Jon and I had planned a romantic evening last night. The kiddo is out of town with Grandma and Grandpa. Our friend Richard was going home early. What could stand in our way? But wait, we hadn't boarded the dogs. When we got back in from some shopping for some things to help make the evening even more romantic, the first thing we had to do was get the dogs out to the yard. No opposable thumb,

I tried to post this last night, but for whatever reason it just wouldn't post. Luckily I had saved it as a draft. So I can post it now. Enjoy. Nine pages today. But a good nine pages. Trinity is off with Jonathon's parents on vacation. Jon and I tried to go to a bed and breakfast, or some other quick vacation. Trin will be home on Monday. But every bed and breakfast we wanted to go to

After Jonathon blogged about the movie THE GURU last night, I realized that I hadn't blogged for four or five days. So much for my resolution to try for at least four or five days a week on the blog. Sorry. But the reasons I haven't is good. I did twenty-one pages yesterday on DANSE MACABRE. Twenty-one pages before lunch. That may be a record even for me. I mean twenty-one pages in a day,

We just finished watching The Guru. Our friend Richard has recommended it for a while, and we finally rented it. Oh My God! It was amazingly funny. We really liked it and had a great deal of fun watching it. It was in theaters and out again so fast, that most people missed it. Richard has a real gift for finding esoteric films, that comes in under everyone's radar. Its like Friends and Family.

Jonathon, Andrew, Richard, and myself, were trying to go out for dinner and a movie. The dinner was easy, Blue Water Grill, one of our favorite sea food restaurants in St. Louis. Nice atmosphere, good food, and lots of healthy choices. If you put the sauces to the side, you can eat wonderful food and still be eating healthy. Though sometime you should go in and simply get coffee and desert,

Twelve pages today. Nothing yesterday, or nothing I kept. If I'd written yesterday, I would have had a fight between Anita and Richard. But instead of working on the book I did my essay for the next fan club newsletter. Something I needed to do, and it delayed the fight. I didn't want the fight. Richard didn't want the fight, not really. Anita didn't want the fight. I spent Friday steeling

Sixteen pages yesterday. Yea, again! I am around 280 pages in, hoping to hit 300 this week. If the pace keeps up I will, but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. One thing that used to concern me was when I was between two and three hundred pages in and still had not gotten to the full meat of the mystery or main plot. But something about writing the novel-lite seems to have freed me from