2007

Hello-o-o-o-o-o :cough: :cough: My goodness, it’s dusty and echo-ey in here.

Happy New Year! :bananadance::bananadance:

Wishing all of you good health, happiness, and success in making all your dreams come true.

It’s that time of year when we all make promises we probably won’t keep and make plans to change our lives for the better - lose weight, stop smoking, etc. etc.

For me, it’s the usual resolutions - eat healthier, write more and generally live better. I have seriously neglected my blog for quite a while, and I’m going to try to post regularly. This is a hard one, since I don’t have much to say. No kids, no pets to write about. Pretty stable, read boring, life. So I’ll ramble a lot. Stay tuned.

What about you? What resolutions are you making? Are they recycled from last year? And do you think you can stick to them?

It’s my first time …

Until yesterday, I was a virgin … an eBay virgin, that is. Everybody I know bids on eBay regularly, but I’d resisted. But then something caught my eye, something I need right now. Badly. Not jewelry, not furs, not even a vacation.

Yep, that’s right. It’s a chain saw. Our house at the lake is surrounded by trees. I wouldn’t mind, but they’re so close to the house they cover the windows, not to mention the roots are sneaking under the foundation. So, they have to go.

But there is another advantage to owning your own chain saw. Now, people are going to be really careful not to tick me off

Congratulations!

One of my critique partners and bestest friends SOLD!!!! After two years of submitting and revising, finally, she got THE CALL!

Michelle Willingham sold her first book, a medieval historical set in Ireland to M&B Historicals. I’m so excited for her!!!

Huge congrats, Michelle! You deserve it!

What is it?

There is no winner, no prize. But I’d really like SOMEBODY to tell me what this is. At first, I thought my hubby had sold a cow and bought beans. The plant grew out of nowhere near our compost bin and has now scaled the fence and was snaking its way along our neighbour’s fence. We were away for a few days and came home to this:

What is it?

And why won’t my camera save the date and time??????

RWA in the movies???

I can’t sleep these days. No matter what time I go to bed, I wake up in the middle of the night. Last night was no exception :hissyfit: So I turned on the TV, clicking the remote as I searched for a boring infomercial to lull me back to sleep.

Imagine my surprise when I clicked to an old movie called The Boyfriend School and realized the scene I’d come upon was taking place at an RWA conference, complete with bodice-ripper covers and half-naked men walking across the screen.

Could RWA have sanctioned this? If not, does the mention of Romance Writers of America constitute trademark infringement?

Either way, RWA should find/buy the original copy of this movie and burn it!!! After everything romance authors and RWA has done to gain a little respect in the publishing industry, five minutes with this movie will set the cause back fifty years.

I’m melting …

We’re in the middle of a heatwave. We have an extreme heat warning - it’s 32, but with humidity feels like 45 (that’s 113 to you folks south of the border).

My American friends laugh, especially those who live in the south and deal with this weather year-round. And yes, it’s summer, heat is to be expected. But this is Canada!!! The Great White North. The Frozen Tundra. They should be here now, when the only things still frozen are the ice cubes floating in my drinks. And to top it off, we have a smog advisory in effect. How can that be? This is not LA!!

Most of us here don’t have pools to cool off in. Most of us don’t even have central air. We don’t need it for summer, otherwise known as the season of bad snowmobiling.

Stay cool!

Has someone been stealing into my garden in the dead of night and feeding steroids to my zucchini plants? It sure looks like it. Either that, or we have the best compost in the country.

Happiness is …

renovations on my teensy kitchen. It’s taken years of planning and designing :rotfl: Okay, the truth is it’s been years of procrastination and laziness. But the work has FINALLY begun.

The contractor, aka my son, started this morning.

David hard at work. He’s doing a fine job.

I’m sure by the time the kitchen is finished, I’ll be tearing my hair out, but for now, I’m doing a happy dance :bananadance::bananadance::bananadance:

The Lake House

No, not the Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock movie, but the reason I’ve been scarce lately. MY new house.

It’s been years in the wishing and planning, and finally, it’s here.

Can you see me sitting on the deck in summer? Or in the solarium on a wintry day? The view should be inspiring, don’t you think?

Victoria Day Weekend

Have a great weekend.