Isn’t this a pretty tree! I made a little flyer today, for a healthy holiday baking class I’m getting together. I am going to start doing my blogs from Outlook Express. There’s an option, I saw, where you can just send them from here.
I feel a little guilty about not writing my book today. Not one word. And I didn’t even think about the characters. But I wanted to tell you about meeting a new character of mine. If I had made this guy up he would have sounded …not authentic. When I went to the gym, for the first time in forever, because if I sat here one more minute — I mean this sedentary life style is doing a number on my body. My mind is delirious but my body is aging rapidly. Anyway, when I went to work out, and it was touch and go at first, cause my heart rate got up there and I got out of breath, but I made it through, and on my way out I picked up the schedule. Like I was going to go again. And on Monday and Wednesday nights it said they offered Dance/Cardio.
Shit, I drove back the same night. I mean I haven’t seen dance anything in a gym for 15 years. So here comes this black guy with a biker’s bandana. In dance class I always get right behind the teacher so I can mimic her. It makes it a lot easier. So to match a guy’s movements, especially this guy, was a real trip for me. Very empowering. He’s this tough motorcycle guy who’s a real sweetheart. At the end of class everyone crowds around him to find out how he was doing. I guess he dumped his bike a couple weeks ago. The women love him. My oldest daughter says she’s going to go with me. We’ll see. But this guy solved a little problem I was having, so now he’s going into the book. He’s the only character who I will have ever talked to, but he’s the least real.
I also want to brag about solving my heating problems. This huge old house has no heat upstairs. I’ve never even heard of such a thing. I mean this guy was a successful physician with kids and he was too cheap to put heat upstairs? But he builds this huge greatroom with extravagant windows and all this brick. It makes no sense. I’ve NEVER lived in a house this cold.. So I bought these heaters that look like radiators. Because I didn’t want to start messing with venting until I know what I’m doing up there. The other really good thing I did, in terms of heating, was to buy a dog gate. Then I can leave the doors open to the living room. It’s freezing out there, too. Progress, I’m making progress!
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lol… i love characters who walk into your life and beg you to put them in your writing. there was this guy in a garbage man’s uniform who could have been a rock star the way he held court most afternoons at the local pizza parlor where i went for lunch. i would watch him, laughing and directing traffic with his men, kissing his sweetie hello. his long curly black hair moved with his body as he jumped over the seat before sitting it… i learned a lot about him by watching him and he will be in one of my stories someday.
Oooh, it all sounds like fun, even the radiators for-gawd’s-sake. I do like your writing!
You did good! Heaters that look like radiators – what a great idea someone thought up. I headed back to the gym this week too. I do Curves. I’d knocked off for a few months because they were rebuilding this little bridge that was right on my route there and I was having to drive way around the mulberry bush to get there. Bridge is done just in time for the holidays. Yay!
You are most awesome…with your writing..
your ability to solve problems that would completely vex me to death..
and oh yea…send that dance teacher to me…hmmm