My first book comes out next year. Somewhere in all the craziness of my life, I think that has been kind of lost in the crazy, you know? Or maybe it’s just been taken for granted all along. Something else that’s been lost during my three months of recovery and bliss in my new digs […]
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In general, in order to do 45 minutes of cardio after work, I have to take 2 units less insulin at lunch than usual. Which would be great, except that by 2-3pm, I have the beginnings of a sugar headache and I’m starting to feel sluggish. Thing is, I need to be at 200+ before
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Steph’s Old Man has started a blog! Welcome to the internets!
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But I have a strange compulsion to watch The Wanted again. Maybe all I really want is a big gun and a sweet-ass tattoo.
I’ve been re-polishing my fitness routine to get myself back on track. Now that fitness days are back at work (at the end of each quarter, we get a week off while the trainers do our fitness assessments), I’m working at getting the most bang for my buck. The trainers are really cool in that
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I am so fucking ready for this book to be DONE. And I have 6,000 of the last 20,000 words in hand…. … in scribbled notes and loose scenes and last night I wrote a really icky drug withdrawal torture scene, and this after I thought I was done writing icky scenes. I’m thinking that
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Gone are the days of the $14.99 haircut. I started spending a fortune on my hair after 1) going to Supercuts for the 3rd time in three weeks trying to get them to fix the mullet they’d given me 2) getting dumped – for the second time – by the guy I was dating here
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I’m working on line edits this morning, and while paging through the typical “take out the ‘and’ insert a period” types of edits (I have a lot of winding, comma heavy sentences that must get truncated during revisions. This should not surprise anyone who reads this blog, or anybody who’s seen first drafts of my
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I’m sitting here on my porch on a hot summer night with a beer, watching the fireflies and listening to some good music. Man, it doesn’t get much better. Saw The Wanted tonight. Blood and gun battles in Chicago (in my old neighborhood! He snipes from one of the houses right next to the Wrigley
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Coworker: “I know I look old, but would you believe I’m going to be 30 in a week?” Me: “Holy crap, you’re only a little more than a year older than me? I thought you were ancient, like the DB guy.” Coworker: “Great, thanks.” Me: “Know what I’m doing for my 30th birthday? Coworker: ?
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