Hollywoodland

I played one of these swans in a school Christmas play when I was in the seventh grade. I’m pretty sure there weren’t seven of us, though. It was a small private school, so I think if we’d used the total number of gifts, we’d have exceeded the number of students in the school. Or at least exceeded the space on our stage.

Last night was the conversion of more tapes to DVD. My very most favorite gardening show in the entire universe, Ground Force. It’s a Brit show on BBC America. Love that show which is pretty funny considering I don’t garden. LOL!

Now I guess it’s time to reflect on the past year. It wasn’t the best year in a lot of ways. My parents both had multiple health scares during the year which we all could have done without. I’ve written this year, but I can’t claim much of it was any good. My writing brain has been severely scattered. *sigh*

But, there were good things this year, too. At the top of the list was starting my blog and making so many fun and interesting new friends.

May 2006 bring love, laughter, and lots of money to us all!

If these geese lay golden eggs, bring ‘em on over!

I spent most of last night converting more tapes to DVD, but did pause to watch one episode of First 48 on A&E. And I got to thinking, what happened to the good old days when A&E had stuff other than weird reality shows??? I used to love watching Poirot and Nero Wolfe and other murder mystery shows. Now they show all of them on their sister Biography Channel network. Well, I don’t get that channel on either cable or satellite (though I could get it on the latter if I wanted to pay even more!). Where is the logic in this? Wouldn’t “reality” shows be considered more biographical than fictional shows??? And now they’ve got a new show (granted, it’s fictional, but still) about roller derby. Oooo-kay. However, all that said, I do have to confess I get a kick out of watching Dog, the Bounty Hunter. But I can get away with calling that “research” for my bounty hunter book.

Oh! Speaking of research which reminds me of writing I wrote TWO AND A HALF pages last night!!!

Or, if you prefer the Bob & Doug McKenzie version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, five golden toques. What is a toque, you may ask? Per Wikipedia:

In Canada, a toque or tuque (IPA /tuk/) is a knit winter hat, originally a French-Canadian woolen hat. This “fashion” originated when coureurs des bois kept their woollen nightcaps on for warmth during cold winter days. The Canadian Oxford Dictionary regards the use of toque for this hat to be assimilated from the etymologically unrelated French word tuque.

I’m really tired. Woke myself up this morning coughing. I’d only had about 3 hours sleep, but now I’m wide awake even though I’m dragging.

The move is progressing. It looks like we’ll be moving to a small town down the highway from where we are now. We found an empty lot there that’s relatively cheap (compared to other lots in town, anyway) and they don’t have scads of stupid rules & regulations about putting a manufactured house (please don’t call them trailers, it drives me insane :angry:) on the lot. The town where we live now makes you jump through a zillion hoops. The house we’re looking at is built better than most of the new houses around here, but the Powers That Be still have that “trailer trash” prejudice thing going on. Never mind the fact there are houses here in town that you couldn’t pay me to live in. Oh well. The town where we’re going only requires a $20 permit to put what we want on the lot. So we’ll take our property tax dollars to them.

Finished up Cross Bones last night. Very good book! Now I need to check out the older books. This one was the latest. And it’s really nothing like the series.