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Looking forward to spending some time in the Magic Kingdom. Yep! Headed off to Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure. I think this will be my 34th trip to Disneyland, but my first to California Adventure Theme Park.

I have TomTom for iPhone all set and ready to go with our hotel, Disneyland, and Roscoe’s Chicken and [...]

1.  Writing Discipline
Gaming is so much more fun, but I force myself to hit my word count and then some extra every single day.  The days that I come up short on word count I berate myself and feel guilty. Better to just finish word count so I don’t have to deal with my [...]

I have a tendency to fall off Planet Earth for a few weeks in November. Because of having to hit a daily word count at night after working all day, there’s little time for gaming, socializing, and TV.
I was so frustrated with my protagonist yesterday that in the first 100 words I had her murdered [...]

I competed last year and learned a lot about my writing. I also formed a wonderful habit of writing 1800 words a day (which I promptly kicked by mid-December — arrgh).  For those of you unfamiliar with the strange word, NaNoWriMo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. Every year in November, both published and [...]

The hosting switchover is complete, and I’m now on WordPress instead of Blogger. Next fun part is to import all of my Blogger entries from 2003 to present into WordPress.  We’ll see how that goes.

The clue was “A butterfly’s wings” and answer was “alae”. Had to look this one up. Dictionary says:

1.
a wing.

2.
a winglike part, process, or expansion, as of a bone, shell, seed, or stem.

3.
either of the two side petals of a flower in the legume family, as the pea.

4.
(in an ancient Roman house) a small [...]

Cavalia was magical. It was held under a massive “big top” white tent in Scottsdale. I had no idea what kind of seats we had until we got to the front and went to a separate line. We were handed a program and then a “backstage pass” with a lanyard. Then [...]

My prediction was correct!  We headed up to Williams, AZ on Friday night and checked into a hotel right on Main Street — horse drawn carriages and all.  Walked over to look at the trains because we were right next to the Grand Canyon Railway.  The waning gibbous moon illuminated the silver trains [...]

I’ve been told to pack a sweater and a long sleeve shirt and wear jeans and my hikers. We leave tonight and head north for a few hours before stopping at a hotel. Tomorrow, all I know is we start early and end late and probably hiking a few miles. Got a [...]

We’re going to a "Murder Mystery Dinner" tonight somewhere in Arizona.  I’m looking forward to it!  I’m trying to stay completely oblivious and not look up anything online about it so I can be totally surprised.  I’ll post the happenings later this weekend.
Speaking of "The Happening", I was disappointed to not find anywhere in Phoenix [...]