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Pictures of Daisy

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 18, 2012| 12 Comments »

I’ve had some people ask me to post pictures of Daisy, my new puppy who came to my house from who knows where. It’s really hard to get pictures of a dog that wants to constantly lick my feet, so I had to take these through the french door. That’s why the quality might be lacking just a bit. I was hoping she would come closer, but this was the best I could do for now.

The first picture is of Daisy, but you can also see my twelve-year-old dog, Chipper lying in the background, looking as if he’s dead. LOL

In this second picture, Chipper has roused himself and is looking to see what Daisy is posing for. 🙂

Adorable, huh?

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Sunday Update 6/17/12

Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2012| 9 Comments »

Whew, am I glad Vacation Bible School is over. I love the kids, but it wears me out! I haven’t exercised like I should because of the time factor, plus I just wanted to flop on the couch after VBS. I hope to get my bike rack back on my car this week and do some riding. I have improved my eating habits, though. I’m still doing pretty well at stopping when I’m satisfied and leaving food on my plate. I lost the two lbs. I gained while on vacation, and it looks like I might have lost another lb. besides that. I can’t tell because I weighed Saturday after eating both breakfast and lunch, and I usually weigh in the mornings before eating.

On the writing front, I only wrote three days last week, but it’s a lot more than I’ve been writing. Monday-714, Tuesday-901, Saturday-1725. Even though I didn’t write every day, I wrote a lot of words on Saturday, so that kind of makes up for it. If you take my old 500 words per day goal, I wrote about 6 1/2 days worth in 3 days. LOL

My new puppy, Daisy and my old dog, Chipper are getting along better. Daisy still barks at everything, especially the kittens. The kittens are still running through the house like maniacs when I let them in to play. They’ve knocked over my digital picture frame about a dozen times. As fun as kittens are, I really prefer grown cats. I can cuddle them and hold them in my lap. Kittens are too busy to fool with that foolishness. Ha ha.

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Trouble with Timelines

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 16, 2012| 8 Comments »

While writing my WIP, I’ve found that the biggest problem I have is with time. For instance, if something happens on Friday, I have trouble remembering the next day is Saturday. Or I’ll have two Saturdays in a row. Stuff like that. Because I get so focused on the actual story, I forget about those things. Another thing is time of day. I had a scene in The Gnome where someone’s hair was shining in the parking lot lights. But it was daytime. In my defense, I had changed some things around, and the original scene had been at night. I just forgot to fix that. A beta reader caught it. That’s why we NEED beta readers. And two of mine are great editors, too. What made me even write this post is that I just had to cut part of a scene out because a vampire that is supposed to only be out at night came upon two women having a picnic in broad daylight. I liked the scene because one of the women is his potential love interest, and he caught her and her friend being silly and they had been talking about him. So I had to either cut that part of the scene or change the picnic to nighttime. It was easier and more logical to cut it.

Does anyone else out there ever have problems with time, or is it just me? I want to know.

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New Puppy?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 15, 2012| 15 Comments »

I don’t know what possesses a person to just drop off unwanted animals out in the country, hoping somebody will take care of the animal THEY weren’t willing to take care off. And, of course, I live in a rural area, so now I’ve acquired a new puppy. I guess we’re going to keep her because I don’t know what else to do. If we take her to a shelter, she could be euthanized. And our ARK (no kill shelter) is always full. And this puppy is so CUTE. My son has already named her Daisy Duke and calling her Daisy (sorry, Kait, I didn’t mean to have a dog with the same name as yours). When she first came a few days ago, she would bark at my dog, Chipper (who is 12 years old and doesn’t need that stress, LOL) like she was going to eat him up. I think they’ve finally made peace, though. A sad thing is that when this skittish little dog finally let me pet her, she lay on the deck with her front legs stretched out and her head tucked between them as if she were saying “ok, you can beat me now”. I almost cried. Was she mistreated before or was she just scared? I tried to get a picture of this cute little thing last night, but it was too dark. I’ll try to get something to post later. I have no idea how old she is, so I don’t how long it will be before we’ll have to have her spayed. My husband said she looks like she’s three or four months old. I’m thinking at LEAST that, maybe a little older. She has big paws, so she’s probably going to be big. She’s all one color, sort of a light brown. She has floppy ears. I have NO idea what kind she is. I’m already going to have to pay to have my male cat neutered in a few months, so adding cost for another animal isn’t making me happy. But what’s the alternative? I guess we have a new pet to add to our menagerie. So now we have two dogs and two cats. At least that pesky rooster that was coming to our house is gone. LOL

