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The work at Woman's Corner is now defunct.Sorry. Too lazy to take down the links at the moment.I'm taking a writing class at Earthly Charms and loving it. I'm going to sign up for the June classes too.

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Here is a listing of my work online that is archived:Happy Woman 1 The Babe Factor Act http://www.happywomanmagazine.com/Features/babefactor.htmHappy Woman 2 Twelve Hot Ways To Get A Man's Attention http://www.happywomanmagazine.com/Features/12hotways.htmWoman's Corner: His Sexy Secret Santahttp://www.womanscorner.com/id44.htmlApril 2005: Mother Wouldn't Understandhttp://

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I didn't do any actual writing last night on my nove.Brandi had a crisis of the first grade proportions and I attended to that.I did read a chapter in "Writing the Breakout Novel" on Premise.Tonight I will read the chapter on Characterization and get to work on finishing up the character profile for my MC and for my villian.

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Starting with my MC - Tara. She's the mom/wife.I'm supposed to answer 20 of the 50 questions for her but what the hay? I'll try and do all 50. I got through 11 last night.After answering (or having her answer) the 50 questions, I'm supposed to write a scene including this information, or a lot of it, then post my word count to the website. After doing this for the MC, I'm supposed to do this for

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I didn't work on my novel this weekend, due to a combination of teenagers in the home, depression, and laziness.I'm going to get to work seriously on it this week. SERIOUSLY.I have the first scene pretty clearly in my mind, as well as a few later scenes.In the opening scene, I plan to have the Brittany family arriving at the gates of their new farm. They will be staring at the sign "Dea th Farm"

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"Family finds their newly-purchased farm has dead bodies and makes their daughter sick. They determine that the land had been poisoned by past genetic engeneering experiments gone wrong. "This means I have to do a ton of research to find out how this could have happened....Assignment 1B-Here is what I have so far on my six-point plot plan:1. Goal for my MC: A happy quiet life on Dearth Farm.Goal

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Ok, so it seems my plot summary was more of a blurb. It should read something closer to this:"Family finds their newly-purchased farm (trigger event ) has dead bodies and makes their daughter sick (conflict). They determine that xyz-cause is the source (resolution). "Only problem is, I haven't decided what the cause is. I will work on this and update my summary.Assignment 1B-Here is what I have

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For the first assignment we are supposed to give a summary of our novel in two sentences & less than fifty words. This proves to be much harder than it sounds. I spent a couple of hours on that last night and still am not happy with what I have:The Brittany family moves to Dearth Farm looking for a happier life, but what they find is that nothing seems to live there. They find two dead bodies

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Why isn't anyone reading what I've written? A common question from new writers, new bloggers, etc.The answer is most likely, "How do they know you've written anything?"Writers should do "shameless self promotion" and do it all the time. If no one is reading you, it could very well be, they simply don't know your writing is there.Of course, the first step is to write something well that others

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Yes, I am going to do these!So after some deliberation, I've decided to shake things up a bit! Starting today, we will be voting on the next Creative Writing Challenge topic. Here's how it works: A week prior to a new Creative Writing Challenge, topic "candidates" will be listed. If you are interested in writing about any of the proposed topics, leave your vote in the form of a comment. You

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I was so lazy this weekend. I didn't do any writing at all. I'd planned on doing my writing exercises out of the writing book I checked out, write some for my Xanga blog, and write some on the short stories I've had brewing. I didn't do any of that. Part because I wasn't feeling too well, and part because I spent so much time reading. I know writers need to read a lot, but I think I am overdoing

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My latest short story is available online at Woman's Corner Magazine.http://www.womanscorner.com/id16.htmlHope you like it. Email the editor and let them know what you thought!

