Author: Maya

We’re heading home tomorrow, armed with groceries of course. The good news is we’ll be home and can start repairs. Bad news is no internet :crying:

I don’t like being away from home. I mean it’s different if I’m on vacation or gone by choice. I don’t like being away from my little piece of the world when the rest of the world around me has gone bonkers. I’ll be soooo glad to get home to my comfy chair and familiar surroundings. I hate feeling like a guest even though I’m with family.

No word yet on when the kids will return to school. We know definitely not this week. Two of the campuses sustained damage while the other tree got lighter damage. Then there is the power situation. I want to say they were out two weeks for Rita. I don’t really remember to be exact but it was something close to that. At the end of this week our schools will have been closed a week and a half.

So anyway, that’s what’s going on with me. If you don’t see me for awhile, it’s because Im back home and have no internet. But think of all the work I’ll get done :woot:

Ironically my last blog post was about not knowing what day it was, evacuations and kids being out of school and I find myself once again evacuated due to a hurricane. We actually stayed through the hurricane this time. Not something I’d recommend but I honestly felt safer at home than out on the roads with the evacuation crowd. Traffic was just insane here. There were several accidents including a 7 car pile up at the only major intersection in my little pissant town. No thanks…

I’m at my sister’s. We left Saturday morning after the worst of the hurricane was past us. It was still quite windy and rainy and getting around debris in the roadways were tricky, but we made it. The one positive of having stayed through the hurricane was that we knew what damage we incurred before we left. When we evacuated for Rita three years ago, we didn’t know anything, just that our area had been devastated. It was a very stressful time as we didn’t even know if we had a house to go back to. At least with Ike, we know what we’re facing when power is restored and we go back home. (Sooo not looking forward to the insurance claim process *sigh*)

The weather is cooperating better in Southeast Texas this time around for which I’m grateful. With Rita, we experienced record high temps and power was out a long ass time. We had temps well over 100 and it was just bloody miserable. A cool front passed through the area and it brought cooler, drier air so I’m hoping that makes things a bit more bearable for all the people who are still in the area with no electricity.

what day of the week it is. Kids went back to school today. Evacuation order was lifted Tuesday so I guess they felt everyone needed an extra day to get back. I have cable back, so I’m a much happier camper. Hurricanes and evacuations are not good for the deadline, ya know?

I’m so dedicated because my first thought after dropping the kids of at school was that man, my bed sure would feel good. And it’s nice and quiet and another hour of sleep would be really really nice.

But no, I’m cleaning the rubble after blowing up that cement wall that had plunked itself right about chapter 8 and now I’m trying to piece together the mess I made. It feels like Monday. Is it Monday?

Someone asked me last night what I thought about Sarah Palin. My response? She doesn’t want to raise my taxes or take away my guns, so she can’t be all bad…

at least it’s finally getting better. I have this problem. See I’m stubborn. STFU, Amy. I mean even when I know something isn’t working, I still get all stubborn and I’m determined to get through it even though the logical thing to do is go around it for awhile.

But there’s that whole linear thing I have such a problem with…

So I was hitting a wall with The Darkest Hour. I mean like banging my head repeatedly against a 14 foot cement wall. I argued for a few days and got absolutely nothing done, sulked, whined and bitched. Then finally I did what I knew I should have done from the start, which was put it down and work on something else.

I wrote some scenes on one of the subplots for the book, and gee, imagine that. 10 pages in half an hour. Yeah, I know, I’m a dumbass for not doing that three days earlier.

There’s that whole stubborn thing at work.

So I’m writing, and at some point I’ll go back to the cement wall with some C4 and blow it all to hell :pffftt:

so I’ve been writing along on Ethan and Rachel’s story. Only last night I realize that the last 30 pages or so have to go. Away. As in they’re all sorts of fucked up and I have to rewrite them completely. I can barely contain my enthusiasm. :cursesign:

So yeah, I’ve got a lot written today. Too bad it’s not progress and it’s just me fixing what I screwed up to begin with. So in essence I lost a bitchload of time that I can’t afford to lose.

