I think I forgot how to blog.

I really can’t think of even the slightest interesting thing to say. The thing is, I don’t really beleive that I ever really had anything interesting to say, yet it’s never stopped me before.

I have some things I could rant about but I don’t really want to. For one, I don’t want to become one of those negative ranty blogs. Plus, I don’t really want to have to defend my opinions. I’m way to lazy for that.

I thought about posting a meme, but I couldn’t really find one that interested me.

I think I must be in the post moving blahs. For so long I’ve been focused on the move and really nothing else, that now, without the stress, I don’t know what to do with myself!

Crazy, I complain when I’m stressed, I complain when I’m not stressed.

Anyway, I ordered my desk yesterday and with a little luck it will arrive tomorrow - fingers crossed! I have to admit that the novelty of working at the kitchen/dining room table is starting to wear off.

Then, sometime this weekend we’re thinking of making our first trek into NYC as real New Yorkers. The problem? I don’t really know what I want to do there.

So here’s my question for you today? What should I do in New York city this weekend (probably Saturday, maybe Sunday)? (Aren’t I sweet, I gave you a way to procrastinate).

I don’t really like worms all that much (and I think they’re drowning in our backyard from all the rain) but there might actually be something to this “getting up early” stuff after all.

The hubster has been getting into work at around 8:30-8:45ish every day this week. Since he’s not quiet AT ALL while showering and stuff, I’ve been up then, too.

Yesterday I took a walk, today, I took him to work and then went to the grocery store. Now, it’s 10:00 and I’ve got the whole day in front of me.

The hubster has been working until after 6 (I’ll probably have to leave to go pick him up at about 6ish). Even with all my errands already done, I have 8 full hours to work.

And you know what I realized yesterday, it’s impossible to procrastinate for 8 hours. Eventually, I will get some work done myself!

And I’ve scheduled in some reading time. If I do a good days worth of writing work, I get to knock off at 5 and read until the hubster gets home!

Now it’s time for me to be off to work…

It’s 9:30.

I got up, ate a piece of string cheese, sprayed myself liberally with bug spray and headed off for my walk (when I drove the circle in my car it said 2 miles but the pedometer today only said 1.67).

Now I’m home with an english muffin in the toaster oven and a frappuccino coffee drink (the kind in a bottle) next to me and I’m ready to get my day started.

If I don’t need a nap first.

I got caught up on a lot of stuff yesterday, got a little bit of writing done, but then figured I should probably transcribe what I already wrote because 1) I don’t really remember what was going on and 2)…well, no, pretty much only because I have no idea what I already wrote.

BUNNY BREAK - Backyard Bunny (not to be confused wiht Sideyard Bunny) just hopped through the yard. Now back to your regularly scheduled post.

I also placed an Amazon Order last night. Bought some birthday presents for myself!

I ordered:

The CIG to Writing Erotic Romance by Alison Kent
Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter

All the books come out in the next week or so, which means I will hopefully get them right around my birthday!

I also added a bunch of books that I didn’t really want to spend my own money on, but still really wanted, to my wishlist. I love birthdays!

So, what books are you really looking forward to? What books are you going to buy yourself and what books are you hoping someone else buys for you?

…the hubster is off at his first day of work. I’m alone in the new house for the first time, a little on the uneasy side.

It’s grey and rainy outside.

It’s days like this when I really like the fact that I write best with pen and paper instead of at the computer. I see the couch, a blanket, a notebook and a BIG cup of coffee in my future.

This house actually makes cool noises in the rain. There are gutters on the front of the house, but the back just has a sloped roof where the rain drips off making cool noises. There’s also not much attic to speak of (the roof if pretty much right there) so the sounds of the rain hitting the roof are pretty loud.

And we have a window air conditioner in the living room/my office and the rain echos off of that. It’s very hypnotic.

Uh-oh, I’m starting to think maybe I’ll get more napping done than writing!

What’s the weather like in your neck of the woods? What do you think is the best writing weather?

Today’s post is at Word Flirts.

I admit that I don’t understand this completely 100% but Nalini is my Birthday Buddy so I’ll support her however I can!

I am participating in a blogging experiment hosted at dearauthor.com. To enter the contest, put up this blurb, image, and trackback and you are entered to win the following prize package.

• $200 Amazon gift certificate
• Signed copy of Slave to Sensation
• New Zealand goodies chosen by Singh
• ARC of Christine Feehan’s October 31 release: Conspiracy Game

You can read about the experiment here and you can download the code that you need to participate here.

SLAVE TO SENSATION
Nalini Singh
Berkley / September 2006

Welcome to a future where emotion is a crime and powers of the mind clash brutally against those of the heart.

Sascha Duncan is one of the Psy, a psychic race that has cut off its emotions in an effort to prevent murderous insanity. Those who feel are punished by having their brains wiped clean, their personalities and memories destroyed.

Lucas Hunter is a Changeling, a shapeshifter who craves sensation, lives for touch. When their separate worlds collide in the serial murders of Changeling women, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities…or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation.

Excerpt

Except for my office (and the hubsters office), I’d consider myself moved in!

