HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Posted on September 17, 2005 by thathobbitlady

I have decided to embrace the excitement of having a birthday. So this is just one more place where I am going to say “Happy Birthday to me!”

Many thanks to God for keeping me alive and well for another year. What a blessing! My life is all ahead of me now, all the good stuff is coming down the pike, and I am ready to embrace it!

A birthday is only a signpost along the way, but it’s nice to get to the signpost, and rest a while, and look back at where I’ve been, and nicer still to look forward to where I am going. Best of all, to look around at exactly where I am.

All is well. Loving life. Happy Birthday to me!

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MEMBER OF THE MONTH!

Posted on September 12, 2005 by thathobbitlady

Hey! Just got back from the gym, where I was informed that they want to feature me as “Member of the Month” How cool is that? I would guess it is on account of my team at work winning first place in the fitness challenge, and then me also winning third place in the community fitness challenge. Wow! I’m really on a roll, huh? And not a jelly roll, because I’ve stopped eating sugar, and that’s made all the difference. And I’ve lost at least 14 pounds since May, though it may be as much as 20 (I can’t remember what my starting weight was in May—at any rate, I’ve lost a lot of weight in the last five months).

So anyway, I am psyched, I’m bragging. Congratulate me! I deserve it! How often do we get to toot our own horn? I’m doing it now:

Toot-a-tootle-ooh!

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BETTER THAN EZRA

Posted on September 10, 2005 by thathobbitlady

Now might be a good time to tell the story about how I got into BTE so much. It’s kind of funny, actually, how one thing leads to another. I would have to take this all the way back to being a big X-Files fan years ago. Muldar and Scully, what a trip!

Anyway, recently, I was in the library and saw the soundtrack for the X-Files movie, so I took it out and was blown away by literally every track. It’s very rare when you hear new music and are totally blown away by every track on a first hearing. What an awesome experience!

Anyway, as I’m listening to the CD at work in Windows Media Player, I see that the song One More Murder by Better Than Ezra is written by Kevin Griffin.

Yaaa! Kevin Griffin is the name I have given to my hero in my recently completed latest novel. (Chris Baty advises never say “My FIRST novel,” instead say “My latest novel” which is technically not a lie, and sounds so much more impressive.) I am totally in love with the hero in my novel. So, if for no other reason than the name, I decide to check out more BTE music. (Hey! It’s the public library, it’s free, you got nothing to lose and possibly everything to gain.)

Oh yes—and one other reason. When I went online to look up BTE, I read an interview with Kevin Griffin in which he describes their music as “a total EAR-GASM!” Now I should probably have heard that phrase before, but I hadn’t, and it really sparked my imagination, so I had to give a listen.

So I take out Friction, Baby, and don’t care for it much on a first listening, but after several more listenings, I am so totally hooked. So I go to Wal Mart and buy After the Robots, and I am instantly hooked. And then I order Deluxe online, and I am even more hooked, and now I can’t stop listening. I mean really, it’s like a sickness.

And my birthday is coming up end of this week, so you can guess what’s on my list. More BTE! I can’t wait!

Oh, and one more thing I want to say about BTE. Most of the time I have NO IDEA what the lyrics mean. But I love the music, it has so much energy, and Kevin Griffin’s voice is sooooo sexy!

Enough said.

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AMAZING FACTS!!!

Posted on September 2, 2005 by thathobbitlady

I just found out: Adam Lamberg is Polish! No kidding! He’s Jewish of course, but also Polish. His great grandfather came to the US from Poland. When they asked what’s your last name, he thought they were asking what town he was from, so he said “Lamberg.” I guess there’s a Lamberg, Poland. This is all in Wikipedia, I’m not making this up.

By the way, this would be about the same time my grandparents came over from Poland. Maybe there were on the same boat! What a trip! (Literally, and figuratively!) Hahahahahaha! I find this hysterical!

(I know…I need to get a life…)

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Posted on August 13, 2005 by thathobbitlady

This laptop is so fabulous, I wonder how I ever did without it.

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Posted on August 2, 2005 by thathobbitlady

School has started again and that means earlier to get up in the morning, and I stay up pretty late at night, so all in all, EXHAUSTED. But having a blast.

Anyway, also got a laptop computer and finally took it out of the box and starting to get very comfortable using it. How did I ever do this before? Now at last I can begin to type up my novel.

So many projects.

By the way, I have decided that one of the most attractive features on a guy is a good set of eyebrows. Eyebrows are sexy. If I ever become computer savvy enough to make my own website, I’m going to do one called “Really Good Eyebrows” and post pictures of guys who have really good eyebrows. What do you think?

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SHORT WOMEN

Posted on July 22, 2005 by thathobbitlady

Okay, first of all, I’m really slow. I’m going to post this great revelation I had today as if it is this wonderful new information, but in fact is is something so basic that everybody else has already figured out, but for me it was like…WHAM!

Like I said…I’m slow.

What I figured out today is that short women have this tremendous advantage over tall women. Of course tall women, if they are gorgeous, get to be the supermodels, but how many of us are actually supermodel gorgeous?

