Gone fishin’

June 13, 2013June 13, 201310 Comments

The boys are at the babysitter’s, the camper’s loaded up, and Camping Adventure Number One has begun! See you next week, everybody! 🙂

WIP it! WIP it good!

June 7, 20135 Comments

So last Friday, I stumbled across a post about the WIP IT GOOD Blogfest. I found the original detail post here and thought it sounded interesting, so I decided to participate. There was just one tiny problem: My current pitch kinda sucked. Like, bad. So I thought, “Okay, no biggie, I’ll just fix it.”

Yeah, that turned out to be a bigger challenge than I had anticipated.

I finally finished the polishing this morning. It took me a week of scribbling and thinking and trying not to pull all the hair out of my head (bald isn’t a good look for me), but I finally finished the polishing. At least for now. Till someone tells me it could be better. Because really, in all honesty, it probably could be. I’m still not convinced about the transitions between paragraphs. And I’m only halfway through writing the darn thing, never mind revisions, so it could still go in a completely different direction. But this is the direction in which it’s currently heading, and I think it’s on track to stay that way. So. A plan. I kinda sorta maybe have one. Possibly.

Anyway, to the deets!

May Day!

May 1, 2013Leave a comment

Can you believe it’s May already? What the heck happened to April? And didn’t we just have Christmas last week? Where is the time going?

Well, I intended this post to be a sort of recap. See, not only did I do the National Poetry Month challenge last month, I also participated in the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I signed up for it at the last minute after reading about it on my friend Kina’s blog and, while I mostly forgot to use the Twitter hashtag and tweet my posts, I at least remembered to post them in the Facebook group and visit the other participants’ sites. There were tons of amazing posts written in April and I’m glad I joined in this challenge. Maybe I’ll even sign up for the next one! 🙂

I was going to do a little more in-depth post today, but I’m a little bit sleep deprived after staying up to watch three hours’ worth of Dancing with the Stars last night so I could see who went home. Sleep deprivation has been a recurring theme for me the last couple of weeks, and not because the kids aren’t sleeping (they are). Okay, time to go take a nap or something so I can make some semblance of sense tomorrow. Maybe.

Happy May, everybody!

National Poetry Month (poemattic.wordpress.com)
The Non-National Poetry Months (benjaminlandry.wordpress.com)
Is National Poetry Month an Oxymoron? (canadafreepress.com)

Easter clean-up

March 31, 2013March 31, 2013Leave a comment

Okay, so I didn’t get this posted yesterday. I did, however, get three others drafted and ready to go for next week (still have some others to put together yet). I know, I know. But it is Easter weekend, and we have company today. Why am I writing this now, then? Because I’m in the backseat of my car on the way to a family gathering that’s two hours from home and I can’t hear the conversation happening in the front seat well enough to take part.

In other news, I’m hanging out with fellow author Mary Fan over at her blog today and talking about writing process. She’s a wonderful host and you should all check out her site. You can find my post here.

So! What are all these mysterious and entertaining posts I’ve been promising? My good friend, Will, is out on tour at the moment, and will be stopping by next week. I’m sprucing up the place in case he brings his friends, the Banned Underground, along with him (which means I’ll be stocking up on pizza and beer and reinforcing anything that might be prone to shattering as a result of feedback). For a full list of tour dates, check out his publisher’s page here.

Also, tomorrow is April Fool’s Day. Since April is National Poetry Month, I think I’ll take it upon myself once again to try writing a poem a day. I’ve done it before and really enjoyed it, so why not? This serves as your warning: Prepare to be inundated with bad poetry. 🙂

And now I think I’ll leave you to it. I hope you all have a very happy Easter!

A fun little post to pass the time

March 29, 2013Leave a comment

I found this survey thanks to S.T. Lakata, a friend I would not have were it not for GUTGAA and Twitter. And since I’m bored and my posting has been a bit sporadic of late, I hope you enjoy this while I draft up a whole bunch of posts with which to keep you entertained. More on that tomorrow. But now, a little more about me! 🙂

Filling in your kid years:
What’s the one television show you wanted to stay up late to watch?
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. My parents watched it every week and my sister and I used to beg them to let us stay up and watch it, too. Sometimes we won; sometimes we lost. But now I have the entire series sitting in my DVD cabinet, awaiting a rewatch. Muahahaha! 🙂

Boot Scootin’……. (Photo credit: Sandy/Scarlett Images ♥ Finally back!)

What two songs remind you of that period the most?
“The Thunder Rolls” by Garth Brooks
“Boot Scootin’ Boogie” by Brooks and Dunn

Clearly, I listened to a lot of country as a kid. And if they still played it on the radio, I’d still listen to it. (Yes, I am aware that country music stations still exist. That was a comment on the state of country music today.) Continue reading →

Mix tape memories, Part II

March 26, 20131 Comment

Last night I saw a Buzzfeed post on Facebook about the Backstreet Boys doing a Harlem Shake video. I missed out on that particular sensation, but I still love the Backstreet Boys, so I had to see this one. I still don’t get the whole Harlem Shake thing, but whatever. This made my night:

Also this:

If you don’t know why, then you need to go and watch the video for “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”. It’s terrible and cheesy and I can’t believe it’s the sort of thing I adored as a teenager, but there you have it. High school flashbacks for the WIN! 😀

The Backstreet Boys Do The “Harlem Shake” (buzzfeed.com)

Tuesday thoughts

March 19, 2013March 19, 20134 Comments

I’m too tired to come up with much in the way of a post tonight, so I think I’ll just leave you with these pretty pictures instead. Seymour surprised me with a visit this morning and gave me some pretty lilies before taking me out to lunch. Then for supper tonight, the kids and I tried our hand at making homemade donuts using Pillsbury biscuits and a deep fryer. They turned out pretty well, but the kids were wired for the rest of the night.

Pretty flowers from a pretty sweet guy. 🙂

Seymour has good taste. 🙂

Delicious homemade donuts. 🙂

Now if only the sugar had had the same effect on me… 😀

Flowers: Pretty in Pink (myphotoyear2012.wordpress.com)

Run away!

January 24, 20132 Comments

I saw this on Title to Come the other day and laughed hysterically because Monty Python is hilarious and The Holy Grail is one of my favorite movies. Also? I’m pretty sure it fits me.

The mummy, she lives!

December 19, 2012Leave a comment

I started this nice little post about this article I read this morning after following a link someone posted on Facebook and it was really very touching, so it made me want to write my very own little post on the same subject but then I got busy at work and didn’t have a chance to get back to it and now I have the time to work on it, but since I have neither the inclination nor the capacity to do so (although I suppose it could be argued that the coherence of this incredibly long run-on sentence means that I very well could write the dang post – I’m just too lazy to make my brain cells actually work), you’ll just have to wait till tomorrow to read it when hopefully the kids ~~will~~ won’t have a snow day and I can get some rest and kick the crap out of this stupid bug that has me in a choke-hold.