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[Sarah]

I just came across this book today and really want to read it. It is getting extremely high ratings - 68% at five stars. The average was greater than 4.5 and already about 14,500 have voted. This is very very very impressive.

[Lynn, Moderator]

Gosh, I've not known this place be so quiet in a long time ..... where are you all? :)

This time tomorrow I'll be packed and ready to go on my holiday. I'm going to Italy (Val Pusteria, Northern Italy near the Austrian border) with my choir for an International choir festival, with 90 choirs from around the world. 5 days of performing and listening to other choirs.

We'll be performing in concert halls, churches, castle ruins and even on top of a mountain for one of the performances. Excited!

[Kristie, Moderator]

Lynn - That sounds fabulous! I hope you have a wonderful time. Post a clip of your group.

[Brightness]

Lynn you're making me miss my choir days! Have a wonderful time!

[Felina]

Jealous! All we did in choir in high school was go to DC and sing at the Lincoln Memorial. It was cool but not Italy cool.

[Savanes]

Have fun! Italy is amazing!

[Anima]

Lynn, all the best with your performances, this holiday prospect sounds really amazing. I envy you such a marvelous opportunity to rest and have wonderful artistic experience at the same time :) Definitely keep us updated and put some clips if it is possible.

[Lynn, Moderator]

Packing day today ..... oh if only I could click my fingers and it be all done!

[Cathie]

Enjoy Lynn!

[Jojo]

Have a great time Lynn!!!

[Jojo]

What is everyone doing this weekend? I get to see my babies!!!! I'm super excited!!!! I haven't seen them for a few months and I get them all to myself for around 4 hours! Woohoo!!!!

[Alycia]

That sounds fun, Joanne! Enjoy!!! We have company in for the weekend. So we'll be showing them the sights in our area. It'll be fun!

[Kristie, Moderator]

Aww... have fun Joanne! I have a not so fun weekend coming up - just packing, working, and reading for school. Next weekend is better - I'll be hosting my mom's birthday party! :D

[Cathie]

Your babies Joanne?? Tell more :-)

Alycia have fun :-)

[Jojo]

From my first nanny job, I had them for 2.5 years from when the youngest was 6 months, so they'll always be my babies! I'm now on countdown to seeing them! Even though it will make me sad. Last time I visited my baby told me he misses me and wants me to go back which made me cry.

Have fun doing the tourist thing Alycia, that's always fun to do!

Kristie, will you have reading time this week, what with party planning?! :)

[Kristie, Moderator]

Have fun Alicia!

Joanne - I have 3 crazy, busy weeks coming up. I have a weeklong school intensive all next week and I need to finish my reading before the class begins. Then I am hosting my mom's party on the 30th. (The planning is pretty much done, but most of the prep left will have to be done the day before.) Then, I need to finish packing because I am moving the next weekend (July 6, with Independence Day on the 4th!) And I have another intensive the week after I move with regular classes starting that week too. Phew! I think I'm going to need a vacation!! Not much time for fun reading at all over the next three weeks or so, but I'll be listening to my audio books on the way to classes and work so I'll keep up a little bit. I never thought driving would be my relaxing time!

[Anima]

Wow, Kristie, this sounds like a hectic time ahead. Keep my fingers crossed for the success with the moving and other plans ahead.

Joanne, despite the sadness, have fun meeting your babies!

Alycia, have a great time doing a sightseeing. I love showing people around Warsaw, although I do not have many such opportunities recently.

I'm at home this weekend. Quiet time before the last week at school here in Poland. Next week I have an entrance exam for American Studies, and the end of the school year, with school gala and giving away certificates, so busy time for me.

[Felina]

I just got done doing a Road Rally which was so much fun. Tomorrow we celebrate Father's Day (my dad hates crowds so we always do it one week late). So hopefully Sunday will be very chill. :)

[Kristie, Moderator]

Yes Anima, it is going to be craziness. I'll be very happy when the next three weeks are over. (Did I learn nothing from the Time Keeper?! lol) It looks like you have a busy week coming up too. Enjoy your quiet weekend!

Felina - Congrats on you Road Rally and enjoy your day with your dad. :)

[Anima]

Thanks, Kristie and Felina, enjoy your Father's Day, we celebrate this day on the 23rd of June here in Poland, so we have some family meeting tomorrow :)

[Felina]

Thanks Ladies!

Now my parents want to come visit so I have to put down my book and clean my house. Lame.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Felina wrote: "Thanks Ladies!

Now my parents want to come visit so I have to put down my book and clean my house. Lame."

LOL

[Alycia]

Thanks, gals! :)

[Cathie]

Felina wrote: "Thanks Ladies!

Now my parents want to come visit so I have to put down my book and clean my house. Lame."

Cracking up laughing! I remember those dreaded visits and fast clean-ups...quick, put the dishes in the oven and all those clothes in the closet and spray that perfume around! FOFL!

[Felina]

Exactly! It's worse because my mom is a clean freak and with three longhaired cats and a reading habit things get dingy pretty quick round these parts. I feel fairly confidant that if I gathered up all the fur around my house I could make another cat.

[Cherene]

(Totally unrelated post.)

