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Thursday, September 04, 2008
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In lieu of Thursday Thirteen--3’s about me
Melissa Lopez tagged me so here it goes...
3's About Me
Three jobs I have had in my life:
1) money taker at a pool
2) administrative assistant
3) author! Whoo hooo, how I love listing that.
Three shows that I watch:
1) Dirty Jobs
2) Deadliest Catch
3) Dexter (may the new season start soon!)
Three people who e-mail me regularly:
1) Melissa
2) Paula
3) My sisters
Three of my favorite foods:
1) Italian
2) steak
3) peanut butter
Three places I'd rather be right now:
1) Nags Head on the Outer Banks
2) Scotland
3) taking a nap in my bed (why youngest child, did you decide to get up at 5 today?)
Three friends I think will respond: (I have no idea!)
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Three things I am looking forward to this year:
1) Halloween
2) Christmas
3) the leaves changing color
Three places I have been:
1) The Outer Banks
2) New Orleans
3) New York City
3 things I would do if I won 100 million dollars in the lotto:
1) Buy my hubby a house with a garage for his "manspace" (we have all girls here) and a room for a library for me and the girls *G*
2) buy a beach house at the Outer Banks
3) Donate to the SPCA
3 things that make me happy:
1) My family, kids, hubster, and pets
2) Friends, Melissa, Mari, Shy, Corinne, JW, Sandra, Karen
3) writing a story that I love the characters and where it's going.
3 things that annoy me:
1) Mean people
2) People who give up a once cherished pet just because they have a child or get pregnant.
3) People who abuse children or animals.
3 favorite movies:
1) Pitch Black
2) Serenity
3) Fried Green tomatoes
3 places I want to go before I split the planet:
1) Scotland
2) Ireland
3) Germany
3 things I want to do before I split the planet:
1) See the kidlets grow to be happy and hopefully good people.
2) Find an agent and have book with New York Publisher.
3) Adopt a greyhound
3 things I'm thankful for.
1) Family
2) Friends
3) My writing
3 People I'm Thankful for:
1) the hubby
2) my kids and other family like my sisters and my aunt
3) my friends(I couldn't name just three.)
May the muses have more than 3 things
Mechele
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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The house is quiet
Current mood:  excited
The kids are back to school. The hubster is back at work. Neurotic dog is snoozing. Diva kitty is snoozing by the laptop. I'm drinking coffee and listening to Clyde growl because I haven't started working on his story again yet.
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Guess who is featured at The Romance Studio Blue?
Mse!
You can read all about it here:
http://www.theromancestudio.com/blue/who2.php
May the muses have occasionally quiet houses
Mechele
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Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1)
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Charlaine Harris
Release date: 2001-05-01
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Monday, September 01, 2008
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Quirks, too
The wonderful Lyn Cash tagged me on the Quirky meme, too, so here goes six more. And three more tags.
1) Link to the person that tagged you.2) Post the rules on your blog.3) List six unspectacular quirks you have.4) Tag six bloggers by linking them.5) Leave a comment on each person's blog to let them know they've been tagged.
1. I love peanut butter. I crave peanut butter. Constantly. With or without chocolate.
2. I'm anal about organizing and cleaning some things but completely nonchalant about others. One section of my desk must stay pristine and organized. The other side, not so much.
3. I cannot do math in my head. I have to see it on paper or I lose track of the numbers.
4. I have to turn maps the direction I'm going so I can figure out turns.
5. I love dinosaur stuff, especially the computer generated images. I've watched a lot of the shows on dinosaurs just so I can see the footage of the dinosaurs walking around.
6. I'm not good at calling people, even my friends on the telephone. Somehow, I always wonder if I'm interrupting them or something.
Mechele
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
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Six Quirks
I was tagged twice for the Tag, You're it! game. So I've come up with 12 quirks. LOL apparently, I'm very quirky. I'll post the first six today with the first tag. I'm not tagging 12 bloggers though (hears a sigh of relief from my friends). I'll tag three with each post of quirks. Adele Dubois, who is fabulous, tagged me. So here it goes... First, here are the rules for the Tag, You're It! game with other authors: 1. Link to the person who tagged you. 2. Post the rules on your blog. 3. List 6 unspectacular quirks you have. 4. Tag 6 bloggers by linking them. 5. Leave a comment on each person's blog to let them know they've been tagged. Now without further ado, the first six quirks: 1. Sheets and I don't get along. After 10 minutes, somehow the sheet winds up down at the foot of the bed. I don't mean to push them away, it just happens. If I manage to keep them on while I'm awake, while I'm asleep, they migrate away from me. 2. I shake my leg(s) when I'm sitting. It's a family quirk. One sister does that as well, as did my dad. My DH hates being "Shaken, not stirred." 3. I'm scared of giant squid. The bridge to the Outer Banks used to creep me out because I could imagine a giant squid attacking it. Why? I dunno. 4. I'm superstitious. Always doing "Knock on wood" and am leery of telling good news until it's set in stone so as not to jinx myself. 5. I'm not big on going places and crowds. The hubster says I'm bordering on agoraphobic LOL. I don't mind traveling (like the trip to the Outer Banks), it's the day to day trips I have to make that get me nervous. 6. I like finishing what I've started and I think about things until they are done. They gnaw at me.
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Friday, August 29, 2008
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Blogging at Loose Ends and more
Just got back from the Outer Banks and am catching up. I have been tagged *arched brow* by the fabulous Adele Dubois and the lovely Lyn Cash. Double teamed even. I will answer the challenges posed but may take a couple of days as we arrived back to school open houses and such.
