Showing posts with label rainbow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rainbow. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

It's a bright (bright) (bright) Sunshiny Day


Yes, I'm feeling better today than I was Monday. Still not much to expound upon today, although I'm thrilled to have found a way to recover a major portion of a manuscript I thought was lost to corrupted documents after our server crash last August. I'm not sure how much I saved percentage wise, and it's going to need work to translate some of the gibberish that remains. But it's way more than I had and I'm so happy about it.

My writing has come to a stand-still, but come Sunday I need to get back to work. I really love that manuscript so that is what I'm going to work on for next month's charm cycle. I wrote that thing many years ago and my writing has improved since then so it's going to need some work, but I know that and I'm ready to play in that world again.

Today, though, I just want to share some pictures with you.

First up, last week I saw just a section of rainbow peeking out of the clouds. So here's that!


Most of you who visit my humble blog live local to me so you experienced the snow yesterday for yourself--whether you enjoyed more or less of it than I did depends on where you live. This is what we had when I left the house shortly after 7ish.

 (the edge of my driveway and lawn)

 (I was trying to get the snow on the roof, instead you get snowflakes!)

And last but not least is Princess Kitty Doodle Bug sitting in the flower wreath. My coffee table has a bottom to it, so last year I bought a magnolia/grapevine wreath to set underneath for decoration. It's the perfect size for the kitty, whose name seems to now be Kitty most often and Princess sometimes. Doodle Bug is no longer. (thank goodness)


So happy Wednesday, y'all. We're on the downhill slide to the weekend now!

Monday, September 17, 2012

Sue Grimshaw is da Bomb!


Sue Grimshaw, Editor-at-Large at Random House was the speaker at my writer's group this past Saturday. On Friday night, there was an open invite to the whole chapter for dinner with Sue. Ten of us made it. It was awesome to get a chance to welcome Sue to the great state of Texas and to get to talk to her on a more intimate level.


Saturday, Sue talked about Random House and the return of the Loveswept romance line. I really wish I wrote longer books because working with Sue and Random House would be fantastic. She didn't mention royalty rates, but the second most important thing on every author's mind is promotion and Sue and RH have it going on. Maybe someday.

Unfortunately, Sonshine's school had a game Saturday night which meant I had to cut my writer's day short. The football team won and the band sounded great to me although Sonshine said they had an off night.

Sonshine has taken up the bass drum for the Battle of the Bands, a district competition. He's having a lot of fun with it.

Today, I was hoping to have a relaxing day, but no such luck. DH wanted to clean out the garage, so I dutifully began going through the stacks and piles. And by the end of the day, my garage looked like this. I wish I'd thought to take a before picture.

 
The washer and dryer you see in the upper left corner used to be in the middle of that empty floor, along with a dis-assembled work-out machine, a TV, and a couple of boxes of Christmas stuff. There was a lot of other stuff in there too, but I won't bore you with details. At some point, that garage will be a family/entertainment room OR it'll be my office/craft/exercise room. :)


Despite all the work, I did get my word count for the day done, so YAY me.

And the last thing I want to share is the double rainbow that appeared last evening after a day of dreary drizzle. Amazing!!



The second rainbow is hard to see, but it is there, just a bit above the main one.

My weekend was crazy busy, but productive and fun. How was your weekend??