After 10 hours of having workers in the house yesterday, it was nice to have my domain back to myself today. As a result, I got some house cleaning done, a bit of exercise, and a lot of book research. I love the feeling of getting things accomplished.

I mentioned yesterday that I’d be blogging a bit about the new TV season, and I’m going to start out by directing you over to the Nobody Writers it Better blog where I’m blogging today about Stargate Universe (SGU). It’s part of what is giving me my sci-fi fix each week, and it’s filling the hole left by the end of Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis. Even if you not a big sci-fi geek like me, come on over and read about SGU. It’s a very character-driven show, so you might like it despite all the space stuff.

I have been woefully remiss in keeping up with my blog, but that’s about to change. Blogging is sort of like writing books — if you miss one day working on it, it becomes easier to miss two, then three, and so on. But I’m energized by a planning session I had late last week in which I made writing plans for the rest of 2009, and I’m rededicating myself to blogging here each day.

So, what have I been up to since I last blogged here in mid September? Well, I spoke at the Moonlight & Magnolias Conference

Went to my 20-year high school reunion

Spoke at the member retreat for River City Romance Writers in Memphis

Have been enjoying the new TV season (I’ll do a separate post about this sometime this week, but I have to give a squeeful shoutout to the beginning of Castle last night when Nathan Fillion’s character, Richard Castle, dressed up for Halloween as Captain Mal, aka Captain Tightpants, from his Firefly days!)

Been working on some new story ideas

Been doing a lot of yard work and general prep for winter (like the duct-cleaning guys are here now)

Keeping up with my Healthy Writer blog (come by and check us out!) and continuing with my regular blog days at the Romance Bandits, Supernatural Sisters, Wet Noodle Posse, Harlequin American Authors and Nobody Writes is Better blogs

Got new author photos taken

And generally just keeping up with all of the everyday demands.

So, what is everyone else working on/doing this fall?