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Busy, busy.... I've been writing new stories. Expect to hear some announcements soon {shhh...}I will be posting my newsletter later this week or early next week.

Taige

Weekends ~ Time and family

I love weekends I spend the time just relaxing and doing things I don’t usually get done during the week. Today is a holiday from the day job and I love that it is a long weekend. I had Friday off also. My sister and niece came over and spent the day with me. It was fun and we talked and laughed. My niece who is so cute was all over the place. She likes to do what I call searching the house. She opens everything and checks it out. Thank goodness I don’t have any weird things low enough for her to find. LOL.


What do you do with your weekends?

Taige

Relaxation

Just relaxing. I have a day off from the day job tommorrow and I plan to spend it being lazy and sleeping the day away. LOL.

Taige

Not much

Not much going on today. Had to work late and I am very tired so going to bed. Hopefully I will have some good dreams.

Night…

Taige

Still hectic

Work is still hectic but I am managing. I’m not to far from the end of Immortal Blossom: Bonded and I’ve already started writing a couple of scenes in the next Immortal Blossom book. I can’t wait to finish IB: Bonded. There was so much happening in the book and Shay got a few interesting surprises. Yeah I know I’m wicked to tease you. You’ll have to read the book to find out what happened. I’m shamelessly plugging the book before it even comes out. LOL.

Taige

Come and Gone

Well my b-day has come and gone for a little while now. Also my relatives have left. The house was empty when they left. And work has gotten crazy busy. I started working on Immortal Blossom: Bonded and was making good headway when it got so busy at work. Damn. It still hasn’t slowed down. And I was almost finished with the book. I’m writing but not as much as I want to.

Taige

My Birthday ~ August 2006

In August I celebrate my birthday. Yippeeee!!!! I enjoy my b-day. My relatives will be leaving on the day of my b-day and although it sucks we plan to get together with at my sister who lives in NY also to celebrate before. Since my b-day falls on a Sunday I took the Monday after my b-day off. I’m planning to be lazy and rest. Since my family was here I’ve been taking a break from my writing but when they leave I plan to get back into to it. I have the next Immortal Blossom book to finish. It’s called Immortal Blossom: Bonded. I will post an excerpt when I have it completed. I heard from my publisher Immortal Blossom: Awakening is doing well. I’m overjoyed.

For those of you in my newsletter group and chat group I’m sorry that I haven’t been around. After things slow down a bit I will be back to posting. My next issue of Passionate Gazette my newsletter will be posted on October 15, 2006. I usually post the newsletter around the 15th of the month.

Heading out to do a little shopping with the relatives. Power shop here I come. Whooo Hooo. Catch you later.

Taige

Build a Bear/Friends 2B Made ~ A fun place

I went out and did the tourist thing with my visiting relatives. We went to Build A Bear workshop and let me tell you it was a blast. If you’ve never been there you need to go. It was a blast. I think I had more fun than the kids. Heh, heh. I loved helping them pick out there stuffed animals then my favorite part dressing them up. LOL. Then the best part was I went into the sister shop which was right next door called Friends 2B Made and a I made a friend of my own. I dressed her in this wonderful sweat suit. And I named her to. The joy on my face was as bright as on my nieces and nephew’s.

Going on another tourist things. Feet don’t fail me now. LOL. See you later.

Taige

Busy, Busy

I’ve been busy, busy. I have family visiting and you know how it goes. You have to go and do the tourist thing and show them around. It’s been a crazy month and I am burnt out. LOL.

The one good thing is I got to see a lot of things I don’t normally go to. We went to the NY Aquarium, Bronx Zoo, and American Museum of Natural History and so on and so on. I had so much fun even though after each place my feet felt like they would drop off. But it was worth it to see the joy on my nieces and nephew’s face.

Off to do the tourist things again. Oh my aching feet. LOL. See you later.

Taige

What have I been up to….

We’ll It’s been a while. And I’ve been writing and writing my little fingers out. LOL. Usually when Mikayla - my muse - is ready to write, I make sure and do as she says or she makes me suffer the consequences. And let me tell you those circumstances terrify me. So writing is what I have been doing. I’m going along at a fast pace in a few of my projects. And not only fast but also so far it seems to make sense. I’m resisting going back and doing any edits until I am through. Yeah It’s driving me nuts but Mikayla - my muse - is screaming at me to keep going forward. If she wasn’t giving me such great writing I would tell her blow it out her ear {wincing hoping she didn’t hear}.

The current issue of my newsletter Passionate Gazette was posted last night. If you haven’t signed up. Gasp I am shocked and why haven’t you. Go to Sign Up (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/passionategazette) so you can correct what must be huge mistake. LOL.

