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You da bomb!  Did you guys see that Paula E is coming ot Surrey this year?  I'm so excited!  What a great opportunity for all of our writers!  I have been busy with SiWC stuff and extrememly busy with work.  Not much writing getting done I'm afraid though I did post my lasted back cover blurb in a blurb contest and  got great feedback!  That has inspired me to get the dang book finished!

Wendy, how are your books coming along?  I can't wait to read more!

Nancy, anything coming soon....I need my fix <says the seething Nancy addcit>

How about the other bunnies? are your writing, reading, what's up?

I hope you all had terrific National celebrations days...HAppy 4th and a belated Happy Canada day to everyone!...do we have any auzzies?  I wonder when their day is?  A co-worker just moved her family there for  a year and a friend just came back from a year house swapping expereience.  She and her husband are both teachers and they swapped houses and jobs with an Auzzie family for a year...how cool is that?

I would gladly swap jobs with anyone for a year...heck, I'd even move to , gulp, Toronto...I can't believe I said that...work sucks right now!  Not my place of employment, just part of my client base LOL!  I just want to curl up with a good book and let it take me away...actually, I think I'll go down to the farms and get some local strawberries and make a big ol'batch of jam today...YUM!

HOpe you are all out enjoying the weather...we have a rainy day here onthe wet coast

Camille (they should have a face with an umbrella!)

Hey Dream,  I was wondering if you can tell me how to find the submission guidelines.  I have been searching and surfing but I can't seem to locate them

thanks,

Camille

Finally! I thought it would never arrive!  While we are still slogging throughthe last few days of Junuary here on the wet coast, I woke up this morning to a gorgeous summer day.  Perfect for the first tday of summer for the kids.  We had a wonderful time in Qualicum, too wonderful infact--both DH and I have had a difficult time getting back into the swing of work and all that it entails....very depressing!  While we were on the island we looked at houses, queried employment and really tried to see if we could make life over there work.  I think we could but it would mean so  many sacrifices, in fact, it was just too many for our children at this point in our lives...I guess our plan will be to retire there probably in 10 years.

The conference coordinator for The SUrrey Writer's conference has been busy!  We had our board meeting last night and whoosh! it's getting exciting!  We have a blog now and an rss feed.  You can check it out at www.siwc.ca

I am hoping to get loads of writing done this summer...I mostly got "reading" done in Qualicum...I really love Susan Wiggs novels!  I also read and savoured French Kissing...ahhhh Nancy--you are still the best!

Speakingof the best! I just went to the Sex and the city movie. Have any of you seen it? It was fabulous! I absolutley loved every minute of it and OMG!!! Dante is soooo hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to find his poster for my fridge...to inspire me to....lose weight! yeah that's what I'll tell dh anyway! he he he

Hope you all enjoy the day and get some writing or reading done!

Camille

I forgot to tellyou...at  our Pro-d day, when I was the MC...I was also the mc at the Christmas party and so I was worried that people would think this was boring compared tot he good times at Christmas so I used that as my funny...told them not to worryt hat I could still MC without a martini or costume changes and to proove it, the committee had even voted me...I turned around and put on a banner like Miss America, which read Miss Behaviour!  It got lots of good laughs and I have a banner to keep too LOL!

I hope everyone is having a relaxing day!

NAncy~ I am sorry to hear about your wrists and hands!  You need the voice software that Tiana has.  My friend has a hand that has gone lame. They can't figure out why but the muscle has atrophied and now she can barely tie her shoes...they think she's done something to the nerve but she is also seeing a neurologist and having MRI's and such.  I wish you all the best with that, Nancy.  And congratulations onthe runs!!!!That is a HUGE accomplishment!  I was thinking about running inthe Autism speaks one inthe fall...we'll see if I can get my sorry butt into shape.

