The Weekend...

It is half over...already! How is that even possible? *sigh*


My weekend started off with an icky bang when I went to my car yesterday morning & discovered I had a flat. I borrowed Mom's truck to get to work, stopped to put gas in it on the way home and then got home (safely...phew!). My dad came crashing up on my bedroom door this morning. He couldn't get his hydraulic jack under my car to lift it to take off the flat. He's yelling, I'm sound asleep...it wasn't a pretty picture.

I finally came to, rushed out into the living room, threw open the front door and screamed out "I'll call AAA! And I'm going back to bed!" I slammed the door shut and went back in my room where I went to sleep for another 2 hours. Yeah, you do not bother me on the weekend.

Got up around 10:30, called AAA and had them come out to fix my tire. Hotty guy comes up, takes my key, I went back inside, took a look in the mirror and realized I looked like death-warmed-over. *sigh* But, he did a great job getting my spare on my car, so I was happy.

Spent an hour at Les Schwab getting my tire fixed and my wheels rotated. All in all, it ended up not being a great day, but it didn't suck either. I'm just so stinkin' tired...didn't sleep well. I sneezed really hard at work yesterday & ended up giving myself a headache. It's not a bad one; just annoying.

I read 3 Days to Dead by Kelly Meding today. It's a UF/PNR and it wasn't bad. I didn't like the romance aspect of the book, but I loved the mystery of the book. The heroine wakes up in someone else's body & has 3 days to figure out how & why she died before she dies again. I'd give it a solid B for effort, but a D for the romance part. Yeah, this shoulda been a full UF and no PNR at all. *sigh*

Also finished Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale. It was...okay. Not perfect, but not awful either. I never should've read it a 2nd time. *sigh* Now I have to review it for Sourcebooks and figure out how to articulate what I did and didn't like about it.

And that's about it. I'm going to go reread some e-books and then go to bed. I need to take some of my bedding to the laundromat tomorrow to get 'em clean. It's been too long. I hate laundromats. Ugh!

Ciao!

Hmm...

So, I've been trying to think of ways to freshen up this here bloggy and I'm drawing a blank. Fun, right? *sigh* I'm sure there's SOMETHING out there that'll make me think "hmmm", but admittedly that's not happening today.

I'm doing well, I suppose. I'm tired and kinda cranky, but tomorrow's Friday. Yay! Wish it were the weekend already, but that's wishful thinkin', dontcha know. ha!

I'm working on Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale. I got a review copy, read it and promptly lost it. Now that it's out, I had to buy it so I could read it so I could review it. Yeah, that's not complicated at all!

I've reached my limit when it comes to stupid men. I had a prospect (who approached ME! I know, shocking!), but he ended up being a complete and total flake. I'm so sick of guys who can't seem to get their act together. *shakes head* It's not THAT hard, though sometimes it makes me wonder. :~P

I've been enjoying Kris's cookies. The woman sure finds some yummy ones. Oh yes she does.

I realized today that I've got less than a month to come up with something clever for my DIK blog. Ugh...I'm so not clever. Hmm...there's gotta be something out there that makes my brain kick in. Whatever it is, I'm missing it. Boo!

Had this weird dream about sex last night. I wasn't having it (sad), but I know it had sex in it. It was one of those bizarre surrealist dreams I get every now & then that makes no sense, but probably has some deeper meaning that my subconscious is trying to tell me about. Unfortunately, my consciousness isn't really wanting to dig that deep. So sad.

I tried a new dating site and have officially decided it's a farce. Horrible, icky, awful farce. And they gyp you too. Don't got to datetallmen.com. It's a bunch of bullhonky. :( *sniffle*

And that's that. Tomorrow is Friday. If I'm lucky, I'll survive to the weekend where I plan on doing NOTHING. Whoo!

Happy Wednesday

Heh...amazing that Wednesday is a word I have to sit and think about how to spell. lol. Sad.

I'm here. Alive (I think), just very busy and tired. Work's going decently *knocks on wood* and I'm looking forward to the weekend.

