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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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My hair, she is poofy :( And I slept maybe 4 hours. Zzzzzz.....

I was reading Candy's blog yesterday and she blogged about memorable birthdays. I am stealing this idea.

My 4th or 5th birthday: The little girl down the street showed up HOURS early and stayed late, she was so excited. Mom eventually had to send her home.

My 8th birthday: I got a pony. My grandparents spoiled me. Be assured she was not a nice pony. She was a reject from someplace and she would blow out her stomach so the saddle would slip when I got on.



My 9th or 10th birthday: My mom bought me this really pretty sundress made of ticking and my friends came over after school. We climbed on the monkey bars in our backyard and someone stepped on one of the ties and ripped the dress. BUT then my grandpa came with my pony and a goat and we took turns riding up and down the street.

My junior high birthdays: We get off one Friday around my birthday for Fiesta. While I was in middle school, we would go to my grandparents' place and ride the pony, the go cart and eat angel food cake with homemade strawberry icing.

Sadly, I don't really remember my high school birthdays. Or even my early 20s.

My 19th birthday: We went to La Semana Alegre. There is definitely a benefit to having your birthday on the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto - Fiesta is always right around there. I bought my first legal wine cooler, and the guy didn't want to sell it to me because he didn't know the date!

My 26th birthday: The boy took his first step. I was so excited I screamed and scared him. He didn't walk for a long time after that.

One of my mid 20s birthdays: We were planning to go to Night in Old San Antonio with Cindi and her friends, but couldn't choose a day. Finally, they decided to go on my birthday and I couldn't go because I'd already made plans with my family. One of the few fights Cindi and I had.

My 34th birthday: My first birthday in the new house and the first party I'd had in years that included friends as well as family.

My 40th birthday: My brother and sister-in-law threw a huge party for me, with everyone in my family, many of my friends, good food, karaoke and a DVD of pictures of me :( I loved it!

My 41st birthday: Another big get together, and lots of getting spoiled!

My 42nd birthday: Another big get together and lots of getting spoiled!

What are your birthday memories?

So I did get my hair cut. I was at Fantastic Sam's as soon as they opened, and the guy spent an hour and 15 minutes with me! It isn't like the pictures - it's really a short Rachel, but I will definitely go back to this stylist.
Keep in mind, this is after a couple of margaritas.



Okay, my goals this week:

1) learn how to style hair myself
2) get my butt in gear on this book. I'm so far behind my goal. I should get my "I wrote an essay about Supernatural and got this very cool pink laptop" this week. That should help.
3) send requested partial to an agent
4) ds playing 2 gigs and at least one rehearsal
5) dh playing a gig and at least one rehearsal
6) Fiesta activities???
7) birthday dinner
8) think about spending $30 Borders gift card from brother
9) consider signing up for an online revision class with April Kihlstrom
10) Make room on Tivo for returning TV shows!
11) keep up house - you should see my kitchen floor - margarita sticky!!!

Here's my birthday present - a rustic cooler that's a glorified ice chest but so pretty! Hey, only one person had a beer! The good thing about my bday being so close to Mother's Day is I have sodas and beer leftover!



I love the horseshoe handle and the bottle opener!



It's bigger than it looks - we put 3 bags of ice in and didn't even fill it halfway!



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This picture makes me all giddy.