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Fathers and Sons Again
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I got all my goals met by 6 PM last night! Awesome. I had a moment of panic when I thought I lost my 850 words on Write or Die but I found them. Whew. I think I had so much energy because it was a gorgeous day and Problem Child gave me a bit of a break.
This weekend my favorite subject was brought to the forefront again—the relationship between fathers and sons. Several things made me think about it—my cousin Greg and his son, the movie The Proposal and the show Parenthood.
My cousin Greg was here to see his son graduate at Lackland AFB. We didn’t have time to see them together, but the pride with which Greg spoke of his son (who is a month older than my son—I can’t imagine the boy going into the service) really made me long to watch them interact. He said he cried for a week when his son left. Wow.
Now I know my husband loves my son, but he takes things more as a matter of course, more as something that is expected, I guess. And let me tell you, the two of them cannot be in a room for long. They butt heads like nobody’s business. Even if they agree on something, the dh will find a way to play devil’s advocate and rile the kid up.
My father and brother have a very distant relationship, and my step-dad and other brother butt heads a lot, too. I see the same kind of head-butting on Parenthood, between the oldest son and the dad. I wonder if it’s just a force of nature.
3 days to Clash of the Titans!
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Goals for Week of CLASH OF THE TITANS (I mean, EASTER!)
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1) Go see Clash of the Titans
2) Big grocery trip
3) Work a bit at MIL’s house
4) Work on edits on short story
5) Submit other short story
6) Work on romantic suspense
7) Testing
8) Faculty meeting
9) Self-evaluation form for work
10) Exercise
11) Keep up house (didn’t do either of these too well last week)
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Writing Kids
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Writing kids has never been something I wanted to do, probably because I’m a teacher, and dang, I want to have some away time. I definitely never wanted to write teen-agers. I mean, they’re moody and make bad decisions and, well, you know. It’s hard to focus on romance when you have to worry about kids.
Except…I’m watching Parenthood. I love love love Peter Krause and Monica Potter’s characters. Their relationship is so real and solid as they deal with their son with Aspergers and their teen-aged daughter and her “Facebook official” romance. This week, I loved how Monica looked from her daughter to her husband to watch his reaction, and I absolutely saw the romance there, wanting to see the man you love react to his daughter’s first boyfriend. I don’t know if I could write something like that, but I understand it now, how a reader can fall in love with a hero who has that protective instinct, that fear of losing his child to adulthood.
Sooo, maybe I’m not ready to write a single dad story, but I may go dig in my TBR for some Karen Templetons.
Is anyone else watching Parenthood? I saw Natalie posted somewhere that it’s too negative, but I love the interplay between family members. I do wish they’d quit making such bad decisions, but like I said, I love Peter Krause and Monica Potter, so I’m sticking.
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Friday, eBooks and Exhaustion
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The Big Day
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Behind on Tivo
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Things That Go Through My Mind When I Can't Sleep
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Goals for a Hectic Week Back
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Just think, y'all have had a week to get used to the time change. For me, it will start this week :-/
1) Work on new RS
2) Edit short story
3) Finish typing changes into my Nano book. I added 1100 words and then cut 2000. :::headdesk::: I know I cut two more scenes in the last chapter, too, but they’re not big. Still, for SSE, they want 55,000 words and I’m at 49,000.
4) Another round of galleys
5) Dye roots
6) District testing
7) Meet up with cousin who will be in town this week. I’ve not seen/talked to him in 13 years. Yes, am nervous.
8) Tutoring, but just one day.
9) SPN blog
10) Practice for a pep rally we’re putting on at school. I SO don’t want to do this, but Cindi twisted my arm.
11) Exercise
12) Keep up house
Good things that should happen this week:
1) get my Wild Rose royalties
2) get my tutoring check
3) a day of testing means I can wear jeans 2 days in a row
4) SUPERNATURAL is back!
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What Makes Me Happy
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A Day in the Life
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Goals for Spring Break
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1) Start a new romantic suspense
2) Finish Road Sign edits
3) 3 queries/3 synopses
4) Sew—I have 4 pieces of fabric, and Mom loaned me her old sewing machine. I’d like to make at least 2 skirts, though 2 pieces are for the same pattern (but different enough that you can’t tell.)
5) Day of “summer preview” with Mom and BB—breakfast, shopping, some kind of day out
6) Work in my yard. This year I really need it, with all the dead plants and my weekends taken up by my MIL’s house (or bad weather)
7) Get furniture out of MIL’s house
8) READ!
9) Exercise
10) Keep up house/cull some stuff
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The Alarm is OFF for the Week
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Two More Days
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Three More Days and Susan Gable's Workshop
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Taxes DONE and Four More Days
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