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Vacation turns Daycation

July 26, 2009

I apologize for disappearing again. Like I said in my last post, summer, even without big plans, is turning out to be busier than the school year!  In the last couple of weeks, I’ve:

Plotted and wrote a synopsis for a possible third Venus book.
Done all my page proofs for VENUS GUY TRAP.
Interviewed, planned, and wrote [...]

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REDO: Out with the old…seriously!

April 30, 2009

[Author's note: Just a quick trip down memory lane with this blog entry from 2005.]
I just had to get a little firm (okay, totally pissed off, I admit it) with my 9-year-old son. He hates to throw clothes/shoes (or really anything else) away. You’d think we were destitute if he was allowed to use things/wear [...]

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We’re back to blaming the cats….

December 3, 2006

6-foot freshly fragrant evergreen tree from the neighborhood stand – $20
New stand to replace the one that even a blind man could have seen shouldn’t have been attached to the tree in the first place – $8.99
Artificial tree to replace the fresh tree and new stand that apparently STILL doesn’t hold water – Priceless!
Yes, I [...]

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Apologies to the kitties…

November 30, 2006

Remember #2 in the entry below about my kitten-filled Christmas? Well, I kind of have to publicly apologize for blaming the little monsters for drinking all the water in the Christmas tree stand. While, yes, they were drinking water from the stand, they weren’t drinking as much as previously noted.
See, my daughter filled the stand [...]

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