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I actually do have a very nice outfit that my cousin was kind enough to buy for me, so I think I'll look okay for a change... LOL I'll be sure to share a picture once I have one.10:17 a.m. EDT about time to wake hubby up. My hair isn't near dry, but I guess they can always finish it at the salon! Time to set up my next book. Had planned to read MT McGuire's shorts, but since I'll be in and out all day, it'd be too hard to review them and keep up...
12:55 p.m. Waiting for the rain to stop so the little one and I can go for our walk.
19.02Watched SAVAGES by Oliver Stone.
started watching THE SHIELD Season 3
Going to watch the Stones on telly tonight live from Glastonbury, I used to go every year but it's been completely ruined due to commercialism. But Heaven used to be a field in Somerset.
Katy wrote: "Oh, Alondra, I just received the BEST chocolate... it is some sort of custom-made fudge with agave sugar or something. REALLY good. You can give/receive it as a Facebook gift, it's in the $10 ran..."...that sounds so heavenly...yum!
Kathryn wrote: "Oh yeah!! Thanks for reminding me! I love when it rains, so living in Texas and having sparse rain makes every rain shower even better. :)"
It does. I loved living there, and had to garden accordingly. I do miss it. :)
2:40pm ET. After a walk with my daughter, great breakfast by the hubby and some gardening; it is time to read and take a nap! :)
10:07 p.m. EDT OMG I am so tired I can't see straight and I hurt EVERYWHERE, but what a wonderful day! It'll be worth the days of pain to follow... :-) Lots of great pics, not sure when they'll be posted. I be sure to share the one of me in a sombrero and my husband in a tiny hat and a pink feather boa (to match my cardigan)... LOL Sadly, no drag queens in the ceremony, but at least 3 at the reception, who were all very encouraging when I stumbled over trying to make a toast... The bride was gorgeous, and my cousin looked most dashing in her tux... All in all a terrific day and a beautiful couple.
10:22 p.m. and we just got home from a night out. I am stuffed! There is this mom and pop pizza parlor that has been in business for 42 years locally. We love to eat there. Now, I'm just gonna need to get the energy up to read for a bit.
10:14 pm- had a "meh" daykaty- sounds like a fun time :D- be sure to post pics when you can.
Ah, Rachel, it was just lovely. I was blubbering through the whole ceremony, along with my cousin's sister next to me and the big, hunky black guy sitting in front of me. So I didn't feel so badly about it... :-) I wish I'd had the strength and energy enough to stay longer at the reception - I'd really wanted to do karaoke - but I was just wiped out and had to come home and rest. I'll definitely be paying for this, but it was great. Sorry your day was 'meh'; I guess I must've stolen some of your sunshine... hopefully tomorrow will be better. :-) *hugs*
12:16 PM. Mark and I are playing Trivial Pursuit on our Wii and having fun.
2:03 a.m. EDT I ... remembered the dog. Needed to go out. Hubby out cold. Cat cuddled up (Tiger. He's the least catish, so when he wants reassurance, he comes and asks for it. Erasmus, on the other hand, is finding strategic places to pee and studiously ignoring me... *rolls eyes*). Almost asleep. then *bam* Oh, crap. I'm all but I wanna SLEEEEEP but who knows when one of us would wake, so ... CRAWLED out, staggered in here, put him out. *sigh*Hopefully I'll have the chance to try that sleeping thing again soon... Although I think I might be too tired to sleep...
Squire wrote: "1002 CST. I'm under attack!!! I repeat, I'm under attack!!! Thanks goodness the camera flash works for a momentary respite...
owwie....
that hurt..."
What a cutie! I LOVE Chocolate Labs!
7:35am EST. Having a coffee before packing the troops off for two days of Canada Day festivities. I can't wait! I love long weekends (now that I actually have them off, ha ha :)
9:45 a.m. and I'm off and running again! Wish I could get paid for all the running I do, LOL. Have about an hour to read and I am so happy Jeff is still in bed. I absolutely cannot get any reading done when he is awake. Love him to death, but he talks to me constantly. I do understand. I'm never home, so he wants my attention when I am. Anyway, I plan to take advantage of my hour of quiet :)
10:29am ET. Finished my short-ass review of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I liked it, but halfway through it went off in another direction. Meh.uhm, NOS4A2 is a trip! I swear that old bastard is Leland Gault.. hahhaha
Okay, THAT was annoying... the whole browser just crashed, and I was almost done with a really long post... *sigh*CINDY, go check out my blog, I posted a video early this morning that will make you laugh (I hope).