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Twilight and New Moon Spoofs

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 14, 2012| 6 Comments »

My friend and awesome author Ruth Ann Nordin posted a video of a Twilight spoof from Phineas and Ferb. That got me thinking about a couple of spoofs a friend of mine did. He works with the youth of his church, and they did these videos for some kind of spring formal they had (an alternative to the prom). If you’re looking for sophisticated humor, DON’T watch these videos. They might make your eyeballs bleed. But, if you like your humor a little corny (and I DO mean corny!), watch on! The first one is a spoof of the first Twilight movie and the second is a spoof of the second one, New Moon. Notice how my friend Andy does the “Edward lips”. These crack me up every time I watch them.

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I’m Baaaaack

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 13, 2012| 14 Comments »

I was going to post a video of Aerosmith singing “Back in the Saddle Again”, but I thought it might be a little much. And, really, who would watch the video all the way through? LOL. Anyway, I’m finally back on track with writing. I had no idea how I was going to manage writing after working all day, then teaching Vacation Bible School. I was going to put off writing for another week. But then I started thinking about how I really needed to get this story back on track. So I spent my lunch hours for the past two days writing. Monday I wrote over 700, and yesterday I wrote over 900. Today, I have lunch plans, so I may not be writing, but I’ll go back to it on Thursday. It feels great!

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Shannon Mayer-One of My New Favorite Authors!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on June 11, 2012| 5 Comments »

I got a couple of books for free by Shannon Mayer through a giveaway. I read Dark Waters while I was on vacation and really, really liked it. There’s just something about Shannon’s writing style that I like. She makes a story interesting enough to keep me hooked all the way through. The other book I got was Sundered, which is the first in a series. I’m not usually a big fan of “zombie-ish” books, but this one blew me away. I couldn’t read it fast enough because I kept wondering what would happen next. When I finished, I went straight to Amazon and got the next one. I devoured that one, and now I’m on the third one. I hope this is the last one because it looks like there’s no more out there yet, and I don’t want to be left hanging. LOL.

Anyway, I’m glad I found her. I can’t wait to read something else. I’ve read almost everything she’s published so far, though. 😦 Maybe something else will come out soon. She’s pretty prolific.

You can find Shannon here: Shannon Mayer

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Sunday Update 6/10/12

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on June 10, 2012| 17 Comments »

1. Writing – I haven’t written a word. I was so floored by my blood pressure situation that I decided to concentrate on health last week. Plus, I’ve spent HOURS preparing to teach Vacation Bible School. I hope I can get back on track on writing this week. I’ll be at VBS every night this week, but hopefully I can come home and write. I still need to get the junk off my desk in my office (piled up to get stuff out of the living room when I had my Pampered Chef party). I write better in my office instead of in the living room with the TV on.

2. Kittens – The kittens played non-stop for 6 hours in the house yesterday. It was like having two toddlers in the house. I had to constantly watch them to keep them out of trouble. They knocked over a plant, but I think I fixed it so hubby doesn’t find out. LOL. After six hours, they plopped down in hubby’s recliner and snoozed. I did decide on Willow and Oz for names.

3. Health – My goal is to walk five times a week. I started all of this Wednesday. I walked on the treadmill Wednesday after church and at lunch on Thursday and Friday. That was three times, but I didn’t start until the middle of the week. I’m learning to leave stuff on my plate, so I have leftovers from both last night and from lunch today. Actually, I have more than half of today’s lunch left over. I still haven’t been to the grocery store, so not much cooking done. With VBS all week, I may not get to the cooking until after that’s over. Oh, and I forgot to weigh this morning, so I guess I won’t be reporting weight loss (or gain) until next week.

