13 Random Thoughts

06/01/2011

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Where does the time go? As usual, I've been caught unprepared - so here's a totally random collection for you all:

13 Random Thoughts

1) How do I keep forgetting the Thursday Thirteen? What's up with that? Or more to the point, why do I think about it and then forget it? Hmmm...
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2) I've got to find a way to use this in the story. Ouch!
3) I've got to find a way to WORK on the story. ACK!
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Blurry or not, this photo kills me. NOM! *happy sigh*
4) ACK! Team "Leopard" presentation is tonight! TONIGHT!!! WheeEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
5) Urp. Maybe a serving spoon of cheesy rice and then a bowl of Coco Pops wasn't the best lunch co-ordination I could have managed this afternoon. I'm definitely NOT a teenager anymore.
6) Sometimes, nothing cheers one up quite like blasting Falco's "Der Kommissar". Too bad I don't understand a word of it. Or would that make it less fun?
7) Time for the video! Wooo-hoooo!!!!
8) Thanks to my mother, I'll never again be able to listen to Muse's "Time is Running Out" without hearing Matt Bellamy's huge "whoop" before every line. Grrrrr...
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For reals, yo.
9) Oh. My...

Fabian in a suit and tie with floppy hair.

If he put on glasses I think I'd spontaneously combust.

For reals.
10) If I weren't married to the most patient man in the world, my crushes would surely drive him nuts. <see above and below>
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Yes, it's true. It's all my fault.
11) "You go out there right now and make her leave."
    "Listen, Bjarne, buddy - if I go out there, she'll NOM my leg. Again. You tell her to leave, or I'll go join the Schlecks - and the rest of the guys!"
12) I should get back to work. That story won't critique itself.
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13) Thank god cycling season is getting rolling again. I need to do some, ah, research. Yeah, that's it. Research.



And there you go.




Another frightening look inside my head.





















You should have known what to expect by now, shouldn't you?























And to my usual Thursday visitors I say, "Don't worry."























I just need to focus.




And while this isn't *quite* to my taste....












I reckon it'll be okay.
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*ahem*
Ciao for now!
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I'm not blocked, I'm just stuck in the slow lane.

29/12/2010

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Well, here we are, on the verge of a New Year, releasing the old and making way for the new, and so on and on.

I find myself staring down my current WiP, 27 Stages and trying to get the next chapter to unfold. Or, rather, I'm trying to get the current chapter to wind up so I can move on to the next chapter. This is the sort of thing writers deal with on occasion, I suppose: stubborn words, stubborn images, etc.

You see, it's not that I don't have more to write for this story. The problem lies in the fact the images which are coming to mind fall into one of the following categories:

a)     They aren't from the chapter I'm presently attempting to complete.

b)     They have little – if anything – to do with the story I'm working on.

c)     They would be better placed in another part of the manuscript.

d)     They almost certainly won't survive the final cut, and their inclusion in this manuscript would muddy the waters more than is strictly necessary.

And so I sit, type out a little, backspace over it and start over. Repeat. Repeat again.

Then I pack it in, frustrated until another idea comes to mind and I open the WiP and make another attempt. GrrrrrRRRrrrrr…

Federico and Abby are still there, demanding my attention, speaking up at the most inopportune times and making me wish I had the ability to write directly out of my subconscious onto the document on the computer.

My focus is wonky, refusing to clarify and permit me to slip into 27 Stages' world again for more than a few moments at a time. I need to rest, but as soon as I do something else, the voices are loud and clear, but they only remain so as long as the computer is off and the WiP is out of reach.

But there's good news, too. Last night, I dreamed of a race. I dreamed I spent time talking with the riders, but Federico wasn't there for me. I caught glimpses of him, but he wouldn't look my way. I reckon he will before long.

I sought Abby in the crowd before the dreamscape shifted and changed, taking me somewhere else. Hopefully next time she'll join me for a few minutes. We have a lot to talk about.

One thing is certain: I miss our chats.

On a pleasing note: I sold a copy or two of Ask Me if I'm Happy on the Kindle recently. At least, I know of a couple of purchases, and they led to an upward swing from 229,283 all the way up to 95,961 in just two days. I'll take that for the time being.

Now if I could just find a way to get Amazon to quit saying the book isn't available when it is, I'd be in "business"…

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13 Random Thoughts From This Morning

30/09/2010

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Wow. What a morning! I got up earlier than usual in order to watch the UCI Men's Elite Time Trial competition live from Geelong, Australia.

Oh, it was sooooo worth it.

My feller - and current Muse - Fabian Cancellara put a total of one minute, two seconds between himself and his nearest competitor, thus winning his fourth gold medal in the Time Trial discipline.  He covered 45.8 kilometers in just 58 minutes and nine seconds.

I couldn't be happier, or be thinking less clearly, as a result.

So this week, I'll have to present to you:

13 Random Thoughts
From This Morning

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1) I can't believe the cat let me sleep this late. (3:00 a.m.)
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2) I can't believe the cat won't let me sleep, now. (3:45 a.m.)
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3) I have the best hubby in the world. (He got out of bed - even though he's sick - to quiet the cat at 4:00 a.m.)
4) OH, CRAP!!! WHAT TIME IS IT???
(5:00 a.m. - The time the internet broadcasts of the race were supposed to start.)
5) Whew! Nothing's on yet. I should check the start times, though, to be sure when to tune in. (5:01 a.m.)
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6) Ah, Fabian's not going to ride until 8:18 this morning. I can get some more sleep in a bit. (5:03 a.m.)
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7) Dang, he's purty. (5:04 a.m.)
8) Oh, heck. I'll go check Twitter and see if anyone's saying anything about the warm-ups, etc. (5:05 a.m.)
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9) WHAAAAA??? Alberto Contador tested positive for Clenbuterol??? No way!
(5:06 a.m.)
10) I'm going back to bed. I don't wanna think about this right now. (5:10 a.m.)
11) Crud. Now I can't sleep. Plot-bunny-plot-bunny-plot-bunny... (5:30 a.m.)
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Photo from UCI Worlds Time Trial Competition in 2009.
12) Woot! It's time! I wish Alle could stay home and watch this with me. Oh well... GO, SPARTACUS!!!!
(8:18 a.m.)
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13) THAT'S RIGHT, BABY!!! WOO-HOOOOOO!!! NUMBER FOUR!!! COUNT 'EM, Y'ALL!!! HEEEEEHEEEEEE!!!! (9:16 a.m.)






And now I gotta calm down.









Gotta knuckle down and get to writing.












Gotta quit writing "gotta".






















And, of course...



















I gotta make with the eye candy.
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one for y'all...
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and one for me (Fabian, post Paris-Roubaix, earlier this year).
Ciao for now! :)
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