How You Live Your Life

You have a good sense of self control and hate to show weakness. You say whatever is on your mind. Other people’s reactions don’t phase you. You tend to have one best friend you hang with, as opposed to many aquaintences. You have one big dream in your life, and you never lose sight of it.

Quote du Jour:
“Darling, nothing is final ’til you’re dead, and even then, I’m sure God negotiates.”
–Baroness de Ghent, Ever After

First & foremost: BIG HUGE CONGRATS TO LARA FOR FINISHING THE FIRST DRAFT OF HER NOVEL! Woohoo! You go girl!

We stopped at McDonald’s for dinner because I just couldn’t bear the thought of cooking. I guess that makes me a bad mom.

It was a movie marathon last night. We started with the movie Garfield. Not a great flick, but the kiddo likes it. He thinks the dog is funny (he calls the dog Pony instead of Odie…it’s cute).

Afterwards, while he drew with map pencils, I started watching Ever After. I needed some new inspiration for my jousting novel. Not that this movie has jousting, but it has a great market scene and the masque, two things of which I needed to see to get a feel for (even though the movie is set two centuries later than my novel…still okay, I can work out the details later). Finished the movie, checked on my son, checked my email, and then back downstairs.

It was ten and I wasn’t even sleepy. So I started watching the movie Timeline. Now, this isn’t really all that great either, but Gerard Butler is absolutely dreamy in it. I love his accent and he has the most gorgeous eyes. AND the movie is set in the same year as my novel – 1357 (in France and mine is set in England… much later in the year.) So it was nice to get a feel for the era.

So by the time midnight rolls around, I stumble off the couch and to the bedroom. Thinking I’d go to sleep right away, I climb into bed.

Wrong. I tossed and turned for another hour.

So you’d think I’d be all sleepy and tired today. But, surprisingly, I feel rather chippy. (Is that a word?) It might have something to do with that venti vanilla latte I stopped and splurged on this morning. And my son (who is nearly four) asked for a green tea frappacino. He loves ‘em. DH will be beside himself when he sees I spent $7 at Starbucks this morning. Oh well! He’ll get over it. I get a paycheck too.

I didn’t get any required writing done yesterday. Nothing on the serials at all and only a few words on the jousting novel.

I did start something new though. Wrote about three pages. I had been kicking around a new idea for a fantasy trilogy about dragons. I figured I needed to work on something else just to break it up a bit. I’m going to get back on the jousting novel today though. I have some fresh ideas for that.

As far as the dragon stories…they’ll simmer for a while. I’m going to jot some ideas down as I think of them and just kind of see where it goes.

And.. another congrats is in order: Congratulations to Ashley Kath-Bilsky! She is the winner of the overall unpublished category in the prestigious Daphne du Maurier contest with her historical! Congrats, girl! I’m happy for you!