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I’m going totally random this week.
1. Mom’s back from Africa! She’s been emailing pictures. Rhinos inches away. Giraffes with two necks. Yeah, I’m jealous.
2. The Girl wants a bead loom. She’s using one at school and loves it. Michaels doesn’t even know what we were talking about. Treasure Chest says they have it, but they close early and I have no idea where they are, even with a phone book and a map. The adventure continues.
3. The Boy’s birthday is coming up. He wants an iPod and a PSP. Uh…. yeah. I offered to take him out to dinner. Hope it doesn’t end up costing me as much as an iPod.
4. I learned how to check the oil in my new truck. More on that later. (Next Thursday, maybe?) You won’t believe what I had to do.
5. I got a request for a partial! The request was really fast. The rejection after I sent the partial was just as fast. Sigh.
6. Moving In is getting closer to publication. My editor tells me I’ll have a pub date any time now. Yipee!!!
7. 
I got an award. See? I’m supposed to post it as soon as I get it. I never post anything as soon as I get it. Not awards, anyway. I post those on Mondays. This Monday I’m planning on giving away a vampire book. Maybe I’ll do both.
8. I tried to watch the movie Alice’s Restaurant, for obvious reasons. It’s about Woodie Guthrie. It’s about the 60′s, which I love. It doesn’t have much of a plot, and I lost interest about a quarter of the way in. Oh well.
9. The Boy is planning on doing a lot of traveling this weekend because he has extra time off from school and his friends live out of town. He doesn’t seem to understand what it means to me to be driving him 70 miles at a whack, particularly since I have to do the return trip too. Do boys ever learn compassion?
10. There’s a bottle of Rit dye on my desk. I really should use it soon. It’s to color The Boys pants in the hopes he will actually start to use them. Apparently peacock blue isn’t good for boys.
11. I’m craving curry. No reason. Just in the mood.
12. I’d love to be doing more submissions, but the file I kept my agent research in is corrupted. I’m going to have to re-create it from scratch.
13. Pardon me while I step out for a moment. I suddenly have an overwhelming urge to backup everything on my computer.
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I’ve never seen Alice’s Restaurant, but I love the song!
Me too. Well, obviously.
You can never back up too often. Sounds like you have your hands full with the boy home. Careful not to overdo.
Happy T13!
Now I have this overwhelming urge to go rent the movie Alice’s Restaurant. Even though you said it was boring…..because you also said Woodie Guthrie and the 60′s-and now I am hooked. ‘
I’m jealous of your mom too. Just sayin’
Happy TT!
Michaels doesn’t know about a craft-related item?!? Boggles the mind. Has your daughter asked the teacher where it was bought?
The teacher thought we ought to be able to get one at Michaels.
How ’bout we both keep our fingers crossed that boys learn compassion.
Good luck with the bead loom! (what’s a bead loom?)
A bead loom is the little doomaflachy they make those bracelets made of seed beads on.
Sorry about #5. Happy TT anyway.
So sorry about the rejection, Alice. *HUGS* I’ve never seen Alice’s Restaurant. I never knew there was such a movie. LOL
I bet your mom’s pictures are absolutely amazing. Maybe you could share some of those some Thursday?
And boys never seem to learn compassion. That’s one of those touchy-feely words.
If she’ll let me, I’d love to.
well, if #12 happens to you often enough, you really need #13!
13-thoughts-on-silence
no. 6 is thrilling! giraffes with two necks? I’d be jelly too
you’d be sursprised at how cheap ipods are now, or can be! Bead loom rock and I want one too!
I’d love to go back to Africa one day. I bet your Mom has some awesome photos. Hugs on the rejection. I’ve decided it’s the year for it! That’s my story anyway…
Pay attention when you check oil and don’t put salad oil in when some is missing.
BTW I would love to come with you when you wear your deer head, I as sure it will suit you very well, lol !
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/events/filmsonwoody.htm These are Woody Guthrie inspired films
Woody came out of the Depression era as an activist folk singer who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.
“Alice’s Restaurant” is an adaptation from a true story that happened in 1965 to his son Arlo.
I think if I could have watched it without the kids around, I might have enjoyed it, or at least finished it. Unluckily, they have several days off from school right now. I wasn’t going to get the chance. Also, the lead actor looks too much like someone I don’t like. Pathetic, but the impression wouldn’t leave me be.
I just broke down recently and made my recovery disk. I am considering doing the offsite backup over the internet. It’s like $50 a year. We do it at work. Seems reasonable. Now if only I would look into it. My 13 are HERE.
I have yet to be able to make a recovery disk actually salvage anything. I have them. I just don’t know how to use them.
#11 made me laugh.
And then I wanted curry.
Dagnabbit.
My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is that they play “Alice’s Restaurant” on the radio at Noon. Every year. I miss that. I miss Thanksgiving, too, but that’s another story.
Happy TT!
Ciao!
Sorry about #5, but hey, you got a REQUEST! That’s big news. And Yippee! on #6. Congrats.
Mmmm, Curry. I think I’ll be making Curry Rice and Raisins for dinner tonight. See what you did to me?!
Happy T13.
I use an external backup that backs up every morning at 6:45 a.m. I also have a second external that I use about once every quarter as another permanent back up. Sometimes it seems like a lot of effort for nothing but I figure better safe.
I went totally random for my TT this week, too.
Oh, and Congrats on the “closer to the publication” thing; that is very exciting.
YAY! On the publication!!! I can’t wait to see it.
And rejections suck, fast or slow.
I’m finding rejections a lot less painful now that I have a publication going out.