We're not dead! Yet!

I'm such a slacker for not writing. But honestly, my first week of law school should serve as a valid excuse. They aren't kidding when they tell you that grad school isn't like undergrad. Good god, people, homework before we even have class? Yikes. So yeah, i've been busy reading law books, which are dense. Not like romance novels... which I much prefer. Still, the stuff is interesting and I'm learning a lot. Or so i keep telling myself.

As for Sonja, who i know most of you are here for (no body loves me, everybody hates me...) she's off having a fabulous time on a cruise. I'm quite sure i'm not supposed to be jealous, since I did just get back from a fabulous trip to France, but still... cases like Marbury v. Madison, written in 1803 or sipping cocktails on a cruise ship. Hmm... tough call.

Still, there is a bright spot in my life... well, okay, a few. One, my fabulous boyfriend, who's been super nice to me about my complaining about my first week (okay, more like complaining about the homework) and who just got a job! Hooray for him. The first interview he went to and they liked him so much they offered him the job during the interview. Dang, he's good.

And, he finally said yes to this:


Don't lie. You know you're jealous that i now own the cutest dog in the universe. To see more of Tifa (pronounced Tee-fa) come see my own blog for more pics!

Editing sucks. But France was awesome.

I'm back! Yes, i know, i come and go a lot, so this probably isn't that exciting for everyone. But let's consider the implications of my being back this time.
One: I don't get to speak French anymore. Le sigh.
Two: I don't get to go anywhere anymore. I mean, school is starting on THURSDAY. Super le sigh.
Three: Well, i don't really know that i have a third point.

But yeah, here i am. At home. Trying to avoid the dread that creeps over me every time i consider the start of school.

I am working on my editing, however. Lots of people have had a lot of valid input. And some not so valid :) For instance, some people keep bringing up relevant plot points. Which is so unacceptable. I mean, come on, people. You should be finding comma errors, not valid mistakes. There should be NO valid mistakes. I am perfect. But still, they're finding them, so I'm fixing them. And i need to hurry to, since my free time rapidly goes away on THURSDAY.

Can you tell I'm fixated?

Sonja tried to cheer me up by getting me excited about buying office supplies. Which is pretty darn exciting. I do love me some good office supplies. Something about going to a staples makes me happy and lowers my shopping resistance. I'm always overwhelmed with an urge to buy things i REALLY don't need. Like pencils. I almost never use pencils. But i always really want to buy them. Or notebooks. and paper. and tape. Things i probably won't use in law school. But i want them anyway.

Other than my school supply obsession, i'm not really seeing the good in school. Maybe that's because i had so much fun in France. And this is the real reason why:



Yes. A cute little kitty. Un petit chatton. We discovered the mother and fed her. and then discovered she had babies. This is one of them, whom we named Helmut. There are two others, Tom Selleck (aka Magnum PI) and Adolph.

For more deets, see my blog. I'm going to try and post the cutest video of them :)

Technicalities

So, as Sonja is already well aware, I may be a techno geek, but I'm totally anti-social-networking, which both she and my boyfriend despair of, since I spend quite a bit of time making fun of their MySpace pages. Anyways, I don't actually READ blogs online, per se. Not even the ones I write on, including this one. They are emailed to me, but they don't get here until a day later. Which means that by the time I get this blog in my email, I only have a day left to post. So, all this time, I've gone of the (probably wrong) assumption that I will post 2 days after I read it. Therefore, I usually wind up posting 3 days after Sonja.

Which is what I'm trying to clarify. Is this bad and wrong? Should I be adhering firmly to the 2 day limit we set out way back when? Or am I okay with letting it slide? Thoughts, comments, suggestions?

Anyways, in other news, I'm back in North Carolina, which means I get to see my bestest buddy, at some point. Hopefully. Sonja? Are you out there? It only took me and JB a mere 30 hours to make it across the country. We practically could have driven faster. And we spent a wonderful night at the Dallas airport. So I'm one up on Sonja- to prepare for the RWA National Conference, I stuck it out in Dallas, just to see what the weather was going to be like. Which, i'm not pleased to report, is sucky. But maybe it'll be better by the time we get there.

For other preparations, however, I'm also lacking. Since my eyeball was out of comission, I was unable to stick to my writing schedule and finish my WIP before the conference. Which means I'll be pitching an unfinished book again. Oh well.

I'm also trying to find the motivation to get to working on the book again. I've had 4 or 5 weeks off of it now and I'm struggling to get back. Need inspiration... Any help for those of you out there in readerland?

And one final note to Sonja... Quit yer bitching about being compared to your sister. You're IDENTICAL TWINS!!! And while you and I may not think the two of you actually look that much alike, most of the rest of the universe only sees the similarities. Also, on her wedding day, she probably looked fabulous. So being compared to her is a compliment. Suck it up.

Hello Internets!

I'm back! Yes, that's right, this is really me, Skye, not Craig typing for me. Not that he posted for me while i was... incapacitated, but whatever. Sonja took up the slack nicely. Plus I loved having Craig read me the fun post about panties. Totally worth the whole pain and eyeball suffering i just went through. Or maybe not.

At any rate, i think I'm technically supposed to wait until tomorrow to return to reading and computer work, but it's been long enough. And if i don't get to see the internets for myself NOW, I'll go crazy. Or crazier. Your pick.

It honestly hasn't been as bad as i expected, but this last week really chafed. My eyeball is fine, for those of you who are interested... it still hurts occasionally and it looks freaky because the eye drops i was on made it dilate and it hasn't stopped doing that yet. So i look kind of stoned or concussed, depending on your point of view with one dilated pupil and one not dilated. Super fun.

