haiku 12/31/2007

Home again! For a
few minutes, at least. Off to
the Rosados' house.

We're all getting old!
So sleepy by 9:30.
But, we stayed awake!

Had a very nice
time. Missed the Chapmans. Here's to
an awesome '08!

haiku 12/30/2007

Breakfast with Rhonda,
dinner with Mom & Dad B.,
and lots of football.

haiku 12/29/2007

Christmas with Rhonda
and the girls. They liked their stuff -
clothes, video games.

Cell phone for Kyris.
Pats vs. Giants. The Pats
go undefeated!

haiku 12/28/2007

Off to Family
Barnes in V.A.! Traffic? Not
bad, and warm weather.

Toured the crazy lights
in the neighborhood. So bright
and fun and crazy!

Our favorite thing?
The Christmas helicopter.
Don't you have one, too?

haiku 12/27/2007

Back to Maryland.
Traffic kinda slow; felt like
it took forever!

Went to Best Buy for
some things. Got a new backpack [pic]
for camera stuff.

haiku 12/26/2007

Went to the awesome
mall. Got some new jeans, had lunch
at Pasche's. Calm day.

Dinner out at Three
Tomatoes. Yummy dessert.
Gotta get packed up!

haiku 12/25/2007

Christmas in Vermont!
No fresh snow - no fun. Late start
to gift opening.

Took a long, long break,
didn't finish until nine
p.m.! Unheard of.

Dinner was late, too.
But yummy! And lots of great
gifts. Canon goodies.

Dan is here, too. Nice
to have the fam all here - first
time since the wedding.

Terry must have been
good this year. Santa brought his
beloved Denon.

Lucille is her name.
But he has to wait so long
to hook her up. Boo!

Veronica Mars:
finished Season Three. It's all
over :( Hanging end...

Will she end up with
Logan?? I guess we'll never
know. I think she will.

What a great show. One
of my faves of all-time, now.
And I own it all!!

I think it will give
me good ideas when I get
to finish my book.

Which, by the way, I
am letting my mom read. She
likes it so far! Yay!

haiku 12/24/2007

Took Lewis for a
walk. He bounds when he runs. He's
the goofiest dog!

Christmas Eve. Lounged at
home. Fondue - or, FUN-due - for
grub. Got new jammies!

Two sets. One red with
comfy pants, tank, and hoodie.
But the other set...

Pink and orange! With
bunnies! Fleece! Long-sleeved t-shirt
with fake short-sleeves! YAY! :)

haiku 12/23/2007

Last-minute shopping.
Saw Mr. Hooker at the
mall! He's still my fave.

Dad's chili on the
new stove. New gas fireplace
is super neato!

haiku 12/22/2007

Drove to Vermont. Smooth
ride - only eight and a half
hours. Not much snow!

Got to meet Woolly
Bear! Lewis is the cutest!
Stuffed animal-like.

haiku 12/21/2007

Leaving tomorrow.
Gotta pack and get ready.
But, Veronica...

Finished Season Two,
started Season Three. They're in
college. Almost done :(

Had Christmas number
1. Pink DVD player,
VM Season Three!

haiku 12/20/2007

Working. But today
is my last day of the year.
I love vacation!

After work, watching
more V.M. Season two - so
far, so good. Loooh-gan.

Just can't stop watching.
Wrapping presents while it's on.
More and more and more...

haiku 12/19/2007

Veronica! Who
is at the door?? Duncan? Or
Logan? Need to know!!

OH NO, DISC ONE OF
SEASON TWO IS CRACKED! Off to
Best Buy to buy it!

Oooh... Logan. Our first
Pieta scene. Too bad your
dad is a nutjob.

haiku 12/18/2007

VM almost done.
Mmm Logan!! Cute and mean, but
sweet. My fave combo!

haiku 12/17/2007

Down to four days left
of work in this year! Almost
ready for Christmas.

haiku 12/16/2007

Been watching Season
One of Veronica Mars.
Loving it so far!

Will be home in less
than a week. Hopefully this
week won't just crawl by!

haiku 12/15/2007

More shopping today.
Tired, tired feet, but I
am almost all done!

Maintenance tonight.
Weather was supposed to be
nasty, but it's fine.

haiku 12/14/2007

Last working Friday
of the year! Lunch with Will and
Kevin: Mexican.

