Truth Thursdays

Okay so I thought I'd eventually get bored with this segment but I keep coming back for more and so do you. Guess my honesty (or weirdness) is rubbing off on you... so let's do this.

1. I had WAY too much fun with my hashtag post (happens tomorrow, you don't want to miss it).
2. I find I'm good at subliminal messaging (seriously, check out tomorrows awesome, ahem, tomorrow).
3. DL Hammons 600 follower Clue Hunt has been the most fun I've had since High School (when talking about hunting for clues of course).
4. Pink hair is in, just ask Lisa & Laura (they're too awesome for words).
5. Agatha Christie's msn games can keep me occupied for hours (searching for clues it too entertaining).

Go on... you know you wanna share a secret.

The Significant Other Blogfest!!!

Talli Roland and DL Hammons have really out done themselves this round with The significant other blog fest (make sure to check out the other entrants!). They were smart to ask us to ask someone special in our live's to share the light on what it's like to be married/related to a writer.

I'm so glad that my husband said yes. He's amazing, and this is why I love him.

The @$#% My Wife Says…

“You know how I told you…” This is the opening to a conversation that my wife is going to have with herself, that I am going to be privileged to listen to for the next 20 minutes. It doesn’t matter if I was present for the last idea she had, all that matters is we are deviating or building from the last conversation she had with a character in her head. These 20 minutes are a glimpse into her mind. This is when I am glad that I speak her language, “Jen”.

“Oh, nothing, I just had an idea…” Jen’s response to me when I ask what she is thinking when she looks like she is a thousand miles away. The next 15 minutes are spent in a monologue (occasional pauses for my “uh-huh” or “yeah” while she catches her breath) telling me about an idea as it is still growing. It’s a little (not a little, it is) all over the place. I usually get lost in the middle but she’ll get me caught up by the end. She goes from deep in thought to overly excited in matter of minutes.

“Sorry, I talked so much…” she ends nearly every conversation over 15 minutes this way. What she doesn’t know, even when I tell her, is I really enjoyed hearing what is going on in her mind. The conversations, and thoughts she has in her head aren’t a part of my life until she lets me in. The crazy dreams, the constant writing down of ideas, the emotional roller coaster I get all that, so I’m glad to be a part of the inner workings as well.