If you’re from the south, you know what that term means.  
Fixin’ to eat.
Fixin’ to leave.
Fixin’ to work on the car.
Well, all week, I’ve been fixin’ to write.  
I don’t know what happened.  It’s like I’ve been in a vortex for the last week.  I’m going to get beamed up out of here so that I can get back to writing.
And as soon as my web diva is back from vacation, she’ll teach me how to download my freakin’ podcast (no- I still have not figured it out-I didn’t realize …

I have no illusions about life in Charleston. I hate the heat and humidity, the backwards politics, the overt and subtle racism. And yet I am steering my car straight into the belly of the beast.

 Gratitude.
 At APOOO.
Have a great weekend.

 
Date: March 8, 2009
Time: 2:15 or 3:15 am (still a little disoriented because of the time change.  And no matter what Janice says, it’s not psychological)
OK, everyone knows how the rubber band/cussing experiment went.  By Wednesday, I had to take the damn thing off because the inside of my left wrist was so bruised.  Seriously.  The bruise is purple and green right now.  It wasn’t because I was snapping the rubber band so hard, it’s because I was snapping it so often.  Let’s just call this experiment a wash.
Work sucked …

My series, Claire’s People, starts tomorrow.  Claire, a popular writer, finds herself returning to Charleston after 20 years of living it up in Chicago. She’s successful and happy, and yet longing for home.  
A busy body mother, an eccentric neighbor, a long distance boyfriend, and the big brother who never grew up are just a few of Claire’s people.  
I hope you enjoy.  
(Claire’s People is only available to paid subscribers.)
In other business, the Diva of The Spring Chronicles is continuing to do her thing. Her next journal entry …

Overview from booksamillion:
In this first book of a new series, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been marked by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling with special powers. 
My soon-to-be 14 year old has been insisting that I read this teen vampire series for months.  She kept saying that she knew I was going to love it.  And she was pretty close.
A teen has …

Unplugging (aka- down time, de-stressing, me time, whatever) is pretty important to me these days.  I’ve learned over the past few months that going, going, going simply means that I’m tired, irritable, and crotchety (yes- I said crotchety).
This weekend I ended up unplugging by accident.  I mean, I didn’t plan on doing it, it just happened.  And I liked it, so I kept it up.  Except, now I’ve got to get back to work, and I’m a little slow going.
Which is one of the reasons that I don’t unplug.  Once …

Author’s Note:  This journal is purely fiction.  The product of the author’s imagination.  Any resemblance to actual persons (namely self) or events (that may or may not have happened) is entirely coincidental…  I’m just saying.  :-)

Date:  March 1, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
 
I know that spring does not officially begin for another 19 days or so, but I am ready.  It’s been colder than usual this winter, and I could use some warming up.  Physically and mentally. 
Things have been pretty boring lately, so I decided to kick it up …

This is Kisses.  
She’s my daughter’s toy poodle.  
She doesn’t bark. She doesn’t bite (but she will growl and snap at Breaker, The Man’s Rottweiler when he keeps trying to lick her hooha).  She loves EVERYBODY (until they start getting on her nerves).  She abhors going outside in the rain. She hates bows.  And she follows me everywhere because I am her Alpha, even though my daughter is her owner.  
For years, I have expressed that she is good for pretty much NOTHING.  Until today.
Today, she went and stood in …

Synopsis (www.barnesandnoble.com)
 
The final story in the now cult favorite Vampire Huntress series.
 
The entire Neteru Guardian team is on the run, having now been labeled as America’s most-wanted terrorists following the gruesome demon battle that felled the Washington Monument and crashed the front doors of the White House. The Anti-Christ is positioned for emergence, the powers of darkness have released the pale horse of the apocalypse, and half the Neteru team is pregnant. Plagues from hell that ravage the country are being cited as stemming from bio-terrorism. The nation is under …