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Ronnie, New Community, and Stuff

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It’s kind of weird to be half-listening to your iTunes playlist (which is on random) and for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons to start essentially yelling your name in your ear.

I actually jumped, even though I’d heard the song loads of times.

Someone on my f-list mentioned something about a “writing journal,” and being the journal fiend I am, decided that was a wonderful idea. So I went home to my stash of journals (how sad is that?) and pulled out a cute pink one that a friend had gotten me for my birthday in 2004. YES I have a backlog, shoot me. Anyway, I love the idea. So now I have a writing notebook, made for me by , a little writing notepad from the same person, and my writing journal. I’m going to use that for officially documenting ideas. The notebook is for one WIP and its details, and the notepad is for jotting down ideas. Confusing? Yeah, I thought so.

Tomorrow, Aidan comes back. I’m going to try to write/revise my butt off tonight–but you know, I kinda of want to go shopping. Maybe I’ll do the “put everything into an online shopping cart then close the browser window” thing. Although, I do have gift cards, and tonight would be the perfect chance to shop “child-free” before my life as a mommy kicks back into gear… we’ll see how I feel.

I also NEED to finish The DaVinci Code tonight. It’s due tomorrow and I’m not allowed to renew it. Fortunately, I don’t have much more to go. I missed out on my chance to read Elsewhere, another one that is due tomorrow but not renewable. Poo.

Today is the MC’s birthday in my MAJOR REVISION PROJECT. Happy Birthday, Leanna! :)

Also, I’ve noticed that there are plenty of writers who are juggling careers with raising children. In honor of this, I have created a new community called Writer Moms. Click here to check it out: http://community.livejournal.com/writermoms

‘Til later, says the notebook/journal fiend.

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wOOt!

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100 pages!!

February Goal:

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28,130 / 25,000
(112.5%)

Overall Count

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28,130 / 50,000
(56.3%)

YAY!!

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Whew.

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With the lovely Cyn’s (cyn2write) help, I just cut 33 pages from Becoming Me.

I seriously commend her for being so patient to get through all of it. I think there is more work to do, but I think I have a good start. Yay.

I need a glass of wine. :)

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I Went to the Library Yesterday

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So…

I’d originally gone to pick up Twilight which I’d had on reserve. Yesterday was the last day I could get it, and their is a list a mile long, so I knew I HAD to go yesterday or else I’d lose it for a long time.

I left with 14 items. Many of them CDs, but the rest were BOOKS. Seriously, it’s like a SICKNESS. One of the guys at the circulation desk saw me struggling with my goodies and asked me if I needed a bag. HA HA HA. I’m excited because I got Gingerbread and Shrimp by Rachel Cohn, two books I’d been wanting to read for a while. I hate taking books out of the library if I can’t have the entire series at once. So I grabbed them both when I saw them. Dude, they have like 20454857849578 copies of Pop Princess now. And another copy of Second Helpings. I know they have another because I have one of them at home.

Does anyone recommend the Mediator series by Meg Cabot? I see them a lot, but I haven’t been able to bring myself to picking one up because I’m not sure if I care for the suspenseful stuff so much. What do you think?

Ahem.

I went home, worked a bit on my writing, ate three pieces of chocolate chip cookie dough, and promptly fell asleep. I slept until 1am, when I got up, grabbed a shower, and then finished reading My Cup Runneth Over. Oh my goodness, what an adorable book. It’s full of doodles, and the MC’s voice is so cute!! The ending was nice too. Very sudden, but I didn’t mind it at all. Maybe because I have the sequel sitting right on my nightstand.

Then I went back to sleep. I am looking forward to going home again. It’s so nice when no one else is there except the cats, the fish, and myself. And LOTS and LOTS of books.

Tomorrow, I am taking the day off. I’m going to sleep in, take a shower, then get a 90 minute massage. Mmmmm. Then I’ll spend the rest of the day writing/reading/indulging/pretending that my life is always that way. I also get Monday off. Woo-Hoo. Four days of writing YES LORD. I can’t wait. My WIP is getting complicated and I know that I’m fighting the process on purpose because it’s going to get emotional and hard. But I have to push through and do it. I have to. And I will. I’ll come out battered and broken, but at least I’ll have a novel that’s even closer to being completed.

Gosh, could this entry have been anymore random??

Have a good day! :)

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I Call It Research

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Christmas 2004, I opened Season One of The O.C. on DVD. Today, I finally busted it out. I watched all of DVD one, episodes 1 through 4, the episodes I’d never seen.

I really wasn’t procrastinating. I was researching.

Yeah, that’s it. Researching.

Man, that Adam Brody is such a cutie, no?

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