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Shoshana - please email me regarding the comment you made on my previous post.a_blond_moment_02@yahoo.com - Thanks.Submission toiris magazine: http://iris.virginia.edu/Stories about “Pop” due by September 1, 2005.Possibly “Fallen Star”Phaedra magazine:http://www.phaedramag.com/Story with a “dark element” due ASAP“Lunatic Grin”Writing Book I’m reading:Crafting Prose by Don Richard Cox and

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Starting next year, they said on the news, you will be able to take a trip into space. If you can cough up the 300,000 to pay for it. Yes, the future is here. Travel outside the earth's atmosphere. Doug asked me this morning if I wanted to do that. I told him no. Unfortunately, just leaving the earth's atmosphere is not my dream. I don't want to hang out in the black airlessness just outside out

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It's Monday, all over the place. Not a lot happened over the weekend. I watched Mean Girls, cute but I liked Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen better. Also watched Scooby Doo, the new one. I think Sarah Michelle Geller had padding on her butt! I know she's much skinnier than she looked on that movie. Speaking of skinnier, I have to get on my diet, serious like. I'm starting again, today. A

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I'm tired and achey and can't concentrate to save my life. I just want to go on to pick up dinner and head home. Going to watch Mean Girls and Scooby Doo tonight. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

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Thong Thursday is celebrated at a bar somewhere in Birmingham. Women who prove they are wearing thongs get in free on Thursday night. I think they also have a contest. Last night we went to the Shelby County fair with the kids. I was glad Brandi's finally able to ride most all the rides now. In years past, we had to take turns at rides while either Doug or I took Brandi to a kiddie ride. I was

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Hump Day is half over. It's been a light workday for a Wednesday. I'm not sure what's up. I need to get started on the Messenger I suppose. Yesterday, Susan came to my office saying she heard a low moaning sound. It sounded to her like it was coming from the walls or something. I went to her office and listened for it. Sure enough, in about 2 minutes or so, I heard it. It sounded almost like a

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I just got out of staff meeting. I found out that my favorite restaraunt in Florida, Hamilton's, where they cook a steak darn near as good as mine, was blown away by hurricane Ivan. The good news is, they are going to build it back. I hope it's built before I go back next year and that it is as good. http://www.hamiltonspcbeach.com/ The sentiment was the same up and down the battered Gulf Coast

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It's Monday again. Wah wah. Didn't do much over the weekend. Worked with Paul on a project for school that I am about to print out and did some reading for Brandi's Top Dog program. Didn't rent movies. Read some James Patterson books. Ate too much junk food and got a tummy ache. Doug made a Halloween cake and put up decorations. I know Halloween is over a month away, but we are H'ween freaks at

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The most notable effects the hurricane had on the Buchanan household is that rain started blowing in our front door. We had to tack up a garbage bag around the crevice at the top of the door to keep the rain from blowing in around it. Also, the wind kept sucking the water out of the commode. It was a weird thing to see. Other than that, we lost our power and everyone got hurricane fever. What is

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Everything is still standing... but for a few trees. I got lucky and still have power. I am so glad, most people aren't so lucky. 2/3 of Alabama is out they said. I am back at work today, hope everyone else in this area has fared well.

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Here come's Ivan. I am such a procrastinator. Here I am, about to attempt a trip to Wally World. Gotta stock up on... Well whatever is there. Be back shortly!

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Yes, I'm back and the trip went well. Panama was lucky as far as Frances was concerned. There was no storm damage. The lady at the check in said that they didn't get much of the hurricane. I'm sure they were glad. I read "The Bride Wore Chocolate" on the way down. An excellent book, fun to read. I highly recommend you get it! Once there, we checked in, settled in and went to the beach. I, of

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And there is a bit of rain but that is about all. Nothing big yet. I hope it stays that way. We leave for Florida day after tomorrow. I hope we miss Frances and Ivan. I will need a lotta luck and a lotta prayers to miss both storms! Otherwise I will sit in my room and read and write while I am there. Not my idea of the way to spend time in Florida, but well, make the most of it! I had steak twice

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I just heard on the radio yesterday that the guy who came up with the idea for MST 3000 was born and raised in Anniston, AL. Right in my backyard! Now I'm thinking of making a list of all the famous people from Alabama. We have HIM (can't remember his name) and the guy who played Spider Man, Linda Howard and who else? I am thinking of starting a list of famous people from Alabama. Not a lot going

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The most bizarre thing happened to me last night. I woke up at 4:00 AM and had to go to the bathroom. I realized my husband was not in bed and I assumed he was in the bathroom so I waited a while and waited and finally got up. He wasn't in the bathroom, I found out... He was in the living room. And I was totally shocked at what he was doing. I couldn't believe it! He was................. WRITING.

