my scramblings & ramblings
Guess what! GUESS!!!!
Okay, I can’t wait for you to guess.
See you there, Mandy, mandywriter, Sara, sbennettwealer, and Nadiaagentobscura!!!!!
I just booked everything–flight, hotel, registration. I’m really excited now, and can’t wait to get there. YAY!!!!
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I hate it when I get that feeling of… just not feeling right. Not exactly unhappy or cranky, but very down. Or bummed.
I’m feeling bummed. *sigh*
Aidan is being naughty and making “food” messes all over the place. Our basement flooded last night because the power went out at 7:30pm and didn’t come back on until 2:30am, thus rendering the sump pump useless which is BAD when it’s raining a LOT. There wasn’t a whole lot of water, but there was enough to be annoying. Heh. Chris had to use the Shop Vac to clean it out.
There are other reasons I’m bummed too, but I won’t post them. Chris did entice me with a trip to Barnes & Noble, but honestly, I don’t even feel like doing that. 🙁
This feeling I’m getting…it’s like OPPRESSION. As soon as I pulled into the garage, I just felt cranky. When I went to pick up Aidan, the sitter said “you don’t look very happy.” The kids all smiled at me, though, and that helped. But it’s like this weight, this pressure, and I don’t know how to make it go away.
I hate it when I’m like this.
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Mandy (mandywriter) is going to kill me, but I still haven’t registered for the Chicago Spring Fling RWA conference. For some reason, I am balking at the idea of going. I don’t know if it’s the money, or if I don’t know if registering this late will be beneficial or what. So I need some help. I need reasons to go, or reasons not to go. So far, I have:
YES
1. Meeting Mandy (mandywriter)
2. Meeting Nadia (agentobscura)
3. Seeing/Meeting Alecia Holiday
4. The Care and Feeding of Agents – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Getting, Keeping, Caring for and (eek!) Firing Your Agent | Nadia Cornier
5. Get Out of Deadwood: Ridding Your Manuscript of Excess Verbiage by Tightening, Clarifying, and Focusing Your Writing | Maureen Lang
6. Inside an Editor’s Mind | Margaret Marbury and Monique Patterson
NO
1. MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!
2. Would have to take more time off of work.
Hmm, okay. I’m still having a hard time even though the reasons clearly state I should be jumping at this chance. So… what could be holding me back? 
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Today I hooked my monitor and stuff up to my laptop. Then I realized that I needed a USB keyboard, so off to Best Buy we went. I was going to get a wireless keyboard and mouse ($49), but then I saw a nice $19 USB keyboard, wired, but good enough for what I wanted, so I got that. THEN I picked up a 160 gig external hard drive ($89). I’m backing up all my files now. YAY. This was important to me because I was feeling weird about having all my precious files on one place. Call me paranoid, but after losing two computers within two weeks of each other, I don’t want to take anymore chances.
I mean, I know it’s weird, but I missed writing at my desk. So until I get my desktop computer from Andy, I will probably keep my laptop hooked up here… well, at least until I need to be downstairs with my laptop, like tomorrow, for instance. I’d LOVE a docking station, but I am not sure if they make them for my particular computer. That way I can just plop it on the station and not have to worry about stopping things and unhooking them and stuff. But again, I’ll get my desktop sometime, so I probably won’t even need to do that. We’ll see. 🙂
Fifteen out of forty-nine folders have been copied, and it’s been going for about 90 minutes now. 😀 I have about 70 gigs of stuff to move over.
Chris is planning a vacation for us. Unfortunately, not Disneyworld. 🙁 However, it will be the southwest, so I’m okay with that. Vegas (a stripview room in Rio!!), Phoenix, Mexico. Good times. It will be my first time visiting outside of the U.S. I know, sad, isn’t it? I’ve never even been to Canada, not yet anyway. Anyway, can you say BELLAGIO BUFFET??? And fountains, and the malls and pretty stuff and photo ops… YES. Can’t wait. 😀
Yesterday, I spent the whole day indoors thanks to a poopy scratchy/sore throat. Chris took Aidan to the Air Force Museum, so I got some quality rest in. Then I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Robert Pattison is illegally handsome. 😀
Today, I found out that Katie reads my LJ, so hi Katie!! ♥ Same to all you “IRL” people who read my journal. Don’t be afraid, come on out and say hi! 😀
Right now, Aidan is watching Monsters, Inc which I bought today, along with The Parent Trap. I’m looking for Blast from the Past on DVD. I wonder if it’s out. It’s such a cute movie! Okay, I’m being summoned by my little guy. I’m also craving bacon like WHOA but I don’t have any in the house, and I doubt I could convince Chris to go out and get me some. 😡
Anyway, good night!!
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I wrote the ending to my WIP today. So, the beginning is done, the end, and some of the middle. But not enough of the middle. Not only that, but I need to seriously change some things. Good times, good times.
This book and my book before this were written out of order. I used to put a lot of pressure on myself to go in order, and I know some people really say it’s important. But for me, it’s just easier to write what scenes I’m feeling at the moment, then rearranging at will. I can always go back and fix details, so it’s no biggie for me. How about you guys?
I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire today. Robert Pattison (Diggory) is great inspiration for the guy main character. 
He is illegally handsome.
Dinner time! ‘Til later!
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