Latesha, I laughed about being a role model...more like a roll model these days!!  Thanks for the wishes, though and the pro-d day went wreally well.  except for the technology issues, we were good. OUr board bought us all beautiful hanging baskets for organizing it and I chose one that sits onthe ground.  I have it on my front step and it makes me smile whenever I go out or come in!

Dh and I spent a few days in Victoria this week and it was lovely!  I had a good day of writing and then spent the next dayon atour of historic chinatown...goingplaces most tourists never get to see, which was terrific info for my new historical.  Then I spent the last half of that day writing too.  We had a couple of great lunches and a nice dinner...so good to get away!  Now it's back to work for a week and then I'm off for two--to the island again, Qualicum this time.  Maybe I'll get more writing done! yippee!

I hope you are all having a relaxing mother's day, whether you are a mom, have a mom, or know someone who is....I hope its all good for you!

Camille 

What a glorious earth day!  The sun was shining and I actually believe that spring might finally be here Though now that I've said that it will probably revert to rain!  It has been so cold here...I am usually a warm person but lately I've been freezing!  That is not helping me shed the "winter weight" LOL that I've had for 8 years ha ha ha!  The kids were supposed to walk to school today...about 1.5 miles for them.  So we did it, in about 30-35 minutes but then I had to walk back...sheesh!  I made it home in one piece and then rewarded myself with a little shopping.  next week is our annual pro- d day at work and I will be the MC so I wanted a new outfit...found a great blouse and i will pair it with a pencil skirt and some funky shoes I think...need to start working on my speeches or notes or whatever an MC calls them.  Does anyone have any good jokes?

Papaya~ You are so wonderful!  Alas, Hawaii is looking like a bit of dream these days...WE've had a few more expenses than we thought with renovations and now the addition looks like it will be about 35K...then we have to buy tickets for the Olympics in the fall too....I am keeping the Maui dream alive but Ithink at this point we are hanging in by our finger nails LOL!  IF I could find a nice place to stay inexpensively that might make the difference--the  place we had lined up is unavailable and the other place we had in mind doesn't even rent out anymore..boo hooo  We'll have to make some decisions soom...plus I need a new car <sigh> Maybe I'll win the lotto!

I hope you are all writing by candlelight tonight to conserve on this earth day...we had a "green supper", recylced the bags and bottles to the deopt and had a "no power hour" at midday as well.

hugs~

Camille

That is hillarious!  fatty maybe, not hottie!  but I'll take your compliment today because I bought a new outfit for work and I'm feeling good...actually I bought a new necklace and earring set and when it came (I bought it from Avon) it was a different colour than I thought it was going to be.  (It said spice and I'd say it's corally orange)  So I had to go buy a new outfit to go with it...this of course led to new shoes to go with the outfit...then a second outfit because it would be a shame not to wear the shoes more often, sigh, is wish I had a million dollars, boy could I shop!

I finally picked up French Kissing today!!!! I can hardly wait to have time to read it...in fact I am dying to just have time to savor it!! PArt of me wants to delve into it right away but experience has tuaght me to savor the good ones so I might just wait until my vacation to the island,w here I do nothing but read..or ...I might read it when Hubby and I go away for our mid week dash to Victoria...he always LOVES it when I'm reading Nancy's books LOL!

I am working on my new historical again and feeling pretty pumped about it...I really like the story so far and the characters are screaming at me to write write write....that the author likes the story is always a good sign hey LOL!

 

did I tell you guys that for Christmas I bought the first season of the Waltons?  I wanted to have the optionof watching some good old fashion values type shows with my kids and guess what? they love it!!! they beg me to watch it and just watched the last episode of season one on Easter Sunday (It was an Easter special)  I have ordered seasons 2-5 and they should arrive any day!  I am really pleased to have found something that my son will sit down and watch with me.  We shoot hoops and play wii together and watch Idol...all initiated by him, so it's nice that he has responded so positively to something initiated by me...I'm hoping it continues into his teen years...how long did the Wlaton's run? ha ha ha

My kid's school is having their annual carnival and this year's theme is "Carnivale"!  I'm so excited!  I think about the bunnies all the time...I hope you are doing well!

