pm and I'm trying not to be sick anymore. :/
11:49 a.m just got done eating breakfast and drinking a cup of chocolate milk
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Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "It's 3:25 PM and I have a head cold."Take some Coricidin HBP for the sinus pressure; allegra or claritin for the runny stuff, to dry you up; some tylenol for headaches and lots of fluids. call me monday if you aren't better :)
7:14pm ET. Finished reading Boy's Life just now and it was awesome! Gonna finish reading Duel by Richard Matheson, hopefully by Sunday. :D
Kyle, not sure I want to know what that is. Might make me jealous. I'm single, and haven't any prospects.It's 6:05 p.m., and I'm typing on this forum--what else would I be doing?--except also being annoyed by something on my glasses and by my legs staying cold even though the heater's been on all day even while I was away at a memorial service. (Oops!) Wiped glasses with undershirt, but my eyesight is still blurry for unknown reasons.
The memorial service was nice. I know my friend is in heaven, and so did the rest of the church, so it wasn't a gloomy affair. We heard messages from friends and relatives, sang hymns about heaven, heard a good message from my pastor, and looked at pictures on the overheads accompanied by music the man and his friends used to sing and play. Then some of us went downstairs for food and further visiting.
In other news, the publisher will not be using my historical horror story in the anthology War is Hell; he said he didn't have room for it but would like to use it if they came out with a second volume later. I am looking into alternatives. I want to make the story longer than their limit, and better than it is now--perhaps a book. I am wondering what the cover would look like. I read some more of book:Benedict Arnold: The Dark Eagle|2388754]as part of my research. I found the name of the surgeon that my character would be working for, which may be bad news, because if his name is known, the name of his "mate" might be known, too, and if so, people in the know could say my story is historically inaccurate, as it makes my own character the surgeon's mate instead. Soon I will google and see if I can find the answer that way. If I can find out, I will try to make a way around it and rewrite part of the story accordingly. The surgeon in Continental Army was James Thacher, and he kept a journal and was a good artist as well. He was a friend of Benedict Arnold's, but this didn't stop Arnold from telling him to stop the "damned nonsense" about amputating his crushed leg after the Battle of Bemis Heights. From the camp, General Arnold was taken to the Albany hospital, where he was treated by a different physician, whose name escapes me at the moment, and I can't find my notes on my disorganized desk. Anyway, the physicians who saw him all thought the leg should be amputated, and he cursed them all as "ignorant pretenders." Increasingly, Arnold was disillusioned with friends and harassed by enemies, and his bitterness against them seems to have been a major cause of his treason.
But he became a scapegoat after he was caught. In reality, many people changed sides in the American Revolution and were not demonized like Arnold was. Most people waited to see which side they thought would win before they took sides, if they took sides at all. It's a very interesting war to study, and I enjoy writing about my character Luke in the midst of it.
I have some other irons in the fire: wrote a creative non-fiction piece about my pregnancy and legal battle over my daughter and must now put it up for critique on SilverPen.com. I will be sending it to Stealing
Time magazine by Jan. 15--am very glad they changed the deadline for the pregnancy and birth issue from Jan. 1. I write to prompts in two different writers' groups, one for the theater, and the other for my own use, the group's public and private blogs, and other publications, if possible. My most recent written in the latter group are a story about Cinderella and her stepsister and a story about one of my characters showing up in my own life and plotting a murder--both inspired by prompts from online websites.
Kyle, are you over the cold yet? If you take all those drugs at once, you may be really out of it!
Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "Yes, Doctor Alondra!:) .."HA!!
@Robin; that is typical advice from an actual doctor... I work at a doctors office. we hit a cold from every end... hehehehe...and Coricidin works; because sinus infections suck. :D
9:15PM And checking into GR and reading my book at the same time. I can be so talentes sometimes. hehe.
How do you do that, Janie? Do you write one word and then read one word, and so on?I remember Coricidin being the cold medicine of choice when I was a kid, and I think it worked for us, too. But I can't take decongestants anymore. Fortunately, I'm hardly ever sick now, especially since I'm no longer going to a college campus. Fat yes, sick no. So that may catch up with me.
Robin wrote: "How do you do that, Janie? Do you write one word and then read one word, and so on?I remember Coricidin being the cold medicine of choice when I was a kid, and I think it worked for us, too. But ..."
hahaha.... any place with kids is germy.. i don't think they make decongestants like they used to.
8:40pm ET on December 31, 2012!! I am sleepy already... ugh!
9:45pm ET. About to continue reading some Agatha Christie and Jonathan Maberry :)
It's 2:10pm and I'm trying to not take a nap ... may not get up from it. Being at work at 6am has left me exhausted.
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Aw, please get some much needed rest soon, Michelle.
8:06pm ET. Checking messages, updates and then reading before bed. :O
2:38 p.m probably going to have to get off the computer here real soon
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I am sorry to hear that, Kyle..:(
It's 10:24 p.m. and I have managed to avoid working on a certain technical report all day (did work on it last night, and was confused about what I should and shouldn't do in this first, test edit). I sorted all my receipts into monthly envelopes, looking for proof of when I paid for my latest printer cartridge and each time I've gotten it refilled. Didn't find all of them, and by the time I decided to just buy a new printer it was almost dark, and I take the bus. It has been COLD here. So instead, I stayed home in my pajamas, adding to my personal favorites playlist on my computer, making and eating food, and washing dishes. Kyle, bummer about the fighting and namecalling. I hate that. That's why I don't watch those stupid talk shows when they tear people up verbally. I rarely watch TV at all. Just got my DVR taken away to save money, but I found out when my favorite TV show starts again, and I'm glad I haven't missed it. It's "Being Human." Now someone has played a move in one of my "Words with Friends" game. Probably my cousin who shows up late at night. Going back to Facebook to play. Best 2013 to all!
10:35AM.....ugh! Can we say ugh plz! I am getting sick. Getting sick is in my top 3 worst things to happen to me list! YUCK! Just finished my coffee, started reading The Drawing of the Three and met up with one of the worst creatures I have ever read about! LOBSTROSITIES!!! hehe...this should be a great day, I feel like I wont go to a beach in a very long time.
Janie wrote: "10:35AM.....ugh! Can we say ugh plz! I am getting sick. Getting sick is in my top 3 worst things to happen to me list! YUCK! Just finished my coffee, started reading The Drawing of the Three and me..."Or look at lobsters the same again. :)
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They're awful, aren't they?
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Please get well soon, Janie. Being sick is never ANY FUN! It's one of my most disliked things, too. And actually, Tanya and I are currently sick, so I guess you and I are in the same boat.. :(
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You're very welcome.
It's 5:53 pm and I'm about to fix a nutritious dinner of burgers and fries.
Kathryn wrote: ""Brass monkey! That funky monkey!""what the hell...?? :D
..it is that kathryn, at it again... hahahhaha
9:28pm ET. Enjoy an evening in the lazy-boy. Hubby cooked dinner and had a big-ass brownie waiting on me too!! Any man that has chocolate waiting for his wife, is worth keeping!! :D
It's 11:31pm and I feel like I'm close to a nervous breakdown with all the stuff I have on the way with Grad school on top of the everyday crap that makes up my life. Serenity Now!
4:12pm ET. Playing on the computer and thinking about how much i get to read this weekend :D*sends good vibes to Michelle!!*
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