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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Catching Up

Congratulations Lisa - you’ve won a copy of my book ONE CRAZY SUMMER! Drop me an email and let me know what format you prefer and I’ll get it right out to you.

I made it home without any major mishaps - in fact, it might have been my most uneventful trip yet! In the end I had five LARGE bags, but each only averaged about 40lbs so I was well within my limit. It was an incredibly LONG day since I had to wake up at 4am to catch a 6am flight out of Minnesota to make my way back to JFK. My youngest fell asleep on our direct flight back to Cairo before we ever took off and slept all the way back (hallelujah!) but I don’t sleep well sitting up so I pretty much just sat there and read. I finally read the first “In Death” book by JD Robb. Definitely going to get more of that series.

We arrived back 11am and just…stayed up. The kids were thrilled to catch up with all of their friends and pretty much disappeared for the rest of the day. I wasn’t so ambitious myself, but I did stay up. I finally herded everyone to bed by 9pm and crashed myself at 9:30pm after being up for nearly 24 hours straight.

Today, my task is to put away all of the treasure I hauled home for me. It’s going to take awhile …

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Jet Lag

The most productive thing I did all summer in my writing was to send in the contract on my third book ALL THE WAY HOME. No news yet on a release date, but I’ll let you all know when I do.

I am feeling especially creative and full of new ideas though. I lay awake last night, my mind whirling with all the things I want to write, story lines, details, and quilt patterns. Okay - there was some jet lag in there and probably some of the ideas that seemed so great at 3am aren’t really as workable by the light of day, but I do retain that productive feeling so that’s good anyway.

Once I have my house put back in order (eg: laundry done) I’ll post another part of how I spent my summer vacation. Right now I have to go and wake up my children and jerk them back into this time zone.