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Happy 4th of July, everyone! Celebrate safely!

1) celebrate, and drive to different stores to see if it’s there

2) celebrate 4^th of July

3) work on Midnight Sun (7000 words, please)

4) revise short story, write synopsis and query, submit

5) judge last contest entry

6) Get this website thing squared away

7) Write 3 guest blogs

8) paint MIL’s interior

9) get Cindi’s son a bday present

10) get ds’s girlfriend a bday present

11) exercise

12) keep up house

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We had a lovely luncheon yesterday to end the school year, and I was home ten minutes later. Today we have a graduation party, and tomorrow, my summer starts! The funny about the luncheon—the computer lab teacher made the slide show, and when she set up the computer, she had a screensaver of Jensen Ackles. LOL! I got her hooked on Supernatural.

Okay, breaking down that big ol’ list from last week.

1) 125 pages of galleys on BD (half)

2) STTA revisions

3) Queen revisions

4) Newsletter

5) Blog for Leah

6) Library

7) Grocery store

8) Day with Mom and BB

9) Promo on email loops

10) Book store visits

11) House cleaning, a room a day, an hour a day

12) Exercise

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I'm promoting Beneath the Surface at Coffee Time this week. Go read an excerpt and comment for a chance to win a gift certificate!

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24 days of school. Last year, Teacher Appreciation week was lots of fun, with activities every day. One of the activities was that an aide would stay with the class while the teachers watched a teacher-inspired movie. (We watched Freedom Writers.) We got popcorn and water while we did, and 2 blissful kid-free hours. Not this year, sadly, but we do get free lunch on Wednesday.

1) enter grades so progress reports can go out at the end of the week

2) faculty meeting

3) use my dad’s gift certificate to go out to eat

4) work on short story for Samhain

5) work on Queen

6) start promoting regularly at Coffeetime and elsewhere

7) try not to go crazy with the waiting

8) keep up house and cook more

9) exercise

10) sew?? I have two pieces of fabric, one already cut out!

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Also a crazy week, so I’m dialing back the writing, which makes me feel guilty since I didn’t do a lot last week. I should have finished Queen already, and should be halfway through Midnight Sun, but I cut 3000 words and haven’t made much progress since.

But, this week should (oh please no drama to ruin it) be good:

1) my birthday party

2) my birthday

3) last week of tutoring!!!!!!!!!!

4) Avatar on DVD (Sam!!!!!!)

5) The Losers in the theater (JDM, baby!!)

6) Tahmoh (Helo from BSG) has a new miniseries on Sci-Fi. Almost forgot about that one.

7) Problem Child will be absent Monday, going to the doctor to please God get medication. (I have only ever wanted a child on medication one other time in my career. Trust me that this is a desperate situation.)

8) Revisions on short story for Samhain

9) Finish a round of revisions on Queen, then go through one more time for continuity

10) Fiesta event with mom, BB, SIL and her bff

11) Exercise

12) House

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Of course you know my traffic duty week would be one of the two full weeks in April. Sigh. At least I get to leave early M, W and F, since I have to be at school earlier.

1) Traffic duty

2) Work on MIL’s house. We’re really mostly done but haven’t been able to get over there since Spring Break.

3) 7000 words on the RS

4) finish revisions on Queen, start revisions on Road Signs (again)

5) exercise (maybe take the dog for walks to appease her need to wander)

6) keep up house (I was really glad I’d been doing this when the police detective came over the other night with not much warning!)

Huh. Not too bad. If I can survive the 7:45-4:15 part of the day!

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We can wear jeans all week because 5^th grade is taking the TAKS. Yay!

1) celebrate Easter

2) make skirt

3) cut out dress

4) work on RS

5) pull out my vampire hunter book and start revising. Again.

6) Dinner with middle school friends (?) We reconnected on Facebook and I would love to see them again.

7) Tutoring (6 more days this year!!)

8) Exercise

9) Keep up house (I did pretty well with both of those last week)

I have a plan for writing for the rest of the school year--I'm revising VH now, and I'm going to revise my sweet romance after that, while I'm writing the RS. That should carry me the next 9 weeks :)

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1) Finish the short story

2) Revisions on Road Signs

3) More revisions on different short story

4) Two more contest entries (due next Sunday)

5) Another faculty meeting

6) Taxes (yep, going to do it myself. Any screaming you hear from down south…)

7) Grocery store

8) MIL’s house

9) Exercise (yeaahhhhh….)

10) Keep up house (also yeahhhhh…though it would be nice to start spring break with a clean house. If only someone besides me lived here. Oh, wait…)

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Usually by now the Texas Mountain Laurels are covered with flowers. This winter has been long and cold, so everything is a bit delayed. I want to get out and work in my yard, but I've been swamped with edits and the MIL's house.

This week:

1) Survive TAKS testing Wednesday—hours of doing nothing but monitoring.

2) Second round of revisions on road trip—came in 5000 words short!

3) New short story—to halfway point.

4) Merritt entry

5) Probably just get Turbo Tax and do my taxes myself. Sigh.

6) Exercise

7) Keep up house

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Poor February. I really don’t mind it. This year it just happens to be at the end of an abnormally cold winter and I’m ready for spring. My poor poor plants. I need to replenish, because I think only 5 survived. Remember that I had something like 19 different hibiscus? Only one survived, it seems. :::SOB::::

This week:

1) Urge the dh to call for an appt to do our taxes (I gathered the paperwork, this is the least he can do.)

2) I seem to be feeling a bit better, so push for the exercise. I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been and I hate it.

3) Finish galleys and send back.