Our team moved to a
new office today. Lots of
room! Big and open.

haiku 12/13/2007

Pizza night on Time
Management tonight. Good turn
out! Eleven folks!

haiku 12/12/2007

Twelve-twelve! Today is
Kevin's birthday! Nothing else
going on today :)

haiku 12/11/2007

Veronica Mars!
A perfect five syllables.
Veronica Mars!

Veronica Mars.
Oh, how I love you. I should
have watched you sooner.

Fun mysteries, smart
writing, cutie guys, bad boys.
All of the best things!

haiku 12/10/2007

RDO - shopping!
The mall is so much better
during a weekday.

Three days in a row,
haven't written anything.
It's called Writer's Block.

haiku 12/09/2007

Today's a good day
to catch up on TV shows.
Grey's and PP - done!

haiku 12/08/2007

Tonight's our fancy
holiday party for work.
Hair straight, long blue dress.

T's work team won an
award for their music vid -
it was "Istanbul."

haiku 12/07/2007

Working on Friday!
Was supposed to be off, but
moving offices.

BUT, the move was moved.
Now, we're moving next Friday.
Yes, work on Friday.

haiku 12/06/2007

Ah, yet another
day off from work. Love having
so much vacation.

Got a lot written
today. Best day since the end
of NaNoWriMo.

haiku 12/05/2007

Got the first snow of
the season! Came down almost
the entire day.

Shoveled after work,
but it filled right back in :( Oh
well, good exercise :)

Didn't write at all
today. First day in thirty-
five days. Tomorrow...

haiku 12/04/2007

Some are saying snow
tomorrow. Horse pucky, I'm
sure. But, we shall see.

haiku 12/03/2007

Printed Loretta
blog today. Getting it set
for a nice binder.

Lots of posts! I sure
do know how to yap, huh? It
was fun to write for.

haiku 12/02/2007

Tired today. Found
ugly dress for holiday
party. It's gray-blue.

Did a little bit
of Christmas shopping. Working
now on Million Points.

Need to set aside
an hour tomorrow to
sit and write a bit.

Would like to learn to
balance home and working out
and writing and work.

haiku 12/01/2007

No more NaNo! Strange
not to be parked in front of
my laptop all day.

Still, wrote a thousand
new words. Going to write each
day until it's done!

Now that it's over...
A daunting task: writing a
month's worth of haiku.

But, blogged the whole month.
Should be able to use that
to write my haiku.

happy list - November, part 1

• The beautiful colors of fall: maroon, orange, and yellow
• A brand new bar of soap
  
• Starbucks' winter seasonal mint chocolate brownie
• The moment the plane's wheels leave the ground
• Flight attendants who make funny jokes that are actually funny
• The millions of tiny points of light created by my engagement ring in just the properly angled ray of the sun
• Tuna sashimi
• Alex O'Loughlin , actor
• College a Cappella groups
• Being nominated for an award
• Being nominated for an award when the nomination involves the nominator writing something nice about the nominee
• Discovering birds live in the bush in front of your house
• Fresh air - particularly the smell - after being trapped indoors all day.
• Frappe Friday
• The smell of winter in the air
• The way " Gormogon iconography" rolls off the tongue
• The first holiday light spotting of the season
• Writing 108,506 words during your first NaNoWriMo
• Guittard Green Mint Chips
• Cherimoyas
• Nanoisms : a typo made while writing that results in something particularly funny. For example: "He watched the frost fork on the ground." (Where "fork" should have been "form.")
• Flavored hot cocoa, mint and raspberry in particular
• Online Christmas shopping

(Posted 12/10/2007)

haiku 11/30/2007

Today's the last day.
Vacation, so I can just
write. Lots to still write.

Will never finish
the story today, but I'll
still get pretty far.

Starting with ninety-
four. Can I make one-hundred?
I will really try.

Okay, it's almost
over! Up to one-oh-eight!
Still lots left to write.

Can't believe the whole
month is gone. It flew in a
haze of written words.

haiku 11/29/2007

Only one day left.
Thirty-two thousand words in
the past seven days.

My goal is one-oh-
seven (thousand) - the length of
H.P. Azkaban.

Ambitious. Crazy?
Both, for sure. Unreachable?
It's yet to be seen.

haiku 11/28/2007

Ninety-thousand! That's
where I'm at after twenty-
eight days. Two to go.

haiku 11/27/2007

Happy birthday, mom!
Writing, writing, only three
days after today!

