finally....

Well, it only took all freaking day but I finally finished chapter 15 of "Homecoming" and decided to make it the official end of the story for now. There is so much more I want to put into it. But I had to end it somewhere. I just don't have anymore time. I'm going to have to pull the other story I started. There are only two chapters and I can't stand to leave it unfinished on the site. Oh well. Writing "Homecoming" has given me all sorts of ideas to spawn other stories off of it. My first thought (and still one of my better ideas) is to write the story again, but from Steve's POV. What was going through his mind when he finds out that Hyde was his dad? The story could look more into what was going on with the kids after Hyde came back.

I also thought of doing one from Donna's POV. Hyde was one of her best friends and he disappeared. She had spent a long time trying to convince herself that he wasn't dead. He broke her heart as much as Jackie's. I'd like to see what she really thought about all of it. Plus I had an idea to break her and Eric up when she realizes she is falling for Hyde. That might throw a kink in the works for him and Jackie. (Don't worry, I wasn't planning on splitting Jackie and Hyde up after all it took to get them together.)

And the one other thing I want to explore in one of the stories is Fez and Kelso. I got to thinking about it after the scene at the beginning of the story where they fight over their kids. I had just watched the episode where they fight over the girl cop and they "break up." They are hiliarious. And then today was the Kelso sex dream episode. Sometimes I wonder about those two, so I thought maybe they would descover after all this time that they had been in love with each other. That was what made them fight so much over little things. It wouldn't be some smutty, slash type storyline--just normal, two people realizing they are in love type of thing.

anyway...I'll have to work all of that out some other time.

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Other then work on this story until 2am (when will I learn) I spent most of the morning outside with the kids. Now I have sunburn. UGH. I didn't put any sunblock on today because I had planned to stay in the shade, but then Kelly came out with Hailey and Maddie and we got to talking. And then I was talking with Patsy on her porch. I didn't realize I was burnt until I was back in the nice air-conditioned house. My face itches and my shoulders ache. Brenna and Owen got burned too and I put sunblock on them. Owen has this one patch on his shoulder that I must have missed. Brenna is red all over her chest (I put some ther but obviously not enough) and parts of her shoulder. She just squirms so much it is hard to make sure I got every part of her. Hopefully they won't be too sore tomorrow.

Well I better get off the computer. It's a quarter after two now and the kids will be banging on my door in about 5 1/2 hours. WHEN WILL I LEARN. :(

early to bed, early to rise

I am going to bed early tonight. It's 10pm now and I WILL be in bed by 11. I just need to relax a little a do a couple of puzzles. I tried to finish chapter 3 of "It Was Only a Matter of Love" (MOL)But I am totally blocked. I know what the big event in the story will be already--Patrick gave me the idea but I'm having too much trouble getting there. I loved the first chapter. It flowed so well but I lost my momentum in the 2nd chapter and now I am stuck. I guess the best thing is to re-write chapters 2 and 3 and try to get it moving again. or maybe I need to find something else to work on. With no new episodes I'm at a loss. I already did a continuation of the season finale so...

The 9pm episode tonight was the 2nd half of the nurse episode. I forgot all the emotional stuff in this one when Hyde confesses--what a stand up guy. And I was worried some of my writing wasn't true to the character but after watching that again it seems to fit well with what Hyde could be capable of doing. Did that sentence even make sense? I don't think so but I don't feel like going back and fixing it. I'm too tired.

I even took a nap today and I was so tired I don't even remember falling asleep. I remember laying Brenna down for a nap and got Owen to actually lie down. After I realized Owen was asleep I tried to lie down on the couch but I gave up and just went up to my room. Next thing I know Owen is banging on my door and I hear Brenna laughing downstairs. It had been at least a half hour. I wish I felt like I had slept, though. I was more tired after I got up.

Then I gave up and took the kids outside. I'm so tired of the heat already and it has only been like 3 days in the 90s. Maybe it's the sunburn. I just didn't want to deal with the heat today but...So I get them in their swim suits and lather them up with sunblock. There wasn't enough for me though. Well there was but then there wouldn't have been enough for tomorrow and I know they will want to go out tomorrow. So they played in the sprinkler out back and I sat baking in the sun. Luckily there wasn't much sun--it was pretty cloudy. It was just really hot and humid. I don't think I got any more sunburn. My legs could use more color so I was in shorts (egad--shorts!)

Meagan missed it all. She went over to Hailey's at around 9 this morning. She just got back at 10. Kelly said the girls were weirding her dad out. Kelly told him "pretty soon you'll be flipping the lights off and on and telling them it's time to call it a night." That is in reference to the long nights me and her used to pull playing at her house. I usually stayed until midnight or 1AM. Good memories. I'm going to miss Kelly when we move. We've been friends for 16 years. She is more like a sister to me. I love her to death and I wish I could stay but I hate the city so much. I just wish the girls could grow up together, like me and Kelly. That gets me to thinking about the other friends I had as a kid.

I wish we were all still close. I see Jay all the time and miss all the fun times we had. He was my baby. He was like 4 when I met him (I was 12). I watched him grow up. He's going to be 22 this year--I still picture him as this scrawny little kid. And Scottie--He's grown up so much too. He's not around as much. Kelly wanted to get us all together for Jay's 21st birthday--her, me, Scottie, Sally and Amanda but we never did. It would have been great. He was the youngest of the group--so the last to hit 21. I wish my brother was here. He's coming in July but we will be in Pittsburgh by then and I won't get to see him.

It has been almost 5 years since I have seen Ryan. I miss him to death. He was (is and always will be) my best friend. I don't think I would have survived my childhood without him. I better quit now before I start crying. It must be because I'm so tired. Maybe it's because I'm moving. I can't stop thinking about all the people I'm leaving behind. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of Chicago, but now...I'm sad to go. I'll never have friends like these again, the kind that you grew up with and shared summers pool parties with and co-ed slumber parties. Sitting on the front porch playing Barbies with the guys, jumping our bikes on the homemade ramp, climbing trees at the park...the list goes on and on.