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I got called last Friday to pick Brandi up from school. She had a fever of 101 something. I figured it was the ear getting infected, since they told me that was one thing to watch out for. It turned out she had strep throat and the beginning of an ear infection. They had to swab her throat, which I expected. They did a blood test which I can't figure out why they did that. And they gave me some

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Another trauma last night. Brandi picked up a wire necklace. The stiff kind that just wraps around, no clasp or anything. She was in a big hurry, you know how kids are always rushing to do things. Anyway, she stuck the thing into her ear and it started bleeding. I rushed her to the ER. They checked her over and said her eardrum was fine. I felt very relieved. It was still nerve racking. She said

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Do I look like a crack-ho? Apparently the Bowdon police thought so for a moment. They pulled me over Friday night and said my car had been seen leaving a known crack house. He was quite insistent on it. I had dropped my son off for his weekend visitation at his dad's house and then Doug wanted to go visit with his cousin for a while. We planned on leaving early, but wound up staying until nearly

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Prompt: How much of your life is spent in the prusuit of being perfect at something? Have you ever attained perfection in something? No, I don't try to be perfect and I have never attained anything to perfection. Well, except my grilled steaks. Those are perfikt. Song Prompt 12 "Am I the one you were sent to save?" I don't know this song. But I believe that people are sent into our lives for

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I can't believe it's been almost a month since I blogged. Since I left for vacation. Yes, it took that long to recover from it! The trip to the Aquarium went well. The kids liked looking at the fish. Especially the big fish. I was a bit dissapointed there were no dolphins or big sharks. There were little sharks, but I have caught catfish bigger than some of them! I was fascinated by the pirannah.

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It's Monday again. Had to face the traffic on 65 this am.   Paul is back home. We're so glad and he seems to be also.   We're all excited about going on vacation this week. Even Doug was so excited he cleaned out the car and the truck over the weekend. We are going to the Tenn Aquarium and maybe to Ruby Falls. We will spend the night in Chatanooga.   I found my Pedometer.  Or rather Brandi found

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I made reservations for our vacation next week. We're going to the Tennessee Aquarium. I'm excited about vacation now! Check the link above and be sure to watch the web cam.   I went to lunch with my husband today and made him buy me the book, The Stepford Wives. I can't wait to see the movie!   Good news from the Dr. yesterday. I'm stopping the steroids! I'm so glad. Maybe I can lose these

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Chapter 5: Language and Storytelling:WRITER BASED PROSE:Tends to be more spontaneous, less structured. If this is private writing, it doesn’t even need to make sense to anyone else. For example, when I write my grocery list I often use short hand words. The well used TP for toilet paper; HB M for hamburger meat; and plenty more short hand words I use for my own personal list. You might also use

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Ten things I would never miss if I got rid of them right now: 1. Several pair of shoes and some cowboy boots in my closet 2. The clothes way in the back of my closet 3. The weird seasonings in my kitchen cabinet that I bought on a whim and never used. 4. Things lurking hiddeously in the bottom of my refrigerator. 5. The non-stick skillet that had the teflon scrubbed off ten years ago. 6. The

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I got my pedometer back from Brandi this morning. She was watching Swan Princess Barbie movie when I left the house. I got to work to check the step counter on it and her little cardboard star fell out. Seeing it was almost like seeing her. I felt this warmth fill my heart the way the warmth from my coffee mug fills my hands. It was almost like a little bit of her is right here with me today. I