Up to seventy-
nine thou', just short of eighty.
Time is ticking down.

haiku 11/26/2007

I have a few goal.
Seventy-three three-hundred
and thirty-six words.

That's the length of the
book Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone. Yeah!

Can't write much today.
A little at lunch, but that's
going to be it.

haiku 11/25/2007

Got my purple bar
last night! HURRAY! PURPLE BAR!
I do love my blog.

It's so great. I can
just yap and yap and no one
cares! It's all for me.

Article in the
Herald today re: NaNo.
It's by a Wrimo.

My arms and hands are
sore today! So much typing.
I could use a break.

haiku 11/24/2007

Reached sixty-nine thou'
today! Now, just waiting for
my purple bar. Yay!

Purple bars are for
Winners. I'm a winner! I
want my purple bar.

haiku 11/23/2007

~ for Haiku Friday ~

Stuck at work? Me, too.
Weather so strange. Yesterday
warm, today chilly.

Less than half of my
twenty-person office is
here today.

Hmm, have headache. Don't
know why. No wine yesterday!
All Aleve at home :(

haiku 11/22/2007

Thanksgiving today!
A very "us" dinner. Shrimp,
meatballs, stuff like that.

Lots of writing! While
T watches football, I can
write 'til I get bored.

haiku 11/21/2007

Slow Wednesday, day
before a holiday. Glad
we'll be staying home.

haiku 11/20/2007

Fifty-thousand! I
can smell it! It will be mine
tonight. Wait and see.

Twenty days in, and
I'm going to win! Yay! I'm
a lucky newbie!

Day Twenty over!
Fifty-one thousand fourteen
words with ten days left.

haiku 11/19/2007

Five thousand more words
today. Second best day so
far. Eleven left.

haiku 11/18/2007

Over four thousand
words today. Not too bad. Not
working tomorrow.

House to myself as
T will be at work. I can
run around naked!

haiku 11/17/2007

Maintenance tonight!
Wrote in the morning to get
something done today.

At work late. After
four in the morning. Will be
so tired tomorrow.

haiku 11/16/2007

Watching Buffy while
writing. Moonlight on tonight.
I heart Mick St. John.

haiku 11/15/2007

This weekend I will
catch up, I swear. Today is
halfway for NaNo!

I can't believe it's
half done. I have just over
thirty-thousand words.

That's over sixty
percent! That's a pretty good
pace, if you ask me.

Still pretty tired
from my trip. To bed early
again? Probably.

RDO for T
tomorrow. I will have mine
Monday: work reasons.

haiku 11/14/2007

Typed out more of what
I wrote while gone. Started some
cool flashback scenes.

Not sure where they should
go, but I think they're neat. I
will find a good place!

haiku 11/13/2007

So far behind on
my haiku! Need to catch up
soon, or I am doomed.

So tired today at
work - left just a little bit
early. Napped at home.

Write six hundred words
or so. Also, typed in what
I wrote yesterday.

So sleepy now. Must
go to bed before I end
up asleep right here.

haiku 11/12/2007

Bellagio this
morning. Blue, blue sky, windy.
Found some cute clothing.

Pad thai for breakfast.
Heading to airport early.
Will write while I can.

Flying home with Phil.
Hogging center seat for us.
Writing lots on flight.

haiku 11/11/2007

Fun With Family
Day! M&M World with Mom, and
then Dan joined us.

Lunch, wandering, then
back to the hotel to change
for our fun night out.

Roamed the Venetian.
Saw photos by Peter Lik.
Amazing, vibrant.

Saw women dressed like
statues. So neat! Must be tough
to keep a stone face.

Dinner at Tao. Soooo
good. Had the awesome tuna
again! And pad thai.

Awesome sampler for
dessert. Tiny buddhas and
huge fortune cookie!

Then, to the fountains
for a show. Love the fountains
at night - beautiful.

To top off the night,
we went to see "Fantasy,"
a topless show! Woo!

It was classy for
a bunch of naked, dancing
ladies. Lots of fun!

We had a very
nice evening. Fun to hang
with my peeps. Missed Dad!

haiku 11/10/2007

Wedding day! Not mine,
but Priti and Lou's! Great view
from the hotel's roof.

Hair done - nice and straight.
Pink dress with black bow. Taking
lots of photos, too.

Fun reception and
the after-party was in
a super cool room.

