Archive for September, 2006
September 30, 2006
11:21 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s my wedding anniversary today. My husband and I have been married for five years. We were married on Makena Beach in Maui - such a beautiful spot. And what a way to get married! Avoided all of the big wedding stuff and just took off with a few friends and family and got hitched.
It was right after 9/11 so I was a little apprehensive to get on the plane. And all of the mags on the plane were Newsweek and Time with all of the 9/11 stories. I started reading them, began to cry and immediately put them away. I didn’t want to be upset - I was goin’ to get married! And I didn’t want to freak myself out on the plane either.
So fast forward five years later and there’s no chance in hell we’re going to Maui any time soon. What a bummer. But our life is too hectic with the kids and we can’t really afford it right now either. Oh well…
I just want to say I feel very lucky to have my husband in my life. He’s a thoughtful man, a wonderful father and a supportive husband. We have our moments, our marriage isn’t perfect but what marriage is? It takes work to make a marriage and we work hard to keep it going.
Here’s hoping to many more years to come.
P.S. - I’ll share pics of our trip in my next post. I uploaded them on the other computer and haven’t got to them yet. My bad.
September 29, 2006
11:23 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
Yea! And I’m tired. And my post today is over at The Flirts.
I have some cool pics from my trip I’ll share tomorrow…
September 23, 2006
11:02 pm • Filed under: Uncategorized
All right, I’m out of the hotel, which was a little too nutty and now we’re on the road, on the Oregon coast. Staying in a motor home at a RV park close to the ocean in Newport.
Talk about nice…and it’s so much easier staying in the RV. We’re not living out of suitcases anymore, I unpacked everything. We have all kinds of food and snacks and can fix stuff ourselves versus going out (which I get sick of real quick).
So yeah we’re staying at a park with internet access! I’m shameless damn it! But this is probably the last time I’ll be around for at least a few days - unless the next place we stay at has a connection. I’m addicted, aren’t I?
I even wrote a little bit last night - the Christmas story is almost finished!
And it’s a celebration week for us. Brother’s birthday yesterday, Grandma and good friend’s birthday today, baby son’s birthday Tuesday, our wedding anniversary a week from today. Whew! Oh, and it’s also Stacy’s birthday on Monday! Happy early Birthday Stacy!!!!
September 21, 2006
8:17 pm • Filed under: Uncategorized
Help me! I’m stuck in a hotel room with my two kids and I can’t write! Aaah!
Actually, I could write at night after everyone is asleep but I’m so dang tired I just pass out. And then the crazy day starts all over again. Yikes.
Living in a hotel is not glamorous. I miss my stuff. I miss my cats. I miss my bed. I miss my satellite tv with the guide, Tivo, etc. My kids are going nuts, though they are behaving better than I thought they would.
On a side note I met Jenna yesterday. Yep, the infamous Jenna Bayley-Burke. We didn’t really get to talk cos we were at a Children’s Museum and it was a tad chaotic but it was cool to meet her in person. I appreciate her meeting up with me and taking me and the kids to the museum. My kids had a blast.
So maybe I’ll get to write next week when we drive back down the coast towards home. Though I doubt it. At least I have internet. I’d be dying if I didn’t. I’m such a slave to this laptop it’s not even funny. Pitiful.
Hope everyone is having a GREAT week!
September 19, 2006
11:25 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
…Melissa Marsh! Sorry I was unable to post the winners yesterday - I was on the road to Oregon all day long and by the time we got into the hotel, bathed the children, ate dinner, blah, blah, blah - I was too tired.
So Melissa, you’ve won a $5 Starbucks gift card and a super cool bookmark. Send me your snail mail address to karen.e.erickson @ gmail.com (minus spaces) and I’ll get it out to you ASAP!
Thanks so much everyone for participating this past week! It’s been fun getting to know you.
On a side note - I GOT THEM OUT OF THE KITCHEN! I haven’t wrote a word since Saturday night but I did get them out of the kitchen. Now I need to go back and write the good stuff.
So I leave you with a pic of Patrick Dempsey, otherwise known as Dr. McDreamy. Why do I not watch this show? Why? It looks like it has all the elements that I would love…so what the heck is wrong with me? And the new season of Grey’s Anatomy starts this week. I think I need to go buy the previous seasons on DVD and watch them…
September 16, 2006
10:48 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
My headline makes no sense. You know why? It’s about my stubborn characters - they’re kissing in the kitchen and I can’t get them out of there.
Trust me, I’ve tried. I’ve rewritten the start of this scene three - THREE!!! - times. This thing was just a flowin’ too. It’s a Christmas story, I’ve had so much fun writing it…until now.
Though this isn’t a kitchen, it is a public place and this couple can’t be having, ahem, carnal knowledge of each other in public. Well, they could but they’d get in big trouble.
I want my couple to have carnal knowledge of each other - and I don’t want them to do it in the kitchen. It’s not their style. They need to be in a bed, like this:
I think I need to rewrite the scene again and have it start somewhere else - not in the kitchen. Sigh…
This is the last day to leave a comment and be entered in my contest to win $5 Starbucks gift card and a bookmark! Whoo hoo!
September 15, 2006
10:38 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
…is at The Word Flirts today. Leave a comment there and I’ll count it for the contest.
P.S. - Ask and I shall receive! The weather is much cooler here - it started yesterday afternoon. Kelley, I do believe your clouds came my way. 
September 14, 2006
12:20 pm • Filed under: Uncategorized
I’m beggin’ for it! It was 100 degrees here yesterday - gag! So sick of the hot weather…
But it’s not like we get pretty leaves and gorgeous fall scenery around here. No, I have a bunch of Oak trees and scrub pines. In fact, around my house, it looks a lot like this:
Though I have no idea where that photo was taken. And to be honest, I don’t have too many lone Oaks, more like lots of Oaks hanging out together. But that pic is a close representation without my going out and taking my own photo. I’m lazy.
The weatherman said it was supposed to be a lot cooler tomorrow. Yay!
So whose lucky enough to have cool weather where they’re at? Don’t forget to leave a comment to be entered in my contest! It ends Saturday.
September 13, 2006
10:56 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
M.E. Ellis isn’t keeping the royalties for her book Quits. She’s donating the sum to the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children) so she’s running a contest I said I would gladly be a part of.
Here’s a video that was made about Quits.
On another note, here’s a pic of Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Sigh…Grace was so beautiful. But I heard she was kind of trampy! She had affairs with like every leading man she ever had! But then she married the prince…
September 12, 2006
10:27 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
Ok, here’s some pics of Sir Laurence Olivier…
Ooooh, I found this one last night and I think this pic is sexy. Of course, anything with Marilyn Monroe is sexy. I like the way he’s holding her.
And then Mary Ann sent me this pic of Larry yesterday. Thanks again Mary Ann!
I had to resize it cos it was kinda big, but hey, he still looks good even w/ that lousy cigarette in his hand! A different time, huh?
Don’t forget to leave a comment so you’re entered in my contest!
