Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Sex Scenes
I did eight pages this morning on Merry, but the chapter ended so that the next chapter begins, or is entirely, a sex scene. I've learned through hard experience never to end the day's work where the first thing in the morning I'm facing a sex scene. I have no idea what mood I'll be in come morning. Maybe I'll be thinking about sex, maybe I won't. But I certainly won't be thinking about it by the time we have breakfast, get the kiddo off to school, take care of the dogs. Pippin has got to have a longer… Read More
Posted by LKH on 01/31 at 02:03 PM
Long term loves
This was a blog I wrote Monday, or late Sunday. Meant to put it up, but just didn't manage it. So here it is. I remember now why I need to write Merry every day with no stops. Because Merry is like a lover, that you still love, but not as much as the husband that has your heart and soul in their eyes. Every book makes me love Merry and her world more, but no fresh love can compare with a relationship of a decade. Not when that relationship has met my needs so completely as writing Anita… Read More
Posted by LKH on 01/31 at 12:09 PM
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Happy Year of the Dog
I opened up, had a lovely idea for a blog, and now I can't remember what the heck it was. I think that's a sign that my blood sugar's falling, and I need lunch, and also that I should get some pages done before the blog. Didn't I just say that yesterday? Happy Lunar New Year! It's the year of the dog, which Trin is thrilled about because it's her Chinese Zodiac sign. Some of our friends would say it's always the year of the dog at our house. Hard to argue that, since we have four dogs. I'm… Read More
Posted by LKH on 01/29 at 11:16 AM
Saturday, January 28, 2006
What are weekends for anyway?
I feel I have to apologize for not having given an entry for awhile, but strangely, I find, sometimes, that writing the blog feels like writing to me. Which means that some days writing the blog seems to take the edge off that compulsion I feel to write. So, instead of doing the blog first thing before I write on the book, I started writing the book first. I did four pages, eight pages, twenty pages, thirty-one pages, nine pages. Merry 5 is over two hundred pages, and moving very nicely. Yea! I'm not a hundred percent certain that… Read More
Posted by LKH on 01/28 at 03:23 PM
Thursday, January 19, 2006
A note before bed time
No pages today. Jon and I exercised with Keath, as did Darla and Mary. Again, in the afternoon my fever came back up. I thought I was better. I'm beginning to think it's that whole not resting enough. Maybe. Me, push myself, never. Trinity is doing remarkably well. I can hear her singing in the other room. When I finish this it's off to read a chapter of Nancy Drew. I'd like to say the morning will be productive but our contractor has finally told us that we must pick out the rest of the lights and plumbing stuff.… Read More
Posted by LKH on 01/19 at 06:41 PM
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Two blogs in one day, it must be the fever
It's official, not just allergies, but a low grade fever. I'm still on antibiotics from the sinus and middle ear infection, so it must be something viral. Great. I had two pages done, half way to the four page goal when Mary brought Trinity home from her dentist appointment. Trinity had found a bump on her gum and wanted her dentist to see it. It didn't look like much to me, but I told her to tell her dentist. She did, and good that she did. The tiny bump was an abscessed tooth. Eek! The tooth had to be… Read More
Posted by LKH on 01/18 at 07:08 PM
Morning was a bust
I woke up feeling less than my best today. I just thought my allergies were acting up, and maybe they were. But sometime this morning I sat at the island in the kitchen, and laid my head down on the computer there. Like laid my cheek down firm and closed my eyes. I continued to talk to everyone, then realized that it felt so good to just lie down and close my eyes. It was not a normally comfortable position, but it was the closest I'd allowed myself to resting. I said, with my head still pressed to the… Read More
Posted by LKH on 01/18 at 11:36 AM