4) Finish revisions on Road Signs.

5) Start with my new short story.

6) FOUR meetings at school this week, and tutoring.

7) Get grades turned in. I just need to grade Language Arts, but it has 2 ½ times as many assignments as the others!

8) Score one contest entry.

9) Get the house in order. It’s a mess.

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Yo know, I could probably take another week or two off. But I won’t.

1) Finish short story by Valentine’s Day (I only have about 4-5 scenes to go.)

2) Revise 70 pages of the road trip story

3) Faculty meeting

4) Pick up tutoring again

5) Parent conference

6) Exercise

7) Start cooking again—this week the dh cooked once, I cooked once and Trish cooked once

8) Catch up on Tivo—if I can! Need to watch that last episode of 24 on the old Tivo.

9) Keep up house.

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I'm already a little twitchy. What do regular people do?

It's actually quite an easy week--2 days of testing, half day of inservice. And I got new games so I've been bribing good behavior out of my kids with promises of the chance to play.

1) Judge GH entry
2) enter cover contest
3) buy paint for the bedroom
4) paperwork for Samhain
5) clean house

And because he's just adorable:

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Today is my 23^rd anniversary. I know. I can’t believe it, either. So we’re going to breakfast as usual, the grocery store, then this afternoon we’ll head to Spaghetti Warehouse, then I’ll come home and do some promo. Yeah, romantic. We’re not really romantic people, oddly, but it works for us.

I didn’t get nearly what I wanted done over the holidays. My son’s gf said if you get half done you’re doing good. I’ll go with that.

1) Finish bodyguard book--yes

2) Finish short story--no

3) Promote, promote, promote. I have several guest blogs these next 3 weeks, since Breaking Daylight is coming out the 5^th. Also, a new newsletter.--yes

4) Proofs of DLB.--yes

5) Christmas baking—sugar and molasses cookies, and sugar plums, if I can find the recipe.--yes

6) Last last minute prezzies--yes

7) Breakfast with Mom and BB—not breakfast, but we got to hang out

8) Get hair cut and eyebrows done--yes

9) Paint bedroom--no

10) Find someone to take down two Chinese tallow trees in our backyard—kind of

11) Do some serious culling—one room and my closet

12) Get MIL’s house cleaned out--no

13) Enjoy family time--yes

14) Celebrate 23^rd anniversary--will

15) Get email down to one page—no, but I got Google Reader down to 10 items.

16) Go see Sherlock Holmes and maybe Up in the Air—no but saw Avatar

17) READ!—yes, read VENUS IN BLUE JEANS and am half through with STOLEN HEAT and TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES

This week my goals are:

1) promote Breaking Daylight—I’m at 4 blogs on Tuesday alone, and one on Saturday. Then there are email loops. I wish I could take the day off, but too soon after a holiday.

2) finish revisions on bodyguard

3) enter Hot Shot in The Bean Pot contest (cracks me up, that rhyme)

4) work on short story

5) Cook/clean house

Good enough, I hope.

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Boy, yesterday was lonnnnnngggg. But I have 16 days of freedom, some overlapping with the dh. These two weeks will be as busy as my last vacation, but with more sleep.

1) Finish bodyguard book

2) Finish short story

3) Promote, promote, promote. I have several guest blogs these next 3 weeks, since Breaking Daylight is coming out the 5^th. Also, a new newsletter.

4) Proofs of DLB.

5) Christmas baking—sugar and molasses cookies, and sugar plums, if I can find the recipe.

6) Last last minute prezzies

7) Breakfast with Mom and BB

8) Get hair cut and eyebrows done

9) Paint bedroom

10) Find someone to take down two Chinese tallow trees in our backyard

11) Do some serious culling

12) Get MIL’s house cleaned out

13) Enjoy family time

14) Celebrate 23^rd anniversary

15) Get email down to one page

16) Go see Sherlock Holmes and maybe Up in the Air

17) READ!

Don't forget the Samhellion contest! You could win a Kindle 2!

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My neighborhood is pretty quiet, but last night around 4 AM I heard talking outside. Apparently my neighbors had a party and their guests were leaving in the wee hours. I went back to sleep and just got up at 7:30! Late for me.

Yesterday I finished the last of my galleys, so I can focus on WRITING this week!

1) Finish bodyguard book

2) Bake gingerbread cookies

3) update website

4) send out newsletter

5) send home progress reports

6) survive the increasingly hectic days with the kids. Hopefully the weather will be nice enough that they can have recess--they haven't had it since before Thanksgiving!

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Yesterday I: finished my NaNo book, put up my Christmas tree, finished my Christmas cards (just need stamps), baked cookies, bought a present, cleaned my front and back patio, proofread 20 pages and finished up judging the Emily entries.

And yes, napped! The only thing I didn’t do on my goals list from last week was get Cindi’s baby a present, but I plan to remedy that at Borders after breakfast. Then go to the library and maybe go get some poinsettias for the front porch. It's going to get cold this week, too, so maybe a coat for the boy. Or a sweater at least.

1) Update website

2) Galleys on DLB and Surface

3) Work on bodyguard book

4) Outline revisions on road trip book

5) Blog at Supernatural Sisters and Wet Noodle Posse

6) Plan my Christmas around the world unit (wish I kept what I did last year!)

7) Get Cindi’s daughter a bday gift

8) Start tutoring

9) Finish Christmas shopping (or get darned close)

10) House

Hm, not sure whose picture to post. I’m deconstructing the NaNo book, proofreading Surface and DLB (Gerry was the model for both heroes) and getting back into the bodyguard. So it’s a three-fer!

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