Happy New Year!! Here’s to much success and happiness for us all in 2006! Enjoy the search phrases and a few more days off. The husband and I are just planning on hanging out and ordering a few movies off PayPerView tonight. I’d like to see Crash and Mr. & […]

I’d like to direct your attention to this lovely site I came across - Death By Caffeine. Because really, it’s important to know your limits. My personal poison is Diet Coke.
Anyway, as promised, I got myself back into writing a few days ago. I haven’t gotten an awful lot done so far, […]

The husband has already started cooking in preparation for our guests tonight. We’ve unpacked as much as we can, and everyone has promised to ignore the dumpster in the driveway. In fact, the husband has taken to calling the dumpster, Santas’s Sled, and he and a friend are planning to liberate the neighbor’s […]

I’d never make it in this company:
The time-honored office tradition of whining at the water cooler just might get you fired, according to a newly compiled list of workplace horrors around the world. Two workers who exceeded the official limit of two moans per employee at one unnamed German firm were fired this year. […]

I’d like to pass on a little secret I learned recently - Italy is closed.
This is what the manager of Home Expo told me when I called to inquire about my bathroom sink, which was supposed to be in on December 20th, and is now due in on January 30th: Your sink’s on […]

I apologize if you’ve had trouble accessing the site over the past days - there’s a server move for my site in the near future. Which means that my site might remain wonky for a bit :)
Anyway, we’ve got some kind of ice storm thing going on here at the moment. The four […]

*waves from the boxes*
I’ve got band-aids on every finger from opening boxes (Box cutter? Those are for sissies. And for people who can use them without cutting off their own fingers.) And I’ve been to Home Depot more times than I can count in that two day period and really, I deserve some […]

So, to recap, kitchen is what you’d call ‘done ‘ if done means no counter tops, sinks, working stove and running water. It’s going to be very interesting for the next week or so but I don’t care. Because I noticed something - funny thing, the owners moving back into the […]

Swiped from PBW, Elizabeth Lyon’s Can Your Novel Pass This Test, is great. Actually, I think it’s something I’m going to keep next to me during the writing process to, because it really just made me stop and think. And, for a few minutes, panic completely, based on my own recent revision and […]

If you recall, last winter, the husband always managed to leave town on business just as the snow started. Granted, yesterday there was only a matter of a few inches on the ground here, but still, it began just as his plane took off for sunny California. As for me, I’m here with […]

The thing I like most about writer’s blogs is the fact that writers will share pretty much everything about their publishing journey - the ups and the downs, the entire process. I tend not to share, for no other reason than I’m very superstitious about sharing. Of course, the superstition goes something like […]

From Astrology for Writers, Editors and Filmmakers
aries: Control has been a lesson this past month. Now you know that sometimes letting other people dictate your schedule can have surprise benefits. Who would have thought that you’d learn to take the back seat?
Raine, what’s going on here? What does the universe have against Aries? […]

Don’t you think it’s logical that if a floor stain color is called American Rustic that I would immediately begin picturing log cabins and prairies and, well, things that are all…rustic-ish?
The husband and the contractor told me I’m letting the name throw me. And they might be right (but they will never […]