Carolyn

I miss LJ. I miss having the time to be really involved on here, I miss being active, I miss meeting new peoples through this medium. It is of course my own fault that I don't post more. I often start to then stop for some reason, wander off into other things.

But it is a three-day weekend, and I am at home, and so here I am. A quick update on the State of Me is in order.

1. It is almost my birthday, and I am nearing one of the big milestones of a person's life - I will be fifty. FIFTY. Now this truly blows me away. When I was a kid, 50 was so OLD. This is how someone fifty looked:


(Granted I do know some people in their 50's who look like this, namely my oldest sister).

That of course is Aunt Bee from the Andy Griffith Show. Anyway, I don't look like that. At all. There is nothing poof-haired or matronly about this girl, hell no.

So, while I am looking at turning the Big-Five-Oh on Tuesday, I am thrilled and happy to be constantly accused of lying about my age. I like that.

2. And to keep me looking like a liar, I have been doing this! Virtual bike riding. I may have mentioned it before - did I? I forget. Anyway, this is a sample from my favorite video. Actually, this sample has the talking on it - I get the ones without the talking person. That annoys me.

My sister got me hooked on these and so far so good, though I have as of Friday stepped up my game and am riding every day. This is in part because Nick has taken up running now, and I can't let him get ahead of me in the fitness game! No way! So am increasing this activity to once a day. I need more videos though - my sister and I have bought about 6, and some are better than others. I found a new source for them and plan to get her hooked on those. A new one I have though is gorgeous - it is a bike ride through Scotland! I plan to do that one today. woo!

3. Writing stuff! So, Carina rejected my ms, and that is fine. I'm already going through it again and am sending it to my usual editor, Raven. She is excited, I am excited. Carina however still has my sci fi story. It did not get chosen for the anthology I sent it in for, but it did get yanked and taken by another editor for consideration. I think they should call me on my birthday and tell me they want it, don't you? I am DYING to write more in that universe! I love my heroine, Natasha, and her big green guy, Micah. Brielle wants/needs/must have her own story as well. If they ultimately pass, I will be back to writing the rest of this and submit it elsewhere.

4. More writing stuff! ARTS and LWH continue to do me proud. Am super-happy with the way both are selling! Yuppers, am very pleased. I am forcing getting myself out more into the m/m world, and am finding it easy via twitter. Okay that is the only place really though I took part in the Hop Against Homophobia, which was very fun.

5. AND MORE writing stuff! Torn between two lovers - my brain bounces back and forth between two stories I want to work on simultaneously, which is not good. Silly brain.

6. READING - sob sob sob am reading the last in the Mira Grant aka seanan_mcguire zombie trilogy (trilogy plus several shorts), OUTBREAK. If you like zombie stories that are more adventure and drama and angst and thrill and WOW than zombiegore, why haven't you read this trilogy, huh? WHY NOT?

7. Dogs. Doing great, though Maddox is kinda out of it today. Methinks he ate something he shouldn't have.

8. WORK - work is good. I really like my boss, he is funny, quirky as hell, and smart, though wow, the drama that comes with working for someone who works in the same office as his spouse, and they have a very bratty selfish kid, and there are, well, fights, and stuff, is very...different. Fortunately, my office is in the corner, and I just stay out of the way. I've worked there two months now, and Jim and I get along really well. This is good! Very good.

Okay that is about it, for now. See, I know it is better not to write these long posts, it is better to write several little ones. I am bad like that.