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miss me?
Of course you did. I’m back, and I’m at Fictionistas blogging about my playlist for BITE ME! pop over and read about it, check the playlist out at my new site, and then enjoy the variety of the list with a few videos from the playlist below…
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wazzzup?
Yesterday was fabulous. Enjoyed the sun tremendously. Planning to enjoy today as well.
I’m over at Fictionistas this morning talking about 6th grade…if you don’t think you’ll be traumatized, pop over and read all about it.
Our 2nd car has been in the shop for a week now. I’m sick of this 1 car thing. I’m not very good at sharing. I need to hit the lottery so I can buy a new car. And a beach house–in Hawaii. And a pool boy…
Enough about me…how was your weekend?
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2 things
- Go to Fictionistas for pictures of my adventures in getting to the STAIND concert. Totally worth it. It was a hot mess Saturday full of drama but the end result was awesome.
- Go see Star Trek. If you can, go see it in IMAX. Best movie I’ve seen in forever. Amazing. Worth a full price ticket even–and I never say that. Ever.
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Monday, Monday, Monday
I’m blogging at Fictionistas today about 10 things I wish I’d known when I was younger…
Today’s agenda: Getting my sparkle back on at the gym, meeting Arkansas Cyndi at Starbucks for some writing, cooking dinner, and chatting with friends.
Oxford was great. Had a super weekend with old friends. Enjoyed myself tremendously and was actually a little nostalgic.
How was your weekend? Accomplish anything? Do anything fun?
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THE MONTH OF MEL! DAY 30
In like a Lion out like a Lamb.
Yup. That’s exactly how I would describe THE MONTH OF MEL! We had a roaring good time, but now we’re exiting quietly.
Even though this will be a quiet week, it will still be a busy one for me.
I’ve started revising LOVE SUCKS! and it still needs quite a lot of work. I’m okay with that, but I’m not okay with the way my house looks right now. It’s distracting. Fur balls as big as my ass are starting to talk amongst themselves. I fear a take over is imminent. A fur ball rising is in my near future. (was that a CCR song?) Something must be done!
But I can’t worry about the fur balls and the dust bunnies right now. (I’ll have to worry if they join forces, but until then…) I have to do some revisions. Rewrite the opening scene, have a little face time with Sexy Lexy (oh, you haven’t met him yet…you’re in for a treat) and cut a couple of plot lines that never fully developed. It’s gonna be a lot of work, but I’m Mel..and well, I can do it. Right? Riiiiiiiight.
I’ll be blogging over at Fictionistas today about April Fool’s Jokes…pranks and what not. So swing by and check it out!
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*really big yawn*
First of all, it’s Monday, so as usual, I’m over at Fictionistas talking about cleaning off my desk this weekend. With pictures. (No…not the French Maid pictures. Those I’m saving for a very special occasion. Sorry…)
This was such a good, low key weekend. Rader had soccer on Saturday, which was slightly miserable. Being naked and covered in BBQ sauce standing in front of a group of hungry cannibals would’ve been only slightly worse. (see? silver lining) It was cold, rainy, and windy. But a trip to Beef O’Brady’s for lunch and a nice Guinness and bowl of potato soup warmed me right up.
And so did the Guinness induced nap Saturday afternoon.
I caught up on some Tivo’d shows, did some cleaning, and hung out with the kids. Yesterday afternoon, while Fishdog was at his soccer game and the boys were downstairs, I decided to watch a movie. You know, one of those romantic ones that I have to watch alone because noboy here in the house of penis will watch it with me?
I picked the wrong movie. Sigh.
I don’t like Nicholas Sparks novels. I take that back, I like 1 Sparks novel…The Rescue. It was the only one that ended with an acceptable HEA. The rest are tragic endings, the hero and heroine are inches away from getting their Happily Ever After and Sparks reaches down and yanks the rug out from under them.
