“Just” desserts
Had to lie down three times today (when the body says, “Knock it off,” I’ve learned to listen), but I finally got through the galleys for the March book. Turns out I used “just” roughly five million times. I’m usually more aware of repetition (since it’s a huge pet peeve), but I was brain dead when I wrote this book, and clearly still brain dead when I read the line-edits, and somehow, I missed them. Allllll of them.
I see a really, really nice holiday gift in my editor’s assistant’s near future.
Faced a dilemma today, the same dilemma I face every time I’m under the weather (which fortunately isn’t very often). See, my hair is wavy enough that, if I don’t “do” it with the curling iron, I get all these little crinkles. Which would be fine if the crinkles didn’t peter out at the ends and look, well, like I didn’t do my hair. The thing is, though, the more of an effort I make to at least pretend I feel normal, the more normal I feel. Never been much into Death Warmed Over look, go figure. However, if I look fine, then everybody else assumes I am fine, and my fellow inmates have a hard enough time with the concept of Mom being sick without faking them out.
So I didn’t do my hair. Slap a little green makeup on me and I could do a mean Margaret Hamilton, but at least everybody left me alone.
Oh! Oh! On a much brighter note — has anyone else tried the Dove Minature ice creams? We (okay, I) got a box at Sam’s yesterday. There’s strawberry, chocolate and vanilla, wrapped in luscious chocolate, and they’re only 60 calories each. Yeah, yeah, eating just one (or two, or three) is a bit of a challenge, but hey. It’s better than scarfing down an entire Dove bar to the tune of 5000 calories or however much it is. I think I’m in love.
Can’t wait until I can actually taste them.
Karen,
I hope you’re feeling well again soon. I have trouble with repetitive words too. For me, the word is “really” — I really like to use it a lot — I’m really working on it though.
I got your book _Marriage Interrupted_ yesterday, and I’m enjoying it very much.
Carol
Comment by Carol — November 4, 2005 @ 5:01 am
Really, Carol?
Since today’s my wedding anniversary (27th!), I’m hoping to pull myself together to at least go out to lunch with the father of my children. But if not, there’s always next week, right?
Thanks for picking up M,I — and glad you’re enjoying it!
Comment by Karen Templeton — November 4, 2005 @ 2:36 pm
Hope you feel better.
Happy Anniversary.
Comment by mary beth — November 5, 2005 @ 2:33 am
Happy Anniversary Karen!
I hope you were feeling well enough to go out and celebrate.
Still really enjoying _Marriage Interrupted_.
_Everybody’s Hero_ just came today, so it’s waiting at the top of my tbr pile.
Carol
Comment by Carol — November 5, 2005 @ 4:51 am
Thanks, Mary Beth and Carol!
I’m in the all-I-want-to-do-is-sleep phase (since I actually CAN!), but pulled myself together enough to rent movies and do an early dinner at our fave little hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant. Couldn’t taste a damn thing, but it was all about comfort, after all. (And the husband and I remarked as how, considering how much of our early dates were spent in cheap Chinese restaurants, the setting was very appropriate for our anniversary!) Then we came home and watched BEWITCHED, which, while definitely not Academy Award material, was a pleasant enough diversion. Nicole Kidman was adorable.
Even wrote a few pages today, which I hadn’t expected. So a lovely day, when all was said and done, even if I was blowing my nose every thirty seconds.
Comment by Karen Templeton — November 5, 2005 @ 5:21 am
I’m glad you had a good aniversary. I’m just getting over a cold so I know how it feels and I hope you get better soon.
Comment by Christa Runge — November 5, 2005 @ 5:37 pm