The Sexless Innkeeper

Played THAT game last night.

I'm not thrilled about this. Though, in my defense, I tried to leave before he finally just kept me at his place. It's just that when it's well-after 3 AM, and you've made out for over an hour in the car with a guy, you're expected to stay.

Seriously, nothing happned.  I just crashed (and maybe got a hickey or two), but as I think about this, I'm not sure what the eff happened last night.  One second, I'm complaining about another guy, the next, my friend is making a move.  And that was the moment I was turned off (until I got so tired I just went home and curled up with him all night).

He's sweet.  Fun.  Amazing.  And he likes me. Yet, despite the fact that he held me all night and comforted me when I was scared by a car backfire in the middle of the night), I can't bring myself to do this.  I have a serious thing for a college pal who, let's face it, will always see me as "the fat chick."  Yet, I can't get him out of my head. Sexless Inkeeper is Sexless Inkeeper, I just need to make sure he knows that.

Movies I'm watching

I have a plan this weekend.

I'm going to clean the house from top to bottom, including dusting (which I hate) and dusting knicknacks (which I really hate). In between that, I'm going to try to get another 10,000 words done on Til There Was You, my new novel.  That'll get me to 40,000 in all, a hump that I've been struggling with for a few weeks now.

Right now, though, I'm watching the first of the two terrifying movies that I promised myself I watch this weekend.  Forks over Knives is a food documentary that extolls the virtue of a plant-based diet.  Essentially "meat bad; plant good" kind of stuff.  It's part of the reason my friend, Steve, is a vegan now.  I'm about halfway through, and it's definitely making some good points.  It's also probably not what I should be watching on such a BBQ-centric weekend.

Portobellos, here I come.

The other movie is The Exorcist.  I'll be live-tweeting that one.  I also won't be sleeping much tonight....

If I ever

Consider a book by Ray Blackston again, KILL Me.

I’d turn it off, but I don’t have my iPod.  

Description:

Jay Jarvis is pondering commitment.  But his math is getting complicated.

Can he survive a trip from the beaches of South Carolina to the Outback with his cluster of crazy friends?  Or will the allure of a wild roo-chase spoil his perfectly calculated plans?  Ray Blackston’s back with more side-splitting humor, unconventional characters, and electrifying dialogue.

I’m about 4 discs in, and have found no side-splitting humor (unless the fact that the pastor back home has email is supposed to be funny).  I have found a ton of preaching and postulating.  There is no sex – even when the couple is dying in the desert – because the couple is NOT MARRIED.  They’re engaged, but they’re not married, so no sex.  Not that I would want to have to listen to a sex scene while trying to work, but I didn’t sign on for a piece of religious fiction where the guy (after they’re found of course) thinks that it would help his case with the rental guy if he introduced him to his “singles group” back home.  Three guesses where he met them….

It's been a while

3.5 years to be exact.

What can I say, I've been busy.  I've:

• Gained and lost a roomate
• Lost and gained 20 lbs (twice)
• Run 2 marathons (and am training for a third)
• Run 7 or 8 half marathons (they're all starting to run together...pun intended)
• Written two novels (neither of them published...yet)
• Fallen in love twice
• Had my heart smashed twice
• Watched friends marry and divorce
• Met three of my favorite authors
• Watched a friend gain and lose a television show (but he's back on TV now...)
• Lost dear friends to cancer (LET'S FIND A CURE!)
• Joined the Bone Marrow Registry
• Joined the RWA
• Watched my sister meet the man she'll soon marry
• Survived a hurricane and an earthquake in the same week
• Camped in the woods (never again)
• Camped on the beach (again again!)
• Witnessed a full body apparition
• Went to Texas looking to meet a cowboy (and met a biker instead...NOT the same thing)

Interesting stories, all.  One day I might just tell them.  In the meantime, I'm excited to be back, sharing these little snippits of my life...or something resembling reality.