Tapping away at the keys

So I am finally transcribing again, and with that comes editing. It is a slow process and if I try to speed it up and my non existent typing skills start to show but is is progress all the same. I have a lot more written than last time I updated and have a much more definitive outline.

I wish I could type as fast as I think. If that was the case this thing would be done already. I know most of what is going on and have hammered out the dialogue in my head. Grammar is a different story but that is what editing is for. I hope to have my first draft done by the time we move in August so I really have to concentrate more on writing and less on the other stuff in life.

Right now the thing that is subtracting most from my progress is Battlestar Galactica. We are watching the series on DVD and my love for Apollo is interfering with my love for Valkyrie. Don't get me wrong I still have great love (and almost no loathing) for Valkyrie but Apollo is messing with my schedule.

For those not in the know here is Apollo.

The letter A

Just because everyone loves to look at random hotties I have decided to start a smexopedia on this blog.

What is that you ask. It is simply an alphabetical list of hotties. Today is the letter A. I choose Angelina Jolie. I am aware you would normally arrange it by last name but if I put her and Hugh Jackman in the same post the computer may melt so I am erring on the side of caution.



Oh yes the letter A truly is a lovely letter

'Cause you needed to know that

Random facts about yours truly.

1. I will often forget to eat or sleep if I am reading a good book. Peeing happens only when it is an emergency and the book travels with me.
   
2. I do things just to say I did. Like smoking in the boys room.
3. People were shocked when I got married and still after almost five years ask my husband how he did it.
   
4. I am just as likely to sing a Mariah Carey song as an Alice Cooper one.
5. I think willful ignorance should be met with corporal punishment.
6. I collect Smurfs.
   
7. I lost count of how many times I read "The Long Walk" after 12.
8. I genuinely like very few people. In fact I probably have enough digits to count them all.
9. I don't drink coffee or tea.
   
10. I have a tattoo and plan to get more
11. Once I cut off a piece of my finger. Despite doctors saying it was impossible it grew back.
12. I love being on stage in any capacity.
    
13. I hate cell phones. The best part of grocery shopping is being incommunicado, I don't want life finding me.
14. I have severe ADD, and mild OCD. this means nothing ever gets finished but it is always perfectly started.
    
15. I have an IQ of 186.
    
16. Despite said IQ I often do the stupidest things imaginable.
17. I love working out. It is the only physical release I get for my anger since DH strongly disapproves of my desire to 'smack the stupid' out of people I meet.
    
18. My first major celebrity crush was Marky mark
19. all these years later I still see no reason to regret that
20. I think tattoos are very sexy and all men should have a few.
21. If I had my way I would have nine kids.
22. I once beat the shit out of a would be abductor with a shoe.
    
23. I have no fear of walking alone at night in any city I have ever been in.
24. Spiders reduce me to a blubbering idiot.
25. Despite this I have a spider tattooed on my body .
26. I kissed a girl once and decided it was overrated. Tried a few more times though just to be sure.
    
27. 5 years ago I had never seen a super hero movie. Now I own more than I care to count and have numerous crushes on men in tights (or iron)
28. I love live music. I have seen Thorn Lee, Novax, Sloan, Alice Cooper, Hot hot heat, Econoline crush, Treble Charger, Sum 41 and Dr. Hook. This is not nearly enough though and I intend to expand on that.
29. I am horrible with names and give most everyone I meet a nickname. Some are innocent enough like "flower girl" but others like "captain acne" should probably be kept to myself.
30. I hate when the music I like find its way into radio shuffle. Buck Cherry, Jason Maraz and Hinder are all prime examples of music I loved but got overplayed.
31. I can talk books until the other persons eyes glaze over.
    
32. I have only ever put down one book without finishing it and that was "Viking" by Fabio. "Old man and the sea" would be on that list too though if I hadn't had to write a report on it.
    
33. I love 80's hair metal.
    
34. I have natural red hair but everyone thinks it comes from a bottle
    
35. I define "low maintenance"
    
36. One year Billy forced me to celebrate Valentines day but agreed to let me pick the movie. We watched Hannibal. Now he pretends the day doesn't exist.
    
37. I also don't celebrate anniversaries.
    
38. I have still not finished the original Mario game.
39. I often laugh at the conversations going on in my head. Drives everyone around me batshit.
    
40. Despite getting knocked up repeatedly by accident I seem to be having an exceptionally hard time doing it on purpose.
    
41. I absolutely despise fan fiction. It doesn't matter how well written it is you are still mooching off another persons ideas.
42. I am the oldest of six children.
43. No we don't all have the same parents, in fact no two sibs in my family have the same parents.
44. In the seventh grade I failed a genealogy project because the teacher couldn't read my family tree.
45. I saw star wars for the first time when I was pregnant with my oldest and too fat to move. My brother had taped then off the TV so I watched them one after the other. The last 15 mins of the last movie was missing. To this day I have not seen the "I am your father" bit.
46. In high school teachers used to complain that I didn't put in enough effort. Apparently they were unaware of how much effort it takes to graduate when you rarely go to class
    
47. I play magic cards and love going to tournaments.
48. I paid $40 for a Lord Soth figurine.
49. When my parents first met my now husband they were shocked by the lack of piercings, tattoos and criminal records.
    
50. I often add old high school acquaintances (whom I hated) as facebook friends just to see if they got fat.
    
51. In most cases they did but there are a few regrettable exceptions.
52. I am only doing this because I can't figure out what to do with my characters at the exact moment. There are two equally appealing possibilities.
53. I love Lindt chocolate truffles. They are defiantly the food of the gods.
    
54. Alice Cooper was a major inspiration for mt current WIP.
55. I am currently playing Dungeons and Dragons.
56. I have an obsession with flair on facebook.
    
57. I am the only licensed driver in my house, there are days I hate it.
58. I go a bit overboard at Christmas, Like I bake a bazillion cookies and give out home made chocolates overboard.
59. I could totally be a hermit as long as I had internet.
    

That's hardly the weirdest place I've ever done it.

SO I went to the gym the morning and then was supposed to meet Billy for lunch at one. Left me with a 2 hour time block that I had to fill. So I headed over to the food court and hauled out my note book and pen. After about 10 people asking me how my homework was going ('cause you know, I look 16) I dug my MP3 player out of my gym bag. I got a significant amount done and hammered out some nitpicky details. It is amazing how not having access to the interwebz can boost productivity.

Well now I am off to type up what I got done and try to avoid the urge to look at flair.

And just because he has been living in my head for a few days

MMMMMMMMMMMM. Hugh Jackman

Talk dirty to me

I have been in a rather musical mood of late so I figured what better to blog about than my current musical interest.

I don't care by Fall out boy is my current favorite song. Listening to that even makes housework fun. I love it IMO it has all the components of a great song. It is well written, has a good beat and a singer who is actually capable of singing.

I think that last part is the most important. In fact I will listen to a bad song with a good voice. Take Gavin Rossdale's recent release of love remains the same. Really the song its self is not that spectacular but his voice just entrances me. I told Billy the other night I could listen to that man sing a dictionary.

The lead singer to Hinder is another example of this. While I would listen to Gavin sing a dictionary I would listen to him sing a thesaurus Lips of an angel is an awesome song but I am more than willing to listen to him sing his crappy songs like Better Than me on repeat as well.

I guess I have a 'thing' for a certain type of voice. Those raspy, deep, almost growly voices make me weak in the knees.

I may be a happily married woman but Jhonny Rzeznik talk dirty to me.