Happy Valentine's Day

I would like to wish all of you a very warm and snuggly Valentine's Day! Big hugs and wet snogs to everyone!

My hubby and I exchanged Valentines last night and he gave me a heart-shaped locket, some yummy chocolate and a lovely porceline box which has an image of a black and white cat (looks like our kittens) on the top.

He got a PS2 game he wanted "Viewtiful Joe 2".

Mushy cards were also exchanged.

We are going out to dinner tonight as well.

I distributed my HP valentines along with Hershey's miniatures today at work.

Much love to you all!

Pondering my next chapter

I've been thinking about the next chapter of my fic. This is my writing "method". I think about the next bit for a while...anywhere from 2-? days, weeks, months (YEARS, I KNOW, >LISA< GOD.) and then I will sit and write my first draft out longhand in a battered spiral notebook. Usually there is much crossing out, scribbling in margins and arrows pointing in every direction by the time I'm finished. Then I think about it some more, read it over, make even more changes, scribbles, arrows and edits. By this time, the printing on the page has become micro-scopic. That is when I move it to the desk, boot up MS Word and start typing. The editing process goes on as I type, because the hand-written draft is more of a guide which I add to or change as I go.

Anyway, I've been thinking about the next chapter. I know everyone who is reading it expects a steamy sex scene, and I was actually going to write one, but now I'm not so sure. I'm wondering if it'll be worth pissing them all off to just move along without it. I mean, at the end of chapter 11, it's well after midnight, they are both exhausted, and well--I just don't know.

Lucius has to make another appearance, too. I'm actually thinking of going with that scene instead.

Another thing I'm thinking about is my long-neglected novel as I mentioned before. I just wish the computer/desk was somewhere other than the living room. I love my husband, but the PS2 games, the tv shows he watches and his music drive me to distraction and I can't think. I should probably invest in a discman and a headset and just turn up the volume to tune stuff out. I really want to finish it and submit it and get the rejections started. I have sent the "finished" part to a couple of folks and am anxiously awaiting their opinions of "the story so far". I'm so pathetic, I need so much feedback and I still feel all unsure of my writing. Gah, I'm a putz.

On an entirely different note, hubby and I went to a Chinese buffet restaurant called "Chef Wang's" tonight for our Valentine dinner. All I can say is: Wow. The food was FRESH, hot, well prepared and varied. It was not expensive and I had moderate success with chopsticks! Hee! We are going back, soon.

Extreme Makeover-Home Edition was a "family reunion" tonight which was so neat. I teared up, as usual! I love that show.