I hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday weekend. Eat some burgers, watch some sports, cruise on the lake, and take a moment to remember all those brave men and women who have served and sacrificed in the line of duty for our country.
Me? I’ll be in the Bat Cave most of the weekend, working on Assassin 2. I’m up to chapter twelve (out of thirty or so) on the second draft. Not quite halfway done, but I’ve got 72,801 words and slowly creeping up.
Happy Memorial Day! :ww:
So the French Open tennis tournament starts this weekend. I know it’s weird, but I really like to watch tennis. It’s one of the purest sports out there, with two people facing off over a net. Man to man, woman to woman. Plus, it’s great to nap to, which I’ll probably be doing a little of this Memorial Day weekend. :scooby:
It’s also a big weekend for Formula One racing, with the Grand Prix being held in Monaco. Wheezley, the significant other, is a big F1 fan (his cat is even named McLaren, after the racing team), so I’ve become a casual follower of the sport.
All the good stuff on television this weekend almost makes me forget that it’s another three months until football starts again. Almost. 😎
What about you? Got big plans for the holiday weekend?
So it’s finally started to happen — my friends are having babies. Nick and Chelsea, and Amy and Alex are both having baby girls over the next few weeks. So this weekend, I went to Target to get baby shower gifts for the expectant couples.
Oh my.
First of all, it took me a while to find the stuff they were registered for because for some reason, the baby stuff aisles are labeled Q (at least they are supposed to be, I never saw a Q sign), while all the other aisles are labeled A through G or something like that. Something alphabetical that makes sense. What Q has to do with babies, I have no idea.
And it didn’t get any easier after I found the stuff my friends had registered for. Body pillows and breast pumps and other things I didn’t even recognize, but that look like torture devices from the Middle Ages. Seriously, I have no idea what a Diaper Genie is, but I bought refills for it, even though they look like expensive rolls of duct tape. And this musical, light-up toy thingie that will probably drive N&C crazy. :joker:
I felt like Alice in Wonderland trying to navigate through this strange and curious world my friends have entered into. Maybe I should have bought a Glo-Worm and seen if he could give me some mushrooms to eat, like the caterpillar in the Disney movie. Things might have made more sense then. 😮
There was an interesting post over at Fangs, Fur, and Fey this week talking about authors who blog and how much of their work they share online. One person commented that she likes to see a sentence or two from daily writing. I thought this was a cool idea and thought I would share a paragraph I’ve written this week.
This is from Assassin 2. I’m currently working on the second draft of the book, really getting into the story and adding all the description, etc. Anyway, here’s a paragraph about one of the bad guys, a defense lawyer. Enjoy!
At first glance, Jonah McAllister looked like any other man in the room. Classic tuxedo, white shirt, diamond cufflinks, polished wingtips. His gunmetal gray hair was parted on the side, with a thick doowop that curled up, down, and around his forehead like a scoop of vanilla soft serve. Although he had to be pushing fifty, Jonah had the face of a much younger man — smooth, clean-shaven, free of wrinkles, even around the corners of his brown eyes. My guess? Botox and the finest Air elemental facials and skin treatments his retainers could buy. Still, for all his youthful vigor, Jonah McAllister radiated aw-shucks charm the way a snake-oil salesman might. Shake his hand, and you’d be wiping the grease off yours for the next ten minutes. And wondering where the hell your wallet went.
If you guys like these sort of mini-excerpts, I might share more as I go deeper into the book. Let me know in the comments.
Have a great weekend! :ww:
Warning: there be spoilers ahead, if you haven’t watched last night’s episode of Lost yet.
I don’t think I’m going to like what happens to Sawyer in the season finale of Lost. Based on the previews at the end of last night’s episode, it looks like Sawyer, Kate, Jack, Sayid, and Hurley are on Lapidus’ helicopter and that it’s about to go down in the ocean.
Since we know Sawyer isn’t one of the Oceanic Six, I’m betting that he gets all noble, kisses Kate goodbye, tells her he loves her, and takes a header off the helicopter to lighten the load so it won’t crash. We already know everyone else survives (except for Lapidus).
Oh, Sawyer. I really hope they don’t kill you off. Josh Holloway is one of the few reasons I’m still watching the show. Sigh. :cry:Â
What about you guys? Got any Lost theories to share?
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