We seem to have figured out the networking problem (fingers crossed) and while I still don’t hae a desk, I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to start writing again on Monday. I’m totally itching to get back to it.

This is probably the longest vacation from writing I’ve taken since I started writing. I’ve probably gone longer than this without putting pen to paper (or keys to keyboard) but usually during those times I at least think about what I’m supposed to be writing.

Ideas haven’t crossed my mind in longer than I can remember!

Today we’re going to Ikea - love that place - to see what we can find in the way of cheap furniture to round out the rooms. I also need candles and picture frames and Ikea is always a good pace for that stuff.

Anyway, I thought I’d share a few photos. I don’t have any of the house completely finished yet - I should take them before it starts to get messy. Oh, it’s too late for that already.

Old kitchen being packed”

New kitchen:

I hope to be back into the swing of things completly on Monday. The in-laws come on Sunday and tomorrow, well, I just need a day to rest after all of this.

I’ve checked out a few blogs but I think that was before my network was 100% so I may not have commented.

For now….I’m off to shop some more!

I’m really desperately trying to get back into the swing of things but it’s freaking hard!

Our new networking isn’t really working well at all. It’s totally not reliable and it’s freaking the hell out of my computer. I’m getting tons of spam, but I’m not really 100% sure if I’m getting all of my email. Although it is very possible that I just haven’t gotten much personal mail in the past few days.

On the plus side though, the house is painted, we have stuff and everything is mostly put away. The exceptions to that are my office - I don’t have a desk yet so there’s no where to put stuff away and the guest room which is becoming the “I don’t know what to do with this crap” room.

Our stuff arrived at about 9:30 on Tuesday and I had the house probably 75% put away by the time I went to bed that evening. Yesterday I tackled the kitchen.

The hubster started on his office on Tuesday when I started the rest of the house and he’s still not finished with it! Who knew, but I’m great at putting a house away!

Pretty much all that’s left now is the accessorizing (I’ve been watching way too much HGTV the past few weeks). A few more trips to the store are in order - it’s amazing how much stuff you need when you move - like COFFEE - I HAVE NO COFFEE!!!

Anyway, I’m really desperately trying to get back to “normal,” whatever that is now. I’ll try to post some pictures and such over the next few days if the ‘puter cooperates. And I’m sorely missing blogland!

Anything exciting happen that I missed while I was away dealing with real life?

We’re in New York now. In the new house.

After today we have a blue bedroom, and theoretically we should have a beige-y brown-y living room after tomorrow.

We’ve been to Target and WalMart more times than I care to count in two days.

Oh, and our stuff doesns’t actually get here until Tuesday so we’re sleeping on the air mattress for another few days.

I really hate moving.

On the plus side, my new grocery store has a really cool book section (though they didn’t have the September Blazes, yet). The selection at Target seemed a bit more romance heavy than my old Target, and they had the Sept Blazes, so I got Jill Shalvis’s new one.

Anyway, I’ve managed to check out a few blogs today but it’ll still a few before I’m back into the swing of things. Plus, I need a new deck.

Hopefully I’ll have some pictures to share in the next few days, too!

I hope everyone is doing well! Make sure to let me know here if anything exciting happens! (Oh, and while I have internet, it’s not perfect yet, and I’m not sure if I can actually send email - though I can definitely get it).

Everything is packed up. The movers come between 9-10 this morning. It shouldn’t take too long to pack the truck would be my guess. Then we’ll just be sitting on the floor watching the teeny tiny TV.

It’ll be the hubsters job to clean the apartment tomorrow evening while I’m at my MRW meeting. What can I say, I’m a smart girl!

Anyway, we’ll be up and off to New York Friday morning - probably early since we’re sleeping on an air mattress.

In theory the new cable company is coming on Saturday to install internet so hopefully I’ll be back online by mid-day Saturday. This weekend will be mostly about painting and then our stuff should arrive Monday and then we get to unpack all the crap we just packed!

So, if I’m gone for a few days, you know why. Hope everyone does some fun stuff while I’m gone!

To do today:
1. Jiffy Lube for oil change in car
2. Get sandwich stuff Costco - the only thing we’ll eat for the next week
3. Take stuff to Goodwill
4. Mail stuff at post office
5. Pack dishes & pots and pans

We’re actually too together and pretty much everything is packed.

There’s quite a bit of random stuff sitting around, stuff that got missed the first time around, but I’m gathering that into piles so it can all be packed together.

The dishes won’t be used again so those will get packed this afternoon (WOO HOO on no cooking for a week!). The non perishable foods will get packed tomorrow sometime. But that’s pretty much it.

The movers come on Thursday and I’m planning to go to my Maryland Romance Writer Meeting that evening. Crazy, perhaps, but I’ve been waiting for this meeting all year! Plus, it means I get a free pass from that whole constant togetherness thing.

Friday morning bright and early, it’s off to New York!

And through all of this, I even managed to write a little bit yesterday. It was only a few paragraphs, but it was something.

I wrote A Walk on the Wild Side through the move to Maryland two years ago so I know I can do it!

What about you? What are you working on now, and what is trying to keep you from it? (Notice I said trying because I know we all continue to work through it. :))