Author: Kay Kauffman

A geek to the core, I reside in the midst of an Iowa cornfield with my husband and four children. When I'm not chasing the kids every which way but loose, you can find me penning fantastical tales of great heroism and twue wuv...and possibly procrastinating online.

Photo 365 #189

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I arrived home last night to find two packages sitting by my garage.  We occasionally get packages, and occasionally our letter carrier actually leaves them by our garage as we’ve requested a whole bunch of times.  But last night, I was surprised to find that one of them was addressed to me.

I hadn’t ordered anything recently, so what in the world could it be?  The return address indicated that it had come from California, but I couldn’t remember if the ZIP code listed was the same as my bestie’s or not, and if it was, I couldn’t figure out what she would be mailing me.

 

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But then I opened the box, and remembered that I’d joined Blurb’s Coffee & Quill Society back in November, and here they were sending me a free coffee mug!  I do love freebies, especially the useful sort.  Now I have something with which to imbibe my writerly go-juice at home, and I can’t wait to try it out tonight. 🙂

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Photo 365 #188

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TLC Revision Notes 4_2So, how’s the writing been going?

Well, uh…

You see that picture to the right?  It’s taken me all week to write that much (plus two lines on the preceding page).  You might say it’s been slow going.  Lord knows I would.

In fact, I might even go so far as to say that writing this particular section of The Price of Mercy has been akin to pulling teeth, to pounding my head against the table until words bleed out, to prying the sweet story meat from my brain with a crowbar.  In short, it’s been a brutal, bloody mess, and I hope that when I finish this revision and get the think edited, it reads well because writing it has been a complete and total #*!@$.

What have you all been up to lately?

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Photo 365 #187

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It’s another plain gray day out there.  Plain gray days are not helping my ability to wake up and stay focused.

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This is another shot from my trip out of the house over the weekend.  This is the sort of thing that might help me stay awake and focused and all those other grown-up, responsible-type things.

*passes out*

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Photo 365 #186

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It’s another Monday, and since I’m actually having a decent hair day, I thought I’d share:

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All the cool kids are using number two pencils to hold their hair back.  At least they used to, anyway.

This hair accessory decision has been brought to you by Buffy Summers.  Because I’m reliving my youth through hair accessories. 🙂

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Photo 365 #184

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In desperate need of some decongestant, I made a trip to town this morning, and this was the sight that greeted me:

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The sun on the snow was so bright that my head throbbed all the way there and back, but it was worth it to get it on film (so to speak).  What a beautiful day!

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Photo 365 #183

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There was another absolutely gorgeous sunset last night, and I was lucky enough to get a few pictures of it:

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Almost made getting stuck in the driveway worth it.  (Okay, not really, but I’m trying to find a bright side to getting stuck in a barely-drifted driveway.)

Happy Friday, everybody! 🙂

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Photo 365 #182

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prayerandcoffee

This pretty much sums up how I’m feeling right now.  This cold is still kicking my butt, but in the last twenty-four hours, I’ve managed to finish that story for Miss Tadpole (and she liked it so much, she took it to school to show off), fix a bunch of track changes issues in stories I’d submitted for an anthology (and learned how to use track changes correctly in the process), start reviewing a short story for someone (Oh, hello, track changes, how are you today?), and process two tax returns at work.

*scarfs chocolate miraculously left over from yesterday*

Of course, these are quite fitting for today’s mental state as well:

Our local coffee shop has the best décor.  Of course, I probably only think that because it happens to be true.

On second thought, no I don’t.  It’s awesome regardless of its truth.

*passes out*

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I’ve got a guest!

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Today I’m happy to have a poem by the lovely Tokoni O. Uti, a fellow poet from just across the way:

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Photo credit: @inspiredfashio1

 

And here’s Tokoni to tell us a little more about herself:

I am a Nigerian Student and Poet. I grew up in Lagos and began writing when I was 11. I am currently a student at Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria. I have been published on the Huffington Post, San Diego Free Press, S Magazine, Op-Ed News, Space Bar Magazine, The Brooklyn Reader, Collective Lifestyle Media and the Portsmouth Daily Times.

You can find more of her great poetry and other things over on her blog, Beautiful Insanity.  Stop by and look around, yeah?  She’s got some neat things on display.

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