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Renee's Scattered Brain
no her feet! She has these horribly ripe feet!
She needs to put cornstarch in her shoes. Absorb the sweat and the nasty. I make Kurt do it, and it's much more tolerable. Or she needs to wear socks.
sorry i was talking about the vommit from daisy
Oh, how do we do this multiple conversation thing all the time, yet we cannot get our shit together enough to organize our work/home/writing dilemmas?
and thats just on one thread, right now i think the four of us are no three threads having atleast 5 conversations.
This is what I'm saying!! How is this possible? And I can't find my glasses every freaking day. I don't know why, probably cause I can't see the buggers. I squint and look at every surface with my nose nearly touching it, like I'm trying to smell them out. Then my kids take pity on me and find them.I should just go straight to the contacts, I always know where they are. But my eyes are so burny in the morning, I don't like putting them in.
i always have to splash water in my eyes first. then its ok.
Sorry for what Annie? that I'm so blind I can't find my glasses? I really should leave them in one spot all the time, but I just forget.
Yeah, sorry that you can't see. I can, kinda. I guess. :D
After an evening of friendliness, there's no covers left on the bed anyway. You'd just have to remake it. Why bother in the first place?
hear hear Rita. Bed making is wasted effort.
Like I said- it's a waste of time to make the thing.
lol who knew conversations about bed making can be so interesting?Wait..are they really interesting or am I just dying of boredom?
My bed's already made . . . speaking of which I'm going to crimp my hair today.
wow bed making and hair had absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Unless you crimp your hair in bed. My hair is pretty crimped after sleeping.
that's not crimping, Renee- that's dog drool that has dried and been fanned by spouse farts all night. The bad taste in your mouth- you don't wanna know. Just brush your teeth well each morning.
wow... ok... well i will say this about bed making, when my bed is made it somehow makes my room look bigger, i think it has something to do with the vertical stripes on my bedspread. its just so slimming.
Mine has stripes too but the room is still small. Nothing changes that. Could be because I have a camp bed, a playpen, a spare mattress and my own bed in there. maybe. Hey, it's the quietest room for nap time, I need the extra sleeping spaces for the kids. You'd think the dogs would want one of those beds all to themselves, but no, under my feet and against my back is where they have to be.
Mine has squares . . . and it's purple . . . it doesn't make the room look bigger at all.
Maybe if you made the bed it might. Maybe there is something to Lauren's theory.
I do make it everyday actually . . . hmm, maybe she is right.
Lauren wrote: "wow... ok... well i will say this about bed making, when my bed is made it somehow makes my room look bigger, i think it has something to do with the vertical stripes on my bedspread. its just so ..."I can't stand to start the day until the bed is made and the curtains are opened...
For that matter I can't go to bed with a dirty kitchen either.
Don't know why other than it seems depressing to look at a 'tossed' room.
I would drive you nuts Gwen. Not only do I rarely make beds, I can leave a dirty kitchen and often do. I go to bed and clean it all up in the morning, I don't know why. Maybe because my Mom was really anal about the kitchen, I'm being rebillious by leaving it messy. Who knows.
Ahh, it's been so long. I'm sorry I've neglected you brain. I've been so very busy. I was writing though, honest I was. Friday I wrote 2420 words. That was a good day, although I wrote it after midnight. Tired on Saturday.The rest of the weekend I forgot to total my words, just wrote and left, wrote and left. So I've added Sat, Sun, and today together. The grand total?
It was so very close, I almost didn't carry the one, and thought I lost. But I got out the calculator and the count for the weekend is 6069 words. Yay me.
Total 2009=245,789
Total July=41,709
I think our bet was confusing. THis was my post:"any bets on how big it is for the weekend? I bet it's over 6000."
And Renee also said that she thought she was over that- soooo... we both win?
My buddy gave me the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King- I suppose that would count as scary, right? It's on my list of to-reads.
But reading anything from B is against my principles. I'm busy pretending B doesn't exist.
Whaddya think?
whose B?oh B, so drunk and confused, but yeah, no thank you, i don't think i have ever been self loathing or on enough drugs to warrant a true understanding or appreciation for what B writes. although we could be wrong and it could be brilliant literature that is a call back to Jane Austen or it could be self indulgent garbage. It's hard to call.