4. Movie thoughts -We went to see Men in Black 3 last night since it was hubby’s birthday and that’s what he wanted to do. It was good, but not as good as the first two, in my opinion. I loved the first one. It’s one of my favorite movies.

How did YOU do last week?

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Chacos

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 7, 2012| 4 Comments »

Most of you probably know Skechers was fined by the FTC for false fitness claims concerning their Shape-ups. My friend has a pair of Shape-ups and I have a pair of Tone-ups, but we have never noticed any kind of benefits from the shoes. I think we were supposed to get more toned by them or something.

Anyway, this post is supposed to be about Chacos, right? Well, the reason I mentioned Skechers is because I think Chacos might do what Skechers CLAIMED to do. Now this is ONLY my opinion, so don’t take this as a great truth or anything. I went walking today and didn’t have my walking shoes (the Tone-ups) and I wondered if I could walk in my Chacos. They took time to get used to because of the great arch support since I’m totally flat footed. The salesperson I bought these from said I would get used to them if I gave it time, which I did. Anyway, I went to the park close to where I work and walked during lunch. After about five minutes, the muscles in my calves and thighs, as well as the muscles at the side of my hips, started getting sore like I was working out. I walked for 20 minutes and my feet felt great. But my leg muscles were sore…in a good way. Does anyone know anything about this? Do any of you own Chacos? Do you walk in them (exercise, not regular walking around, LOL)? If so, did you feel a toning benefit?

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A Rude Awakening Concerning My Health

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 6, 2012| 34 Comments »

I haven’t been feeling that great lately. I know that’s one of the reasons I haven’t been writing as much. The day we left Florida to come back home, I developed a cough which was much like the one I had back in March when I had bronchitis, so I thought I would go to the doctor and nip it in the bud so I wouldn’t get as sick as I was then. When they took my blood pressure, I was a little nervous because my blood pressure runs high when I’m not exercising regularly. To my horror, the bottom number was 98! The nurse practitioner (I went to a walk in close to my work) told me I should follow up with my regular doctor about possible blood pressure meds. I told her if I would just start exercising again, I could bring it back down. She said maybe I should be on meds at least for a couple of months until I had been exercising awhile.

This has been a wake up call for me. I talked to a guy here at work that’s on blood pressure meds (sometimes his BP is as high as mine was even ON meds), and he said that’s probably why I’ve been feeling bad. He said that’s a symptom. Why, oh, why did I let myself stop exercising? I knew exercise was good for me. I KNEW my BP could go up if I didn’t exercise. I feel like such a fool for letting this get out of hand. Today, I’m going to exercise even if I have to do it at midnight. I’ll exercise at least 5 days a week. I’m not going to be TOO BUSY anymore. This is going to have to come first!

Another thing. This is something I’ve learned about eating and losing weight. The reason I can’t stick to a diet is because it’s a DIET. When I try to count calories, leave certain foods off, deprive myself of something I’m craving…that’s when everything falls apart. No more diets for me. No more foods off limits. The thing that works the best for me is cutting down (not cutting out) on foods that aren’t that good for me. Stopping when I’m satisfied instead of feeling like I have to eat everything on my plate. Cooking more so I can have yummy leftovers for lunch instead of going out to eat every day. (That saves money, too!) In other words…just good common sense and good habits. Hey, I just bought a boatload of Pampered Chef items, so I should be good to go when it comes to cooking.

Okay, so on my Sunday ROW80 check ins, I’m going to include health related items, even weight loss. I’ve already lost 8 lbs. and gained 2 back while in Florida. So I’m going to include my current loss in my total. Because, you know, it counts, too.

So who will join me? Who wants to be healthier and is willing to report that along with writing stats? I know some of you are already doing this, but not many. We, as writers, sit on our butts a lot. I do this at my day job, too. We need to get up and get moving. If our bodies are healthy, our minds work better. Are you ready? I am!

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