Month: August 2006

Cedar Point! :D (Pictures)

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Ferris Wheel
Cedar Point 2006!!

It had been a LONG time since I’d gone on a Saturday, so I sat out a lot more rides than I normally would have because I didn’t want to wait in a lot of long lines. The longest I waited for a ride was nearly an hour for the Wicked Twister. But that one is worth it. It was the first ride of the day, and even though I’d ridden it before, I was a nervous wreck as I got closer to the loading area! I knew I just needed to “break the seal,” and once I did, I was fine. Well, until I got on Millennium Force, for which I waited 90 minutes for (so that was the longest wait, not the WT!)

I didn’t get a chance to ride Top Thrill Dragster this time, but that’s okay. Next time. 🙂

The most fun I had, though, was at night, when we were waiting for some friends to get on the Sky Hawk. The Sky Hawk is basically a GIGANTIC, hydraulic swing. It goes WAY up in the air. It was a LOT of fun to watch. Well, every time it’d start going up, those of us on the ground would start acting very ghetto, snapping our fingers and going “no, uh uh! Hell no!” I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. Then, a bunch of us hopped onto the Mine Ride. The Mine Ride is a small, dinky little coaster. There was no line for it, and we got right on. Since the particular train was adults-only, we decided to bring out the ghetto act again. The first thing I did was scream, very loudly: OH MY GOD as we were going over the first hill. But the first hill is a very tiny and slow drop, so we were yelling out “oh, HELL NO!” HAHA. Hands up the whole time on that ride–you get jerked around a lot if you do. Great fun.

The coolest part is when we came back through, there was no one waiting in line for the seat I was in, so the lady let some of us go again!! There was a kid in front of me this time, so I watched the language, but it was still a lot of fun.

I rode:

  1. Wicked Twister
  2. Gemini
  3. Millennium Force
  4. Troika
  5. Matterhorn
  6. Iron Dragon
  7. Scrambler
  8. Mine Ride (twice)
  9. Wave Swinger

I think that’s it. I wasn’t into waiting in line so much, and I kept Caty company as she’d decided to sit out a lot of the bigger coasters. Plus, I was working on my tan, on which I think I made great progress:

It's Me! :)
Yay!

I’m posting this picture simply because I like it:

Wicked Twister
Wicked Twister and Sunlight

And for the piece de resistance, a photo of Craig and me on Millennium Force!!!!

Millennium Force!

Whew. I am tired. Could sleep all day, but gotta go get Aidan soon. ‘Til next time…

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Oh Blessed Friday!!

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Or as E.Mae would say: TFGIF. HA.

Cedar Point tomorrow. Oh yes. Rides. Coasters. Crappy food. I am SO IN. Meeting at Craig’s around 8am. About ten of us going. Will probably be starving when we all get there. I plan to take loads of pictures.

Loads and loads.

Went to one of my favorite places today–THE LIBRARY. Managed to only check out 11 items, five of which were books. And the library fairy might or might not have placed jenlyn_b‘s Golden in a very strategic spot so someone would see it and check it out…..

Our director retired today, so we had an ice cream social at work. Everyone had little individual containers of ice cream, and there were loads of toppings to add. Yummy.

Yay for Friday. Aidan comes back on Sunday. It’s going to be very weird getting back into mommy-mode after being pretty much free for 2.5 weeks. I’m sure I’ll do okay, but you know. I will miss not having to be very responsible.

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Oh Muse, Where Art Thou?

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Okay, so I am no Meg Cabot or Nora Roberts or Adam Selzer, that may be true, but can it be that I can only squeeze out ONE book a year? I mean, that’s okay and all, but I’d like to be able to write at least two books a year. I was making great progress on MOVES, and then I just stopped. I look at it now like “what?” I mean, the framework is there. I just need to do a LOT of fleshing and organizing and adding more description and dialogue. Honestly, I am overwhelmed at the amount of work I have to do to it and it’s scaring me away.

I have to fight that. I don’t have to finish a book in two weeks like SOME PEOPLE I KNOW. It’s okay for me to take 6 months, like I’ve been doing all along, right?

Sigh.

UNTITLED. I’ve had a billion false starts on it. I know where I want it to go, but it won’t come out!!! Poor Alison. She’s been dying for her own story for years now. I don’t want to let her down.

I’m frustrated and feeling stuck because I want to write, but once I sit there, I lose all motivation and drive. I just feel tired, mostly. So maybe I’m tapped out for the year.

I’ve been told I need a break. But it’s hard to take it when I don’t really want to. But I think I have to, so I can clear my head and be able to write well. The stories will get told… I just need to be patient. Ethan’s got two of my books now, I guess it’s okay for me to breathe for a bit, huh?

Still, COME BACK, MUSE. I’LL GIVE YOU SOME CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH AND KOOL-AID!!! I promise. Just… come back to me!!!

(Originally published at Anywhere Is…)

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