My list goes to 12:

1.     Quitting Facebook, or at least spending waaaaay less time on it

2.     Finishing a trilogy!

3.     Starting a new novel that is not going to be a trilogy and is way simpler and smaller in scope but still paranormal and romantic and quirky in my usual ways

4.     Getting into the habit of daily meditation - I like the ( Read more... )

Recipe for insomnia ( Read more... )

Please welcome into the Famed Halls of Celebrities I Have Kissed in My Dreams... Heath Ledger!
(*clap clap clap*)

I've always liked and admired Heath, but he only murmured and shouldered his way onto my so-called "lust list" just lately, after I saw Casanova. Yes, it's a fluffy and ridiculous film with no historical redeeming value whatsoever. ( Read more... )

This morning as I got some extra sleep while Steve took the little 'un downstairs between feedings, I had a fun wild dream that Neil Gaiman or Tim Burton might have written. The notable part was that I visited the Underworld, which you accessed by a stairwell in a city street. The Underworld looked about like an underground street market--in fact ( Read more... )

Challenge to self: come up with at least three remarks ( Read more... )

(I was just going to write "sleep" in the subject field, then the Wicked Witch of the West took over.)

Today I added "sleep" to my interests list, not just because I love to sleep, but because I recently finished reading a very interesting book about the subject by a sleep specialist: Dr. William Dement's The Promise of Sleep. If he's to be ( Read more... )

(Isn't that what LJ is all about, really ( Read more... )

Oh, great. To judge from this new spoilericious pic of a Shelob action figure, our favorite arachnid villain will look a lot like a gigantic hobo spider wearing armor. This may be the first thing in the LOTR films to really give me the creeps. (As well it should, since the Shelob incident is among the top two or three most traumatic events in ( Read more... )

(Just to prove I can address topics other than hobbit-loving.)

My fine editor Deborah at Scheherazade Tales posted this valid complaint to an ebook mailing list:

( Some gripes about the rewriting process and prima donna writers )

What a bizarre way to start the morning. I woke up out of a dream that I was--for a little while anyway--making out with Reese Witherspoon. Yeah. The actress. Another girl. This is really unusual for me. Dreams about famous guys, guys I know, guys I don't know, sure, all the time. But this? What the ( Read more... )