I tried to get up early enough to say hello before the rest of the household woke up this morning, but as soon as I stepped out of the shower (at 6:12am) Little Man was waiting for me. So, I did something I cringe to do, but plopped in front of the TV so I could get ready and hopefully post.
As soon as I'm done here, I'm off to Starbucks and the grocery store this morning. We're out of coffee and milk, and that is just not acceptable around here. 
Anyway, it sounds like everyone is busy, busy... It seems to be wedding season or something. We have a big wedding that we're invited to in a couple of weeks. I'm excited about it, it's going to be on the beach at a beautiful resort on the Atlantic Coast. JennJenn~ HI!!
Fi~ It's nice to "see" you back! Glad GB was given a warm welcome by Mum.
MissP~ My condolences to your family and prayers for safe travels as you head home.
Marielle~ I went through a punk phase sometime in college. My favorites stuck with me. It's funny, you never would have known it from my "Goody-Two-Shoes" exterior, but I could head bang with the best of 'em!
I went with my sister and her boyfriend (now my BiL) to The Warped Tour a couple of times. (I think this is a US/Canada thing, now put on by Vans.) Anyway, it was our one rebellious act of the year. Our mother SO didn't approve! We saw Dropkick Murphys and Blink 182 back in 1999?? I think. Susie~ I feel for you trying to type laying down. It just isn't comfortable! Also, I finally sat down and got to watch the video you shared with us about Sonny Boy's circus. WOW!!
I had no idea it was such a huge deal, and ALL youth! That's amazing. How ever did you learn about this prior to his participation?? By the way, good luck today. Caryn~ Best of luck on your presentation too! It sounds really interesting and I too would love to at least hear a summary sometime. I think what your doing is really, really important. I talk to parents of teens at our church all the time and it amazes me that where books, TV and music are concerned, how uninvolved many of them are.
Tracy~ NO! I'm not pulling a Midnight Sun. LOL!!
I am a moving a little slow on What Drives Her, but still plugging away. My "new" story is actually quite old and I was just really happy to have it back and be able to share it. There really isn't much of an audience for Post-BD 'original character' stories in the fanfiction world, to be honest. However, The Nomad Chronicles was an idea that I had right after reading the original series for the second time and I just went with it. I actually think from the success of Bree Tanner, we can see that there may indeed be a market for shorter novellas about the lives and adventures of other characters in the Twilight universe. I would love to see Stephenie Meyer and Little Brown work with other talented authors and produce more material for the world of Twilight. I'm a firm believer that as long as she retains creative control, SM could syndicate her series with the same kind of success we've seen happen for Star Wars, Star Trek, Nancy Drew, or The Boxcar Children. The Boxcar Children is the best example I can think of to illustrate my point. It started with a single writer creating and publishing one successful book. Now there are over 100 titles in the series written by a number of authors with the caption, "Created by Gertrude Warner". Anyway... I'll just jump down from my soapbox now. 
I get a little carried away on that topic. *** EDIT: Well, shoot... now Jacyln, Tracy and MissP posted again and I've run out of time.
Sorry if I missed anyone, but I'll catch up again soon!!
. First the good news my ophthalmologist gave me an all cleared. He just said to continue using the eye drop for another week and then I'm as good as new. Although I might have to wait until next year to wear contacts again to give my eyes time to recovered fully. Yay!!! That's a very good news. Though he gave me another option, Lasik Surgery. But the darn thing costs more or less $2000 
so I might have to save up for that one first. 
)...anyway work was so fun, one of my co-workers celebrated his birthday with a big chocolate cake...lunch with the cute guys again (normally I see them once every two weeks or so)... the level of talk dropped below the ground really quickly and the talk was about hot actresses... so I stated that if it came to Kstew a girl-crush was normal but that her boyfriend would do even better...
Glad you saw cuties at work, and on the way to work to wake you up properly. What did the boys think of your girl-crush on KStew? 
I sure would've liked to know where that was leading. 