Also, tall women can carry a few extra poinds a lot more gracefully than short women can. So much for the advantages of being tall.

And oh yes, I would imagine you don’t really have to hem clothes so much, they just kind of fit right from the store. That would be a nice advangage.

But none of this holds a candle to the one really big advantage of being a short woman: a short woman is the perfect height for any man! Even if she hooks up with a man who is only 5’4″ or 5’5″, she is not going to overpower him and hulk over him. Short guys can feel comfortable with short women. I think a lot of short guys might have an issue with dating a 6ft tall Amazon woman. Kind of intimidating…Hmm??

I’ve been kind of tripping on this short guy lately (not anybody in the real world—the real world is deadly dull) so that’s what has made me think about things like this. You see the world from a whole new perspective when you start thinking about what it is like to be short.

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LOWEST WEIGHT YET

Posted on July 11, 2005 by thathobbitlady

I’m psyched! This afternoon at the gym, the scale showed the LOWEST WEIGHT YET, in at least the last 7 years. Honestly. Long way to go yet, but definately headed in the right direction.

An hour of cardio a day also cannot be a bad thing.

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NEW NOVEL

Posted on July 10, 2005 by thathobbitlady

It’s been just over a week since I finished my novel and I haven’t really looked at it much, though it is still very much in my thoughts. Maybe tomorrow I should start shopping for a laptop. In the meantime, not content to sit idly, I have finally come up with an idea for my Misty Christy pirate story, and am currently in the process of taking notes. But, as I learned from the experience with my first novel, I am not going to put down a single word of the actual story until everything has pretty much “gelled” together in my mind.

A problem with writing a period piece is that it takes so much research, which can be painstaking and annoying. See! I knew there was some reason why we have to study History in school!

Anyway, just want to share one character, who I feel is a true inspiration. I needed an evil pirate captain against whom my heroes could commit mutiny. When I think evil pirate captain, I always see Geoffrey Rush’s wonderful Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Carribean. But I wanted to do something original, and my evil captain is actually a bit different in temperment than Barbossa (though perhaps not much).

Don’t know how other writers do it, but it really helps me to see an actual person in the role (as if it were a movie playing in my head). So I thought and I thought…and I came up with Donald Trump. He could easily be an evil pirate captain, don’t you think? I really don’t know much about Trump (I never even saw that show The Apprentice) but my general view is that he is very rich and powerful and probably pretty full of himself. And of course you have to love the goofy hair. Put a frilly pirate shirt on him, some big rings, tall boots…and there you go. And to top it all off, his name is going to be Crump. Captain Xavier Crump.

So now I got my heroes (hero and heroine, ie) down pretty good, and I have their evil foil. Just working on the historical details, and soon I will be ready to go.

Oh, and one more thing, I must give credit to Kurt, who put the idea in my head that you could post a work of fiction in LiveJournal. So that’s where I’m going to do this, because it is not really a serious work, just something for fun. I have a site set up (mistychristy88) which Mary gave me a lot of computer genius assistance with one day, and just now I have figured out how to make the entries appear in descentding order, rather than ascending, so that you can post chapter after chapter and have them appear in correct reading order.

Anyway, it may be a little while till I actually get going with this, but I’m excited about having a new project (while my original project is going to be in the very boring stage of being typed up on a laptop) so I just wanted to share my enthusiasm! Wish me Bon Voyage!

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WHY DOESN’T THE CHEESE MOVE????

Posted on July 3, 2005 by thathobbitlady

I’m getting a little impatient. We all know, of course, that change is a good thing. He who is not busy being born is busy dying, and he who is not swimming upstream is falling behind and all that crap. So of course we strive to make positive changes in our lives all the time, just to keep up with the flow.

I’m trying to make some changes, but at this moment, I am feeling somewhat impatient. Everything is moving too slow!! It’s the same old stuff day in and day out. There’s apparently this school of thought in Japan about how little changes over a long period of time can effect the greatest change, and I know that’s true, but right now I’d like to see a big change!

Well, I did write a novel. That’s a big change. I’ve been going to the gym for over two months and pretty much watching what I eat, and some pounds are coming off, but only a few and very slowly. It’s so discouraging!

I just had this thought fly through my head, and I’ll put it out here in the Universe: that of course I know I am a person who values comfort and stability, so generally you will not find me whining about things not changing. Generally I like things to stay pretty much the same. But I had this crazy idea just now that someday, if I wanted to, I could apply for a job at the University in Berkley, CA and just GO THERE.

I probably wouldn’t do it while the kids are still with me, but when they are on their own, and especially if my current job gets to be too…how shall I say this …political….discouraging…unethical in management….and I wanted to get away, I could do it.

It would be especially nice if I was a published novelist by that time, so that money would not be as big an issue as it is now. I mean, I could do this one of two ways: if I had money, I could do it on the spur of the moment. If I don’t have much money put aside, then I would have to really want it and plan for it.

I don’t have adventures. But if I wanted to, I could. Maybe it’s just a question of wanting to.

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