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The weekend went fairly well. We grilled steaks Friday and shot fireworks. Then Saturday morning, we went to Georgia to drop Paul off. We stopped at Sonic on the way. I wanted some ultimate tater tots. Brandi wasn't too happy with my choice of restaraunts. Oh well. We rented and watched movies on the fourth and shot some more fireworks. Brandi lit some and scared me half to death. She loved the

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Writing Book I’m reading:Crafting Prose by Don Richard Cox and Elizabeth GiddensChapter 4: Evaluating and revising:Evaluating and revising is shifting from writer based to reader based. I find it easier to revise work when I have put it away for a while. The longer I go without looking at it, the more distance I can get and more objective I can be.Remember everything you write will make sense to

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Writing Book I’m reading:Crafting Prose by Don Richard Cox and Elizabeth GiddensChapter 3: Drafting:Guide to Drafting and Revision:First you produce writer based prose to get your ideas on paper; then you alter that draft until it becomes reader based prose, or a clear and effective communication of your own ideas, polished and ready for a reader. Remember that your own writing will usually make

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Took my son, Paul, and his friend James out to lunch today. They wanted to go to Cici's pizza buffet. It was pretty good. Shot my diet for today! When Paul is gone, I'll have 2 weeks to starve! At the pizza place there was this little girl there, about 10 years old wearing a leopard print mini-skirt. Nothing wrong with that. But, she had some kind of padding in her hose that made her look like

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I should remember my bedroom well. I spent a lot of time in it growing up. Especially as I entered the teen years. I stayed in there playing records (yeah, records) and reading and writing and daydreaming. I can still remember the first record player I got. I listed to Heart sing "Magic Man" over and over. Drove my parents crazy, playing it too loud. I wrote in my diary and was so paranoid

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Surely this was set off by the KFC Chicken tantrum. I dreamed last night that I was in staff meeting. Everyone was talking about Nancy. Then she came in and suddenly everyone stopped talking. They were talking about what a jerk her husband was. Which was weird, because he's actually a very nice man. So after staff meeting we all decided to go to Nancy's house for lunch. When I walked in her

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This here is a totally fictionalized account of last night.... Yesterday after work, I stopped by KFC for supper. I got the 9.99 Dale whateverhisname is bucket. Brandi asked for a chicken leg and I put one on her plate. The first thing I did (as usual) was to take all the chicken off the bone and put ketchup on her plate. She looked down at it and started crying. I asked her what was wrong.

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Sounds heinous huh? It sort of was after a while. You make enough cabbage soup to last a week. It's pretty good until you've eaten it the thirtieth time. It contains cabbage, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, celery, and stuff. Then you eat fruit and the soup the first day. Then veggies and soup the next day. Then veggies, fruit and soup the next day. Somewhere in there you actually get to add in

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Whoever you are! Tiff knows you so you must be ok! Thanks for visiting, reading and commenting on this blog. If you've never had a meatball sub, get your booty on down to the nearest Subway and order one! They are delicious. And exaclty what the name implies. It is a sub sandwich with meatballs. You can order anything on it you want. I suggest extra cheese, black olives and banana peppers. My son

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The diet is going well, in spite of the fact that I am starving to death and very tense. I have lost 6 lbs this week. Has it been worth it? I guess it depends on if I lose any more and if it says lost. My BP was 126/84 at walmart the other day. I am fixing to go get my son a meatball sub at Subway and a bunch of bananas for me. Can you just imagine the smell and how it is going to kill me???

