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  1. Hair (not the musical)

    May 18, 2012 by Nicki

    A girl has a special relationship with her hair, I don’t think that can be denied. Even when she shaves it off so she doesn’t have to deal with it, she’s still making a statement about it.

    There are a lot of women that, once they find that style that flatters them most, keep that style for the rest of their lives. (Or at least for several years, until their hairstylist goes out of business and they’re forced to find someone else who never does it quite the same. You know who I mean.)

    There are women who trim their hair themselves for various reasons, including but not limited to frugality, complete lack of funds, or the lack of anyone around them willing to do to their hair what they want done to it.

    Some women can change their hair every week, going from super short pixie cuts to shoulder length bob, to extensions that fall to their lower backs, and then back again within the same month! These women either are very skilled hairdressers, or have very skilled hairdressers at their disposal, because I don’t know anyone who can grow their hair that fast. (Wish mine would, though.)

    And there are more than just a few women just like me. They pay for an awesome haircut, then neglect to go for trims, letting it grow out until it really starts to look (and behave) horribly, and then…

    Get it all chopped off. Very short. So short, you’re unlikely to recognize them.

    Some of those women will talk about their upcoming surgical removal from their security blanket, even though it stands to reason that the people who care most about it already know (themselves and their hairdresser of choice). Others will let their haircut sneak ninja style upon their family and coworkers, excusing themselves for a long lunch and coming back as someone completely different.

    Oh, you can probably figure out what I’m doing here. I’ve had a rotten week and I didn’t post yesterday, and now I’m babbling on about the haircut I’m about to get in two Saturdays because I have nothing else to talk about and it was fun to draw a picture of a girl with hair and a pair of scissors. You found me out. I’m just going to go back to ignoring the world now, and hopefully I’ll feel better by the time I have to post something else and my content won’t be crap.

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  2. Mothers

    May 13, 2012 by Nicki

    Happy Mother’s Day! The day is shaping up to be a wonderful, sunny Sunday in my part of the world, and I hope that even if the weather doesn’t cooperate in your are, that your holiday is still fabulous and filled with love.

    My favorite thing about my mother

    My mom is the person I call when I have news to share, because she gets just as excited about silly stuff as I do. My husband, sweetheart though he is, won’t laugh with me about my new Lime Kiln discovery, or commiserate about that one person that drives me nuts at work. Mom will, and will often have similar stories to share that I can get excited about with her.

    My favorite thing about being a mother

    My kids fight, and bicker, and whine, and cry, and often fail to realize why they need to take responsibility for their actions. But when my daughter hands me a card she made for me at school with hearts and butterflies and pictures of her and I, or when my son writes a heartfelt letter to The Tooth Fairy in a plea to wait for his sister’s tooth and not give up and stop coming, those are my favorite things.

    I am looking forward to a very strictly scheduled day tomorrow, as one of the things my son has done is to create a checklist schedule for me. He’s letting me sleep in (until 7:00 a.m. – ?!?!?), and has time for me to watch whatever I want to in the morning, while kid’s time is strictly in the afternoon after rest (where I must wake promptly at 3:00 p.m.) His library opening is sometime in the afternoon, too. I’d better make sure I have some money on hand, because the idea of a lending library hasn’t quite kicked in as something fun.

    My daughter brought home a flower from school on Thursday, and already I can tell that she’s learned that Mommy has a black thumb. Despite that the flower holds a pink heart with her picture on it and is clearly a Mother’s Day gift, she has claimed it for her own. She wants to plant her flower tomorrow (actually, she really would have preferred to do it Friday after we bought her some dirt for her flower), and she has to water it and make sure it gets enough sunlight. We even called Grandma, the flower expert (note – not Mommy), to get instructions on whether the water goes on the dirt, or on the petals.

    What is your favorite thing about your mother, or about being a mother, or both?

    Happy Mother’s Day!

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  3. Zombies!

    May 9, 2012 by Nicki

    I like routine. It doesn’t always feel like it, but I do. Like blogging – every two days is good. It keeps me writing but lets me feel like I’ve got a break. Yes, lots of times I scramble last-minute to come up with something, but then I force out a little time for it.

    I like zombies, too. I’m not sure why when it came time to write this post I thought about zombies, but I did. I have a little book I made sitting by my chair that gives me a rough schedule (routine) of posts to write, and I was so grateful that today is a “Whatever” day, that I thought of zombies.

    The things that eat your brains (not represented accurately in my photo over there, obviously).

    I read a really good Zombie book lately, Alice in Deadland, and when looking for the link I found that there’s a sequel! The author has written another zombie book, Zombiestan, which I have and am looking forward to.

    I wrote a zombie flash for the A to Z Challenge as well, and fairly recently so you may remember it. Before that, although zombies have been on my radar with Resident Evil and Shaun of the Dead and Pontypool and 28 Days Later, I hadn’t bothered to write any zombie fiction before.

    Which is actually a startling thought to me. Should I remedy that? What can I add to a genre that has been quite thoroughly explored?

    I don’t know…but now I kind of want to find out.

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  4. The Hunger Games

    March 24, 2012 by Nicki

    Yup, I’m excited about the books and the movie that opened Friday, I can’t lie. I saw the preview a while ago, and was immediately intrigued. (I actually posted the preview as well.) So I went out, bought the books (the trilogy was on sale for $19 or so), read them in 5 days, and was hooked.

    Today, I get to see the movie. Squee!

    I’m going for a 4 o’clock showing with my mom, in the middle of laundry day, in the hopes that the kids going out on dates will come out later. If it’s too busy, then we’ll catch it another day, but I really don’t think it could possibly be too busy.

    I really want to see the movie.

    So! I’m not exactly taking a day off, but I’m taking a day off. I can’t wait!

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  5. Time Change (and apologies)

    March 10, 2012 by Nicki

    BlogosaurusToday had a theme – book reviews. I was going to review a book, in detail, and then turn it into a Squidoo lens as well, earning a bit of extra $$ on the way. But the books I’ve read lately have been short (Winter White and Rise of Kencha by Erin M. Hartshorn, and A to Z Stories of Life and Death by D. Biswas (affiliate links)), and while they are completely worthy of review, I have already done so on Goodreads, and feel repeating myself is…well, repetitive.

    So my post today will not be about the fabulous books I’ve read lately, but the most horrid, regrettable day in the year, the spring time change.

    Spring forward, fall back. That’s how I keep track of whether I’m losing an hour or gaining one. Well, that and the fact that I’m responsible, in my office, for preparing new postcards for my agents to send out to clients well in advance of the time change (emphasis because this year I remembered the week before the mailing deadline, which was completely bad form). But really, who is the time change helping right now? I say, absolutely nobody. It’s a pain, a waste, and ought to be given up.

    C. G. P. Grey agrees with me. Or I agree with him. One of those.

    And that’s all I have for today. I promise I’m going to work on scheduling my posts better. Actually, that’s what I’ve been doing lately, getting ready for April and the A to Z Blogging Challenge (go sign up!), where I will, to stay sane, have to have most all of my posts pre-written and online, ready to go automatically. While I’m working on that, other things are falling behind.

    Oops.

    Oh, and I must dedicate this post to my newest reader, from Facebook, who discovered my secret Blogosaurus. HEE! I love it!

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