To that end, I’m going underground for the next two weeks. I’m hoping by the end of the month I’ll have blazed through a good portion of this story so that September can be spent figuring out if it makes any sense. :headscratch:

Try not to have too much fun without me…

Which I’m not sure why I’m so excited. I’ll be way more excited when the kids go back to school. Not that I’m counting the days or anything. :pray:

Headache is gone. Stress level is back down. Hope to resume writing, which has taken a big hit this week. This weekend, well again, WHY am I looking forward to it?? I have grocery shopping to do, back to school shopping to do, a house to clean, okay so it’s a shithole.

I think I’m going back to bed. :sack:

I think I’m going to need copious amounts of alcohol to get through it.

Oh, and before I forget, the new website should be going live soon. It’s a completely different look but I believe it’s more functional and easily navigated. Less confusing and focuses on what’s most important. The books!

I’m out of migraine medicine, out of refills. :sack:

Need more. Waiting on doctor to give more :pray:

Until the kids go back to school :worthy: This summer has gone by SO fast, and at first I thought hell, I’ve gotten nothing done, but that’s not true. It just SEEMS like it. I do look forward to having my nice quiet days back, though.

I love utter quiet and calm, and that’s just because with three kids and hubby at home, the TV is always on, there’s always fighting and bickering, loud play, rambunctious romping etc.

But during the school year, for seven whole hours, there is complete still. No TV (I never ever turn the thing on) no arguing, no conversation. I even resent the phone ringing, which rarely ever occurs. Isolationist anyone?

People wonder why I spaz when I go to RT or RWA. Well, there you have it. You throw someone who is used to isolation into a crowd of noisy, outgoing people, and meltdown is inevitable.

I’m finally writing The Darkest Hour. I love this story, these characters. I love this series. I just finished edits on Into the Lair which is another series I dearly love. Oh, and I also just turned in Desire book 2, which I titled The Tycoon’s Rebel Bride. :whoo: Such a perfect title for that book. I’m hoping I get to keep it.

Oh and in book news, I can tell you that there will be a sequel to Golden Eyes this next spring. Amber Eyes is the story of the “lost” sister Kaya who we learned a little about in Golden Eyes. You can look for that story in March from Samhain Publishing.

Conference was really terrific this year. People always have different things to say every year. Some people love it, others thinks it’s a waste of time, but in the end, it’s all about what you make it.

I will say I can’t wait for next year. I love Washington D.C. The hubby’s going with me this time, and one of my dearest friends on earth lives there, so I’ll get to see her :whoo:

I came home to a ton of work (nothing new) and the kids are going back to school in a couple of weeks, so there’ll be back to school shopping. I’m kinda looking forward to September heh

I love the Blackberry, but I don’t really know how to use it. Apart from the basics, which really, is all I NEED to know. As long as I can check email, send email, answer the phone, that sort of thing. I’m so not one of these high tech chicks whose Blackberry can open locks and hack into the FBI files or something.

So in an effort to organize myself, I started entering all my appointments for the RWA conference into the Blackberry so I wouldn’t unknowingly commit to something when I already had something scheduled at the same time. Good grief. I’m overwhelmed just looking at it.

Theron’s book…well, it’s close to being done. I’ll need the rest of this week to finish it. I have to mail it before I leave for RWA next Tuesday. Getting this close to a deadline, well, it’s never happened. I’m a freak about finishing stuff early. We were talking about deadlines the other night at the Writeminded Chat, and Amy was all about taking every possible second of her deadline and overnighting it for a gazilliion dollars. Me? I usually finish up about a month ahead of time, sometimes longer, and then I like to put it up and forget about it for several weeks. I let it percolate.

Then I go back to it, open it up, read it with fresh eyes and fix stuff, then send it off to wherever it’s going.

Well, that’s not going to happen this time and it’s bugging the holy hell out of me. I do edit as I go, and I begin each writing session with looking back over what was previously written, so it’s not like I’ll be sending some raw mass of unedited crap, but still, not having that percolating time for this book bugs me.

Shit happens. This has been a crazy summer and at this point I’ll just be grateful I got all the projects done that I was supposed to get done by Aug 1.