Fuzzy white walls, blue
lights in the bathroom. But the
stripper pole was gone. :(

haiku 11/09/2007

Two sets:

~ On plane ~

Nearly touching the
houses below as we come
in to land. So close!

Mehndi on my hands.
Fun start to wedding weekend.
Just one of the girls.

~ second set ~

Flying to Vegas!
Meeting Kevin after we
land. Then, sights to see!

Lunch at Pink Taco.
with Kevin. Lots of walking.
Drinks at the bar, too.

Hands decorated
from Priti's Mehndi party.
So fun and fancy!

Mom arrives on a
late flight. Fun family time -
Dan will be here, too.

haiku 11/08/2007

Up early again!
Leaving for Vegas in the
morning. Writing now.

Happy birthday to
Debbie! Now she's thirty-two
just like I am. Yay :)

haiku 11/07/2007

Passed twenty thousand
today! It took just a week.
Good for a newbie :)

haiku 11/06/2007

Three A.M.! Hello!
So early, so dark. But an
awesome time to write!

Tired later on?
Probably asleep by noon.
Fifteen hundred done!

happy list 11/2/2007

11/2/2007

• Writing with pen and paper
• Babies in chick costumes

I'm sorry!

I'm waaaaay behind!! I will try to catch up soon =)

haiku 11/05/2007

All day at work
wanted to write! And now I'm
ready, but tired.

Have decided to
hit the hay early, and then
get up early! Whee!

haiku 11/04/2007

Fifteen-thousand words!
That's what I managed in four
days! That's a great start.

I hope I can keep
up my momentum. Can I
stay ahead of it?

Elle has met Eric,
although she doesn't know it
yet. He healed her head.

haiku 11/03/2007

On our way to Sue's
wedding. The sky is gorgeous
blue, the air is nice.

A very nice day
for a November wedding.
Should be a good time!

Had hair cut and dried.
Found cute shoes. Wrote a day's worth
of words. Productive!

Hope to be awake
when we get home, so that I
can write a bit more.

written 11/04/2007

Managed to stay up
for awhile after we
got home, and wrote more.

The wedding was quite
nice. Sue looked lovely. There was
a lot of dancing.

haiku 11/02/2007

written 11/03/2007

RDO: perfect
timing. Wrote all day, off and
on. Some on paper.

Ended the day with
seventy-seven hundred
words. Awesome output!

That pace puts me on
track for 100k. Ah,
for more RDOs.

happy list 11/01/2007

11/1/2007

• Rewarding yourself with smiley face stickers
• Writing 2,325 words on the first day of NaNoWriMo (and knowing you could have written more if you hadn't decided to "rest" on the couch for a bit)

haiku 11/01/2007

NaNoWriMo is
here! Waited until after work
and the gym to start.

Started strong. Managed
twenty-three hundred words. Great
way to start the month.

happy list 10/31/2007

10/31/2007

• Overnight visits from dad
• Post-it (tm) Self-Stick Table Top Pads
• After using the oven and turning it off, opening it just a few inches and standing above the rushing heat - particularly nice when it's chilly!

happy list 10/30/2007

10/30/2007

• Red Sox decals, sent from dad
• sybarite: a person devoted to luxury and pleasure
• italics

 

haiku 10/31/2007

written 11/03/2007

Happy Halloween!
Weather is nice, perfect for
the trick-or-treaters.

Decided not to
hand out candy. It doesn't
feel like Halloween.

Made T a nice pre-
NaNo dinner. Alfredo,
shrimp, and brownies, too.

Rabbit Rabbited
at midnight, but decided
not to write quite yet.

haiku 10/30/2007

Daddy Perk was in
town! Just for the evening. Went
to dinner, came home.

Ice cream and F1
magazines. He's headed to
sunny Dayton.

Dinner at Outback.
Nice warm soup (on this chilly
night) and chicken, too.

Kimi is smiling
on Dad's Autosport! Lots of
good articles, too.

