Happy Birthday to GRANDMA:


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Grandma lives in a very nice nursing home. We pay for her private telephone line. She calls us 3-4 times a day (minimum!) to tell us the same 3 things and ask the same 7 questions, but hey, it's Alzheimers and she has NO short-term memory. Yeah, it's annoying at times, but I wouldn't dream of disconnecting her phone. Just so you know ( Read more... )

1. Today is the day to sign up for JoNoWriMo: "It's a bit like NaNoWriMo, only you get an extra 1.5 months AND you don't have to write an entire novel. Basically, it's a time each year that a bunch of writers get together to support and encourage one another to meet a writing goal and/or finish a project." So get over there, dudes, and commit ( Read more... )

1. Just survived my 5-day stretch at work. I beleive I'll rant about this in a later post.

2. saraclaradara mentioned me on her Magical Mystery Tour!

3. See Eli staked out in backyard. See nosy little Yorkie run in our yard, yap-yap-yapping, like: "Ha, ha, you're tied up and I'm not, la-la-la!" See Eli do his monster sized WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! and catapult ( Read more... )

1. I stayed off the computer all weekend which I think is going to be my rule from now on. Usually I stay off only on the weekends I work, but I got much more done by avoiding the internet. Of course that means I had 67 emails waiting ( Read more... )

Elijah is down for a nap, Beth will be home in an hour, and I am OUT of here ASAP! Laptop! Coffee! Uninterrupted time for me! Byeeeeee!

P.S. I wore Eli out taking him out to the nursing home to visit Grandma. You should see the residents' faces when he prances by! Grandma adores him. He's definitely a future therapy dog!

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I need a split personality to work on 2 projects at once. I spent Saturday trying to do revisions for Linn (I decided to put her aside till my vacation starts next week). Then I spent Sunday doing a NaNo "dry run." You kmow how long it took me to do 3 paragraphs? 3 hours. I couldn't just write--I had to edit every line.

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I've been rotating shifts now for eleven months (yes, next month will be my one year anniversary in this job). So far it hasn't gotten much easier. I work 3-11 during the week and 7-3 on weekends, and this jumping around is getting to me. Waking up at 5 a.m. is now proving to be easier than staying awake till the sun goes down. And it's not as if I ( Read more... )