Skip to main content

Monday Confessions

Blame this on Joely.

I think I spent a whopping two hours on the vampire romance last week. At this rate, I'll be fifty before I finish the first draft. I need to stop tuning into the television and focus on the fiction.

Maybe I should stop reading, too.

Um. NO!! I'm going to insist reading is just as important as the writing that isn't being done. Sure, it's entertainment and something I enjoy. Immensely. Maybe even more than chocolate. But it is also market research and useful in analyzing craft. Important stuff, that. I honestly believe the more I read the more insight I have into how construct a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter...

What other confession do I have?

I didn't read my History textbook. Saving Chapter One for lunch.

Of course, I believe I have perfectly legitimate reasons for not writing or reading my textbook this weekend. Yesterday my oldest boy turned 9! (Happy Birthday, Little Man!) We had a sledding party for his birthday. That was interesting. We had a bonfire, roasted hot dogs, ate birthday cupcakes, and watched him unwrap gifts in the snow. That was Saturday, after I spent the morning baking and my hubby ran our boys to their basketball games.



Sunday we went into town to watch our nephews and our best friends' son wrestle. My nephews, who have won 3rd and 2nd place in the past, were eliminated pretty quickly. The youngest took it hard--he was crying enough to break your heart. Our friends' little guy took 2nd place! Way to go, Z!!

When we weren't running the roads, I was doing dishes or laundry. Not that you can tell. When I left the house this morning the sink was full and the basement floor was littered with dirty clothes. Seriously..I think we may have more than our fair share of clothing.

And that, my friends, pretty much sums up my weekend.
Labels:

Comments

  1. Joely Sue Burkhart9:05 AM

    I agree--reading is just as important as the writing. But I do begrudge every moment of my time spent reading someone ELSE'S book. :-) Sounds like you had a great weekend! BTW, I put up some synopsis info last night if you're interested. Hopefully we'll get lots of good recommendations in the comments, too!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Krista Heiser7:29 AM

    It was a great weekend. Busy but great.

    And thanks for the synopsis post! I'll definitely check out the links you posted.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Camping with Little Boys

  Our first travel trailer. I don't remember camping much with my family as a kid. This is likely because we always had the same vacation destination: a family plot in Baldwin, MI. There was no cabin there. Instead, there were two structures: a small, silver camper and an old single-wide trailer. The silver camper is gone but the single-wide still sits there and is used by extended family members to this day.  It wasn't until I was a teenager that my step-mom and dad bought a pop-up trailer and we started camping elsewhere in the state. My memory isn't the greatest, but I'm almost certain they got the pop-up after I started dating Ken. Eventually, my parents upgraded to a fifth wheel that my dad still pulls around to various nearby camping spots. Ken, by contrast, didn't have a set vacation destination growing up. His family camped. They started out with a truck-bed camper, I believe, and eventually upgraded to a fifth wheel.  Ken and I vacationed both in Baldwin an...
Post a Comment
Read more

Looking for Willing Victims

I've decided I'd like to expand my photography skills and experience. This means I need willing models. So far I've got a couple of people who might be willing to let me practice on them. I'm excited but nervous. I want so badly to take amazing pictures and give them each something they like. Shoot #1: Mom wants me to take Christmas pictures of her three daughters. I'm very excited, but I also want a lovely background. I was thinking of taking them to a park or some other such setting where there's a lot of pines. The problem is that Fall has just arrived and these are supposed to be Christmas pictures. Any suggestions? Shoot #2: A senior. I think I'm okay on this one. She wants fall colors in her pictures, so I just need to wait for the trees to do their thing. Then its a matter of finding the right location. Now here's my real delimna: Where do I upload them so they can be printed to look like professional pictures? Rounded corners and im...
9 comments
Read more

Poor Little Doggie

The dog and I both had dentist appointments yesterday for teeth cleanings.  While my appointment turned up a crack in a couple of old cavities, one of which will require a crown (ouch!), I was at least able to walk out of my appointment without feeling miserable.  Not so for this little fella.. Cash's cleaning turned into a tooth-pulling frenzy.  He lost a total of fifteen (15!!) teeth yesterday.  The rot was so advanced in some of the teeth that an infection had spread throughout his little mouth and into his blood stream.  If we wouldn't have taken him in to the vet for this cleaning, we may have lost him.  According to the vet, the infection would have eventually worked its way to his heart and given him a heart attack. For the next five days he's on a liquid only diet of chicken noodle soup and water; he is not happy about this decision and is convinced he's starving to death.  There is a lot of whining and pacing back in forth in front o...
3 comments
Read more