Tested Digital
Voice Recorder while on the
treadmill. Will work fine!

happy list 10/29/2007

10/29/2007

• The Red Sox winning the World Series

happy list 10/28/2007

10/28/2007

• Found objects, found art, objet trouvé
• Trader Joe's (grocery store)

 

happy list 10/27/2007

10/27/2007

• My new Friday night TV lineup, Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numb3rs: the supernatural, vampires, and math - three of my favorite things!
• "Who the hell doesn't want to be a feminist? A feminist is someone who believes in the beliefs, desires, and abilities of women, whatever their choices. That's the point." - barkers4jmm, thenest.com

 

happy list 10/26/2007

10/26/2007

• Cotton socks
• Bags with square bottoms
• World Map shower curtains
• The Writer's Almanac, with Garrison Keillor, on NPR
• Random writing on dollar bills
• The peanut butter in Reese's Peanut Butter cups

haiku 10/29/2007

written 10/30/2007

Monday Monday. How
many haiku can I start
like that? Guess we'll see.

Normal Monday, but
Terry offered to cook. I
stopped and got groceries.

Came home and worked on
novel prep. Read Exeter
handbook; drew school map.

Answered deep questions:
character's biggest flaws? What
drives her, makes her tick?

Wrote on lots of note
cards. Still optimistic that
NaNo will go well.

haiku 10/28/2007

Slept late again! This
is becoming a habit.
Gorgeous, sunny day.

Made breakfast. Went to
Trader Joe's for fixins for
chili for dinner.

Picked up a little
digital voice recorder
to use for NaNo.

(While on treadmill or
driving. Not easy to write
while doing those things.)

Chili was good, but
different. Also got pumpkin
cake. Very yummy!

Started to reread
A Wrinkle in Time: one of
my favorite books.

Watched TV, prepped for
NaNo. It was a nice day.
Now, four-day work week.

haiku 10/27/2007

~ 7:06 a.m. ~

To walk, or not to
walk. That is the question. It
is still raining. Ugh.

~ 3:41 p.m. ~

Skipped the walk. Fell back
to sleep and got up around
ten-thirty. So late!

~ 7:59 p.m. ~

Made nifty spreadsheet
to track my NaNoWriMo
word count next month. Cool.

~ 11:42 p.m. ~

Working on school for
novel. Modeling after
Phillips Exeter.

Still need a name for
the school. Granger, Lewiston,
Winslow, Cavendish?

Hampton, Havelock,
Abingdon, Windsor, Swansea,
Haverhill, Chelmsford?

Hmm... Chamberlain or
Westover or Reading? Or...?
I'll pick one of those.

The characters? Elle
Chambers, Danni Dean, Maxwell
Dillon, Mat Jackson. *

These are the good guys.
Toying with naming the bad
guy Eric Barlow. *

All names subject to
change depending on my mood,
and word count status.

haiku 10/26/2007

-written for Haiku Friday-

Don't we all need some
cheery haiku on dreary
Friday? Yes, we do!

First, we all complain
it's too dry, and now it's just
too wet. One more day?

Weekend looks normal.
Memory Walk in DC
tomorrow - maybe.

Dress shopping for two
weddings in the next three weeks.
(One's in Vegas, yeah!)

What's on your plate for
the weekend? Halloween prep?
World Series watching?

- later, at home-

Work was okay - lunch
out for Joe's going-away.
Worked out in work gym.

Catching up on last
night's T.V. then, maybe will
watch tonight's new shows.

Happy for weekend.
So rainy, but soon to clear.
Hoping to relax.

haiku 10/25/2007

-written 10/25/2007-

Glad when work day was
over. Not an easy day.
Came home and releaxed.

Took some photos for
happy list and haiku. Hard
Times chili dinner.

(T picked it up on
his way home.) Watched T.V. and
worked on book outline.

haiku 10/24/2007

Went into D.C.
and visited the Portrait
Gallery with work.

First, ate at the Chop-
house. Yummy chicken sandwich.
Bacon-cheese goodness.

The gallery was
packed with expressive faces.
Paintings, sculputres, more.

Took some photos. Tried
to frame the art so that you
would see something new.

haiku 10/23/2007

-written 10/24/2007-

 

Hmm, I can barely

remember anything that

happened yesterday.

 

Umm... crazy work. For

dinner, leftovers. Before

that, worked out. Then, House!

haiku 10/22/2007

-1:23 a.m.-

Been outlining for

my NaNo novel. Told T,

and he's been helping.

Have characters (five!),

general storyline, and

some good details, too.

Should be good to go

once Nov. first rolls around. Now

I really can't wait!

There was some minor

drama in Brazil after

the race. Gafaffle!

But it worked out - the

FIA didn't go nuts.

Kimi is still champ!