2:56 p.m. EST Took me awhile to sleep, between one thing and another. Dog needed put out. Dmitry fighting trolls in his dreams. The cats. I finally locked the cats out. Anyway, Erasmus was angry with me being gone yesterday and ... befouled the wallet in which my Dragon*Con tickets were. They survived, but ... *sigh* They're not going to smell so good. Bad damn cat. His howling woke me up about 1:30 this afternoon, but I feel almost human again. I did just check, but no pictures have been posted to my cousins' pages yet. Hopefully I'll have some to share soon. I took a picture of Dmitry, but that was for his mom. He took a few pictures with his iPhone, but we didn't want to be intrusive, and they were taking a lot of pictures, so I expect they'll be sharing them extensively. But I did think of y'all and check before I posted! LOL I will be finishing up Zeus Inc today, and then go back and read the M T McGuire shorts. Hope everyone is having a good day! I'm still overflowing with joyful tears and warm fuzzies from yesterday...
8:30pm just got back from my aunties and my mom's getting really excited for my birthday next week, planning everything even though it's not until next Monday, I'm sure she's more excited than me. But hey if it makes her happy ill let her get on with it, having cuddles with my kitten and I'm just about to read a little
7:54 a.m. EDT I crapped out last night and went to sleep, and slept all night. I did pop on for awhile in the middle of the night when I remembered I needed to do bills, but it was dark in here and I didn't even want to try to type much. Still can't really see clearly, which commonly happens when I'm tired. Anyway, I'm editing Nick Wastnage's sequel to Playing Harry this week, which should be a joy as usual, and once I clear out my e-mail I'll be starting that! Hope everyone had a lovely weekend, and may all the warm fuzzies I felt on Saturday multiply and come among you...
13.12Spyware has infested my PC, hard to get goodreads, I can just imagine the fat, balding bastard, covered in cigarette ash, wearing a shiny suit, sitting in a back room office in Shitsville, USA who has just made 3 cents by corrupting my PC.
What a jerk... let's send him virtual herpes
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Randy also worked on Friday for double time, so now we will get the load of dirt we need to fill in the area for the pool, and hopefully it will go up on Wednesday in time for the 4th.
Cindy I hope you are able to get more me time. I totally understand loving the quiet while our other half is sleeping or away. Makes for great reading time. Take care of yourself!
Katy glad the wedding was awesome!
Jordan I hope you have a fabulous birthday! Its always well spent when you are with your family!
Sean sorry about your problem with the spyware. Have you tried Microsoft Security essentials? Well as long as you have PC with windows. It is a great program for free.
Have a great day everyone!
10:01 a.m. EDT Eyes have cleared up a bit and it's time to EDIT!!
Sean wrote: "13.12Spyware has infested my PC, hard to get goodreads, I can just imagine the fat, balding bastard, covered in cigarette ash, wearing a shiny suit, sitting in a back room office in Shitsville, U..."
Dude, if you don't want to reinstall your OS then just download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and run that--it will take hours but it will fix you up. I've seen many antivirus companies recommend it when things get too out of hand for their product. Then install Microsoft Security Essentials to keep it from happening in the future and you should be good to go.
9:17 p.m. EDT Wow. After last week's fiasco of an editing gig, it was such a pleasure to work on another of Nick Wastnage's cool crime thrillers that I just sat here working all day long and finished it. Assassination Continuum, book 2 in the Harry Fingle Collection, coming soon!Pictures from my cousin's honeymoon in San Francisco have been coming in periodically. They visited Alcatraz today. Sounds like they're having fun, and Keli's really blowing a wad on the trip, but she did wait a very long time to find that special someone, so I'm sure she's saved plenty :-) I imagine Shannon is being spoiled rotten, which she deserves. She's such a sweet lady!
Now to read for awhile, and try to make amends to Erasmus for all the neglect... hopefully then he'll stop peeing all over everything... LOL
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2:08 p.m. EDT After crashing for 10 hours I feel mostly human again! Erasmus is purring on the pillow by me, so I guess he's mostly forgiven me, even if I did lock him out again last night... Need to send the hubby off to work, and have some editing to do today for Daniel Black (but his name isn't coming up in a search... WTF?? I've added it with HTML), the next in the Magic series of really fun books! It's a long'un, so I'll be busy the rest of the week, but will try to pop in now and again!
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MM, Janie, that DOES sound good!7:47 p.m. EDT What did I say about feeling human? I'm feeling like something the cats drug in now... time for a nap. But enjoying this new Daniel Black book!
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0109 CST. Trying to get everything done on the net I need to while at work because my computer crapped out on me and I'm off for the next 2 days.And watched Chopped on the Food Network.
And get my work done.
<*sigh*>
3:10 a.m. EDT Crawled out of bed about 11, ate a burger Dmitry brought home for me, crawled back INTO bed... LOL Up and ready to edit for awhile; Dmitry has to be at work at 11 in the morning, so once he's off, I'll probably sleep for awhile longer. He has Thursday off, so while he has to work on Friday, which blows any chance for going out on my birthday, maybe we can do something Thursday instead... Hope everyone here has a great day!
