Schedules

This was the first week out of school for my kiddo. We had one eye appointment. One rescheduled hair cut appointment (see results from previous blog). One visit to the zoo. One visit to the aquarium. One visit to the library to sign up for the summer reading program. One friend over to swim and who ultimately spent the night. R's friend is one of the 'quiet' ones, so I actually like having her around. When some of R's other friends hang out, the noise tends to escalate. . . and escalate or the bickering starts. Grrr! Anyhoo, this kid is pretty good to have around. She's one of the middle of five children, so she likes being only one of two kids, I think.

Needless to say, I'm not getting very much rewriting done on my story. I've reworked (changed from mom's POV to child's POV and added emotion) only eleven pages of MOGG. Uh, only 123 more to go! I really would like to get a little farther along than this. But it is what it is and THAT is summer vacation. *sigh* I'll get there. Next week should be a little more organized. I think it is the newness of no school that has the kiddo all freaky-deaky.

Today is another complete write off for the writing stuff. I might get to sit down, but I don't anticipate getting much done. When we take R's friend home I'll be picking up my BIL and his two kiddos from the tire store. They're all coming over to swim. Maybe I can get some gardening done while the play in the frigid pool. No, the new electronic board didn't fix the heater.

I may not be writing, but I HAVE been reading. I finished Smoke in Mirrors by Jayne Ann Krentz, Last Vampire Standing by Nancy Haddock, and middle grade book The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan.

Maybe this afternoon I can,

Write on!

Yeah, Yeah, I'm Late

with this blog Nothing else. Trust me.


Today, Rachel got her hair cut. Big time cut. She wanted her hair short and it turned out we could cut off ten inches--enough to donate to Locks of Love. She was so excited throughout the process. Even though she is a self-admitted tomboy, she really enjoyed the whole pampering thing.

I had to change her appointment from next week to today because of a birthday party conflict. So, yesterday we were frantically looking at hair styles until we settled on a 'do' that Eva Longoria wore July 2008.

And this is the result:

We met Todd for lunch right afterward at Macaroni Grill, and he took this picture on his cell phone. Actually, she kind of looks like my niece, Cathryn with this cut. Cathryn just turned thirty but is still way cute. Rachel took it to be the compliment that it was. :-)

Now, I need to try to get some editing done.

Write on!

I'm Sick of Gloom

Oklahoma isn't supposed to be gloomy or rain sodden. It just isn't. If I wanted to live in Seattle I would have moved there, but I don't want to live there. I NEED the sun! I squelched through my yard to look at my overgrown grass and shrubs. It's too wet to mow, the puddles in the low areas can't get absorbed since the ground is so wet--thus the flooding. I'm lucky that I don't live in a low area. The bulbs I just planted are popping up through the mulch. And I still haven't had a chance to fertilize and thicken up the mulch in the thin areas. My roses and peony's are limp and sad with their heads hanging low. Pretty soon, I'll see the tell-tale signs of powdery mildew and black spot covering everything. And it's too wet to spray, plus with the way the rain has been pouring down in spurts and starts it will wash away the fungicide before it gets soaked into the leaves.



I definitely have a love/hate relationship with springtime in Oklahoma.




Update on the kiddo: She's fine. All the flu tests came back negative. Consensus is that she has a common cold due to our schedule, thus her exhaustion, and the lame-o weather. Hubster will be pissed, but I'm going to post one of her pictures in her First Holy Communion dress. She's such a cutie!



And an update on NaPiBoWriWee, I've already given up for now. I sent a note to Paula Yoo that I'll never get those stories written since I didn't even get any ideas until day 3, much less have them fleshed out enough to write a story. And she suggested that I jot down a sentence or two for future use. Yes! This I can do! So today and tomorrow I'll jot down my list and I'll have seven prospective stories to write this summer. One good thing came out of this--I wrote over 1000 words on my Middle Grade novel. If I can keep this pace up, I should have it finished by the end of May (my goal), which will give me a month to clean it up before I have to mail it into the contest.



Well, that's it for now. Time to Wii, eat lunch with hubby, get my hair cut, shop at Barnes & Noble, Sam's and Ulta before I come home to write another 1000 words. I'm a happy camper today.



Write on!