-afternoon-

Yesterday's haiku

was so long! Twenty-seven

stanzas! On and on!

I'm sure that when this

is all done, that will be the

longest day, or close.

happy list 10/25/2007

10/25/2007

• My new Lean Cuisine Susan G. Komen lunch bag
• My new Fruits & Passions Moringa lip butter, and the cute little tube it came in
• My new NaNoWriMo poster
• Hard Times Cafe chili
• Having many of your photos included in the your company's quarterly slideshow, presented at the monthly staff meeting

happy list 10/24/2007

10/24/2007

• The National Portrait Gallery
• Finding lots of art by Vermont artists (particularly scupltures by Hiram Powers of Woodstock, VT)
• Pictures of me taking pictures
• Lee Friedlander's photographs of monuments

happy list 10/23/2007

10/23/2007

• Spongebob Squarepants bandaids

happy list 10/22/2007

10/22/2007

• A beautiful blue sky
• Nature photography subjects that cooperate

happy list 10/21/2007

10/21/2007

• F1 Championships that come down to the final race and are between three drivers
• Finding a new good luck t-shirt
• Kimi Raikkonen, Formula One World Champion, 2007
• The open road
• A gorgeous fall day
• A successful fantasy football team
• Nathan Fillion (actor)
• The way hubby rigged the deck door so that I can have it open and he'll feel comfortable if I happen to fall asleep on the couch
• Researching superpowers

happy list 10/20/2007

10/20/2007

• My new Vera Bradley Houndstooth Saddlebag purse
• Those flaky sugar cookies from Safeway with the big, thick frosting

haiku 10/21/2007

written at work

Nothing says fun like
still being at work at 3
on Sunday morning.

~ an F1 championship decided, in haiku ~

The race has started.
Good starts for Kimi, and that
other guy - Freddy.

But Lewis made a
mistake and is stuck back in
seventh. Drive drive drive!

Oh no! Some sort of
problem with Lewis' car.
He's back in eighteenth.

Massa is leading.
Kimi in second, Freddy
in third. Oh, Lewis!

First round of stops done.
Massa, Kimi, Freddy. And
Lewis in fourteenth.

How will Ferrari
get Kimi past Massa? In
the pits for certain.

Lewis up to twelfth.
Slowly clawing his way back.
Stuck behind Vettel.

Ninth! He's up to ninth.
Kimi second, Freddy fourth.
Don't know who would win?

Kimi and Freddy
would be tied, I think. Not sure
about tiebreakers.

More than halfway done.
Most nerve-wracking race that I
ever remember.

Lewis is in eighth.
More pit stops coming. Kimi
into first place now??

(McDreamy does voice-
overs for Mazda ads! Too
bad it's only voice.)

Only twenty-two
laps left. If it ended now
Freddy would win it.

KIMI INTO THE
LEAD!! If they finish as-is,
Kimi wins it all!

Aah, I can't take it!
It's just too much! Thank god it's
not always like this!

Hamilton fastest
lap. Too little, too late? He's
still stuck down in 8th.

Eleven laps left.
Kubica just had a great
pass! So much drama!

Down to ten laps left!
Drivers are all over the
place! Craziest race!

Six left. Lewis is
really trying. Looks like it
will be Kimi's race.

Kimi Fastest Lap
with five left. He's not messing
around. Almost there!

ONE LAP LEFT. This
is it! C'mon, just finish
as-is! Almost!!! Yay!

HE WON! KIMI WON!
Feel bad for Lewis; thank god
it wasn't Freddy.

Lewis will have so
many chances, I think. At
least Kimi got one!!

Kimi can smile! Who
knew? It all fell right for him
today. Finally!

Now I have a new
lucky shirt. My Senna T.
The great Brazilian.

So many months 'til
the '08 season starts. Need
to take a long nap.

haiku 10/20/2007

written at maintenance

Here I sit at work
on a quiet Saturday
night. Hubby's here, too.

Rebooting, how fun.
Restarting, even more fun.
Installing stuff, YAY!

We got pizza for
dinner, but this time it was
crappy Ledo's. Blech.

I don't care if they
don't cut corners. It doesn't
improve the pizza.

So, I brought with me
a salad from Chicken Out.
It was not crappy.

I don't mind weekend
work too much, since it's just once
a month. Could be worse.

Looking forward to
tomorrow - and to Monday,
which I have off, yay!