Having said that, I really like a couple of the movies based on Sparks’ novels. I love The Notebook. (HATED THE BOOK WITH A PASSION. Threw it against the wall when I was finished) Even as tragic as it is, I love watching Message in a Bottle because the love story is strong. (as an aside I couldn’t stand A Walk to Remember in either book or movie form. Another wallbanger)
Since I’m a Diane Lane and Richard Gere fan and since I’m a sucker for anything on a beach (except for that awful movie Beaches) I wrestled with my love/hate relationship with Sparks and watched Nights in Rondanthe.
Ugh.
I didn’t buy the love story over all. Maybe I wasn’t feeling the lurve yesterday, I dunno. Usually I’m a sucker for all that love stuff, but yesterday I was a tough critc. By the time I started to actually root for the two of them, Sparks yanked the rug out.
Seriously, it wasn’t even unexpected. Which just made me even more mad at myself for watching it. All I wanted was a little love-feel good and all I got was sour grapes.
I hate it when that happens.
Did y’all do anything fun this weekend? Watch any good movies that you can recommend?
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I’m still alive–but
But the house isn’t finished. I swear, next time I go on strike, I’m going to prepare and freeze 2 months of meals in advance and hire a weekly housekeeper. (of course, I hope by ‘next time’ I’ll already have a housekeeper coming every other week…) I live in a frat house with animals.
So today’s goal is the living room, finish the laundry, mop all the floors, and organize my bedroom closet.
Part of the organizing is going to entail getting rid of shoes I don’t wear, as well as all the clothes I’ve ‘undergrown’ (because I’m not going back).
I’m also going to the gym today…I registered for my March 15 race this morning, so I have to make sure I’m going to be able to actually run that bitch. YAY ME!
I posted some pics on Ficitonistas from Saturday’s day with the boys at the races. Pop over and see them! I’m also going to be over at FCR today sometime. It’s Monday, so I’m making the rounds!
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where’s my coffee?
I can’t believe it’s Monday. I can’t believe it’s February. I can’t believe I haven’t left my desk in over a week.
I miss living. I miss working out. I miss real food.
I did finally shower yesterday. My family was thankful.
The Book That Will Not End is not done yet. It’s close. Soooo close, but not done. But it will be. Just you wait and see. And when it is, there will be a party.
BTW, look what the Universe sent me today:
How will you answer those, Melissa, who will one day look at your utterly amazing life, complete with good book deal and cool friends, and say, “Yeah, but for you it was easy”?
Huh, huh, huh?
The Universe
That’s kinda funny, huh? Good old Universe.
I’m back at Fictionistas today, after taking the last two Mondays off. Pop over and see me. But before you go, can you please fix me another cup of coffee? Thanks.
Also, my cross-continental buddy walked her first half-marathon and has documented it in a couple of posts over at FCR. Jump over there and congratulate her! I’ll be back over there sometime this week. When I finally peel my ass out of my chair and hit the pavement again.
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messy
I’m kind of a mess right now.
Yesterday was a big bust as a writing day. No focus. My brain is in major meltdown mode. And with the Dreadline looming, I really can’t afford a nookular meltdown of the brain.
Today I have lunch plans with my old high school boyfriend. If I remember, I’ll get a pic and maybe I’ll even post some then and now pictures. Or not. We’ll see. I had a mullet back then. Not sure I’m feeling brave enough to prove it. Ahhh, 1984–how I miss thee.
One of my best friends from college is also in town this week. Plus I’m supposed to do my annual opening day at Oaklawn on Friday with the girls. I’ve set a writing goal to meet by Friday so I can go, so I better get busy. I haven’t missed opening day in 8 years or so? Can’t blow it this year.
I have no idea what my blogs will be like this week. Could be a plenty or my little website could resemble a ghost town. We’ll see. Got any topic ideas you wanna suggest? Who knows, maybe they’ll spark my thinking cap.
It’s Monday, so I’m also over at Fictionistas today. Pop by.
Bitchin' Fiction: Musings by author Melissa McKenzie / Melissa Francis 