Hey, will you look at this?

I’m breathing.  And what do you know, it doesn’t hurt in the chest to climb a flight of stairs!  Amazing!  Yep, I’m finally over my cold!  A cold no one else got I might add…not that I want them to get sick but why me?  What in the world had I done to deserve it?  And for that matter…where did it come from?  I knew no one sick?  :-P  Good news though is, I’m feeling like my old self again.  Emphasis on the old. 

I must have wrote 200 post to you guys over the last couple of weeks in my head–but obviously none of them made it to the computer!  I still want to share them, heck a part of me ‘thinks’ I already have.  How goofy is that?  I do want to skim over a few because to not would mean posting, like 10 a day and well, I just don’t have that time. 

So first up–Iowa has been hit hard by storms lately–thankfully my family personally has been unhurt by it.  But we do have several friends who were hit hard.  Lives, the most important thing, were spared of those we know, but entire homes have dissappeared.   Tornadoes.  Do I need to say more?  We made national television with the largest tornado in twenty years to hit the states.  So often I have thought of posting pictures and thoughts on this of homes only 4 miles from mine that were destroyed, completely wiped away…but to be honest, its simply too much.  I’m just so thankful that the death and injury tolls weren’t higher and my heart goes out to those who did lose loved ones and homes.

Next up — exercise?  What is that?  I couldn’t even walk up my stairs slowly without feeling whipped, without hurting, without thinking I needed an oxygen tank!  I miss it and feel like I’m starting over.  My exercise log doesn’t refect the actual missed time… I REALLY need to update that–I only missed the last week and a half.  But today…today I’m starting again.

Diet — what diet?  I’m on a diet?  Oh yeah, I think I was on a diet.  :-)  This might be a good thing to get going too.  ;-)  Lucky for me its been strange weather with storms every day or too cold on the others so that fitting into a swimsuit has not been demanded of me.  But, um, my luck WILL run out won’t it? 

Writing — I LOVE to write did you know that?  :-)  I do!  I slashed thousands and thousands of words, discovered that my hero has a real smartass attitude and that he did NOT like how I had things playing out towards the end of this book.  To top it off…though I argued for two whole weeks with him…I hate to admit it, he was right.  Dang man!  So not only did I do the slashing which I had expected in the first place from my first draft…I had to change pov’s, change who initiated what, what was said, and how people reacted yet keep the same scene and results.  Possible?  Oh yeah.  And it does ring true.  I do love it.  And when I did this, my gorgeous hero had the unmitigated gull to sit there smugly smiling at me, I swear.  Men!

I was able to put together my blurb for the book and my query letter–YAY!  My first three chapters are as polished as they are going to get and I’m FINALLY working on my synopsis.  Goal?  To have it in the mail next week.  With only a couple chapters left to polish, I feel great in sending things in.  Life is good for my writing!

Kids— did I tell you they are home for the summer?  I love it.  Of course we are now fighting for computer time.  :-)  Which reminds me…I convinced my hubby I HAD to purchase a laptop BEFORE they stopped selling windows XP which is at the end of this month!  I’m a getting a laptop folks!  YAY!

Phone — I updated to a razor and for the most part love it.  I can’t say I love accessing my emails.  That is a royal pain in the rump!  Of course it might simply mean I can’t figure it out…okay so it most likely means I can’t figure the darn thing out…but it sounds so easy when everyone else talks about it!  And I don’t get this…first you pay for easyedge then still have to pay for say aol mobile or gmail and it looks the same? Why? And I looked at gmail because then I could combine all our emails in one addy…but….not that simple it would seem and they say I could have to pay more for some pages.  ?  How do I know if I’ve hit that?  And does this count for my minutes?  Totally lost in case you can’t tell.  I tried it with the trial thingy maggigy and studied the HELP section…still don’t get it.   I could list to you the reasons but frankly I don’t know why anyone would want to spend 20 minutes typing in their addies to look at their mail. And yes I hit save, but it never does.  Next time I open my phone, I have to retype.  So, the point is, I seriously doubt I’m keeping this feature–I’m just not smart enough for it.  And how about this texting thingy?  I’m thinking, does email work with that or is that something different?  Is that what I’m really looking for?  Who knows.  I really thought I was smarter than this!  :-)  Hey, I like fooling myself!  ;-)  Most of the time I can be quite content in my little land of lala. 

Well, since this is looking a foot long I had better stop for today.  :-)   Hope you all have a great weekend!

Cole