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Someone really needs to stop hitting the fast forward button.  I could’ve sworn that I just blogged last Friday - it CAN’T have been an entire week already - right?  Not to mention, I KNOW my son just started the school year, but his last day of school is next week.  What the heck happened to the entire year??  I just got used to writing 2007 on my checks and now we’re half way through.  Something seriously wrong with the space time continuum lately.  I’m sooo not ready for 2008 yet, or even the last half of 2007!

Anyway, enough whining for now :)  I have to save some for later.  Because you never know when you’ll need a really good whine.

So instead, I’m moving on to today’s topic, which is things I’ve learned from my children.  (Okay, I only have one kidlet, but I’m counting my niece in here since she’s close, and maybe a cat or two!)

1.  When you’re missing your two front teeth, you can put a cheerio in your mouth without opening your jaw.

2.  How to build a MySpace page.  Yes, my twelve-year-old walked me through building my Cassie Ryan MySpace page.  He changes his weekly, so I figured it was time to capitalize on his knowledge…lol.

3.  You can fit an entire grilled cheese sandwich into the opening of a VCR and still have room for all your Lego pieces.

4.  Having blonde hair and big blue eyes with a cute smile turns men of any age to mush.  (This one from my niece)

5.  The more children you have together at one time directly lowers the age and IQ of all the children in the group.  (I can vouch for this one in my own life too.  That’s why covering that entire car with tiny post its, then saran wrap and then whipped cream seemed like a productive thing to do one night in college.  But it was fun!!!  Especially when the guy came out too late to take them off and had to drive to work like that.  He took off the saran wrap, but the post its fluttered all the way there…lol.)

6.  You can fit your head inside the garbage disposal, but that doesn’t mean you can get it back out.  (This one is actually from one of our cats.)

7.  If you paint a white dog with wiry hair (West Highland White Terrier) with a tube of ‘Pink Chocolate’ lipstick - no matter how many times you wash her, she’ll stay pink for about three months. 

Anyone else have any to share?
 Tina/Cassie

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I think it’s a little steamy in here!  It might be all my excitement because my Miniature Rose from the Wild Rose Press is out and available now. I thought the day would never arrive. 

If you like your romance hot, you’ll love Marisa and Ethan’s journey. 

Marisa Carter wants to photograph Ethan for a local charity calendar of sexy firefighters. Ethan McCafferty wants something far different. Stripping his shirt off for a picture isn’t enough. He wants to take it all off and convince Marisa they’re perfect together–in and out of the sheets. But having been burned once, is Marisa willing to risk getting too close to the sexy fireman? After all, Ethan is her cheating ex-husband’s best friend.

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I had lunch today with some fellow writers (Tina Gerow and Jordan Summers) and of course the topic of conversation was writing.  We talked about how we were reaching our goals, how we motivated our selves, how we liked to write and our styles.  I realized that I’m a yo yo writer.  What I mean, is that I still go from plotting to seat of the pantser.  I still haven’t figured out my style yet.  I feel like a yo yo and now understand what that term means.  I’m so grateful for all that I’ve learned but now am confused by it all.  In learning who I am as a writer I realize that I need to just keep going and know that I’ll get there.  Some day I will stop yo yo’ing and find my comfortable place as a writer.  I just wanted to let you know that you’re not alone and don’t give up.  Keep going and we’ll share our comfort place with each other when we get there.   Okay, don’t share too much as I may need an ice pick to get it out of my brain.   It’s a long wonderful, hard, terrifying journey, but at the end of the yellow brick road it will be amazing.  Isabella

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 Rita from South Africa sent this picture to me from L to R, Kayla Janz, Brit Blaise, Carolan Ivey, RITA from South Africa, J.C. Wilder and Cheyenne McCray and sans butterscotch martinis. 

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 Cheyenne McCray, Kayce Lassiter & Brit Blaise enjoying their maritinis in Houston at the Romantic Times Booklover’s Convention.

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