The Wildly Eclectic Me

I've been TAGGED. Ciar Cullen tagged me to play the One Question, One Answer game. I've never been tagged before. I feel special. :-D Okay, so here's the deal. You get to ask me one question, and I have to answer it. That is, of course unless, you ask me something that would get me arrested, divorced or disowned. :-D Yes, I know. That could include a lot of things. LOL So ask and you shall receive. I'm figuring on no questions, since I'll bet about one person in the entire world actually reads my blog with any regularity. hehehe

13 Things Lesley Needs Yes, I'm jumping on the band wagon and playing the "Lesley needs" Google game. :-D I'm not feeling terribly inspired this week. 1. "lesley needs laughs to power her hoverfleet." Wow! I didn't even know I had a Hoverfleet! That's awesome! 2. "Lesley needs 2 stop fancying herself and then she could actually b nice!" Actually I don't fancy myself all that much! And I am nice! ...well most of the time...at least I try to be...oh hush! 3. "Lesley needs to learn to choose her words carefully" Yeah, I sure do! 4. "lesley Needs Our Prayers Desperately" I'll take all the help I can get! 5. "Lesley needs money ya'll, Jaycat spent all her's on porn..." Dang it, Jaycat! What did I tell you about using my credit card to buy porn?" 6. "Lesley needs to die a horrible death the fat b****!" Ummmmmm! POUTS 7. "Lesley needs glasses..." Sure can't see without ...

I just have short rant about a phrase that I heard fairly often early in my life, and unfortunately I still hear ringing in my ears every single time I look in the mirror. That phrase is (and if you've ever had a weight problem, I'm sure someone has said it to you at some point, so feel free to join in): "You'd be so pretty if you just lost some weight." *gapes* WTFH!!! Why would anyone say that to someone!? You know what that says? That says that no matter how incredibly gorgeous your face is you're still ugly because of the size of your butt. Now perhaps what these people were trying to get across was that my beauty could have been enhanced if I slimmed down a bit. You know, I would kill to be as "fat" as I was back then. In fact, when I look back at pictures of that time, I was pretty dang hot. Yet every time I looked in the mirror, I saw a big fat sow. Why was that? Because people were saying things to me like, "You'd be so pret...

I discussed the whole situation with Superfluous Fluff in Dana of the Whispering Wood earlier. Well I finally finished the edits, and it's 7000 words shorter after I removed phrases and paragraphs that add nothing whatsoever to the plot. Go me! That puts Dana at a whopping 115k. Now I'm on to do exactly the opposite to Arianna Penndragon . I left things out of that one that need to be there. I don't know why I just assume that you all know all about the vampires in my world. How are you going to know if I don't tell you?

Okay, so first there was the ant thing. Then there was the cleaning up of the ant thing. Then there was the Tick bite of DOOM. Well another thing I didn't mention was what happened Friday at the lake. Lishy and I took the little ones to the lake Friday afternoon to go for a swim. Now neither of us are big on lake swimming. We both like bodies of water that you can see your feet in, i.e. mountain streams, the Caribbean sea, pools, that kind of thing... Well we sucked it up and got in, after a little screaming and crying and hissy fit throwing. And that was just me. We won't go in to how the toddlers reacted. So when we finally managed to get everyone in we were just sitting there chilling on the little wall that is next to the water while the little ones splashed relatively happily. Someone said, "Is that a snake," and was looking into the water about twenty feet down from us. I was thinking. Silly city folk! It's probably just a branch floating in th...

So, a little over a month ago, I found an tick on me. I have no idea how long it was on there, because it was in a spot that I can't see unless looking in the mirror. So this morning I noticed a big, red circle around where the bite had been. Now I've been feeling kinda tired and having alot of headaches lately, but I have headaches often. I always have. And I'm the mother of a toddler. Of course I'm tired! Well anyway I googled it... That is one of the first symptoms of Lyme Disease . So I went to the weekend clinic across town and sure enough! I have Lyme Disease. The doctor didn't seem terribly concerned though. It's actually pretty common around here because we have so many ticks. The doctor had even had it. I'm going to be taking antibiotics for two weeks though. Oh joy of joys! Okay, I just had to get my whining out! Off to clean the house!!!

No, you naughty, naughty person! That is not what I was talking about! I mean chapters. Do you like it when there are lots of different scenes in a chapter and have it last maybe thirty pages or would you prefer that the chapters only have one or two scenes and are shorter. I'm torn now. I used to like long chapters, but now I think I like short. I don't have a great deal of time to read so I love to be able to read a quick chapter and move on to all the other things I do in life. They also seem to make the book move faster for me somehow. I ask because I'm editing Dana and making huge changes, and I'm seriously considering breaking up the chapters. I think it would pick up the pace some and that's really what I'm working on now. Well anyway. I'm off to slice and dice my novel. ;) Happy Summer Solstice!!!