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I started writing my remix! Whoohoo! It's not going to be an epic, which is good, because I do not have time to write an epic, but I'm starting to get excited about it. For once, it's NOT going to be utterly obvious it's me (erm, I think). And that's part of the fun.

Toby's woken up dry 2 out of 3 nights, which, yay. I was wondering how Trevor's transition to his big boy bed would go, and while I appreciate his calm, I wish he'd been a little more excited :) He gets a little excited when it's bedtime, but for the most part, he could care less. However, I should not complain!

Mother's Day is this weekend, which I'm mostly looking forward to, although something's come up that's thrown a possible wrench in our plans. :P If the weekend goes as planned, we're having barbecue tonight (shish-kabobs!), which should be nice. I'm planning on doing a 4-5 mile run tomorrow morning, and WOW do I need it. :P Then Toby has a birthday party, then Howard and I are going out for dinner (Melting Pot- YUM). Sunday, a friend of Howard's may or may not be visiting, and we'll see what happens. But I'm planning on making baked ziti and Milky Way Tarts. A lot depends on what's going on with his parents. But the kids had a Mother's Day program at pre-school this morning. They sang us a few songs and each kid gave their mom a flower in a pot that they had painted and a card. OMG- CUTE! It was adorable.

I think once I get past Remix, since that has a (close) deadline, I want to start designating an hour a day minimum to work on my original stuff. The ideas are starting to solidify a little, and I've got an A plotline and a B plotline that relate to each other, plus all this other stuff. What's difficult for me is that I'm trying to really get a global approach to the "aliens took over the world" thing, which means I'm, you know, including characters that aren't from the United States, or even Europe! One of my characters is from Afghanistan, as mentioned, another one is from Mexico, another one is from Liberia. I have never lived in any of these places, and don't know much about the cultures. So, research, which is fine, but you know what scares me? It's that scene in Inglorious Basterds where the actress tells them the reason the Nazis figured out they weren't German was because of how they indicated three- the guy held up three fingers instead of his thumb and two fingers. That's the sort of stuff that just doesn't show up in research. Granted, there will have been 25 years from when people left Earth, which allows for some cultural blending and all, but still.

Anyway, better get the shishkabobs going. Have a great weekend!

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Awwwww... I love the stuff little kids do for Mother's Day! It's so precious. ♥

Oh, that scene... yeah, that'll do it. But like you say, it's been a while, you can make stuff up a little, I'd think. Also, I'm pretty excited to hear you're working on original stuff more. Good for you! When you become famous I shall pretend like we are BFF and brag to all my friends. ;) Or maybe just buy and read and love your books. Whichever.

Just move one of your characters from all those uninteresting places to Germany, and one of your problems would be solved. ;)

Just for the record, I would not spot an impostor because of the way they hold up their fingers.

Probably.

Yay for being all done with cribs! I can't believe Trevor is that old already. And yay for dry nights, too!

I hope you're able to relax at least a little on Mother's Day - enjoy it!

Well, if you ever want help with Mexico, you can try forwarding questions to me and I'll be happy to run things by my dad and stepmom, who are both from Mexico. :)

Also do you know about the comm

little_details? They sometimes can be helpful.

Oh, and I only ask this because I know you've been having issues with getting your LJ notifications and emails, not to put pressure on you, but it occurred to me that you might not know that I commented to "Fowlers..."?

Good luck with the run!

Thanks for the heads' up! I actually did see it- responding was on my to do list for tonight :)

Thanks also for the heads up on little_details. I'll have to check that out

Thanks!

Well, I can tell you your Liberian character is going to have to be young, because people don't live to be very old there.

I think with the character in Inglorious Basterds, that guy was trained to look for that kind of thing. A. it's a war, and B. he was high ranking SS, right? Like the main Nazi (I forget his name), he was probably trained to look for that sort of thing. In other words, I wouldn't worry too terribly much.
(That said, there are a few glaring things for every culture, like wearing white socks.)