New stuff....yummy

I am currently writing this on my little, tiny netbook . It makes me happy. Income tax came in and in a matter of hours I spent about $3000. lol That's a lot of money to spend in such a short time. But I got my drawing table that I've been wanting, and I found a great deal on computers at Best Buy. I wanted a netbook, and the cd-rom has been out in my laptop since last June, and the kids' desktop computer has been dead for awhile.

Best Buy had a desktop with a 20 inch flat panel monitor, a laptop, a netbook and a router for $1,299. It was supposed to be an online only deal but I have no patience so we went to the store and convinced them to put it all together for us there for the same price. It took FOREVER (2 hours at Best Buy is way too long) but we got it all home last night and spent all day today getting everything set up.

It's so weird typing on this little keyboard. It's going to take some getting used to but I love it already.

Oh, and I started writing my other book! It's a YA paranormal romance, kind of a spin-off from Life After Death. I came up with the idea for this one while I was writing the other, and I decided it makes sense to finish a book in another genre that I can start querying because it increases the amount of possible agents. The title for this one, as of right now, is Death Becomes Her, which is a great title considering the subject of the book, but it kind of bugs me since it's also the name of a movie.

Two more things to say real quick. I got another request for a partial today, although it was just for the first 5 pages. It was from an agent that has an online form you fill out instead of sending a query, though, so it's kind of her first glimpse at my actual writing. I'm still not getting my hopes up but I have faith that eventually something will pan out, with at least one of the books I write.

Last thing is, I spent over $160 on books at Borders last night. A lot of times when I shop, I end up feeling guilty afterward, like I shouldn't have spent so much when there are other things I could have spent it on instead. But I really don't feel guilty about buying books. I feel excited and anxious to read them all. I had the hardest time last night deciding which one to read first. lol I bought a couple of YA books, which I haven't really done since I was a YA and I'm more excited to read those than any of the others. I didn't start with one of them, though. I started with one that's a sequel because I read the first book the other day. But I think when I get done with this one, I'll be jumping into Eileen Cook's What Would Emma Do? and then get to the YA series that I bought.

Ok, I think that's it. I should get back to writing before I get too tired.