whole lotta nuthin

Well, I am taking time out to add to my sidebar tomorrow. At least that's the plan ;-)
We buzzed through Knoxville tonight, it's a full moon and better than chocolate- my goddaughter is in recovery and doing great. I'm more relieved than words can say about that.

I'm also 99.9% sure I'll get a rejection from Woman's World in just a couple more weeks, so I'm wondering if I can get out another short story for them AND write my Blaze book. I may give it a try. I haven't gotten my first rejection, but I'm already planning my next move to improve my chances for a pubbed short with them. Why them? I'm not sure. But hey you have to start somewhere.

toodles.

Firemen Firemen everywhere

Well, what an interesting night I had. I'm a fly by my pants type of person and sometimes it pays to be.
Hubby was going to go into town without all of us (three kids and me). Suddenly (I say suddenly because that's when I usually decide I want to go-all of a sudden) we all decided to go. So we hop in the car and go (at 11pm or so-I'm a late nighter) We get a few streets away from our house and smell smoke (first son, then hubby, then me) so naturally we begin looking for the source. We are still driving and following the smoke when we see it coming from the roof of a tire/muffler shop. It's 11pm there isn't any traffic so when the light turns green we zip across the road to the gas station and tell them to call the fire dept. This empty road stays empty for the next four minutes and then bursts with all the town. Where the heck did all these people come from? The cops block off the main road, then the firetrucks are everywhere, the elecric company arrives shutting off the power to the muffler shop. It's organized chaos, but I'm wondering why all these other people are there. Where did they come from- did they jump out of bed (LOL) and run out to see the only excitement probably to happen in this place for months? Well, ok good stuff to listen to while I write. Yep I'm writing the scene as it unfolds. :-)
My current WIP just happens to have a fireman hero!! I somehow happened to grab my folder on the way out the door and have it with me when everything happens!!! Yay!! That was lucky! I feel good about this book :-).

So after the excitement (there has been a dark storm moving in the whole time-- I include the dark sky in my notes) we go on to pay a bill which is why we were out to begin with. I tell hubby, Look at the wind- trees will be knocked down we'd better get home. So, we head home and it begins pouring down rain. I mean like pouring out a bucket of water type rain. He decides to take a different road because the other is so slick when it rains you always spin. Hea Hea. Not likely. There is a HUGE tree across the road! If anyone took the curve quickly they would hit it before they realized it was there. So we turn around and go up the slick road -- very carefully and we spin most of the way. But thank the Lord we made it home safe and sound! That's all the excitement I want :-)

Except for this. Hubby just came home from work and brought me beautiful 'crazy daisies'. Such beautiful colors!! Wow that was nice!! They're so bright! I'm going to go thank him. :-)

been gone awhile

well, okay.
I have pretty much a whole lot of nothing to say. I stayed at the back yard today waiting on the hubby to get home because my silly (but lovable) dog wouldn't stay in the fence. I got all hot and sweaty. Blech.

I enjoyed staying up til 5am this morning writing a review for Romance Divas. I dont' know how it was received yet. But hey I enjoyed the reading and I'm always up late. I hope they like it.

Spice is a new line for Harlequin (or maybe Sil). They have the guidelines up over at www.eharlequin.com Sounds like Ellora's Cave in print to me. They won't be on shelves until 2006 so I guess we'll find out. :-)

I bought the book Wifey by Judy Blume because it's in the guidelines for Spice to reference by on what they want. Sounds like a promising book. ;-)

Blaze is running a contest. (Can you tell I read Harlequin books?) First 25 pages and synopsis. You need to have a completed MS before sending in an entry. I'm trying, I'm trying. I seem stuck on the beginning. (How can I send in the first 25 pages if I can't type them out???!!!!!)
With that said -- I'm going to go and work on it.
My hero is a firefighter. yumm.
Dinner anyone? It's barbeque ;-)

Later!

hee hee I've been Diva Tagged!

Briana tagged me so here goes… J

If I could be a scientist...
If I could be a farmer...
If I could be a musician...
If I could be a doctor...
If I could be a painter...
If I could be a gardener...
If I could be a missionary...
If I could be a chef...
If I could be an architect...
If I could be a linguist...
If I could be a psychologist...
If I could be a librarian...
If I could be an athlete...
If I could be a lawyer...
If I could be an innkeeper...
If I could be a professor...
If I could be a writer...
If I could be a backup dancer...
If I could be a llama-rider...
If I could be a bonnie pirate...
If I could be a midget stripper...
If I could be a proctologist...
If I could be a TV-Chat Show host...
If I could be an actor...
If I could be a judge...
If I could be a Jedi...
If I could be a mob boss...
If I could be a backup singer...
If I could be a CEO...
If I could be a movie reviewer....

If I could be a scientist… I’d cure all cancers and heart diseases because those diseases took most of my family.
If I could be a farmer... I’d eat from the garden like I did at my mamaw’s and feel like an energetic kid again. I’d feel the joy of working the land with my hands and feel that long lost connection.
If I could be a musician... I’d play beautiful music that filled every heart in song.
If I could be a painter... I’d paint the way things used to be, because I don’t like the way they are now.
If I could be a gardener... I’d grow lavendar to calm everyone for miles. J

If I could be a bonnie pirate… I’d steal from the people who stole away everything from me.

hee hee that was fun. I do seem to have a revenge theme going though. :-/

So now I'm going to tag Lynn, Gina, Lucinda, and Sheri
*rubbs hands together fiendishly*