Yeah, that's about it. Oh and I just read the Wild Instinct anthology by Sarah McCarty. *sigh* I luvz her. :)

Enjoy The Cookie. Nom-nom-nom

Bored, Thy Name is Bridget

Holy Blog Of Doom, Batman! I just climbed out from under my rock and realised I have not updated this since the Clintons were in the Whitehouse...

You would not believe that my hands were chopped off and I was waiting for bionic ones. I prostrate myself in sorrow and beg thy forgiveness..

I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with responding to fanmail, learning to fart the theme to neighbours, just generally being a slave to every Lost Boy that crosses my path, my day is filled with fluorescent light from the second I am woken by murderous Teletubbies to 11pm at which point I fall asleep on the couch.

I am convinced that I absolutely deserve this after all my hard work. deal with it.I won't promise anything to you but although very chaste ones. I promise!

Assuming I don't get distracted by counting my chest hairs..



...Totally random blog generator

Whoa...

What a week! I'm so tired I can barely keep my eyes open and it's not even 8:30. How sad is that?

All in all I'm doing good though. Was able to get almost completely caught up at work today, so I'm very happy. Had to fight for it, but it ended up working out just peachy. :)

Sleeeeeeppppppppppyyyyyyyy! lol

Enjoy the cookie! :)

I've Said This Before...

And I'm saying it again. My mind scares me sometimes.

I've been battling the headache from hell since yesterday morning. I got up around 6:30 or so to use the bathroom and asked my mom if she'd come in and rub some Ben Gay over my shoulders and back since I'd gotten so tense (stupid headache). She gave me a shoulder rub and then I went back in my room to lay down.

I started to drift off to sleep when BAM, my brain starts whirring away. See, I've been struggling for the longest time to figure out how, when, where, why the beginning of State of Being. I have the end(ish), but I couldn't figure out the end. All of a sudden, the whole thing's smacking me in the face.

I tried to ignore it and get back to sleep, but my subconscious was NOT having it. So, I was up at 8:45 this morning. Got up, ate my breakfast, brought my laptop out into the living room and began typing.

I don't have a ton of writing, but I'm getting there. So far I've got all of Chapter One and almost all of Chapter Two completely done.

Originally I'd decided Kara (the heroine) was going to be named the new Alpha of the Pack in her father's will, but realized that just wasn't working. I think the idea I've come up with will work 1000 times better (crossing fingers). It changes a lot of the story, but that's okay. I've got a lot more to work with, so I'm thrilled to pieces.

My head still hurts, which is causing my concentration to suck, but at least I'm getting something down. That's all that matters anyway, yeah? :D

I Have Failed

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I'm so hopeless in the romance department that I've failed an eHarmony compatability thingamajig. I knew I was sad, but I didn't realize I was this bad! lol

Let's See If This Works...

I've been having issues with gmail for over a week. It'll let me post comments on other peoples blogs and it'll let me receive email, but it hasn't let me send emails or post actual blogs since a week ago today. *sigh* Here's hoping the curse has lifted! Huzzah!



This week was insane. I know I say that just about every week, but believe me when I say that this week really & truly was insane. I'm tired and kinda cranky. I also have a headache from hell. Stress + sinuses = bad combination.



I feel especially guilty since I owe a couple of reviews for Sourcebooks. I've got them on my to-do list for the weekend. I have a LOT of to-do stuff for this weekend. Oh joy!



So, I've been avoiding my book for awhile now. I think most of my problem was stress coupled with stress coupled with not enough sleep. But, I was reading my file today and realized that I have a really, really good story going on here. I just need to get my butt in gear and get book 1 finished. Oh, it needs a buttload of editing. I seem to be a big fan of ellipses. Me? Never! Bwa-ha-ha!



Haven't been reading much. What I have been reading hasn't been all that pleasant. :P Sad, but true.



Lately the only source of pleasure I've had is "him." Since when did I become a cougar? Anyone want to fill me in on when I started getting old? Please? lol. The super-sad thing that I've noticed is that even guys my age haven't grown up. In fact, they've regressed so much that for the most part they come across as preteens. It's sad...really, it is.



