a Hodge Podge of Topics
1. Mark got in from work this morning just as I was putting on my shoes to walk out the door. We did a quick lip peck, and as I backed away to put on my jacket, he said to me, "Your hair looks good." I toyed with ending that sentence with an exclamation point, but Mark rarely gets excited about anything, but he was part-way excited about my hair. He said, "Your hair looks good," as if he meant, "Your hair is starting to look good," meaning it's looked less than good for so long now, he's come to expect sub-par hair as the norm.
I thanked him. Not until I was in the car on the way to work did I have time to think about what may lurk behind his compliment. Just kidding. I'm not one of those women. If he gives me a compliment, I'll take it as such. And I have to agree that my hair is looking better. Since November, I've had it cut twice by a new woman. It costs 50 bucks a cut, but now I have a potential Va-Va-Voom do rather than $20 ho-hum hair. I'm just starting to learn how to fix it. The key is high heat on the blow dryer. I hate using high heat though.
2. You know Mark and I are trying to get pregnant, right? Well, this month is my first month on Chlomid, a pill that's to make me ovulate. I was ovulating before, but the doctor told me they weren't quality ovulations (?) I'm supposed to give blood on day 21 of my cycle. I just read that as I was putting on my shoes this morning sitting in front of the refrigerator, where I posted this information before our trip to New Zealand last month, as Mark walked through the door. So I called the office this morning; a nurse asked the doctor if giving blood today, day 23 of my cycle, would be too late, and the doctor said today would be fine to give blood. So I'm leaving work at 2:30 to do that.
3. Today I checked out the My Lost Summer page on Lulu.com, my printer. It turns out the preview of my book that was posted is gone. How long it's been gone, I do not know. So I spent hours today figuring out what would be best to post as a preview, what would hook people in to purchasing my book. (You don't have to order online and pay shipping; most Waldenbooks Stores across the U.S. have copies. And you can order it from any bookstore.) I just completed the new preview. Please go to http://www.lulu.com/content/173173 and select the "Preview this book" link under the cover image.
The first preview, the one that is gone, was the first five chapters. I think they're the most exciting of the book. However, others find the book really gets interesting from Chapter 10 on, so I included excerpts from later chapters in the new preview.
I like Chapters 1-5 because I was unconscious for most of that time. The chapters describe my family's reactions to the news of my injury, the dynamic of my divorced parents, their routines now that I was in the hospital long-term with an unknown outcome. It's all new to me, which is why I find it so interesting.
Chapters 10 through the end of the book is based on my memories of recovery. I've lived with those memories for more than 20 years now, so they're old news to me. But most readers likely feel as both judges for the Writer's Digest self-published book awards felt:
"Chapters 10 on are just amazing. Seeing the frustrations and hearing the speech during recovery and in school was heart-breaking and triumphant. For me, this is where the story really began."
"I feel like the book really comes alive when you begin to write from your own perspective in Chapter 10. Reading about the world trough the eyes of someone with severe brain damage is fascinating."
I thanked him. Not until I was in the car on the way to work did I have time to think about what may lurk behind his compliment. Just kidding. I'm not one of those women. If he gives me a compliment, I'll take it as such. And I have to agree that my hair is looking better. Since November, I've had it cut twice by a new woman. It costs 50 bucks a cut, but now I have a potential Va-Va-Voom do rather than $20 ho-hum hair. I'm just starting to learn how to fix it. The key is high heat on the blow dryer. I hate using high heat though.
2. You know Mark and I are trying to get pregnant, right? Well, this month is my first month on Chlomid, a pill that's to make me ovulate. I was ovulating before, but the doctor told me they weren't quality ovulations (?) I'm supposed to give blood on day 21 of my cycle. I just read that as I was putting on my shoes this morning sitting in front of the refrigerator, where I posted this information before our trip to New Zealand last month, as Mark walked through the door. So I called the office this morning; a nurse asked the doctor if giving blood today, day 23 of my cycle, would be too late, and the doctor said today would be fine to give blood. So I'm leaving work at 2:30 to do that.
3. Today I checked out the My Lost Summer page on Lulu.com, my printer. It turns out the preview of my book that was posted is gone. How long it's been gone, I do not know. So I spent hours today figuring out what would be best to post as a preview, what would hook people in to purchasing my book. (You don't have to order online and pay shipping; most Waldenbooks Stores across the U.S. have copies. And you can order it from any bookstore.) I just completed the new preview. Please go to http://www.lulu.com/content/173173 and select the "Preview this book" link under the cover image.
The first preview, the one that is gone, was the first five chapters. I think they're the most exciting of the book. However, others find the book really gets interesting from Chapter 10 on, so I included excerpts from later chapters in the new preview.
I like Chapters 1-5 because I was unconscious for most of that time. The chapters describe my family's reactions to the news of my injury, the dynamic of my divorced parents, their routines now that I was in the hospital long-term with an unknown outcome. It's all new to me, which is why I find it so interesting.
Chapters 10 through the end of the book is based on my memories of recovery. I've lived with those memories for more than 20 years now, so they're old news to me. But most readers likely feel as both judges for the Writer's Digest self-published book awards felt:
"Chapters 10 on are just amazing. Seeing the frustrations and hearing the speech during recovery and in school was heart-breaking and triumphant. For me, this is where the story really began."
"I feel like the book really comes alive when you begin to write from your own perspective in Chapter 10. Reading about the world trough the eyes of someone with severe brain damage is fascinating."
posted by Elizabeth Evans Fryer at 10:35 AM
2 Comments:
It was sweet of Mark to comment on your hair, I always like to get compliments myself.
Kudos to Mark.
As a cosmetolgist since 1973 for a man to give a comment on hair means
alot.There are so many people that go threw alot with their parents and the issues they have,you look at them alot different when you become a parent and sometime's go threw the same things.
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