PC

I'm back and better than ever with my new computer!  Well, not new but the monitor is and oh, she's a beauty.  No more squinting at the screen or achy neck spasms from leaning over my laptop.  I'm back to PC and burning on all cylinders baby! 

Happy New Year anyone!   

My as of yet "Untitled" book

The good news? This business with my computer hasn't derailed me from my novel.  I am just finishing up chapter 7 and thinking about chapter 8.  I can't say it's all going swimmingly, it's a brutal process and I mean to see it through.  Who knew following passion could be so draining.

After the initial research I did of mid 19th century San Francisco, I was bursting with ideas for my characters.  Future storylines, characters, plots that I plan to explore in a series that I hope will result in the completion of this first attempt.  Speaking of... this first attempt has been one of the hardest things I've ever done.  They say that if you're a real and true writer, you HAVE to write.  Nothing is more important to you. 

(Waving emphatically)

Um, what if there are other HAVE's that supercede that one?  What if I have clothes to fold, or my best friend is calling to talk about nothing for the next hour, I have to play with my cat, there's a chapter in Amanda Quick's latest novel to read, etc.  Does the need to write have to replace all the others in order for me to be a legitimate writer?

God, I hope not. 

Death of Mac

NAME: G4 Mac IBook

TIME OF DEATH: December 16th, 2009; approx 8:00 pm Pacific Standard Time

CAUSE: Logic Board

SALVAGABLE ITEMS: Hard Drive

Today I feel like Carrie from "Sex In The City".  Remember when her Apple crashed?  She was panicked and Aiden didn't help the situation by not panicking with her.  Ha!  Typical man move.  But seriously, I've had my computer since grad school.  I loved it on sight, it's been the best investment I've ever made and now it's gone.  My boyfriend is convinced that Mac computers are the devil and wants nothing to do with them.  In this instance, yes, the Ibook has a design flaw which cause frequent problems that will eventually result in death from its logic board.  However, I think after the Ibook, Mac has learned their lesson.  I was a PC girl all the way until 2004 and now...I'm irrevocably Mac. 

Houston, we have a problem

I fancy myself a writer and it should come to no surprise that when my computer crashed recently, I temporarily lost it.  Unfortunately my boyfriend was at the receiving end of this, but since he sort of broke my Ibook I suppose one could say he had it coming.  STILL, it has been a very stressful couple of days since my notes and research of ideas for my first novel were on that computer.  I hadn't back them up anywhere and for that I have no one to blame but myself.  Those and countless photos I can never retrieve again.  I was just finishing my first go round on the 6th chapter and was looking foward to starting work on the next.  Some of you know how hard it is to look at a blank page with nothing before the curser and just...type.  Very daunting.  Hopefully the people at Mac can save my butt without it costing me an arm and a leg.  To say 2009 has been a trying year would be an understatement.  This is really icing on the devils cake.

Rethinking Lisa Kleypas

After reading "Mine Till Midnight", I was surprised I allowed myself to pick up another Lisa Kleypas book to read.  After all, she did write "Where Dreams Begin", which since reading it has always had a special place in my heart.  Again and again....and again...you get the picture.  Nevertheless, I was so disappointed in this first book of the Hathaways, I was close to closing the chapter on her.  THANK GOD I DIDN'T.  I would have missed out on "Deaming of You" and "Tempt Me At Twilight"!  I wasn't a big fan of the Hathaway's after suffering the lack luster pages and deflating culminations of Amelia Hathaway and Kev's story.  I have yet to read about Merripen and Win in "Seduce Me At Sunrise", after Twillight I will definitely go and get.  Twillight had everything Midnight didn't.  It was sexy and funny and really gave me an intimate look inside the Hathaway family that wasn't there in the first book.  And I have to say it, the lovemaking scenes lived up to all the tension building up to them.  They really made the romance between the characters all that more palpable.  I look forward to the 4th and possibly 5th books.

Recently, I just finished "Dreaming of You" and was again unable to put it down.  I love it when a book draws you in and you can't sleep for wondering what will happen next!  So juicy!  I plan to keep reading Ms. Kleypas's works and recommend them to anyone who can't get enough of those love depraved males and the women who can't help but to love them for who they can be.