At a previous Writing Gang meeting, I said, "You know what I really want to do is create our own writing retreat. Just go away somewhere peaceful for the weekend and write with you guys." I said in in the way you say things you hope will happen without actually expecting them to happen ( Read more... )

On Saturday, my sister gave birth to my first ever niece, Sienna! I am now officially a proud Auntie!

She is beautiful and perfect and so wonderful, and I am so totally and completely obsessed. I love her so much. In fact, I'm having a hard time thinking about anything else.

Why write? When I can play with her little toesies.
Why go for a run? When I ( Read more... )

I spent the entirety of Memorial Day weekend (including my birthday celebrations) in various stages of being sick, and I'm still recovering.

It didn't help, of course, that on Friday afternoon, when I felt the attack of sniffling, sinus pressure, and the tickle in my throat, that instead of heading home to rest and sleep as I aught to have I went ( Read more... )

1. I bought myself an iPhone 4S! and... and it's sucking up all my time! lol. Seriously, though, I can barely put it down. So many shiny apps to play with, and a speaker that actually works, and conversations with Siri. I am most amused.

It occurred to me (and I'm sure that I'm not the first to think this), that at the rate all this technology is ( Read more... )

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I also received an email this morning stating that one of my poems has been accepted for publication. SWEET!

I'll let you know when it's posted. (^_^)

Welp! I've moved in to my new apartment with my buddy -- and by moved in, I mean I've collected my clothes and limited belonging from my sister's apartment and piled it up in a corner of my room and have placed a thin mat on the floor to sleep on until I can by a mattress. *shurg*

Okay, so I have no furniture at the moment (though my friend did put ( Read more... )

After I told my friend that I had not seen Flash Gordon, she declared she scrapped her jaw off the floor and insisted that we have a movie night. She decided to throw Barbarella in there, too, just to round the night out.

The result was an uber-cheesfest of scifi fabulocity.

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

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Hey, check out what came in the mail yesterday! It made me very happy. :D


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