May 25th, 2007
Swashbuckle on by to the Writers Across Time blog. I’m talking pirates. 
Archive for May, 2007
May 24th, 2007
Hey y’all. It’s been a crazy week from soup to nuts. Enjoy my Thursday thirteen!
Thirteen Reasons to Play Hookey from Work Today
1. It is a beautiful blue sky day with sun.
2. The humidity is low and it will be 82 today.
3. My bed was sooooo comfortable this morning.
4. Memorial Day sales are going on (can you say shopping?).
5. The long weekend is most tempting. For those of us in the US, it’s a holiday weekend with Memorial Day on Monday.
6. I needed more sleep. 
7. Work has been going a hundred miles an hour since minute one. 
8. Today would be a perfect day to do some outside work when it’s not beastly hot.
9. I’d love to blog hop. So many good Thursday Thirteen posts to read!
10. It makes a great Thursday Thirteen list.
11. My house is a big, fat mess and I really need to clean it.
12. I’m behind on my edits so I could use an extra 4 hours to finish. 
13. Who doesn’t want to play hookey? 
May 23rd, 2007
Hooyah! Wednesday is finally here! I mean, hump day is.
I made it through Tuesday okay - how about y’all? When I eat my lunch at my desk (more often than not lately) I like to read the news online. The Strange News category always catches my attention. Speaking of hump day…
A 60 year old woman gave birth to twins in New Jersey yesterday. No, really. I’m not lying. See, you’re wincing too aren’t you? From what the story indicates she has a 6 year old son too, as well as two much older children. Then they reference a birth last year of twins also in NJ from a 59 year old woman.
Makes me want to cross my legs, throw salt over my shoulder and hang a horseshoe in my house. I’ll be 40 this year and my younger son is 11. There is no way on the planet I’d want to start over with a new baby - and I’m 20 years younger than this lady. Plus, well, I’m certainly not in the same physical shape I was when I had my last baby. A 40 year old mother is a risk, even if she’s healthy - what the hell were the doctors thinking to use in vitro fertilization on a 60 year old woman?
She can be a grandmother (since her son is 33 and daugher 29) and enjoy their babies. I just cannot fathom what she and her DH were thinking. 
If I hadn’t had any children, then absolutely I’d consider getting pregnant at 40. At 60, after three children, not a chance. I’m all about motherhood, but this is too much. She’ll be 78 when the twins graduate high school.
What do y’all think?
May 22nd, 2007
I think I’m officially recovered from my trip, although I still couldn’t get up half an hour early to exercise. I really, really need to get back into the routine so I’ll try to get a walk in today to make up for it.
It seems as though 2007 is flying by with the speed of a freight train. I simply find it inconceivable (fav movie line - Princess Bride) that it’s May 22 already. The year is almost half over! It seems that we’re always looking ahead to something, for me it’s a couple of trips in June, July and August, and preparing for them. Meanwhile, time slips through my fingers and I’m shaking the damn sand off. *slaps forehead*
I had an e-mail from a reader named B.J. yesterday (Hi BJ!!) who asked me when Books 6 and 7 of the Malloy series would be in print. That’s when it hit me. Book 7 is being released in ebook in just about five weeks. Holy shit! The end of the series is coming, dang that makes me tear up. Noah’s story (The Legacy) is kind of a wrap-up to everything - he’s grown up in front of readers in the first six books and now he’s a man, ready for his own happy ending.
I’m going to create a Malloy family tree and put it on my website. For my next series, Devils on Horseback, I’ll start that tree right away so y’all can read along with my devils.
Today’s post seems to be a meandering look at how my mind jumps around like a jackrabbit, doesn’t it? 
Anyhoo, I don’t have my pics from Holland uploaded yet (technical difficulties with Flickr) and I’m working my butt off to get some edits done. Then I’ve got a novella to finish, and two synopses to submit, and oh, life. That’s always important. Geeeeeez, I can’t wait for my real vacation in August when I get on a big ass cruise ship and play slots, shop and lay in the sun with a book. Just the thought gives me goose bumps!
Have a wonderful, fabulous Tuesday y’all!