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What have I come to understand only by reflection: That if I didn't make you unhappy, I can't make you happy. It's impossible. Some people were unhappy before I met them. Some people were unhappy before I was even born. I didn't cause the unhappiness. I cannot fix it. Even though I times I wanted to and desperately tried. I only hurt myself in the process. 10 things most people don't know about

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I was reading over some of the comments on my blog. My hair did turn out good. I really like it. It's so easy in the morning. I can flip it out or flip it under, or just put moose (how do you spell that stuff?) on it and scrunch it up. My BP was only borderline. But the dr predicted that if I don't do something about it now I'll be on BP meds in 5 years. I hate the medicine I'm on now and if it

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Woke up with a headache this am. I've eaten a banana and took some advil. I hope it goes away soon. I just took something out of my son's foot. I don't know what it was, but he says it feels better, so I'm good with that. Doug is obsessing about work. He talks about it non-stop. It's driving me crazy. Even if I try to change the subject, he finds some way to bring the subject back to his work.

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cookies and doughnuts and chocolate... OH MY!

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Writing Book I’m reading:Crafting Prose by Don Richard Cox and Elizabeth GiddensChapter two: Options for inventions.Invention = Coming up with ideas.Try many of these options to see which works best for you.Options for invention:Free writing, focused free writing and loopingListing and groupingBranchingParing questionsJournalingResearchingAudience analysisLimiting your topicI will write in

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Lovely Monday morning here! How can a Monday be lovely, you may ask? Well, my son is back! We went to get him Friday night. It was pretty late getting back, but well worth the trip. We brought him home and Saturday we showered him with belated birthday presents. (He was away for his birthday.) Also, the sun is out. No rain in sight. That could change quickly of course. But it is starting out to

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Writing Book I’m reading:Crafting Prose by Don Richard Cox and Elizabeth GiddensChapter one: Advice for WritersWriter’s Block:2 remedies:Lower your standards for writingLet your ideas brew for a while (but not too long)Sometimes you have to write poorly in order to write better later on. Sometimes you have to take a break and get distance from what you are writing and come back to it fresher

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It's really hot outside. I kept wishing for the rain to go away. And now the sun is out. I got my wish. I think our airconditioning is broken in here also. It's hot in here as well, but much cooler than out there. I spent the morning waiting for a doctor to come in and see me while wearing nothing but paper. You women know what I am talking about. We do it once a year, right? Right. Well, then

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I'm getting my hair cut today. One of those short flipped out cuts. I can't wait. It's already down to my shoulders again. I need to go make up shopping as well. All my lipstick is old and I'm nearly out of blusher and eyeshadwow. I cancelled another doctor appointment. A gyn appointment. No women reading this would blame me I'm sure. I put it off till Friday. Brandi is well and back in school

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Well, the snake saga continues... Friday on the way home from work, I ran over a really huge snake. It was strung out half way across the road. I came around a curve going about 60 mph or so, and there was no way I could miss it. I heard it bump under my tires. It was a hiddeous sound. I squealed and looked in my rearview mirror. I saw it flop its head back to the edge of the road. It doubled

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My Thoughts on Writing In order to be a writer, you have to really want to. Not just kinda, sorta, but really really. Why is that? Because writing is expensive, time consuming, and at times, frustrating. It is expensive to buy the magazines that you hope to submit stories to. You need equipment with which to produce your work. Editors don’t want a pile of hand-written work sent to them.

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Snake in the Church!!! Don't go looking for snakes -- you might find them! And we did. In the kitchen. We weren't looking for one though! Susan came to my office and said, "Cindy, there is something back here I want to show you." So, Susan, Ms. Ruth and I went back to the kitchen. The snake had gotten caught by the end of his tail in a sticky rat trap. The rest of him was under the snake, uh, I

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NEWS It's finally Friday. I lived through another week. Doug's sister had a heart attack, Wednesday I think it was. She's in her mid-forties. She's in the hospital in Jacksonville, FL and has to have five surgeries. The First Hot Summer Day It's hot here in the south during the summer. The hot weather can begin as early as March or April. Then by the time June and July hits it's really a heat

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I'm enjoying my new office, with all the room and the view. It sure is quiet with Paul gone though. I hope he's having fun playing on the beach. I'm not sure when he gets back. I hope they have a safe trip. It's about time for me to be thinking about when I will take my vacation. I think we will wait till the fall and go to the beach. I like going in the fall because the beaches aren't as

