| Cut it to the left and I rock |
[Sep. 28th, 2008|11:50 am] |
I rocked my manuscript yesterday. Got halfway through with revisions! I RULE!!!!!!
'Member how I said I was going to pull Demas entirely from the ms? It turned out to help me in a way I didn't forsee: I realized my timeline through a few scenes as all wrong. It wasn't a particularly easy fix, but I'm so glad I saw it.
Also, at Caribou, I got a buy one drink get one free coupon. But it expired today. So as I was leaving, I got two frozen drinks, then stuck them in the freezer at home. I had one this morning -- it took until second service for it to thaw enough to drink it, but I'm "off" second service, so rawk, and I'll have another for tomorrow.
This week, in honor of Banned Book Week. I'm reading THE OUTSIDERS and OF MICE AND MEN. I'm also reading RUMORS by Anna Godbersen.
And ooh, hey, I set up a Twitter account. There should be Twitter licenses, because I'm entirely sure I'm going to go wild on it. And my License to Twitter would be revoked quickly.
If it gets annoying, you all have the right to order me to cease and desist.
I'm also now in charge of the library bookstore. Like, I get to be buyer and stuff. That's so, so awesome, you just don't know. It's even more awesome 'cause it's a low-key, low-pressure job. Still, I've got lots to learn, but that kind of learnin's right up my alley.
Finished EVERNIGHT by Claudia Gray last night. I really enjoyed it. Really. I want the next book, though.
Um. Lots more going on, can't talk about a lot of it, don't have time to talk about the rest.
See you later!
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| I'm just a minor threat, so pay no mind |
[Aug. 30th, 2008|04:37 pm] |
*exhausts*
AndI I didn't do much today. Not compared to Boy, who spent the whole friggin' day tearing out the linoleum and cleaning the floor in the kitchen. Me? What did I do? I went out, drafted a few Important Letters, talked to my dad and then my mom (Mom was in Charleston, visiting her bud this weekend, ohhh my jealous is so large!), made a list of stuff that needs to happen before I can start on UPSTAIRS revisions, and poked around Barnes & Noble.
Then I went to the library, picked up a handful of books (it was half-price day at the bookstore, and paperbacks were only $0.10 a piece), then headed home. Saw the Awesome Rotted Out Portion of the kitchen floor. Went back to the local Big Lots, grabbed another broom, dustpan, and two mops (the kitchen project is a Big One; my Boy is amazing to do it all), and grabbed a few things at the grocery store. Grabbed dinner. Came home.
Talked with SuperSister about some stuff goin' on in my world, and about the possibility of heading to DC for another visit. :-D
Ate with Boy and Kid, and watched part of Cinderella with Little Miss.
"Poor Cinderelly!" she said today. "All you dreams come true."
Folded laundry. Put laundry away.
Remembered that Miss Priss has to get up about two hours earlier than usual for church tomorrow, so she and I cleaned up the living room, I swept, and she went upstairs for a bath. I read some of Suite Scarlett, which is every bit as MJ as I hoped it would be. *beams* Kinzleberry and I cuddled in the guest room and played "Who sings that?"
She's very good at that game, which we just invented tonight.
And then she started zerberting me and it really tickled so I decided it was time for bed.
So, yeah. A Saturday in the life!
I have two freelance articles and a post for Unusual Historicals this week. I planned to tackle my office this weekend, but it got really warm today, and it looks like it's going to be in the upper 80s all through next week. Since my un-ACed office is in the attic...well, I think I'll be waiting a little longer on that one. So I'll trade it up for the home library project, which is ongoing (and coming out quite nicely, TYVM). Other than at the Arts Retreat next weekend, things are looking pretty quiet. Huzzah! Time for READING which is the BEST FUN EVER!
Read in August:
- Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) by Stephenie Meyer
- Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
- The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield
- Artichoke's Heart by Suzanne Supplee
August was a very good month for reading.
Books to read this month:
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbottsen
- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
- Frostbite by Richelle Mead
- The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
- Saturdays with Stella by Allison Pittman
- The Encore Effect by Mark Sandborn
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair- Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Whooee that's a lot! I'd better get crackin'!
September holds a lot of promises, too!
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| There are lots of good ideas in books I've never read |
[Aug. 13th, 2008|10:57 am] |
Currently Reading
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Recent Library Recs (stuff my library system doesn't have, OMGWHY?)
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) melissa_writing
Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr melissa_writing
Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
Evernight by Claudia Gray ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) claudiagray
Rumors by Anna Godbersen
Paper Towns by John Green (which had already been bought, they're just waiting for the release, and I'm number 3 in line!!! I'll get it in, like, November!)
On Hold
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
Artichoke's Heart by Suzanne Supplee
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead blue_succubus
NOTE TO PUBBED AUTHORS
If you want your book in the Mahoning County Library System (Ohio), check out their Web site to make sure you're not there. You have to have a library card to request buys, so if you're outside of the system, toss me an email with the titles you want there, and your publication name. My address is eliza.osborn(at)gmail.com. This offer doesn't expire, so those of you with books coming out next year, or even the year after (I love you, 2010ers!), let me know when your books are ready for preorder.
Their YA selection (especailly at the Main Branch), is fairly small, so I'm hoping to help beff that up pretty well.
Housework calls. See yas.
ETA: anghara let me know the link was broken -- thank you! -- it should be fixed now!
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