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My Favorite Day

Not only is it the last day of a VERY difficult school year, but my whole summer lays in front of me, not one moment wasted yet. Great possibilities ahead.

Problem Child has been very good in class because he wanted a recommendation to be a patrol. I actually think he'll be good at it. Today he said he wanted us all to meet at the park on Saturday, one last day of being together as a class. Kinda sweet, huh?

But then when I was driving home, I saw him and one of his minions running along the main street in front of school (BUSY street) near the highway (running across the access road) so I called their parents. (Yes, I have their numbers programmed in my phone.) Wonder what happened.

Wednesday night a big storm blew through, and I mean BLEW. I'm so glad we had those trees taken down or it would have been bad. BAD. We lost a mountain laurel and other people have split trees and downed branches all around us. Apparently 1/3 of the city, but different parts of the city, lost power. 60 mph winds! Hurricane force! Trippy. But Thursday temperatures didn't break 80, so good payoff.

ANYWAY, I have a busy summer ahead:

1) Galleys on Breaking Daylight, print version

2) revisions on Sunrise (expected next week)

3) revise STTA

4) revise Queen and submit

5) revise Road Trip and submit

6) write a short story for TWRP's new series

7) write a short story for promo for Sunrise

8) get a good chunk of Midnight Sun done

9) work on promo for Surface and my September releases (newsletters, guest blogs, bookstore visits, get back into eHarlequin, etc.)

10) hang out with Mom and BB once a week

11) lunches with Stacy, JoAnn and Linda

12) class reunion the last weekend of July

13) hook up with teacher friends

14) exercise daily

15) read at least an hour a day

I really wish there were less revisions, but....you gotta do what you gotta do.

Summer Projects

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House
1) Paint bedroom
2) Do Fly Lady style declutter
3) Work on landscaping

Crafting
1) sew up fabric I have
2) find a small cross stitch project

Writing
1) Two short stories
2) Revise ghost hunters, Vampire Hunters and Texas
3) Write rough draft of RS
4) Promote!!!

Me
1) exercise every day
2) read 10 books
3) hang out with Mom/bro once a week
4) play a game once a week with the boy
5) TV only when dark/rainy/super-hot
6) nap as much as possible ;)

I think I know why I'm not so excited about summer! That's a lot of work!

A Few of my Favorite Things - Almost Summer Edition

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These are a few of my favorite things, summer style:

1) Fresh lemonade candle from Bath and Body...smells sooooo good.

2) White Tea with Raspberry from Lipton - I drink more water this way!

3) Keebler Waffle Bowls - they're tiny but tasty!

4) My Adirodack chairs

5) My outdoor cooler

6) blooming hibiscus

7) staying up as late as I want/no alarm clock

8) My pink laptop

9) Sour Cotton Candy

What are some of your favorite summer comforts?

Oh, just found out Taylor Kitsch is playing Gambit in the Wolverine movie! Sawyer would have been spectacular, but I like Taylor.

We didn't go see Indiana Jones yesterday - I wasn't feeling well and went back to bed at 10 AM. Bummer.

I wrote 11 new pages yesterday and the book woke me up again! Glad I'm off today to write, though the roofing estimate guy is coming in a couple of hours.