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Paul goes to his Dad's house for two weeks. He leaves in the morning. I will leave early today to go home and spend some time with him. I will miss him when he's gone. I'm sure he's going to miss me. He kept telling me last night. And he asked me several times to come home early today to spend some time before he leaves. That was the first thing he asked me when he woke up this morning. I want to

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Brandi's Gradulations Congradulations to Brandi on her graduation from Pre-school last night. She was so cute posing for the camera. She looked so sweet and so proud of herself. She had been talking about it for weeks and weeks and finally last night she gradulated. One of the little girls was shy and didn't want to stand in front of all the people. They said she was normally the most outgoing

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I can't believe it has been over a month since I posted a blog. What is wrong with me? Ok, I won't post that whole list! I did something really horrible at lunchtime. I went to Arbie's to get a sandwich. No that wasn't the horrible thing. I paid for my sandwich with 2 five dollar bills. The guy at the cash register gave me back change for a 20. Normally I would correct someone. Why didn't I this

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So why not lighten things up with the latest blog quiz...(Thanks, Kim & Gail!) 1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says. "'such a desperate grief at the prospect of losing her..." Soul Harvest, by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins 2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first? A telephone cord. 3. What is the last thing you

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Been away for a while. The doctor gave me medicine that made me sicker than the sickness. I finished it this weekend and I believe I feel a bit better. I go back this weekend for some tests. I will be glad to get that over with and hopefully some medicine to get me on the road to getting well. I'm tired of vegging on the couch. I haven't even been doing any writing to speak of and delayed

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I know. It's been a while since I blogged. I've been a bit under the weather and can't think straight enough to string words into coherent sentences. I have barely even been reading. If you know me, you know I go through several books a month. Not this month. I have a Dr. appointment Monday. I've been feeling so bad that I am actually looking forward to going, if he can give me something to make

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Sumatanga went well last week. It was a quick ride up there. The rooms weren't ready when we arrived so we all hiked up the mountain. When we got back, we were all ready for a drink and to get off our feet. Brandi got called a "doo-doo head" this weekend. Heather called her that! LOL -- I'm just glad she's finally found some little girls to play with. They are of course, daughters of a former

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Ok, I agree with this one... Playful What's your sexual appeal? brought to you by Quizilla

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I just found out that if I were a care bear, I'd be gay... Gay Bear Which Dysfunctional Care Bear Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

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Ok what is with these fruit flies??? One was buzzing around me over at the mall and I swear I think the bugger followed me over here!!!!

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Calm, peaceful, nice Thursday. It is so far. As long as an avelanche doesn't fall on me before 5 PM this afternoon. I just got back from the Galleria Mall. I went to get some "hiking" shoes. They are actually some Nikes that Sears had on sale. I haven't bought a pair of sneakers in, hey what's it been now? 5 years or more? I usually get the little white tennis shoes you get at Wal-mart for about

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As it turns out, we did spend the weekend "vegetating." Don't worry, summer's coming. If this weather is any indication, it will be very soon. I went out at lunchtime today and I believe it is 75 degrees out there. It feels like late spring. I spent my lunch hour going to the bank, went to Milos and ate, and then went and washed "my" car (Jim's car if he doesn't sell it to me) and still got back

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I just spent the morning playing with the little strange girl. No, she's not strange. She's Steve Strange's little girl. Now he is strange, but I think youth ministers have to be. It was a fun way to spend the morning. More fun than what I am usually working on all morning. I printed out some Disney pictures for her and then went to Yahooligans and found some Nick, Jr. games for her to play and

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Just so you're never embarrassed to admit you don't know about Lent.... http://www.kencollins.com/holy-04.htm

