Blue eyes cryin’ in the rain…
Going to see Willie tonight! I see a prime excuse to wear my cowboy boots! whoo hoo! They don’t get a lot of use to be honest. Listening to a little Willie to get in the mood. He’s so good. : ) I don’t think most people have a clue. He’s got some great songs.
Went for my run/walk tonight so I just squeaked by with my 2 days this week. It was raining but as I was driving home I saw Blondie out there and thought “if she can do it, I can do it! Go Blondie!” I’ve eaten horribly the last few days. We went to a greasy spoon (actually the blue spoon) for a team lunch and I got a BLT that looked and tasted like it was deep fried in butter. Yum!! But not the healthiest thing. I’ve got to start doing better. Work is still awkward, but life goes on.
I’ve made some real progress on my book. I’ve got my characters, some possible settings, and a sort of general theme. Now all I need is a plot! It will be some sort of a journey/adventure/mission/mystery type thing, but I need to find a reason why the people are on the mission and what they’re looking for, etc. Oh, that’s called a quest! ha ha. Going to work on a mind map this weekend and see what I come up with. Then when I come up with something decent, i’m going to look through all my “how to write a novel” books and see if I should finetune it in any particular direction. 2008 will be the year! yeah yeah… I know… 2007 was supposed to be the year. But, it’s kind of like quitting smoking… you keep trying and eventually you succeed.
Football season starts Thursday! Go skins! I haven’t followed the preseason at all, but I’m doing fantasy football so I need to start paying attention. It’s a good distraction so I don’t notice that summer’s over. Though I love the fall anyway. It’s crisp and cool and full of possibilities (must be from memories of a new school year). … .. la dee da… to all the girls I’ve loved before…. la dee da… Love this song! Willie’s like me… always falling in love. If you look, you’ll notice he has a new wife about every decade. I don’t do that. But then I’m only 33. And I think I got it right the first time. : ) But I still fall in love daily.
Well my father in law wants us to come down for a drink… the Willie concert was his birthday present (my idea!) so we’re heading off soon. Looking forward to 3 days off of book planning, gardening, reading, and sleeping in. And NO HOUSE GUESTS!
Okay, so I’m a Willie fan too. I think he has a poet’s heart and a gift for making music with it. Plus his voice sounds like a stringed instrument you’d have inherited from your grandfather.
I see so much in your writing and your life that I recognize from my own. I guess I’m not as unique as I thought!
–Mary
There is something special about his voice. It’s not a traditional “good voice,” but there’s something there…
It’s funny how sometimes you suddenly find someone you have something in common with. It seems like I can go for years and feel like an alien life form and then voila, I meet someone I totally connect with and feel like… “oh… maybe I wasn’t so strange after all.” People like us are out there! They’re just a little harder to find. : )
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