I'm getting my house in order!

12/26/09
As it’s been a very uneventful day for me - finishing EJD Sleeping With Strangers - I’ve decided since writing is eventually becoming my full-time profession, I will take weekends off. Talk to you all on Monday!

Love,
Jess…an Angel

12/28/09
So I took Sunday off, went to Church, took my Prince to see “The Princess and the Frog”- I now adore and respect Anika Noni Rose even more and love Keith David and NeYo a little more, too, if possible. We took a ride down Candy Cane Lane with some of our favorite CA (non-blood) family, and now it’s back to business. Need to finish the big cleaning jobs in my house that the semester’s school work doesn’t allow me to fit in often: Cleaned out the frig and freezer, cleaning the oven as I type (lol), doing my bed linens, making my toilets sparkle, then trying to figure out what else will keep me busy until my three Eric Jerome Dickey novels arrive in the mail. “Sleeping With Enemies” was so slow, but still EJD is a good enough writer to keep my-ADD-self interested… …once I finally sat still enough to read. OMG I finished in 3 days which isn’t easy for the single parent of a young child who inherited his mother’s ADD. I did myself wrong by looking at the last page number and not taking into account the fact that his acknowledgments and an excerpt of pages from the sequel were included. I also should have considered it being the 1st of a series that I wouldn’t want to finish it without being able to pick up the 2nd one. Why didn’t I place my order for “Waking With Strangers” earlier? Excuse me for a Charlie Brown moment: AAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGH! Thank you. (sigh) What was I thinking? I’ve read enough EJD that I’d put some pieces together, but by the time I was caught up in the momentum, I couldn’t put the book down and then I find out that there’s a fourth book in this series already in publication. Oh, well at least Arizona was mentioned in “Drive Me Crazy” and I can back and read that before the other books come. But how will I read three more novels once they arrive and play Wii, and do all the purging I need to do in my house before the new semester starts January 11th? (another sigh) Oh, and I already want to snatch EJD (but I’ve been to counseling for that…kidding) so I can find out what happens in the much anticipated sequel to “Chasing Destiny” which I thought I’d see before I began “Sleeping With Stragers”? IT was only supposed to occupy me until isht had caught up w/ “Destiny”. (another Charlie Brown moment) okay…woo-sah, goosfraba, and all that other crap…it’s time to get back to my oven - my two hours is up.
Okay, so I’d underestimated all the matter that I had let splatter on my oven door, but with the help of an S.O.S. pad my oven’s clean. I almost want to bake something that’s not frozen. Okay, that thrill is gone.
Can someone tell me why I tried to sweep my balcony on a windy day? That ADD again…I was on my way to my laundry which is on my balcony -- I love living in a climate where I can have my laundry outside my house and the weather not hinder me from doing it often -- because even though I have more than one set of bed linens, I’m stuck on this chocolate set of 1000 thread count Egyptian Cotton King sheets I found for only $19.99, so I’m washing them, and I noticed some dirt amongst flowers and leaves on my way to put them in the dryer. I’ll have some sweet smelling sheets to settle in and read tonight…and my balcony has been swept for me to sit outside and enjoy tomorrow’s sun. Praise God for bringing his Angel to the City of Angels!
And now I can warm up the baked chicken wings in my clean oven, and oh, just checked my email…two of my three books have already shipped and all will be here by January 4th, Jalen goes back to school on January 5th and I’ll have finished them all by January 11th. I hope there are only four books in this series. I already have a monologue I need to learn for a performance in late February. I can’t be distracted, lol.
Well, time to go bake my ribeye with some sliced portabellas and onions, that I’ll have with steamed broccoli and cauliflower. Mmmmm! Oh yeah, the Wolfgang Puck pots and pans I bought myself for Christmas will be here on Wednesday and I can make something great for the church potluck on New Year’s Blessed Eve. I’ll try to tape it!
‘Til tomorrow, God bless you and good night! (hee hee, love you, still, Russell)