So, we were talking about a couple of us having writer aspirations. The other day, I'm thinking, I want to write a book called "My Best Friend, The Murderer," about two boys growing up together and one becoming a serial killer and it's affect on his relationship, etc. I could base the emotions off a dark time in my life when someone I knew killed a young girl - thankfully, we were only casual friends and not best friends.

I mention it to my boyfriend, in passing. He's obviously not listening because he thinks I'm talking about someone elses book and says, "booooooring."

... Ouch.

Now I'm nervous to articulate another idea I had. lol

[Kristie, Moderator]

Cherene - I actually think that sounds like a great book. You should attempt it regardless of his thoughts. If he wasn't really listening, maybe he fully catch the idea either.

[Cathie]

What Cherene? ~ one negative and you're willing to not live your dream - What's up with that? Expect to hear a lot of no's and then carry on doing what you want to do. No's are like the grains of sand; there are thousands, maybe millions of them. Yes's are the seashells and special little treasures you find as you walk along the sand. Just think of your no as being one step further into your journey and one step closer to seeing the next seashell.

Like Kristie said, it sounds like a wonderful idea. Go for it!

[✿Claire✿]

Cherene, you'll always have people who either don't like the genre/theme of what you write and people who will put you down regardless of what it is you want to do. I know someone who told her friend she was thinking of applying for med school and was told 'you're not clever enough for that'. It put her off doing what she wanted enough for her to miss the deadline. Don't let one naysayer get you down, I'd read it!!

[Anima]

Cherene, I think your idea of the story is extremely interesting. I would read such a book gladly. So, if I may say something close to being a piece of advice (although sometimes we tend to avoid listening to advice given LOL) I would definitely try to write this book :)

[Felina]

I'd read that book, Cherene. It would actually be very insightful since most books about serial killers are from the perpective of the killer or the police or the victim. I've never heard of one from just a friend or family member. There has got to be so much guilt and sadness on that side. Very interesting.

I kind of need you to write this book now.

[Cathie]

There Cherene, you have already sold 5 books and you haven't even started to write it yet! Start :-)

[Felina]

LOL. That's true.

[Cherene]

Aw. That made me get all teary eyed. lol I have confidence writing issues. The biggest downside of writing as a dream is that my family and friends see it as a child's dream/pipe dream. You guys supporting this idea (and me) was very touching and inspirational.

Thank you. :) < I was going to add a little tear to that emoticon, but it seemed to be pushing it. lol

[Cherene]

It just occurred to me how bad my boyfriend would feel once he found it had been my book.

[Cathie]

The good thing about writing is that you can do it privately and nobody needs to know until you are ready to share it.

You have lots of support here :-)

[Anima]

Agreed :)

[Felina]

Is your boyfriend a reader? My brother doesn't read anything and thinks everything sounds boring. Nonreaders just don't get it. :)

[Cherene]

He's a "man reader." He likes James Bound type novels. Mostly, I think he was just teasing me about the book because he was half listening and just thought I was bragging about one I was reading.

He lets me buy as many books as I want and never gets mad. lol He's sweet.

[Cathie]

Joanne, how was your time with the little ones this weekend?

[Lynn, Moderator]

So I'm back from my adventure! I'm just about recovered, I had a fabulous time but didn't read one page of a book as I was so busy.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Welcome back Lynn! So glad you had a great time. :) Since you have no book to share, what was your favorite part of your adventure?

[Lynn, Moderator]

Oh lord, every day had so many highlights! We fit so much into each day; singing in beautiful churches, standing ovations after singing Nessun Dorma in Italian to Italian audiences (and then being asked in the local bar to repeat performance), singing on top of the Dolomites Mountains .... and so many more!

When I have a bit more time (it's 11.30pm here and I'm back at work tomorrow ... booooo!) I'll try and share some thoughts / photos with you :)

[Kristie, Moderator]

Sounds amazing! You get some sleep. I'm going to daydream about Italy now! ;)

[Cherene]

Italy. -sigh- God, that would be beautiful.

[Jojo]

Cathie, It was brilliant!! Bittersweet though, I love seeing them but it makes me sad to leave them again. The eldest boy seems to finally be losing his anger at me for leaving them, last time he refused to speak to me! This time he was almost back to normal...just a little bit when I got there. My baby was well my baby again! It's funny how he slips straight back into that, I got some one on one time with him which was great! We went out for dinner, (so glad I wasn't paying!! My meal alone would have been $53+tax!) then we watched a movie and I put them to bed. My baby (I really need to stop calling him that), played me like a fiddle and wouldn't go to bed. It was hard as he knew that come morning I would be gone again :( Then I spent some time talking with their Mum, which was great catching up but it made for an incredibly late night.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Joanne - That sounds wonderful! So nice that you had some one on one time and got to catch up with mom too. :)

[Jojo]

The only thing missing was time with the boys step sister, her mum didn't drop her when she was supposed to so I ended up literally just tucking her in to bed...next time!! This was also the first time I didn't get teary when I left :)

And when I was taking a picture with my phone on Sunday I found around 10 selfies of my baby! Which made me smile and laugh!

[Anima]

Welcome back, Lynn. It sounds like a wonderful time. :) I'm waiting for some more amazing stories :).

[Anima]

Joanne, great that you had a chance to spend such a lovely time with your babies :)