Current Desktop, Kat Macleod collage

My current desktop, featuring the fashionable collage ladies created by Kat Macleod. Made by quick cutting and pasting b/c I just wanted something colorful, without the depressing “feast or famine” message wallpaper that came before this. I’m still switching back and forth between them though.

Just got an email from Amazon alerting me that Week 10 of their Wish List Sweepstakes has started. I’ve been entering it since week 4. I also entered the Wist List Draw at ModCloth about two weeks ago, to no avail as I discovered an hour ago. This morning I entered the Writer’s Wish List Sweepstakes ’cause I suddenly wanted the Kindle. Suffice to say, I’m not expecting anything :(

I have never in my life won at “lucky” draws. All of fourth grade, we played like 10 rounds of Bingo every Friday afternoon. I never won. I’d get SO CLOSE! Just one square away! And someone would beat me to it. Anyway, as you can see, I’m still trying! Definitely still very hopeful and wishing hard, just like The Secret* tells me to.

*Flipped through it at Costco once. The cover, with the red seal and ancient script theme going on, that intrigued me.

Conversations I’ve Had Lately With My Dog

Being a jobless, full-time writer can get kind of lonely. Especially since the friends I’ve made here are all working or still in college and they’re going to school. So Simba, our 3-year-old retriever, gets called upstairs into forbidden territory to keep me company. Then he chills in my room and gets to hear all my best and worst ideas. Basically, he gets to watch my brain devolve into a state of absolute uselessness.

re: a new dress
“Doesn’t this look good?”

re: 250 words of a YA novel opening
“So is that okay? Gripping?”