On my second Sprite
Zero. That's my beverage
of choice for these nights.

I'm in charge of snacks,
and bought some fun things. But now
they're hard to ignore.

I should buy snacks I
don't like! Then I won't be so
tempted. Out out, snacks.

So, here I sit. Snacks
tempting, servers rebooting,
waiting, waiting. Snore.

written not for maintenance

Quali for Brazil
was today. Massa took his
sixth for the season.

It all comes down to
tomorrow's race! As long as
Freddy doesn't win!!

I'll be happy with
either Kimi or Lewis
winning the title.

haiku 10/19/2007

Nice day off. Slept in,

ran two miles, watched F1

practice in Brazil.

(Rainy in Brazil.

Huge race this weekend.) Also

took photos outside.

Ran errands. Post-its,

V.B. slippers, some new pens,

a cute new notebook.

The new notebook is

for NaNoWriMo. I am

fairly sure I'll try.

I have yet to tell

Terry about it. He will

think I'm a nutbar.

But, I have my new

notebook and pens. I signed up

on the website, too.

Over the next few

days, I will try to make some

notes about a plot.

Will I be able

to write that much, and also

haiku every day?

And make dinner? And

run? And take photos? And go

to Vegas? And breathe?

haiku 10/18/2007

I seem to have no

good haiku ideas lately.

Am I all dried up?

 

Tomorrow starts a

nice four-day weekend. Have to

work Saturday night.

 

But the rest of the

time? All sorts of fun things to

do. Let's get started!

haiku 10/17/2007

Our new red toaster

oven arrived today! It's

shiny and lovely.

 

Already used for

broiling and cookies. It'll

be really handy!

haiku 10/16/2007

National Boss Day!

What did I get? Red roses

and a monkey card!

 

Delivered to my

office - a complete surprise!

We love monkey cards.

 

The fun surprise was

from Hubby, of course, since he

likes to call me "Boss" :)

 

I received my new

lens from Amazon today!

It's big and fancy.

 

Now I'm really a

big dork. So says the monkey

card-buying husband.

 

So many photos

waiting to be taken! Long

weekend, here I come.

haiku 10/15/2007

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip

cookies at work today. Filled

with pumpkin goodness.

Worked out today for

the sixth time in seven days.

My treadmill, my love.

Do you know what is

rapidly approaching? What

arrives in two weeks?

NaNoWriMo. Do

I have fifty-thousand words

to put on paper?

Can I even write

in a format other than

haiku? I doubt it.

Fifty-thousand words

sure would be rather a lot

of haiku to write!

haiku 10/14/2007

written 10/15/2007

 

Status: Normal. Store,

breakfast, Sunday nap. Workout,

dinner, TV. Done!

 

High School Musical:

bought it yesterday. Watched it

today - a few times!

 

Haven't yet watched the

"Learn the Moves" video. Won't

that be quite the hoot?

 

Today marks two months

of my haiku project! Two-

hundred ten stanzas!

 

Time to get the new

book underway. Will publish

two months in this one.

 

Ten months, one-thousand

stanzas left. Are you set to

keep reading with me?

happy list 10/19/2007

10/19/2007

• Goals you know you can accomplish
• Getting your workout over with in the morning so you don't have to worry about it later in the day
• NaNoWriMo
• Being something different - and maybe new - every day: Tuesday: Hiring Manager; today: Nature Photographer
• Mark Harris' sometimes-column - The Final Cut - in Entertainment Weekly magazine
• Pumpkin butter
• My mug that is covered with my favorite wedding photo of my husband
• Pink ballpoint pens
• Post-it ® Sortable Cards
• Vera Bradley slippers

happy list 10/18/2007

10/18/2007

• Chicken Out mashed potatoes

happy list 10/17/2007

10/17/2007

• Brand new red toaster ovens
• Amazon next-day delivery
• Max Beesley (actor, Charlie on Hotel Babylon)
• Pushing Daisies (tv show)

happy list 10/16/2007

10/16/2007

• Receiving a dozen red roses and a monkey card, at work, for National Boss Day - from your husband, who has nicknamed you "Boss"
• Fancy new camera lenses
• Image Stabilization
• Ultrasonic Motors
• Packages that unexpectedly arrive a day early
• The phrase "monkey card" - it's fun to say!
• Taking a picture and realizing that almost everything in it is red - your favorite color!