What kept me from going totally bonkers (besides Craig reading me my email every day) was the fact that we were moving and i had plenty of other stuff to keep me busy. What with the unpacking and the buying furniture and all the rest of the stuff that's involved with a move across country. Speaking of, if you didn't get an email from me about my new phone number, email me. I just forgot you. Sorry. :)

So, let the games begin. Sonja, i expect you to resume our extremely strict every 2 day posting schedule now. :)

No really, this time I swear I'm alive...

Although I wasn't feeling so hot for a while. That's why I didn't post while in Hawaii, despite the internet connection that we lucked out with. Yes, that's right, you all can glory in the fact that I was sick in Hawaii and missed out on a bunch of fun experiences. Oh, and I got a massive cut on my foot, too. So for everyone who was jealous of my jaunting off to the Islands, don't feel too bad :)

I did have a lot of fun, however (when i wasn't at death's door or bleeding), and will probably post a little something something on my own blog at some point. I'm merely checking in here to point out that I'm alive and no, this blog does not totally belong to Sonja. So there.

Let's see, in writing related news... I emailed WRP (that's Wild Rose Press, aka Sonja's publisher) about my long ago request for a full and they remembered me and told me to send it back in. Which is great, except i STILL haven't finished editing it, which is what i was planning on doing in Hawaii, but then the disease of DOOM tackled me and left me unable to do anything except read books and sniffle a lot. At some point, I'll actually want to work on that again too.

But other than that, not much to report. Sonja's making me feel like a slacker for being all published and stuff, but I still can't work up the energy to do anything about it. Ah well.

Since I'm back, however, the posting shall recommence and I will be happy to exchange witty banter and snarky comments with my dearly beloved published bestest bud.

On to you, Sonja...

Oh, and I totally think that Puma Stud is the way to go :)

Sonja is so right...

I admit it. My plan is in fact to be published with my monster of a book and gloat about it endlessly. Failing that, I'll just cry myself to sleep every night. But such is life.

Actually, to be honest, Sonja's fabulous success has inspired me to begin working on my book again... so i've dredged up the many edits that Sonja gave me for Misdirection that i totally ignored and am currently wasting work paper to print out my novel and begin editing (again). No, really this time. :)

At any rate, this is Skye, popping in to say howdy, before I leave again. I'm back from one trip, but am leaving for another. Ah, the life of an unemployed writer is just so tough. But on this trip I will be taking along my edits and will theoretically be working on them. Just you wait, I'll be published yet. But while I will gloat about being published, I will still give all credit to Sonja for being published first. And even though she's too good to talk to me nowadays that she's published, I still love her. :)

Sass-pot Returns

Just so you know what an awesome friend I am, instead of helping Skye load a large Uhaul full of stuff to move on Saturday, I instead spent almost 5 hours getting my hair dyed and cut. I'm awesome like that. (Check out my blog for pictures.) I hadn't intended to be there quite that long, but it was totally worth it because (1) the haircut doesn't suck; (2) the dye looks really good; (3) the instructor who checked my hair at the end said I looked like a "sass-pot" and I don't know what that means, but it totally made my day. But, um, I would have loved to load a Uhaul instead. Really.

Yes, so then after my marathon haircut, Romeo and I went out and bought a treadmill. If we both use it every day for 10 months, it will have paid for itself, because we quit our gym membership and bought the treadmill instead. Any bets on how long it will take both of us to use it for 10 months worth of days? I'm guessin' longer than 10 months. But I don't know. Maybe we'll both be magically inspired to use it, now that it's there. Romeo says he's going to damn well use it just because it was such a pain in the butt to drag into the house and assemble. (I swear to god that thing has got to weigh like 800 pounds. It's freaking heavy.)

So those are the two things I did do this weekend.

I did not:

(1) Help my bestest buddy move her shit;
(2) Feel overly guilty about not helping my bestest buddy move her shit, though I feel a little guilty about not feeling guilty;
(3) Clean the bathrooms;
(4) Do the laundry;
(5) Eat anything that might be construed as healthy.

Hm. I'm so 5.

The prodigal daughter returns!

I have to admit, i was pretty tempted to never post again when i discovered that while i didn't post, pretty pretty pictures of a very handsome man appeared on our blog. :) Mmm... Daniel Craig. Yummy for numerous reasons:
1) Well, duh, look at him.
2) He's James Bond. JAMES BOND. What's not hot about that?
3) He shares the name Craig with my own personal squishy. (which is why Orange Car Guy be called JB -- hey, if you're calling the former "That Guy I Married" Romeo, I'm allowed to call mine by James Bond's initials. So there.)

At any rate, yes, this is my triumphant return to the blogging world. I wasn't deliberately staying away, dear readers, it was just that i was captive in a sort of hell where they don't give you internet access. Admittedly, it was the sort of hell where waitresses brought you coconut rum smoothies while you were laying poolside, so it wasn't all bad, but still, no internet access (well, okay, there was, but for $15/day, so not worth it).

I won't bore our readers (who are so 5) with the details of my long trip to South Carolina, California, Hawaii, California, and South Carolina (which was a full 5 stars, by the way)... you'll have to read my personal blog for that, which i probably won't update for several days. But that's okay. I know for a fact that several of our dedicated blog readers where with me on the trip and therefore already know plenty about it. The rest of you will have to wait bated breath (did i spell bated right?).

So, at long last I am back, and will again return to the 2 day posting schedule (i think). Sorry my absence was so heart rending for all. More later, when I'm not exhausted from a day of getting up early, driving from South Carolina to North, then unloading our CARLOAD of stuff, and then having to go into work, despite having quit. Goodnight, sleep tight, don't let Romeo bite, and I'll be back tomorrow with more witty insights into life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (or at least snarky comments about various things).