Monday bits, and why writers are like puppy dogs

Happy Monday, oh mighty and numerous visitors to Jacqui's Room. Did you have a good weekend? Were you stuck in your house alone for 16 hours with two kids who probably had swine flu* and no electricity and no doughnuts? Not pretty, people.

Here are my thoughts:

1. Remember when I raved about Nicola's Books, my favorite local bookstore? Well, Nicola herself wrote me on Goodreads to tell me how much she likes Two of a Kind, so I am floating.

2. Many, many of you have given Two of a Kind wonderful shout-outs on your own blogs and I am much, much grateful. I was going to link to them all, but the aforementioned 16 hours with no electricity have also apparently ruined my AT&T U-Verse service and I have exactly nine minutes left before I lose it again.** Soon...

3. I am not a huge dog person. But you have to admire their short term memory. My sister has a dog and he's cute, but, like I said, I am not a dog person. Yet every single time that dog sees me, he comes running up like this, THIS might be the time that I shout "FOZ!" and wrastle him to the ground and let him lick me all over.

I'm starting a new book today -- a picture book. And here I am, all in love with it, leaping to the blank page, drooling and panting and thinking this, THIS will be the book that lives up to its image in my head, that never makes me pound my head on the keyboard or Google things like "WHY DO I EVEN TRY?"

Woof woof.

* symptoms: fever, cough, unending snot drip, extreme crankiness, inability to follow simplest of directions without protest...
** Remember my ex-boyfriend SteveFromAT&T and his new girl, Munchie? So Thor calls AT&T last night and gets Mr. Helpful who is kind and smart and tries hard to figure out the problem and they're sending someone over ASAP. What the heck?!