May
6

Upon Reflection

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I had plans for today’s post. Today being *the* day as far as such things can be measured. I’ve actually been working on a render the last few weeks – it’ mostly a private one  – an sort of artistic bleed of my inner turmoil, maybe. And if I get around to finishing, I may end up posting it – but sometimes I’ve found that it sort of cheapens the effect. So we’ll have to see about that.  In either case, my plans were busted when I went to run through another pass of the image that didn’t quite mesh right and *poof*. The Power Supply of my new computer died and tripped the breaker for that side of the house. Which freaked me out a bit, but eventually I figured out what was going on, reset the breaker and then attempted to start up the computer. Only it didn’t.… Read more
Apr
19

The Edits Shall Continue Until Morale Improves…

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Thanks to some company this weekend, I managed to wiggle out another chunk of editing. This particular scene has been taking me a bit longer than I thought it would, but I was able to finally get over the hump on Saturday. One of those things where my brain understands the concept just fine, but getting the words down and making it work correctly is a bit of a bear. In the end I had to just stop trying to make it perfect and get the bones down. For me, this means a lot of stilted dialog and crappy dialog tags: “Blah blah blah blah,” I muttered snarkily, doing something that’s probably going to get cut next pass.“Blah blah, blah blah blah blah,” he pointed out, making smexy eyes at me.“But blah blah! How else am I going to be able to Comshock with the Groosalugg?”  My mouth pursed as I made an astute observation while… Read more
Apr
12

Lord of the Edits.

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I spent 13 hours straight editing my book on Saturday. A bit less than that yesterday, though mostly because SnarkyNavyWife was in town and we needed to meet up for lunch. Both of these things were made possible because mr myn took the kids out of the house for pretty much the entire weekend, a fact for which I am terribly grateful. I do regret not being able to enjoy the sunshine much on Saturday, but unfortunately, deadlines don’t wait on the weather. On the other hand, I got a tremendous amount done (including about 2500 new words written), so I suppose that’s the trade off. Much of this editing isn’t really about writing new stuff so much as reorganizing what I have.  I feel like I’m constantly going back and forth and pulling out details at one spot and shoving them into another. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t… Read more
Apr
2

Stealth Perk

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I’ve probably only mentioned a few hundred times now that I’m not overly fond of getting my picture taken. Mr myn has taken to trying to catch me unawares. Ninja Photography, maybe. You can see I caught him at the last moment there. I look decidedly unperky, but I assure you I wasn’t nearly as grumpy as it probably seems. (Although maybe part of that was because mr myn kept referring to me as “Jennifer Love Geekit.” He likes the hair. He hates my Crackberry addiction.) This was taken Wednesday night just before the concert. Unfortunately none of the actual concert pictures turned out very well, but the venue was just gorgeous, and we hung outside for about 40 minutes before the show started, soaking in the sunset and the spring air. See? Look? I can sorta smile –> Sorta. LOL. Though I seem to have gotten Charlie’s Angels kinda… Read more
Mar
30

Le Sigh.

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Yeah. Okay. I’m posting another picture. Sue me. (And I promise by Thursday, I’ll stop. Really. I can do that any time I want.) Annnnyyyway. Where was I? Oh yeah. It’s Tuesday, and aside from the fact that I think this latest round of spinal injections seems to be working, there’s not really a whole lot else going on. Although, yesterday  I was asked by another writer if I would join a new group blog she was starting up. It sounded like fun – and I do like the sense of community you can get from being part of a close-knit group. But in the end, I had to tell her no. At least for right now. I could maybe do the occasional guest post here and there, but that’s about it. And it’s not that I’m not interested. I am. But I have no more time to commit to anything else.… Read more