FUNNY – Discovered a new blog this week courtesy of one of my regular visits to Michael Cargill’s Blog. Maid in Yorkshire’s Blog about the ‘lighter side of parenting’ is hilarious 🙂 don’t think I’ve ever seen posts on hamsters, porn and life with kids in one place before!

READING – I’m still on with Shadowland by CM Gray this week, but haven’t been able to squeeze in much reading with everything else that’s happening.

INSPIRED – Have felt quite inspired for writing this week and been sorting out some planning and plot issues in my head before getting down to writing them. Quite a few ideas for one-shots in Outlanders and Islanders have come to me this week – so they’re noted down now, just waiting to be written.

DOING – A lot of time this week spent on finalising the Indie Author Month work on Aside from Writing and then beginning the difficult task of promotion. If you have a blog and wish to help, please swing by the blog to grab a button 🙂

ANGEL – Angel / stars of the week for me are all of the lovely authors and bloggers who are taking part and supporting the Indie Author Month. It’s quite a lot of work putting something like that together and so when people are happy to help you out it makes you smile 🙂

FUNNY – I’ve never had an iPhone and so I’d not really come across the whole ‘auto correct’ thing until recently when we got an iPad. This week when I got a message from a work colleague telling me “I’ve eaten the knickers off the shelf in the office – sorry!” I did have to wonder where the underwear had come from, why he would have eaten them and finally – why would he tell me about it? Auto correct was not my first thought, but was obviously his when I received a follow-up text confirming it was my SNICKERS he’d eaten and not some random pants…anyway, after having a good giggle at this I went in search of more inspiring auto corrects and found some very funny ones – enjoy!

http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/category/best-of-dyac/

http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/13603/the-25-funniest-autocorrects-of-dyacs-first-year/

READING – Have read quite a lot this week – two books and reviews over the weekend (Bites and Alice Parker’s Metamorphosis) and am currently reading Shadowland by CM Gray.

INSPIRED – After watching Contagion on Sunday night, I was inspired to update our zombie/apocalypse – don’t worry – it’s not real, just a silly conversation a friend and I had one afternoon when avoiding work last year – but our ‘fictional’ plan needed updating and we definitely need to make friends with some people who have actual skills other than writing and sarcasm, otherwise I think we’ll be zombie-fodder.

DREAM – Nope – just sleeping 🙂

ANGEL – Angel / stars of the week for me are the lovely bloggers who accepted Hope’s Daughter for reading/reviewing this week. Hope you enjoy it!

FUNNY – Breakfast radio made me laugh a lot this week – to the point that I probably looked rather crazy laughing like a hyena on the way to work 🙂

READING – I’ve done very little reading this week, partly because I’ve been trying to concentrate on doing some writing and also because we’ve been preparing features for a major indie author event in May…So all this leaves me about 30 pages into The Passage…

INSPIRED – I’ve mostly been inspired to buy books this week – there’s been lots of interesting authors coming through our emails at aside from writing I’ve added a load more books to my Kindle TBR pile – so much for clearing it down! 🙂

DREAM – Very mixed, however, there have been lots of steep hills figuring in my dreams in various guises, whether I’m dream-driving or dream-walking…usually means that I’m preoccupied with a difficult decision to make as I find it an uphill struggle.

ANGEL – Angel / star of the week for me is a lovely little boy named Ted, he’s from Manchester and is just five years old. Currently he’s undergoing treatment for leukemia and has been helping a local radio station raise £50k in just one week for children in the same situation. The story of how he and his family have coped with his condition really touched me – there’s a little picture of him from yesterday on my facebook page – needless to say – I’ve sponsored him 🙂