likeabulldozer: ([Dean] Know what I'm thinking)
So lately, since I got sick with a cold two weeks ago, I have been exhausted all of the time. Like I'm getting 12 hours of sleep a day sometimes more if you factor in naps. I feel fine otherwise. I decided today I need to work on eating breakfast (which I so rarely do. It's bad I know) and I need to get back to working out. I did get on the Wii and did some step and some yoga and I did feel a lot better after that. It's nearly midnight here now and I'm not exhausted which is a change. I'm hoping if I keep this up and get some activity going that's not just poking around the house and has some sort of regularity it will fix the exhausted.

I'm going to have to get into a routine anyway. I start school on Wednesday (weird day Idek) and then go into Student Teaching on Feb 8th. I'm really excited. I adore the teacher I'm working with and she's super excited about having me because we know each other a bit. I'm also nervous (naturally). It's going to be odd keeping very regular hours again though (7:40 to about 3:45) because I haven't done that since I worked years ago.

Hrm. Reading I've been doing a lot of it. Writing...well wouldn't you know it, it petered out when I mentioned it was going well. I swear it's like a bratty kid. I have taken some notes and firmed some ideas up so it hasn't been entirely nonexistent. It just hasn't added any words to the story. I think the notes I made will help me shape it up and flesh it out though.

RP. I have been taking it in spurts? I'll get 95% of my tags done. Fail a bit then go all tag vicious again. I'm making activity just fine so far. That's not really a problem and keeping up isn't either. I'm just sporadic. I've been really aching to play someone new at a small, slowish game and I honestly don't have a clue who or what or anything. It's just this itch. Not as a main game. I'm happy with [livejournal.com profile] polychromatic as my main game. It's just a thing.

Eh we'll see. Anyway. I hope you guys have a great weekend!

Bookworm

Jan. 11th, 2011 03:44 pm
likeabulldozer: ([Roswell] I shall believe)
Succubus Heat (Georgina Kincaid, #4)Succubus Heat by Richelle Mead

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I really enjoyed this one more than the others. It was interesting to see how all of the immortals dealt with the situation at hand. I did not guess the bad guy this time (usually I do in -most- books) and I liked that it very much had a on the edge of your seat sort of feel to the plot. The love story got even more bittersweet and angst filled, which I love. And we continue to get hints for the end of the series yet at the same time she shows us that the route we thought she was going to take isn't an option.



Best one of the series thus far in my opinion.



View all my reviews

I've read and reviewed all of the others plus a few more. I really love goodreads. It makes reviewing and adding your books pretty easy. The above series isn't usually my cup of tea. It's written for grownups (gasp!) and it also tends toward the paranormal romance more than I usually like BUT I really have enjoyed this series a lot. It makes me think maybe when I get through my giant pile of TBR books I ought to give paranormal romance another shot. I used to read more of it and so often it was just...PWP or the plot was so thin that it made my eyes bleed that I sort of quit.

I also signed up at goodreads to do their read X number of books in 2011. I put 100 but I've never counted how many books I read a year (not since elementary and I did the bluebonnet books thing) so I may have way overestimated myself!

Today is better than yesterday but I'm exhausted because I stayed up too late last night reading the above book and because of that exhaustion I have zero motivation. I did check out my school stuff and contacted my student teacher to find a time to give her all the paperwork I need to give her. I also made mozzerella stuffed meatballs and homemade sauce in the crock pot but really, that's where my motivation ends. It's dead and gone now. It wants to nap.

Writing is going really well too. For the first time I have a good sense of where I can go with my current stuff very long term. As in series long term. I know the general over reaching plot of what I'm doing right now. I just don't know the details yet. I love the characters and find they're incredibly easy to work with and get to talk. They banter back and forth etc etc but I'm half afraid when I go back to edit I'll find that 90% of their interactions, while amusing to me, don't really contribute that much. Eh in any case it's progress and my writing is going fairly steady if a bit slower than I would like.

Hope you guys are doing good! Have a great day!
likeabulldozer: ([Roswell] I shall believe)
/fails at updating.

So this month has been crazy. School decided to kick my butt. I had papers and tests and presentations. Poly was insane but in a good way. Everything is chill now for at least a little while which is nice. I like feeling like I'm on top of things even if it is just an illusion.

The kiddo also decided to go crazy this month. Nothing major. Just kid stuff but piled on top of everything else, I was ready to lock myself in a closet and refuse to speak to anyone.

That is over.

YAY.

Well Kid is still grounded but I swear that's like a state of normal for him now. He's not even a teenager yet.

Tony's football season is almost over which means life gets to return to more normal. I'm looking forward to it. He loves football season so I think he'll miss it a little.

TV spoilers; SPN, FNL, Castle Mostly )

I signed up for Nano this year. I skipped it last year because I failed horribly in 2008 because of lack of time. I don't really have any more time this year but I think in general I manage it better. My original writing muse is happy so I'm pandering to her for the moment. I'm kristi1218 on nano if anyone attempting it wants to add me.


Every Halloween the fiction magazine at my college does a Weird & Creepy Stories contest/submissions deal. I didn't participate last year because really I've gotten so much better at time management. Anyway, this year I submitted something sort of last minute and it actually got published. I was super excited (probably the reason my muse is happy) and now that the magazine is out here's the story I wrote:

What is and What Never Should Be )

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