I really do try to be good. My intentions are usually the best. But somewhere along the way I tend to fall short of that. This morning, for example, I intended to get out of bed around 9 and get to work just as if it were a normal day rather than a holiday. G is home so I knew it was going to be better than your average day, but I still planned to do work and get writing and laundry and things done today. When I went to bed last night, it was almost 3 am, so I…
Now that all of my reality tv shows are over (except So You Think You Can Dance, but that isn’t one of my primary loves, haha), it’s time to get back to reality. And reality is that time flies by way too fast, so if you don’t make the most out of every day, life is going to start passing you by. Okay, so it’s almost impossible to make the most of every single day. Some days we all feel like crap and there’s just no getting over it. But hopefully there are days where we also feel amazing and…
The finale of American Idol last night was like the Grand Old Opry for Rock Stars. It’s as if the producers just have to make the show bigger and bigger every year! At least this time it was filled with genuinely good music-making instead of countless boring clips and fluff. Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas were there, Rod Stewart, Lionel Richie, KISS, Keith Urban, Queen (which, is it really Queen without Freddie Mercury?) and even Queen Latifah. We got to see all of the top 13, and let me tell you, it was all too obvious that some of…
Season 8 of American Idol ends tonight and a new American Idol is going to be crowned. To me this season has been a dud compared to last season, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any great talent. I just didn’t seem to get close to any of the contestants. I really loved Allison Iraheta, but she didn’t get to the top two like I hoped she would. Instead, the finale last night was Adam Lambert and Kris Allen. Two very different kinds of performers, but both very talented. In some ways, I would love to see Adam win just…
Yesterday we got our cell phone bill. It was $25 more than usual, and in these times where every little bit counts, we had to look twice at why it was so much more. Some of it was just because we changed our plans. G added on 300 text messages with picture mail to our accounts, which was $5.00 each. Okay, so where did the other added charges come into play? There was a charge on our bill for “SendMe Mobile Ringers”. $9.99. What?? I had never heard of it. But then I remembered something and went digging through my…
I have been waiting for today for weeks now since I signed up to go to the RWA national convention in D.C. in July. Every year at nationals, agents and editors make themselves available for appointments to hear “pitches” from authors wanting to get their books published. In the hierarchy of RWA, (Romance Writers of America), people who are up for awards this year got first dibs, then published authors, then PRO authors (which is basically people who have finished novels just haven’t sold them yet but are seeking publication of a work 40,000 words or longer, which mine is…