my inner nerd

today I'm embracing my inner nerd. I got back from the gym, showered and found a comfy yet nerdy outfit to wear. jorts (jean shorts) and a t shirt that read squares and triangles agree circles are pointless. LOL. yeah, I was full on geek. I have tons of t's like that. I love a good funny shirt. I get most of them from Threadless.com or ClothMoth. most of these shirts require thinking to enjoy but that's why they are so awesome. I'm always on the lookout for new shirts. I do have to say I wasn't totally nerded out. I smelled like L'Occitane Peony, my fave right now. maybe my lovely floral smell made me like a lipstick nerd. I wasn't too nerdy. I managed to write a bunch of words (1k) on my WIP. I also sent out my revised pages to my lovely betas. I've found it easier to recruit betas when I don't write paranromal, which is pretty crappy. but I'll take the betas! 

happy young ones day!

apparently it's international young ones day so here you go. I friggin loved that show. I was the biggest anglophile, Londonphile, new waver back then. well, I still am but that's beside the point. this show was so funny. pretty much all brit com is awesome to me. but this was so amazing to me at the time. I was like a sophomore in high school and this was on MTV late night. before Band Aid made do they know it's Christmas? back when MTV had videos. remember that? MTV also had a late night show called Stick Figure Theater which was hilarious. it was part of another show but I can't remember it. I want to say it was the same one that had Aeon Flux on. man, I loved that show. her hair was awesome!

buy the milkshake eat the sandwich

okay, so there's my nod to Hunter S Thompson. anyway, I'm just trying to tell you sometimes it's better to go with what you want than what is right. or at least for me it has proved to be true. last night I busted my ass getting up at 3 am for a stinkin  half of bologna sandwich. if I had made the sandwich, I might not have fallen. instead I thought, no, no sandwich and turned to go back to bed. instead I ended up on the floor. mad coincidence you say? no I think not. in 1999 I wanted a sonic milkshake but at the last minute thought, no, no milkshake and took a different path home. four minutes later I got t boned by a dumptruck in my little neon. yes, I know. so you see, I am from now on going to embrace these first impulses to avoid disaster. sandwiches and milkshakes for all!

a full plate (MMMM bacon)

I was looking and saw that it had been 11 days since my last post and that is crazy!all I can say is that my plate has been a tad full. mainly with my job worries and the other normal things that cause me distress. but the job thing has really hit me hard. I am in  a panic trying to secure employment. I never thought it would be this hard to find work as an experienced nurse. it seems like I have stink on me and no one has told me! auugghh! this is really getting to me. on a brighter note, my full is sitting with 5 publishers now. 3 E and 2 traditional. the waiting is easier now that I have something else to ruminate about.

I promise my posting will be more regular now!!!

contests contests contests

the picture has nothing to do with my post but did you know that famous phrase was coined at the university of florida, my alma mater? yeah, a kid in the audience heckling one of the accent program speakers uttered the phrase right before well, they tased him. anyhoo. gatorade and don't tase me bro.there you go.

what I'm wondering is how many people enter writing contests. I myself enter them. right now I'm in 5. lol. that seems like a bunch when I write it but there it is. mainly I enter for the critiques and the opportunity to get my work out there. one contest that I won got me a full submission with the awesome Claire Eddy at Tor. I've heard people say that writing contests were rip offs and wastes of time but I disagree. I'm just wondering about the rest of you out there. what do you think about writing contests?

cookies and a bottle of wine STAT!

have you ever gotten news that was shocking and distressing and thought provoking all at once and then you get more info and it's not quite that bad? this happened to me today and now my body is all hopped up on adrenaline and stuff, which is not a pleasant feeling. I was having a nice day prior to said news too! the news is they sold my hospital. no my hospital but the hospital I work at which sent me over the edge quickly. after texting everyone in the working world about it, my kindly friend Delma gave me solid info and I was okay. or relatively. anyway. now I have that post adrenaline dump feeling and it sucks. I should of gone with my first impulse and eaten cookies and drank the bottle of Two Paddocks Picnic Pinot I have. it's a great wine made even better because it is Sam Neill's wine. but I didn't do that. so I am jumpy as a cat and can't concentrate on anything. yeah, this is what we call a filler post.

something got one of the ducks

well we are down a duck. the other day I went out and one was missing. no blood. no feathers strewn across the yard. nothing. the duck is just GONE. the other ducks aren't lending any clues. so I'm left wondering.
aliens? maybe. I should call Bill Birnes. did you know that guy has a Ph.D and is a lawyer? wow. but this would be right up his alley. the aliens might have just beamed poor Sunshine right up to their craft without so much as a feather left behind.
more than likely one of our neighbors hunting dogs crossed the fence line and "retrieved" a duck. now, that seems reasonable. not pleasant but reasonable. we erected a little fence to keep things like that from re occuring.
Poor Sunshine!