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Today is Ash Wednesday, the day that begins Lent. I was embarrassed, because this morning my son asked me precisely what Lent was and I couldn't really explain it to him. Every year when Ash Wednesday rolls around, I can't help but remember either last year or the year before when one pastor gave me his sermon title for the bulletin that night. It was: "On Making an Ash of Yourself." I thought

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Monday. Blue Monday. Rainy drizzley blue Monday. Big Yawn. I'm ready to go home. (I wonder if that could be Haiku? I doubt it) I don't know why I want to go home...I'll just have to come back in the morning. I went to Firehouse Subs today for lunch. It is Seth's birthday. He is our new Minister for Middle schoolers. I think he just turned 24. Real old guy.... LOL. I had never been to Firehouse

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TGIF once again. Thankfully I finished my work and am just sitting here wating to go home. I am going to go get Brandi and let her play at the playfort while I read and relax. I got my sweatpants and my book and I'm ready! My goals include getting the cat story ready to send to FMAM and Space and Time and getting Satan's Sister ready to send in for Assignment 7. Only one more to go and I will be

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I'm interested in what others think of this website: http://www.russoforpresident.com All comments welcome! Or email a_blond_moment_02@yahoo.com

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Valentines Day went well. I got a steak and flowers and cards. The kids got balloons and a huge floppy puppy. Paul may be 12 but he still loves stuffed animals. It's his well kept secret (well, ok, maybe not NOW) that he still sleeps with stuffed animals. I think it is the most adorable thing ever. Me, I'm not complaining. I love a good steak on the grill. We rented a few movies, but neither of

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I has been a rough week this week! My son got sick at school Wednesday and I had to go get him. I have been home with him the past 2 days. He had the stomach virus, throwing up thing. I am not sure if it was a virus or food poison. I will know in the next few days, if we all come down with it or not. In spite of the fact that he was sick, I think he enjoyed his 2 days off and the time we spent

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Ok, Tiff wants me to post something humorous to cheer her up. It's Monday and I am not awake yet. Only funny thing that has happened so far is that in my groggy state, I opened a can of roast beef this morning to put into the beans in my crock pot. I got mad and started cussing the can and the can opener. My husband came over to see what was wrong. I yelled at him that I thought he had fixed the

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Testing - Testing - This is only a test....

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The firetruck came even though I told them this morning that our alarm was messed up. They were supposed to ignore it one more week. I finished my bio and sent it in. I also finished my devotion for the Lenten Devotional book and turned it in. All this in spite of the fact that I have only written 100 words this week, beginning Monday.

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Not a lot has been going on. Doug bought a truck. I need to buy the car I'm driving, or give it back. I've felt like bees buzzing in my brain because of some medicine I have been taking, so I didn't do much writing over the weekend. I couldn't even concentrate enough to read and comprehend what I was reading. Or maybe the book is just boring to me. It is kind of slow. I watched American Marriage

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I am so excited! This is the best email I have ever gotten! TWO articles published at Happy Woman Magazine! Whoo Hoo! Hello Cindy: I sincerely apologize for this very late reply. We ran into some technical problems over the holiday season and we are still trying to catch up. I loved the articles you sent "12 Hot Ways to Get a Man's Attention" and "The Babe Factor Act" and would very much

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Yesterday I worked out while I baked a chocolate cake. This is not quite as ridiculous as it seems. See the chocolate cake is for my husband. I’m not even crazy about chocolate cakes. Well, not unless I melt reese cups on or in it. And I did not do that either. Doug doesn’t like the reese cup deal. The cake was for him, and I swear I’ll only eat a small slice of it, if any at all, really I won’t.

