Heather tagged me when I wasn’t looking…

Rules:
I am going to list three categories of books: 5 MUST Read Books, 5 Books on Your Nightstand, and 5 Look For These Soon.

Anyone I tag should put these same lists on their blog but SUBTRACT one book from each list and ADD one of their own.

Then they should tag at least 5 more bloggers. It will be fun to see how the lists change as it goes around the blogosphere.

Please come back to this post and leave a comment so I can see how the lists are changing as they go around the blogosphere.

Since this is Book Buzz…please keep your lists to titles released in 2007-2009.

5 MUST Read Books:
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (entire series, really)
Alibi in High Heels by Gemma Halliday (Again, suggest entire series)
A Mile in My Flip-Flops by Melody Carlson
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Yellow Moon by Jewell Parker Rhodes

5 Books on the Nightstand:
Twin Killing by Marshall Cook
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Crazy in Love by Lani Diane Rich
Pleasure by Eric Jerome Dickey
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

5 Look For These Soon:
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Evernight by Claudia Gray
Just One of the Guys by Kristan Higgins
Becoming Miss Becky by Shannon Stacey
Mayhem in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

I’m tagging: Chelle, Kris, lyn, Dee, & Shannon

The insurance lady is here and gone. All that work for about fifteen minutes. But, I know in my heart that the horror stories of which people speak when they go into homes that are a disaster will not happen to us. Mark speaks of them daily, the same look of disgust on his face. Plus, I got done in one day what I’ve been wanting to do forever.

I didn’t make the kids suffer too much. But they’re also quite pleased that they have the weekends scott-free to do as they want and they have plans. Birthday parties. It also gives me freedom. Freedom to finally start writing again.

:gah: Feels like forever since I was able to do that. I’m starting a new project. :drool: Wish me luck!

:flex: Sunny, aka Lynn Cash is probably looking at the title of this and saying, “Shit, Rae is going to kick my ass publicly for calling her after 1 am this morning…” But I’m not. It was great to hear her voice and listen to her excitement over the conference in San Fran. Besides, if you’ve ever met Lynn personally, she towers over me. I’d be fleeing for my life. I’m a lover, not a :boxer:.

Yesterday, I went to a baby shower and one of the ladies sitting beside me asked how my writing was going. :fishin: I came home and my fiance’ was rearranging the kitchen–mainly where my office should be. You see, years ago, we set up a shower stall on the opposite side of the wall…where my office once was as a temporary fix until we could figure out how to make our tiny bathroom bigger. So, when I saw the shower curtain go up to protect the privacy, I felt even more defeated. In his defense, he was also trying to figure out our bathroom, but I didn’t realize it at the time. We’d had a conversation earlier in the week when I explained that I needed my own space–tiny as it may be–to get away, put my music up loud and write. Without hearing two tvs. Rules would be set that if I was in my space, it was my writing time. I was so desperate, I countered, that I’d be willing to go into the dungeon aka the cellar. It’s half a basement–the other half has yet to be dug out. It’s pretty creepy and I know there are spiders down there just waiting and lurking in the dark recesses just for me. :gah:

But after looking down there, we decided it’d be easier to move the shower stall. We have a plan. Make do with what we have in the teeny-tiny bathroom and let the next people worry about it. We’ll do the floor and walls and ceiling and use the claw-foot tub and get a shower kit for it. I can paint my space any color I want and I’ll even use the shower curtain if I have too, he doesn’t have to put up a wall as long as they realize when I’m in there, if I’m typing away…they can catch me on my breaks. But I also told him, with an office, I can have my stuff hanging in front of me and while the kids are in school…that can be my writing time. Eight hours of pure blissful writing. And that can happen. Right now, I have piles of stuff I have to sort through to write. And these piles have to be moved every night so we can eat. Yes, I’m writing this from our dining room table…the one we eat on…the one EVERYONE sees.

So, wish my luck that this bathroom project starts asap. As soon as it’s done, I can buy things like pain and a new desk…

I’m open to suggestions too. What can’t you live without in your office? I want to know! :drool:

Oh and P.S. If you’re a writer or you live with a writer or you know someone who is a writer. This is a MUST READ.