Melissa Francis : Bitchin' Fiction!: end of the week report

Friday, November 14, 2008
end of the week report

Mac is back. She's a little tired from being worked on and having her 80 gig hard drive replaced with a 120 gig hard drive, but she's happy. I still haven't gotten her completely set up--the internetz connection keeps disappearing for no apparent reason. That happened when I first brought Mac home, so I know it's a setting issue and I just have to find it.

The sad news is, her old hard drive = toast. It's so toasted that none of the data was recoverable. We have the drive in our possession, and if ever we have a spare $1000 lying around, we're going to ship the toast to a specialty recovery place and give it the old college try.

I'm totally at peace with the loss. It sucks, but I knew better. And now I'm writing like the wind to try to make up my lost time. The good news is, I really wasn't happy with what I had written, so this forces me to back the hell up and start over from chapter 2. I can do that. It's a good thing I'm a fairly fast writer!!!

I am going to pick up my running today. My cold has moved out of my head. It's trying to move into my chest but I'm fighting it. I have that damn persistent itch between my ear and my throat. I've been tempted to take a wire hanger to my ear...but every time I turn on the closet light to find the right utensil, a panicked voice starts whispering "No More Wire Hangers!" and it freaks me out.

A Rader Story:
I realized the other day I haven't told you guys a Rader story in a long time. It's a shame really, because he's always so damn entertaining. I'm sure we'll have more inappropriate conversations to report at some point--but there will never be another licking nipples report. That was just too much.

Rader is a charmer. He always has been. And I've always known his charm was going to be the death of me. Last night, I got the full effect of his charm and his sense of humor. Now, the child is only 10, but he's tall and handsome and he carries himself like a teenager half the time. We were sitting in the living room and Fishdog told Rader to take his folded clothes from the coffee table and put them in his room. Rader (without missing a beat) winked at me, smiled and said "Sure." He knew he was being cheeky and he was completely unapologetic about it. That one little wink struck me as so intentionally flirty--like the hot guy in high school flirting with the cute quiet girl.

When he winked, I flashed forward five years and saw exactly what kind of young man he was going to be. And boy are we in trouble. Charming, good looking, funny, flirty and smart. I am not ready for this. The mothers of the girls of Little Rock are not ready for this...

Hope you guys have a great weekend. I'll be busy WRITING (I know, you're shocked). I'll also be running and blogging over at FatChicksRunning so don't forget to stop by!

Labels: damn kids, exercise, family, fatchicks, writing

posted by Mel Francis @ 8:16 AM |

6 Comments:

At 11/14/2008 08:58:00 AM, Jen said...: Bummer about the drive and loss of work. That just stinks. Maybe someone knows a MAC genius who can fix it for free.

Glad you're feeling better. Seems I caught a cold too. I'm in the "feels like crapola" section of this sickness. Think I caught it from you via the internet? Anything is possible. LOL.

Love Rader stories. You're going to have to beat them off with a stick soon. So be prepared!
At 11/14/2008 09:16:00 AM, Arkansas Cyndi said...: I'll second Jen's bummer on the hard drive. But I've been there too. It was also a Mac. Lost a day of work.

Rader - must put out warning to all LR mothers! LOL
At 11/14/2008 10:01:00 AM, Louisa Edwards said...: It's definitely buckle down time! Holy hard drive, I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving.
At 11/14/2008 10:02:00 AM, Cinde said...: way to look at it as a good thing, mel. you are wicked aweosme in my book.
At 11/14/2008 05:01:00 PM, Kwana said...: I'm so sorry about the hard drive. Ugh. Good luck with all the writing.

That Rader. I think his warning photos need to go up in your town right now!
At 11/15/2008 06:24:00 PM, Shayla Kersten said...: Oh, hell. Loss of the data sucks big time. Hopefully the words will flow since you already know the story!