Monday? Already?

I don't know what happened, how could it be Monday already? Let's see, I last checked-in on...Tuesday? Not good, not good at all.

Wednesday, Aug. 8: daughter's birthday. She choose dinner and a movie. We met both sets of grandparents at Olive Garden then we went to see The Bourne Ultimatum. I'm not going to say is was "the best movie ever". I will say I'm satisfied with the ending and would pay full price to see it again. :)


Daughter made her own birthday cake Tuesday night then when she hadn't cut into it by Friday, her brother did. By Saturday it was all gone and she hadn't gotten any. Sigh, I guess this time, I'll bake the cake.


The rest of the week/weekend was normal stuff. I went to the gym with my workout buddy on Friday instead of last Monday. I called in to Jury Duty (call again Monday after 7).

Sunday is Flash Fiction at SEx. Stop that, it's called Silver Expressions Blog and feautres authors of Liquid Silver Books. One of the authors starts it then you can comment with your own. I've done two (patting myself on the back) but couldn't come up with anything yesterday. It was Flashes of Animal Instincts. There was some great stuff.


Y wrote one of my favorites: "She was torn, he was the most beautiful specimen that she had ever seen, in both his forms. He was walking on the beach as a man, beautifully bronzed and nude. She watched from the ocean where he couldn’t see her.

She knew that it wouldn’t work out, they weren’t compatible. She felt a longing for him and a hunger that would not subside. He looked around and dove into the water, taking his animal form of a sea otter. She watched as he darted through the cove, coming at her.

Hunger won and she opened her jaws and ate him."


I'll be taking rides on the Poetry Train today and hope to post favorite links tomorrow.

A BIG thank you to Lisa

for the link to Les Byerley's website. Les does book covers and photography. You can find Lisa Andel here

Back from vacation

There are over 500 photos to go through now, here are just a few.



This is one of the views everyone goes for, and I mean everyone. We're at the Watch Tower and the viewpoint was so crowded we almost missed the shot. Luckily, we wondered over to the other side where it wasn't paved. Awesome isn't it.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~



This is Angel's Window. There a couple of view spots along this trail. The one where S was standing, the top of Angel's Window and at the end where S caught the lightning. The storm was on the other side of the canyon but the static was so bad our hair was standing on end.











There are two strikes here, one is more horizontal and across the clouds.


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~





It's a lot harder writing in the car than I thought it would be and with all four of us sharing a room, there was no late night writing. Except one room had a dimmer switch and I had an idea....An idea that has led to a flow problem that I've got to fix before writing any new scenes. grrr


I was checking over old blogs. I didn't read any of the print books I bought the week before vacation, not even the two I took with me. As for the ebooks? There were actually ten purchased before the trip that were ready to go and half were read before we left! Three are still waiting for me to find the time. I'm still finding it hard to believe that I haven't bought a new ebook since I got back. There are several out there, I just haven't bought them yet. Must not feel well ;)

Vacation & Progress

S took his digital camera and two memory cards, one was 4 gig, so what happened? Lots and Lots of photos. I haven't gone through all of them yet. Here's one of rain at the Grand Canyon. I think we're on the North Rim.







And one of me walking across the Colorado River. That's right, I walked across the Colorado River, twice. We stopped at the Navajo Bridge since M's a civil engineer. The old bridge is now the Historic Navajo Bridge and it's set up as a walkway. I got half way out and thought "why not" then I had to walk back to the car. M asked if I wanted to walk it once or twice. Silly me chose twice. I know I'm small, but I'm right in the middle, wearing a blue top.


I did work on my 70 days WIP while on vacation. I moved the first kiss up several pages and rearranged the remodeling project. Instead of doing just her room, she's doing all of upstairs and I mean ALL of upstairs. Now I've got to reread and see where my flow problem is! grrrr

1. a "non-date" (got it - 1: dinner at house - first kiss!, 2: shopping)
2. 1st official date - with children (got it - swimming)
3. 1st official date - without children (got it - dinner out)
4. picking up her books from storage - out of state, hotel stay both ways
5. Honeymoon

I'm up to 12,750