I am an office supply junkie.
I love office supplies almost as much as I love bookstores.
And I adore office supplies I find in bookstores.
Like blank books.
Yes, I hoard them.
Here are a few of my collection.
Back before I had an Alphasmart, I used to hand write books in blank books. Whenever I saw one that appealed to me, I would buy it.
Now I rarely used them. But I love to look at them.
Now available from Amazon.
Omega Moon Rising
Abigail Grant has a secret . . . and a plan to keep her younger sister from suffering the same fate. Her strategy would have worked if she hadn’t been seduced by sweet-talking musician Luke Omega. Suddenly she’s plucked from the life she wanted to escape, but her new circumstances only expose her to a different danger—or is it her salvation?
Luke has a secret, too. He believes he can change his destiny through willpower—and a little blue pill. When he inadvertently gets mixed up in the Grant sisters’ troubles and his pack alpha orders him to marry Abigail, his family insists he tell her he’s a werewolf. But Luke claims Abigail is not his life mate. She doesn’t need to know what happens to him on the full moon.
Until he accidentally stumbles across her secret. Then all bets are off.
Yes, the SAVE icon on your computer looks like this.
This photo is of a few 3.5″ floppy disks I saved when I purged my office a few years ago.
I also have a couple 5.25″ disks, which were common before the 3.5″ version came into being.
There are many technical reasons given for the shrinkage of disks (they started out 8″). The truth?
A 3.5″ floppy fits into a shirt pocket.
Here’s one of my favorite time saving tips. I formed this habit when the Chromos were younger. Working a demanding full-time Day Job and raising a family didn’t leave a lot of time to sneak in writing a sentence or two, so anything I could do to streamline “chores” was a help. Even with the Chromos mostly grown and gone, and a less demanding Day Job, I still tend to use this system
I keep a large, dry-erase calendar on which I color coordinate the family’s events, in the kitchen. I am purple, TV Stevie is blue; Y-Chromo is green, X-Chromo is red. I plan our weekly meals around this calendar and post them on a dry-erase board on the refrigerator. I write my grocery shopping list from this menu. Now, when I get home from work, I don’t have to think about what’s for supper, who’s going to be there, etc., because the menu was planned around everyone’s schedule. The only snag is when I forget to take the chicken out of the freezer in the morning.
I also save “major” cooking for the weekends. Week night meals tend to be ready in 30 minutes or less. I also try to make them “dishwasher” friendly. (I don’t put metal pots and pans–what my mom calls “tin dishes”–in the dishwasher.) Every minute I can save is a minute I can write.
I wish I’d waited for this movie to come to the dollar theater. Not that it wasn’t a good movie. And it was fairly true to the book. But the book, in my opinion, was the weakest of the trilogy. And that weakness as reflected in the motion picture version. I particularly didn’t like the ending or the interminable scenes leading from the climax to the conclusion.
I also hate movies shot in the dark. Film is a visual medium. Hello? That means people need to see what’s happening.
Y-Chromo, who treated me to the movie, and suggested that the third book (and therefore the movies based on the third book) was written in a rush, perhaps on deadline, and therefore wasn’t crafted as carefully as the first two installments. He also theorized that the series was not about “the one percent,” but rather about media and how it has shaped our lives. He went so far as to opine The Hunger Games is a an updated, dystopian version the movie Network.
I think I raised my son right.