I love you but I'm not in love with you

don't you just loooove how subjective the search for an agent is? it's really fascinating. but I suppose it is just a representation(lol) of how everyone has different tastes. in a way, agents are mind readers and soothsayers. they are gauging what an editor is going to like or not like and then sort through their slush to find just that thing. I don't envy their job. they are eternally dating. they are in search for the manuscript that they fall in love with so they can parade it all around and defend it or build it up when it is taking a hit. I myself hate dating so that is another reason I wouldn't want their job. but they must because each day they put on their date night undies and dig through the slush.  they are optimists. good for them. keep up the good work all of you out there! all that "dating" will pay off.

YAY!!!!

run, don't walk over to Vamp Boyz to check out my boy Sam as the Vamp Boy!!! also check out the past yummy vamp boyz!!

yeah, it's real. we really have this.

Home - Zombie Survival LibGuide - LibGuides @ UF at University of Florida
this is a real  item on the UF libraries web site. needless to say, we didn't have this back in the day. we didn't have a freakin starbucks in the library either. hey, remember when the library was about books and learning. just saying.

fist (first) string Team Awesome!

a friend of mine has two offers from two e pubs. happy dance for her!!!her offers though are contingent on her beefing up (lol) her semi sex scenes.she isn't a big sex scene writer so I know she is kind of sweating it. which brings me to my post today. I think everyone has one hinkey thing that they have trouble writing about. hers is vivid sex scenes or at least one that go beyond he kissed her and then they closed the door.  mine is fight scenes. I know, you can stop laughing now. I'm first string on the Team Awesome Fight Team. I just have trouble doing it though. when I do write them, I end up rewriting several times. I have a difficult time even visualizing fights. watching fights in movies or tv doesn't help much. I just think fights are my one thing. when I had to add fights and battles to Life in Moonlight, it was like doing higher math. And I am dreading it in the sequel. Not so much with the sex scenes. I have nooooo problem with those. I wish my friend and I could make a deal where I wrote her sex scenes and she wrote my fight scenes. do you guys have an item that is tricky to write? what is it?

weird dreams are made of this

I love Tamara de Lempicka. her art is amazing to me. you can tell I like it based on the painting in my banner but I just love it. it seems so other worldly. this one is called the  sleeper I think. which brings me to my point. sometimes I have some of the strangest and most vivid dreams. the kind where I wake up and think it really happened and when I discover it was only a dream, it stays with me all day. that happened last night. I haven't been able to stop thinking about this dream. it was strange. AND SO VIVID. and I have no idea where it came from. they say that dreams are messages from your subconscious that need to come out. I don't know who they are but they say it.anyway, maybe maybe not. maybe it is some unrealized part of me trying to step forward. I don't know. there are lots of those parts.lol. but this is a strange one and I don't know what to do with it.

in search of the Super Shaggy Sandwich

so today I am trying to keep my mind off my submissions and focus on doing productive stuff around here. it all started when I saw a post about the 2010 Sammies award  on the Visit Great Britain site. that propelled me onto a long search of sandwiches. I myself love a good sandwich. I think sandwiches are awesome. when babies at work are short of a higher weight by an ounce or so I say the baby was one sandwich away from the next weight. or if the momma is a little small for her dates, I advise her to hit the sandwiches a little harder. I'm telling you I love sandwiches. I can't eat them any more but I love them. well I can eat a little one but that's another story. anyway, the sandwiches then lead me to the idea of making bread today. this idea was fueled by the King Arthur Flour catalog that came in the mail today. so I get everything out and ready and then check the humidity...70%  and I  have to scrap that idea. no dough will rise in that. so all in all I have wasted a couple of hours and have nothing to show for it. BIGGEST TIME SUCK EVER.
guess I'll go make a sandwich.

hey guess what was on my property today?!?!

yes that's right. this morning on my walkway was a 4 foot frigging python! King Kitty was sitting staring it down. it had curled up in some sort of defensive pose I guess. anyway, I called my brother and he picked it up(much to the cat's chagrin) and put it over the property fence. our neighbors grow aquatic vegetation so maybe the trespasser  will be happy there. but DAMN. A PYTHON?!?! I know they are turning up all over south florida but this isn't south florida and that is the second one I have come across in like a year. the first was very small and my dad hacked it to bits so I really couldn't ID it.
here's the weird thing... at work yesterday we were talking at length about snakes on our property. black snake this rattlesnake that. we must have spent like 30 minutes talking about it and then this morning, one appears in plain sight. kind of cosmic. next time I go to work we're talking about Sam Neill, Alan Rickman or a Papa John's pizza with everything on it. mainly Sam Neill.

another freakin' haunted house

so guess what? we are thinking of buying another house. yeah and it's probably haunted like the one above. the top one. yeah. the one we are looking at is the one above. no the one underneath it. it's a historical house which means high potential for ghosts. my creepymeter was in over drive. how is it that we manage to live in all of these stinkin haunted houses? and guess which room is mine... the one that has not 1 but 4 funny little doors that go to the attic. I think the room was actually part of the rafter system that the current owners finished and made into rooms. but still. I HATE funny little doors to attics. they just spell trouble.we've been looking for houses a long time. one time we were going to look at another old house and I was looking at the pics online and one of the pics had orbs all over the room. screech! I said no stinking way! so we kept looking. sigh. the house and property are beautiful but crap...more ghosts?