13.36I appear to have fixed my PC have not got a clue how I did it, I just deleted everything that seemed suspect. The only site I could'nt access was Goodreads so that really pissed me off, every time I accessed the site instead of adverts for books I was getting either Russian Brides or penis enlargement treatments!!!
Watched TITAN A.E. SF animated feature(I bet no one's seen that one).
Watched REINDEER GAMES starring Ben Affleck
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Hope you have a decent birthday Katy!
14.58Just had an interesting message from a 'good looking' girl from Senegal, who want's to send me pix and has a SPECIAL reason for getting to know me! Is an offer of marriage on the cards?
Actually, yes, Sean, I HAVE seen Titan A.E.; I also have the soundtrack... :-P Sorry to hear about the computer problems, but glad it seems to be cleared up!And thanks, Janie. I'll probably just be sitting around here doing nothing, like usual, but one can never tell... :-)
10:36 a.m. EDT Oh, there were some scenes with a cat in this book I'm editing that just broke my heart. I've spent half the morning crying, it seems. I am working on waking up Dmitry to send him to work, and then I'm taking a nap I think. I have three weeks to do two manuscripts, and while they're both over 100k words, that really should be sufficient time, I think... so I'm not going to push, and will take the time to go out tomorrow, maybe, if Dmitry wants to. Hope everyone has a great day!
10:25 a.m. And I' getting ready to wash some dishes. Today I'm staying home instead of running all day. Plan to switch back and forth between reading and cleaning (at my leisure). Hope everyone has a great 4th of July!
9:24AM and I'm working. Everyone else is off today, but I am not. Usually I don't mind working the 4th but Lately I am really hating my job. It is such a struggle to continue to come to this soul sucking hole. I try to keep telling myself at least I have a job, but that at times isn't a comforting mantra. I'm tired of applying for 6-10 jobs a week and never getting an interview. Forgive my venting, I'm cranky this week.Part of the reason I haven't been around GR much. Well hope everyone has a great 4th if you celebrate it, and if you don't, Happy Thursday.
It is good to vent sometimes Chris. Sorry you have to work.
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I know the feeling, Chris. Sometimes it's better to not have a job at all than to continue in a place that saps your will to live. Hang in there!Sounds awesome, Janie! I'd love to see the fireworks, but we tried that the first year I was here and it's just too crazy out there... you have to park 3 miles away and hoof it to find a decent spot...
10:56 a.m. EDT We had hoped to hit the pub today, but they're closed... boo. I dunno, I'm about to wake up Dmitry and see if he wants to try something else. I wanted to try the microbrewery, but they don't open until 2 and I am really hungry right now, so ... *sigh* I guess we'll see what happens. Wish me luck!
11:00 Making salads for a BBQ and then get the rest of the day to sit on the balcony and read. There is a slight breeze and beautiful sun. So looking forward to the afternoon!
11:40 AM. Happy 4th, everyone! We got up and got donuts, put gas in the car, and went to Lowe's. We're at home, and I am doing laundry and thinking of cracking open my book. Mark has kept me busy lately so I haven't posted. Miss you guys! Sounds like everyone is doing okay! We're going to the Texas Rangers game tonight and staying for the beautiful fireworks show afterwards. This was part of my dad's Father's Day present, so this should be fun! Have a safe and happy 4th, everyone!
What a nice present for your dad. And family time is always nice.
Sorry you have to work Chris, especially in a place you hate so much. Sending you *good thoughts.*
Happy birthday Katy! Go out and celebrate!
1:35pm EDT. Raining steadily as it has been all day. Maybe it will keep the neighborhood fireworks down (it scares the puppy.) Just hanging out reading. Happy 4th everyone!
Happy birthday Katy! Go out and celebrate!
1:35pm EDT. Raining steadily as it has been all day. Maybe it will keep the neighborhood fireworks down (it scares the puppy.) Just hanging out reading. Happy 4th everyone!
July 4, 1776 is America's Independence Day. We declared our independence from the British tyrant King George! Best day in history!
Oh I thought it was just about one group of Englishmen fighting another bunch of Englishman over taxation!
2:38 p.m. EDT Had some pizza, and then went and set up an appointment for my next tattoo FINALLY day-um... Two weeks from tomorrow! Can't WAIT!!!
Katy, what are you getting tattoo of? I've always wanted a tattoo, but I've been to chicken LOL. 3:40pm EDT: Such a rough day. Had to get my Lyrica filled today, didn't have it at the time I went to work. Something that only takes 60 - 90 mins lasted 2 hours because I hurt so much. Reading now
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Katy, I bet you'll look awesome for the wedding! Enjoy!
9:53am EDT. Having a leisurely morning drinking coffee, cuddling with the puppy, and checking out GR. Hub is sleeping in which is a good thing. Plan a major library haul today--I'm ready for some new stuff to read! Kind of a gray day, may have some rain later. Happy weekend all my friends on GR!