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With barely more than 80 days before our wedding, I have got to get serious about exercising or I am not going to fit into my wedding dress! Over the past few weeks since I bought the dress, I have only managed to lose about 4 pounds. And 4 pounds can be gained back awfully fast! In truth, to look the way I want to in my dress, I need to lose at least 20 pounds. Is that even possible in 80 days? It better be! I am hoping that with the cut-backs in my junk food eating, adding a…

The third and final reality TV show that my sister and I watch and bet on our favorites is The Amazing Race. Out of all of the reality shows out there, this is the one that I would most like to be on, but I have never actually applied. Maybe G and I will try to get on at some point? We’ll see. Maybe my sister and I should do it :P. Anyway, since I’ve already put our picks for The Biggest Loser and Survivor up there (and, might I say, all our picks are still in the competition at…

As we plan our trip to Vegas for our wedding (only 86 days to go till our wedding day!!), we are starting to look at the various shows that are available on and near the Strip. From the looks of it, Vegas has everything from cheesy magic shows to top dollar headliners like Cris Angel and the Blue Man Group. I think we are going to be in Vegas for six nights, which means we will have plenty of time to see a variety of shows. On our wedding night, we’re going to dinner and maybe just walking around the…

Okay, today, I am going to be a total brat, but I feel the need to get this off my chest, so I hope you’ll forgive me. In a few months, G and I are getting married. As a divorced woman, this will be my second wedding… but does that really make it any less important? Not to me it doesn’t. If anything, it makes it MORE important, because THIS is the wedding that will really count and that will really mean something to me twenty years from now. I realize now just how badly I screwed up when I…

Every year, the Romance Writers of America give two sets of prestigious awards at the national conference. One is the RITA, which is for published authors and, in that way, somewhat more prestigious and glamorous. The other, is the Golden Heart. The Golden Heart is an award given to the best manuscripts written by unpublished authors. There are 10 different categories that cover everything from inspirational to historical. I have looked through the RWA website for years wishing I could join, and everytime I was always drawn to reading about the Golden Heart and thinking I would love to enter…

I am very excited to report that Friday night / early Saturday morning around 1:10 AM, I finished the first draft of my very first full-length novel! Over the past two years, I have started many projects, but I have never actually seen a full novel from start to finish. Last year’s NANO WRIMO was close. I wrote 50,000 words of a novel I was calling “Into Darkness”, but when I hit my word count goal, I still didn’t have a complete ending to the story. Plus, for a horror novel, I really needed more like 65k or more words…