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Confessions of a Blogger

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The Nerdy Girlie posted on her confessions on her blog and encourage others to do the same.  So here I go…   1.  I am a terrible scheduler and get sidetracked too often, which wastes time.  This morning is a prime example of this.  I was supposed order groceries online, run updates on the laptop and do three loads of laundry.  As it turned out, I was too late (at 9:30 am!!) to schedule grocery pickup for the day, the updates on the laptop, which were supposed to take fifteen minutes, instead took an HOUR AND  HALF, and therefore, I only got one load of laundry in.  I could have run downstairs during downloading the updates and popped a load of laundry in, but I kept thinking “only five more minutes” over and over.  Not to mention that I discovered a chicken literally frozen to the shelf in the deep freeze… Continued

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Relax Your Mind

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…and the rest will follow.  September is a busy time for those with families.  School shopping in August is stressful enough, but when that is followed with the new routines and rituals of the opening days of school, you may find yourself and your family stressed and exahausted.  Sleep schedules are changed, meal times have changed and, ach, homework, becomes an issue once again. The best way to deal with the stress is not to yell and scream and push.  This is the best way, however, to send those stress levels through the roof!  No.  Relate, relax and release the tension with a few easy steps. Ever wonder why the teacher gets an apple on the first day (or any day) of school?  I don’t know how that tradition started, but I’m sure you can run a search for it.  😉  However, I do know inhaling the scent of a

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Dog Transformation – It's Magic!!

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With all the “transformation videos going around, along with the joke transformations (did you see the one where the guy turns himself into Idris Elba?), I decided to give my dog her little shot at stardom and transform her into a Disney star.

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Left-Handers Day – A Sinister Celebration

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  International Left-Handers day was yesterday, but since I couldn’t visit with you all then, I’m going to talk about it now.  My father, while not famous, was left-handed, and I thought he had the coolest handwriting ever.  He also used to tell me stories how the teachers used to tie his left hand to the desk to make him write with his right hand, until his mother came to the school and gave them what-for!  Nowadays, being left handed doesn’t hold the “stigma” it once did, and students are not forced to follow the mold set by the right handed world.  Still, left-handers still face issues trying to adjust to a right-handed world. I am not left-handed.  There was a moment when, however, I thought my youngest was left-handed and I had to make a conscious decision to not favor either side when I handed him  things.  Usually, I

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Extra! Extra! Romance Writers Bust Genres!

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Or how I just learned I wrote horror. While sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes a romance is not just a romance. If anyone on the street asked me what I did (besides wait for football season and tinker with computer equipment) I would say I was a romance writer.  Which is true.  I write about people finding each other, falling in love and living happily ever after.  I enjoy writing those happy endings. With the release of Loving Among the Dead, my post-apocalyptic romance set in a zombie wasteland, a friend of mine told me my book “scared” her. I laughed.  How could the love story between Sky and Jude be scary? Because of the zombies. A light bulb (the incandescent one, not those terrible twisty tube ones) came on in my head.  Zombies=horror/science fiction.  Sky and Jude= romance. Did I just write romance with a huge

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