Hope everyone had a good Father's Day (if you celebrated). I definitely did. Spent it with my dad of course. Since it was so hot we spent it out on his boat. There's a sand bar on the chain of lakes he lives on so we parked with the rest of the folks cooling off and just relaxed for a few hours. Even though I put on a ton of sunscreen somehow my shoulders still turned pink :( My soon-to-be niece (sister's fiance is a father) spent it with us and she's so cute. She's only three but she's so smart and funny. I can't believe half the stuff that comes out of her mouth. The girl remembers everything!
Thankfully my dog is finally feeling better so we don't have to take her to the vet. My mom thinks she had separation anxiety from when we went on vacation and she's probably right. We usually take her with us when we go somewhere. If we don't, we only go out of town for a few days and even then we leave her with family but this time it didn't work out and I think my little angel thought we'd left her :( She's normally affectionate but the past week she's been doubly so. She follows both of us everywhere. She hates the bathroom and usually avoids it at all costs (b/c she doesn't like baths) but now if I'm doing my makeup she'll plop next to me and wait for me to finish.
Over the weekend I reworked the erotic novella I was working on and now it's a shifter erotic novella. I've wanted to try my hand at a shifter story for a while but I didn't think I was ready. I'd already built the 'world', decided the rules on aging, mating, shifting, family life, anything I could think of, but I think I was too afraid to actually write the story. I got about 10K into my current story and the hero kept telling me he wasn't human and I needed to rewrite him so finally I just listened. All his actions/reactions were so primal I decided to tap into his more animalistic side and write him the way he wanted. I shouldn't be surprised, but now the story is much smoother. And now his two brothers are demanding a story too.
Yay! My tyrannical boss (I'm totally kidding btw) is closing the office tomorrow so it's an extra long weekend for me :) Finished my latest novella early this morning before heading to work. I actually wrote about 1K more than I expected bringing my daily total to 3K and all before lunch. I'm pretty impressed with myself. *Sigh* If only I could do that every day. Of course now I have to go back and edit the hell out of it and write my synopsis, but it's a good feeling nonetheless.