Camille

OMG!!!!!!!! I can't beleive I missed your day...I hope it was wonderful!!!  Here's my excuse and unfortunately, it's my excuse for everything lately--I joined Facebook!  I am lost in the vortex bunnies...if one of you is on FB and you see me there, kindly drag my sorry bunny butt back to reality will you?  LIke I needed something else to waste time! eeeek! I have no extra time, what was I thinking? NOw I am up waaaaayyy beyond my bedtime just to send people timbits and black coffee...this is truly sad don't you think?

I am not surprised that Nancy is looking fab!  I have never seen her when she is not absolutely gorgeous!  BTW, I faved some of your books Nancy and Wendy (in the vortex)

It's spring break here and I promised my children that if they helped with spring cleaning I would take them somewhere fun each day...so far my house is getting clean and we are all having a great week!

We went for High tea on st. paddy day--blast but totally $$$YIkes!$$$$$, tuesday one had a sleepover and one had a party. Wednesday we went out for lunch with my mom and today we went to the park and took a  train ride too.  Tomorrow we will dye eggs and (hopefully) the granite counter for the ensuite will be installed.  The bathroom is, dare I say it?, almost complete! Yeah!

I hope all the bunny's and bucks have a Hoppy Easter!Camille

Welcome Wayne!  It's great to "Meet" you.  Please help youself to this nice big platter of date bars and fruit and this big bowl of pear crisp.  I've also brought in a pot of Chai tea and a pot of coffee, so come on bunnies, lets welcome him proper....Now what do they call a male bunny?????

I took a week off to write Latesha and I ended up by spending the week teaching writing workshops at my children't school.  It was so good though.  I taught 7 workshops (1.5-2 hours each) over 3 days.  Grades 4-7 both French immersiona nd English (I taught them in english though!)  The last class I did for a grade 2-3 split because it's my daughter's class.  We were workingon understanding POV and I was getting them to re-write children's stories from an alternate POV.  MY daughter loves the Wizard of OZ and decided to do that one---she began: Dorothy was a poor girl.  She lived in canvas...OMG!!! I was laughing so hard but I didn't want her to know--I had to excuse myself to go get a drink of water!  Needless to say, I barely got any of my own writing done (other than a great story about the middle pig from the 3 little pigs who felt like things were always out of her reach and after years of therapy was diagnosed with "pig in the middle syndrome" or PMS.  Too bad I don't write kids books hey? LOL

Hope all the bunnies are writing up a storm--our big holiday is coming up...I'm already planning my eggs ha ha ha

ciao

Camille

wow! that is some cover!!!  Dh was just saying tonight that whenever we finally get to Paris he is going to park himself by the Eiffel tower in a little cafe and eat bagettes and brie and croissants and drink red wine and espresso until he's too sick to move...I think I'll leave him there and go SHOPPING!

I hope you all had a  wonderful valentines day...I got the biggest armful of red roses and greens and babies breath and ribbons and bows--guess who started smoking again? after a month of quitting? I can't believe it!  I was so envisioning us as a non-smoking family (finally!0 and we had just been out to celebrate him making it to one month

okay, enough, I 'm not really over it but I'm at least not so mad anymore (Can you tell? LOL)  I still have the lump thing in my thorat. My doctor says  to wait another two weeks and if it;s still there he'll send me to the EN&T guy...he figures all my rick factors are low-even with a smoking husband (he smokes outside) and my swap came back negative for strep and stuff so I guess I'm stuck with the stuckness in my throat til the end of February.

I took next week off work to write and guess what? I got talked into doing writing workshops at my kids school for 2.5 of the days--and one day they get out early so am I going to get any writing in?

My goal is to finish one of the novels I am working on, probably the contemporary and then free my self up to read Nancy's new book ASAICO! (as soon as it comes out!)

Hope everyone is healthy and happy!

Camille