I am still planning on sharing my Reader’s Gold (for what I mean check here) with you. I’m working out a few things that I hope will make it more fun and intersting. Hmmm… is there anything else I need to share.

Oh yeah I did something I haven’t done in a while. My very own little guilty pleasure. Are you ready o hear it?

I went to the movies. I know to some people that doesn’t seem like a guilty pleasure but to me it is. Since I don’t get to go as often as I would like and I feel guilty that I was in movies instead of writing. Hence it is my guilty pleasure. I also went to eat. I saw Take the Lead and I enjoyed it. As usual I think Antonio Banderas was very sexy. Ever since I saw him in Desperado I thought he was sexy. I’m not saying all his movies are good just that he is good to look at. LOL. I plan to go more often.

Well I think that’s it at least for now.

Taige

Lacking of afterglow

No I don’t mean that kind. Shoot I wish it was that kind I was referring to. LOL.

I didn’t get to experience the afterglow of getting my first book contract (read here for my gushing post) before reality struck. The reality of a nasty flu I like to call – pain in my rear. Yep Mr/Ms Flu (yep it keep changing genders on me) came in an took up residence in my head, chest and throat. I even lost my voice (damn it and I like to talk to LOL). My friends and co- workers are cruel and teased me mercilessly. As I went through my misery I realized that every time I coughed on the subway on the way to work (yeah I went to work I’m such a dutiful employee. Yeah right.) I had a chorus. Picture it I would start then the man two seats down would join in then the lady across the aisle would chime in. Heck we had a chorus going.

Shoot at work at my desk was no better. I would start then my neighbor over the wall would add her two cents of coughing, and next the other co-worker across the room would join in. It was a symphony of sound. Coughing in surround sound if you will.

Oh the music of it.

You probably think I’ve lost it. And you know what you’re maybe right. This is what being holed up in bed without any internet access will do to you folks. Make you start making up weird forms of music to entertain yourself. Thank goodness I’m feeling better. Still coughing but I’m slowly bowing out of the symphony. LOL.

And just in time to. I’ve gotten some forms from my new publisher (god I love saying that) on my newly contracted book (saying it five times fast it gets better with each one LOL) Immortal Blossom: Awakening. I got a giddy feeling reading about art for my cover and other author stuff. LOL.

Oh my it really happened and wasn’t my own vivid imagination. I think I need to go and lay down.

Taige

The long cold walk home

Well yesterday all that New Yorkers have feared happened. Yep the STRIKE came upon us and let me tell you it was a crazy day. I’ve been staying at a family member’s house - with no internet access but boy that it is a whole different story - since the weekend waiting, then waiting to hear if the strike was really going to happen. Imagine now if you will my glee when on Monday there was subway and bus service. I practically danced to work. Then the next day I couldn’t stay up anymore so I went to sleep then got up on the cold Tuesday morning to hear there was no bus or subway service. Well since I’ve been in New York for a number of years and considered I can handle this like everything we’ve had happen over the last few year (heck for the blackout I walked out of Manhattan to my house so what if there was no subway or bus service). Well that was my second mistake. What was my first you may want to know?

Hah. The first was being that dutiful employee and deciding to go into to work. The third was thinking that due to the holidays people would be more kind to there fellow man. Although not everyone was rude and I did make a few new friends. Nothing like being stranded for hours to make you become close real fast. LOL. My fourth through 2 million (this is a small number I think there was at least double that) was going out into the mad house with 1,999,999 others who also decided to go to work. By the time I was done for the day then finally got home I decided I wasn’t going anywhere again until the strike was done.

Please I’m such a sucker. I’m back at work again today with freezing unmentionable body parts to prove of my trek. Oh Joy I still have the walk home to appreciate my stupidity.

But no matter what I had to go through to get home. I’m in love with New York and at least I get a scenic route home to see and appreciate the place I live in.

Taige

Bye-Bye old friend/hello new friend

My old computer went to that great big gigabyte heaven. After it crashed in October by some miracle I got it working again. Then in November it said bye, bye just as I was making some great headway in site updates and my newsletter.

My new computer recently came and I’m in love. Love I tell ya. The speed and versatility it provides is amazing. LOL.

Anyway I posted the Passionate Gazette newsletter for December 2005 to the yahoo group on December 11, 2005. In it is the next results and the next vote for the Savoy Valley Project.I have a few fun things coming to my site. And there is something special I have planned for the blog which ties in with my Crenshaw Café – my chat group. …..Stay tuned……

Taige