Yes, very random title, but I was wanting to lighten the mood. The title is a line from the movie Dan in Real Life. It made me laugh for quiet a while. Well that and this one…
Marie: “He said if I could forgive him his past, he’d forgive mine.” (this is paraphrased since I can’t remember exact wording).
Dan: “Well that was stupid.”

Ahhh, love. I need to watch this movie again, since I was slightly distracted the first time (by a child who wouldn’t go to sleep), but I found it a little slow moving. Plus, I felt sorry for his brother for most of the movie and I’m not sure that’s how they intended it. Or maybe they did. I thought it was more Romantic Comedy and while there is romance and comedy, the situation wasn’t nearly as hilarious as the clips lead you to believe.

There are a lot of awkward moments. Truthfully, it’s an awkward situation. Falling for your brother’s girlfriend and then trying to make it work? Add three young girls to the mix and that’s a lot of angst. But it felt fairly realistic to me, which is why I think it was awkward. Maybe that was the intention.

People give romance novels a bad rap about how fast the hero and heroine fall in love, but this guy fell in love over coffee! That’s fast – of course if he fell in love with the coffee, then I’d completely understand.

I found out my Uncle is dying. No one knew and another infection tipped us to this one. Of course, he’s apparently been sick for months, but didn’t feel like he needed to go to the doctor. Now there is cancer in his lungs and colon. And now he is in the hospital and very sick. We went from 0 to 60 in just a few short days. From not knowing, to knowing too much too late.

This sucks. Cancer sucks.

But I’m saying prayers and I hope those of you out there who feel like supporting me and my family will do the same.

EDITED/UPDATED 10:24pm, Mar 22nd – My uncle passed away a few minutes ago. I appreciate all your prayers and support.

That’s what I wish the keyboard would do after I’ve had a brilliant storyline run through my head. If only it would do the work for me. I don’t have time during the day to actually get “real” writing done because I’ll only just start and one of my children needs/wants something and then I lose track of where I was going. I need to be able to get into it, which is why I mostly write at night.

However, I haven’t been writing much due to a friend visiting (her mother passed away and she was coming for some downtime, caring and rest after looking after her for the last few weeks) and us trying to buy a house. That was my secret. We bought a townhouse. Apparently I already wrote about trying to buy it so if my MIL already read this she never told me on the weekend when we surprised her by taking her to see it. LOL. However, it’s ours. I’m so excited. It’s as large as a house 2100 sq ft, is on a cul-de-sac and backs on to greenspace. What a relief it will be to get away from these horrible neighbours of ours. Hopefully there will be no repeat of these kind of people at our new place. After talking with several people who live in the area it seems we’re safe.

You may wonder how buying a house forestalls writing. Let me tell you, my friend, how much paperwork is involved in buying a house when you are self-employed. You practically need every piece of paper, but your birth certificate! And then they only take some of the income, not all and blah, blah, blah. When they asked for my first-born I put my foot down. Anyway, back and forth it went for almost ten days while we sent more stuff and waited for paperwork from the strata board that arrived five minutes before close on the day before subjects were to be removed. That left us overnight again, because of course no one at the bank is going to stay late to look at it. If I could have said “make it so” to my mortgage broker that would have been good. Finally, it was all approved and I promptly burst in to tears.

Yeah, um, I don’t handle that kind of stress well. Hence the reason no writing was done and lots of lemon drops were consumed. I thrive on good stress, deadlines, etc. I used to do really well in business because there are always deadlines and I loved it. But anything to do with major personal finances, real estate, life changes stuff, really sends me for a loop.

So, this story is still in my head and needs to be written… “make it so” computer!

Barbara Vey from Publisher’s Weekly is having her one year anniversary tomorrow (March 14th) at Beyond Her Book. Please go visit her. She’s trying to hit record numbers of visitors tomorrow, so go by and post a comment. She’s the sweetest person ever and she knows a lot of stuff about good books and all sorts of things. I’ll be giving away a copy of my ebook Love’s Blessings, which recently was voted as best inspirational romance ebook 2007 by eCataromance.

It also happens to be my last baby’s 2nd birthday tomorrow so there’s another reason to celebrate!

And I so want to post it, but I can’t. Not yet. I’d like to say it’s about another book, but it isn’t. Still, I can’t say what it is until the weekend, because you never know who reads my blog and I don’t want to spoil the surprise for someone we are seeing then.

So, having said that I feel better, because I’ve wanted to blog, but couldn’t because I mostly want to talk about this thing that I can’t and I’ve been dealing with that for about 10 days now. Therefore, no blogging. Because really I’m not great at surprises since I get too excited and want to tell the surprisee (is that even a word? LOL).

Writing is going slowly, but that’s because I’ve been dealing with this surprise. However, the story has continued to percolate. It’s taking a slightly different tone that I expected, but I think it could be a good thing. Obviously, I won’t know until it’s done, but I’m very excited about it. I have a good feeling about this book. Of course that’s this minute. Talk to me again when I’m staring at a blank paper and wondering what the heck I was thinking!