Mechele Armstrong
PS Diva Kitty says, *sniff* If I ever leave her alone that long again, she's going to smack the dog for it. Oh wait, she already did that...
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Thursday Thirteen
13 things on my summer wish list by Mechele--How I did by Mechele
Edited to make it stand out more and one time confusion
1. Write. I have to finish Dark Raiders and start the next Settler's Mine. I'm behind *sigh* due to the cold. Dark Raiders is done and the next Settler's Mine is started. I'm about 5K into it.
2. Go to the library at least biweekly. My oldest loves to read and is reading several serieses. I'm hoping in the next year, my youngest will make the leap to chapter books. She's going to be reading to me and picking her own books. We spent a lot of time at the library. They both read over 50 books this summer. They both really enjoyed picking out their own books, too. The youngest is bordering on chapter books but still not quite there yet.
3. Spend time with grandma. I'm hoping we see lots of her this summer. Not as much time as we would have liked but did go see her a few times. Grandma is very busy herself LOL.
4. Go to Busch Gardens several times. The kids love it, and it's pretty much going to be our vacation this year. Ha! We did this. Went about four times.
5. Spend lots of time at the pool. Let's see, gymnastics practice is 12:30 to 2:30 two days a week. Why yes, that's the hottest part of the day. LOL I see pool visits on those two days and I'm thinking at least one more during the week. The youngest has also said, "You know I could practice in my bathing suit instead of a leo…" We did the pool some but not as much as I thought we would. Especially after gymnastics.
6. Spend time with my sisters. I went to Tennessee with them and had a ball even in the short time we were there. Arggh. Not as much as I would have liked. :(. Did some time with them but definitely wished for more.
7. Go to the Richmond Zoo. We didn't last summer so I definitely want to try this summer. You can feed the giraffes! Nope, not yet. Between Busch Gardens and unanticipated trip to the beach we took, haven't made it there yet.
8. Go to Maymont. We love walking around and looking at the animals. See reason above. It just hasn't worked out.
9. Write. Did I mention this one already? Did this one!
10. Find fireworks on the 4th. We did last year, which was fun. We did find fireworks on the 4th! Lovely ones.
11. Have picnics. We have a great park system. All the more reason to do picnics. Ah yes, we did this one a few times. *G*
12. Survive the critter camp the girls are doing at the local SPCA without adopting a new pet LOL. Hmmm maybe, maybe not... We'll see...
13. Eat lots of watermelon. Yes, we went through a few watermelons.
Things we did that I didn't anticipate.
14. Got closer to our best friends here. Which I didn't think was possible. Every time I turned around, they were trying to get in playdates, visits, seeing them. We had sleepovers about 2-3 weeks.
15. Went to Lewis Ginter Botannical Gardens. And the girls LOVED it. It was their prize for over reaching their goal of 30 books and reaching 50. They liked the plants as well as the children's stuff. So much so that we joined it so we can go back next summer and maybe visit during the fall.
16. Swim lessons. I made the mistake of asking them...of course they wanted to do them. Until we actually did them. Every day, the oldest had a discussion with the teacher about why she doesn't like freestyle. Every day, the teacher said, "Well you just have to do it."
17. We're going to the beach. In summer. Defintely didn't anticipate this. I'm probably there as this posts and getting ready to come home. I have missed the Outer Banks SO SO SO much.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
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Haul out the celebration (Aug 8th)
Dark Raiders is done (until the revisions). It topped out a little over 83 K. I'm thrilled to have finished it and that it was so long. I expect it to grow quite a bit during the editing process. The basic story is there, it just needs fleshing out and TLC.
But I'm celebrating for now! Whoo hooooooo!
Now onto the next project *G*... No rest for the wicked.
May the muses have TLC
Mechele
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Blogging at Ladies of the Club
Mechele
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Sunday, August 03, 2008
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Last week’s recap
My oh my what a busy week.
I wrote 7500 K on DR. I'm over 75 K and really nearing the end. I'm not going back and fleshing out, just getting the basic story on paper. I'm happy that I'm nearing 80 K. I had worried I wouldn't be able to write long enough. I don't think that's going to be a problem *Grins*.
My cowritten author ego had a release, Law's Deliverance, from Loose Id! We're so excited.
I blogged at Georgia's Crossroads Cafe on rejection. Timely as I really hope to submit DR to agents this fall.
We survived a week without the best friends. I wasn't sure we could do it...
They also survived 4 days of swim lessons. We have four more days this week.
We are ready for school to start. All supplies have been purchased, save one thing. Things are labeled and in backpacks. I feel so accomplished *grins*.
We went to hear an author speak on her book about monarch butterflies. Got to see several caterpillars.
Went to Busch Gardens and had an awesome time. The youngest rode her second roller coaster, my personal favorite, The Loch Ness Monster.
I went to a seminar on Anti-heroes. Learned I kind of like anti-heroes, i.e. like Mal from Firefly and Riddick from Pitch Black.
Got an awesome new idea for a story. But must finish DR. Must finish DR. *sigh* but I love the idea. LOL.
May the muses have new ideas
Mechele
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Melany Logen has big news
And as she's half me, so do I *Grins*.
She has a new release.
http://melanylogen.blogspot.com/2008/07/laws-deliverance-is-out.html
You may have to cut and paste....
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