We Interrupt this Post with an Important Announcement:
I wrote 1698 freakin words of my very first novel for the first day of NaNoWriMo!!!!
That is all. Please resume reading.
This here is a repost, since today I’m traveling to New York City.
Every time I say that in my head, it sounds like the cowboys in those old Pace [...]

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I hope you can forgive the absence of an original post today.
I just finished six uninterrupted hours of data entry. Which reminded me of exactly how much I despise data entry.
This afternoon, it seems like a good time to bring back one of my favorite posts from this blog’s early days.
NOTE: You might think this [...]

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So what have I learned this week?
Besides that I’m a twoet and didn’t know it?
(BWAHAHAH! Get it?!!!)
No, seriously.
What I learned this week is…
That I have a dysfunctional relationship with guilt.
How did I learn this?
By spending an entire peaceful day in an empty house yesterday, while our wonderful teenage sitter took the kids to the pool. [...]

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TO DO LIST FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009
DAY:
Go to kids’ school for “Hat Party” where kids get honored for all the reading they’ve done in a month.
Wonder how I’d feel about wearing a paper-thin plastic “construction” hat with reading stickers on it if I was 11.
Rejoice that I will never again be 11. Or 16 [...]

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I’m watching local news. They pre-empted Oprah, which didn’t bother me cuz I don’t usually watch her. In fact, I don’t really watch any TV during the day.
So why am I tuning in at 4 pm on a weekday?
Two words: Tornado Watch.
Yep, I’m a weather wuss.
I blame it on California. Since they have no weather.
Okay, [...]

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I don’t know why others blog, but for me, it’s a chance to dump out all the clutter in my brain, swirl it around, and finally find the fantastic idea that I put in there a few days ago.
It’s kinda like cleaning out my purse, only in search of memories instead of mints.
And with less [...]

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