When did I get old? Seriously. I don't feel old. Not that 33 is old, mind you, but it's older than I think I am 99% of the time. Sometimes in my head I still feel like a teenager. I don't know...it's weird.





One thing I've noticed about this series I'm working on (sorry about the topic switch) is that I'm going out of my way to tweak the norm. I hate that the males in paranormals are always the Alpha of the Pack, especially in werewolf/wolfshifter stories. Anyone who's read about wolves know that females are also Alphas. Why not have an Alpha Female? Make the male an Alpha too. That'd throw all kinds of yummy tension into the story. And when it comes to sex? Who'd be the more dominant in the bedroom? The sexual heat would be...*sigh* Yummy. :)



And my buddy Kris...she's got me thinkin' about stuff. I've always loved sexy tattoos. I already had an idea for my hero to have one, but then she had an interesting tidbit on her bloggy about tattoos. Made me think even more. So, my hero has a very intriguing, very large, VERY sexy tattoo in a very interesting place. And that's all I'm sayin'. You'll just have to read the book. :)



Um, yeah, that's about it. My head's killing me. I think I'm going to go play Super Farkle for awhile. Kill some time. Get sleepy enough to sleep. Ciao!

Huh...

Amazing what spilling your guts will do for a person. *shakes head* Today, after dealing with WAY too much drama for the last month (at least), I finally hit that point of insanity and went to talk to the "big" boss. The convo lasted for about 45 minutes and by the time I got out of her office, I felt about 50 pounds lighter.

There's been a lot of nonsense going on. I was an idiot and didn't talk about it as I should have, but see...I have this problem. I'm a big believer in wanting to fix things; have them work the way they should. There is nothing more annoying than dealing with people who don't work like that. Unfortunately, my boss is one of those people. Her logic is so far beyond me that I've given up trying to understand her. That (and my inability to smack her upside the head like I should be ALLOWED to do) causes me a great deal of stress.

So, I unburdened myself. I told the BB what was transpiring, my frustrations...basically I unloaded. I just couldn't deal with it anymore. And I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open.

The only good thing about this past month is "him." I gotta tell ya...there's nothing more flattering than being flirted with by a younger man. It makes me feel hot. heh

Excuse Me While I Ramble...

'Cuz truly? I'm amazed my brain is working correctly right now. I cannot remember ever being this...discombobulated before. I am so slammed at work right now it's not even funny. To add fun to the picture, I'm also short-handed and VERY behind. My friend gave me chocolate today. That's about the only good thing that happened.

I keep meaning to do a 2009 retrospective on books and all that other yummy goodness, but honestly? At the moment I got nothin'. *sigh*

My big goal for the near future is to completely redo my blog. Not the set-up, because Holly spent a lot of time making it all pretty, but the overallness of the blog. I need to figure out some sort of schedule or something. I love blogging; the joy it gives me is something I can't describe. I was looking at my feed for 2009 and I barely did 200 posts. Last year it was almost twice that. What's wrong with me? lol

99% of the issue right now is that I'm completely, 100% overwhelmed. Plus, my friends all have lives and so I barely get to see any of them anymore. I thought when I got switched to Monday-Friday that I'd get to see them, but honestly, it's been the complete opposite of that. *sigh*

I haven't read any new books in so long that my head's getting ready to explode. There are a couple of new books I've gotta buy, but I have to wait until payday. Plus I'm trying to save up finances so I can MOVE OUT! Oh, I can't even begin to tell you how desparate I am to do that. Don't get me wrong, I love my parents, but I'm so done living with them. Oy!

My writing is going...well, it's going nowhere right now. I'm lucky if I can remember my own name when I get home from work. Trying to remember character names and all of those other details is...well, it's just not happening right now. I'm hoping that'll change sooner rather than later, but...yeah.

And so, that's what's been going on on my end. A whole lot of nothin'...outside of work, that is. How sad is that?

Just a Quickie (ooooohhhh!!!)

Yeah, I'm lame. 4 days of vacay and I walked into insanity today. Ugh!

Bought cute bras & panties yesterday. Boy shorts ROCK!

To Start Things Off Right...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!