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We had company last night, so I didn't work out or work on my writing goals. I am such a bum. To top it all off, Doug forgot to set the alarm last night so we all woke up late this morning. We are such bums! But I did make it to work, and only about 10 minutes late. I did ok. The traffic is lighter when I leave late, so I should just stop trying to leave the house so early. It doesn't make that

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IT WAS SO HORRIBLE I took my son to a restaraunt with a buffet. It is one near here that he loves. It was pretty good. I had salad and soup and the bread with the honey butter. Then, while he was having his icecream and jelly beans, I thought I would try the meatloaf. Meatloaf is a rare treat for me, since no one at my house likes it very much. Well, I tasted it, and thought, this meatloaf

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THE EVOLUTION OF A MARRIAGE Ok y'all. This week is NOT starting out any better than last week. I hit my foot on the metal stand on the weight bench yesterday. I thought I had just stubbed it. It stopped hurting until this morning. When I got up and started getting ready, it began throbbing. I took some advil and showed it to my husband. I read somewhere, that a marriage goes through these

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From January 18: Shaggy married Barbie this weekend at my house. I thought it was an unusual match-up, but as long as they and my daughter are happy with the arrangement, I guess it is fine with me. Maybe it’s time I got her a ken doll. Freddy fought Jason. That was a fairly good movie. So was Uptown Girls. The little girl in that movie reminded me of Brandi a lot. I just love Brittany Murphy,

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From January 13: I’m watching the Spy Who Shagged Me. I may not get any writing done tonight… I may work on my essay or my coyote story. I will most definitely finish my novel after this movie goes off. I’m pretty sure the house I called about last week is off the market now, one way or another. I submitted an essay to 3 magazines this week. I had a fourth one to send it to but the Oxford

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I enjoyed a really quiet weekend. I wrote plenty and finished my goals for the first weekend in January. I found four magazines to send an essay and got the first draft done on my sixth assignment. I checked out two books for research at the library and read half of one. Besides that I watched a movie, Devil’s Pond. I found it to be a fairly enjoyable movie. It had plenty of suspense. The other

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TGIF! Finally Friday is here. Paul goes to his dad's this weekend. I will probably take Brandi to McDonald's after work, so she can eat and play on the play fort for a while. I usually bring something to read while she plays. I am fairly caught up this week. I only have a short list of things to do today and one of them involves getting started on next weeks work. I will go by the bank at lunch

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I feel like the guy on the movie Dumb and Dumber. I'm not sure which one I mean. You know the one who was after the hot girl but she wouldn't pay him any attention. Finally she told him, I can't remember if it was "one chance in a billion" or "a snowball's chance in hell." He gets this really hopeful look and says to her --- "So, you're telling me there IS a chance." That is me. Lord help me. I

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The Simple Life was dissapointing last night. It was all right but not nearly as funny as it normally is. I read some papers about coyotes and some about voodoo for some stories I am writing. I overslept this morning. That is the way to start out the day, right! Julie called and cancelled our lunch date. Now I am going to get some work done before lunchtime! May post some more after lunch.

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I had another blond moment yesterday. The Simple Life did not come on last night. It comes on tonight. So, if you didn't look for it then, you still have a chance. I was a good girl last night. I wrote way way over 200 words on my coyote story and did a word exercise. I also did my crunches. My tummy muscles are appropriately sore today. However one thing I can't figure... In spite of the fact

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First off, if you aren't watching "A Simple Life," you better get to it! It comes on tonight on Fox at 7 PM CST. You will laught your butt off I promise. Why does it have to be so freaking hard not to eat??? I had to go to Captain Dee's just now and get Paul lunch. I managed not to order anything and come back and drink my slim fast. I have some crackers for a snack. Diets SUCK! I have it

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On New Year’s Day I was tired of cooking big dinners and could not decide WHAT to fix. It appeared my tradition of cooking something totally new (that I have never made before) would be called off this year. But, while watching the Twilight Zone Marathon, I saw something that sounded perfect: a Dejourno Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza. It sounded really good and I have never made a deep dish pizza

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2004 is nearly here. I can remember when the year 2000 seemed so far off and we all tried to imagine what all would be going on in that futuristic time. We even wrote stories about it in classes. So now it is here and it doesn't seem that much different in some ways. The things we have now, we never could have imagined back in 19....oh nevermind.... New Year's resoloutions I have so far: 1. My

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