pat the one your love on the back.
Disney World might seem like a bizarre expedition for a child who just lost his mother, but like drones we followed Elian and his handlers there.
Over what matter is the European Union threatening to cut ties with Austria?
(Don't send me your answers. This is just a little way to expand your horizons. Honest.)
Yay! UBB has said they will refund my money (and cancel my license, of course, but who cares?).
And yes, I know it is actually spelled "Yea!" but they're something juvenile and silly about "Yay!" -- it just feels more celebratory. "Yea!" feels as though I'm in the Continental Congress, voting on something.
(Thanks those of you who expressed interest in picking up the software.)
Further yay: I wrote again today. About 6 pages, which was 4 more than I was hoping for. Writing is a lot easier when you're not rethinking the entire game plan, just re-envisioning individual scenes. Hell of a lot easier than thinking up a story from scratch or doing what I normally think of as a rewrite: okay, here's the basic story I want to tell, now find a better way to tell it (thereby throwing out all pages from any previous incarnations).
I wrote so much I discovered two small undocumented features in Final Draft's software. Honestly, don't these people have a QA department? Although why should any software maker deliver bug-free software when people are going to buy it anyhow?
I think Bug may be turning around. This is Not Good because she has been head down for about a month now. I'd really like her to stay right where she is.
She's been a feisty little thing -- several times a night I've felt her foot poking out, way out, as if to say, "Et voila, peasant, admire my foot." She also moves around like crazy -- one of the things you're supposed to do is monitor the baby's movements at the same time every day, at a busy period, to see how long it takes to make 10 movements. Darin and I haven't bothered to do this because it seems like any time of day is a good time to get 10 movements in about 2 minutes.
I know you're not supposed to make expectations of what your baby will be like before she arrives, but it's hard not to -- and I'm looking into baby-sized handcuffs and restraining devices even now.
Did you think you knew your baby before he or she actually arrived? Were you right?
I looked down at my stomach the other day and said, "The weirdest thing about my stomach right now is the way that half of it (where her butt is...or was) goes up and the other doesn't."
Darin looked at my stomach and said, "No, the weirdest thing about your stomach right now is that there's someone inside of it."
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