I was just kidding Wendy, you'd have to scrape your corneas after that read. Did I spell cornea right? Hmm...anyway, I just made it over, so you owe me nothing kay? Lauren, you're funny. Brilliant literature, sure.
I've read and reread and scanned and rescanned this conversation.SO WHO IS B?
Who would you like B to be? Could be any of us really, I'll say um...Wendy today. Nah, she could never be B. Okay, it's my alter ego, my mini me. The me I am when I'm not being a nice person.
Feels like me right now . . .
**drags in two bodies, one woman, one man, both obviously stuffed and molded into furniturelike shapes. Sets one at table, one at the door.**I don't know about alter egos, we'll have to think up some for everyone. How about that? What's the dark side of you that comes out only now and then to scare the pants off family and friends? Or in my case, as well as Lauren's and paul's, what's the bright side that seldom sees the light of day. we need to name it.
Oh yeah, meet Dave, he's a coach for some kid's baseball team. I can't say who, but he pissed me off enough to make himself a hatrack. He's tall, it works. This lovely lady here is Chrystal, she's my new chair, let's just say she really pissed me off. We won't get into details, they're irrelevant now. Her long body makes a good chair. She's happy now, really she is. She was very miserable before. Never a complaint from her anymore.
My word count today, I remembered to check it. 2978 words. I'm back on track.
Total July=44,687
2009=248,767
Wendy wrote: "hear hear Rita. Bed making is wasted effort."Tell my mom that.
lol
Awesome word count Renee. My story doesn't even have that many words . . .
Awesome word count Renee. My story doesn't even have that many words . . .
I try to write shorts, I really want to, but i get carried away. Before i know it I'm plugging away at a full length book. It's not good, not when you want a few shorts here and there. how do I stop doing that? I don't even finish some, I get 10000 words or so and stop. Oh, I'm up to 34,000 on my recent one, and a new one I started today is nearly 3000 words.
As far as I'm concerned Annie, a story is a story be it 10 words or 10000, it's still takes skill and imagination to create.
Many successful authors only write short stories, consider that. There is an art to doing it properly, I haven't mastered it. I like words too much, and characters. i love my characters. My new one is named Joy, working title KillJoy. or Kill Joy. Something like that. Kind of neat, she's anything but joyful by the way. She's a bitch. We're glad to see bad things happen to her, and they do.
nice furnature Renee. You needed a blond in here- have you had blonds before? I forget what color hair Eustance had- I was too busy getting creaped out by him.
Why no Wendy, I've never had a blond here. She looked nice doesn't she? I've brought some lawn chairs in case people are uncomfortable about sitting on dead people.
*shoots dead blonde a furtive look and sits on lawn chair*
don't think of her as a dead body, think of her as art. I'm pretty sure these ones won't get up and walk around like the others.
ok that made me think of a series of really bad jokes we told as kids.what do you call a guy with no arms and no legs who hangs on your wall?
art.
what do you call a guy with no arms and no legs on your doorstep?
matt
what do you call a girl with no arms and no legs at the beach?
sandy.
i will stop now.
I never thought of hanging them on the walls...possibilities.Oh, I had the best inspiration today, since my headache finally vanished thanks to advil cold and sinus by the truckload. Yep, feeling fine, a little woozy but fine.
I can't wait until I have more than ten minutes, I changed the entire plot outline for Rowan, went in a new direction, and its going to be great. BIG twist, then the one I started yesterday, Joy, that one I have big ideas for. I had to write everything down, cause this has happened before, I knew where I was going with a few things and i didn't write it down, then I got stumped 3/4 of the way through. Not now. I'm really excited about Rowan. I'm thinking of calling it Bayou Baby or Swamp Rat, Bayou Baby has a better ring to it though.
Okay, who put the tiara on Chrystal? She's going to get a big head you know. She's a chair, not a princess. Jeepers. I got a nice even number today, even checked twice to make sure. 2500 words today. Yay me. Even with all the little buggers running around. I wrote at 5am that's the key.
Total July=44,209
2009=248,289
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Deodorant? Did she need it? was it a stinky bed?