Every Friday I’m going to post links to various things that I deem to be awesome. Here we go . . .

My BFF Brandy recently launched her photography site, Bella Pop. Her photos are always so fun and eye-catching! Be sure to check out her photo blog while you’re there!

Alex’s flash mystery, Aftershocks appeared in Every Day Fiction yesterday. Go read it, for it is great!

Jens recently re-launched his website. The header has a picture of a T-Rex. What could be better?

The Boyfriend recently released the first-ever Fort Worthology podcast. He talks about building livable neighborhoods and why Fort Worth needs an urban grocery store. (Seriously. Why don’t we have one yet?)

Erin recently launch her blog Living the Fictional Dream. She has written some fantastic posts about the writing process, rejection, and other neato stuff. There are also links to published stories. Go there!

If you’ve ever wanted to see a good Ernest Borgnine movie, you owe it to yourself to see Marty. You won’t be disappointed.

One of my favorite buildings in downtown Fort Worth is for sale. Anyone wanna buy it for me?

I only recently discovered The Fix. How have I gone so long without knowing about this?

That’s all for now, people!! I must go work on my robot-zombie story now . . .

A bottle opener from my etsy shop was featured on That’s So Boss as part of their “boss valentine’s Day gifts for guys” feature. Huzzah!

The cats are having a major case of the night crazies right now. I just brought them home from being spayed and neutered on Thursday. You’d think they’d want to take it easy, but you’d be wrong. The stitches haven’t slowed them down at all.

Between the hyper kitties and waiting on a late-night load of laundry to dry, I don’t think I’m going to get much sleep tonight. :-\

Been working overtime for the last couple of weeks at Ye Olde Day Job. Fun stuff. Spent half my day at work today reading an IRS document. Spent the other half banging my head against the wall. I’m home now, and about to check references in a mockup I brought home (yay for tax handbooks?). The cats are on the couch being extra cute right now (yay for distractions!).

Once my reference checking is out of the way, I’ll hopefully work on revising a couple of stories and outlining my NaNo novel. Oh, and I also have to bake a casserole for work tomorrow. Potluck (again, yay for distractions!).

So I spent a few bucks on an official URL: http://hellostephanie.net. It’s a bit quicker to type than the old one.

Well, I didn’t get much writing done today (yet, anyway), but I did get a lot done around the house. (1) I finally found some inexpensive frames for some ’40s b-movie lobby cards I’ve had lying around for the last year or so (if you’re curious, the movies are I Accuse My Parents, Men on Her Mind, and The Lady Confesses. I also have some similar posters I need to get frames for, but can never find anything quite the right size (14 x 36 inches, apparently the most impossible to find frame size ever!). I only paid $10 for each of the posters, so I don’t want to go blow $50+ on frames for ‘em. (2) Got a new shag rug for my bedroom. The black one wasn’t doing it for me. This new one’s a mixture of hot pink and white (if you hate hot pink, your head would explode if you walked into my apartment). (3) I washed the sinkload of dishes that had been piling up all week.

The Boyfriend is coming in from a business trip around midnight or so tonight (possibly later). He’s been gone all week, and I’ve missed him! I have to leave for his apartment soon to let him in since I have his access card thing to get in the building.

I did do something writing-related, though. I revised and submitted a short story to an anthology whose deadline is tomorrow. I didn’t get a chance to get any crits from my fellow writers’ group members, but maybe the antho will dig it. Or maybe at least they’ll send me some helpful feedback in their rejection letter, if I’m lucky. There are few things more depressing than a form rejection.

I’ve also been reading Hard Love, a YA novel a fellow WI member loaned me. Good reading, different than I expected, but in a good way. I’d never read an actual novel that dealt with zine culture, and as a soon-to-be-former distro owner, I thought that was a pretty awesome angle to include.

That’s it for now. Gotta get over to The Boyfriend’s house. Maybe I’ll get some writing done over there, or maybe I’ll just waste my brain on his cable TV.

Wanna hear about my week? No? Well, you will anyway. Here we go . . .

Monday - The boyfriend’s car got destroyed by a flooded street. Wonderful. He called me at work. I asked him how things were going. He answered with, “Oh, I’m just experiencing the worst day of my life right now.” The engine sucked up about 2 gallons of water. It’s dead, and it was only a 2004 model. Also, I worked overtime all week. Good for the paycheck, but not fun. Also had a class in Arlington after work. AHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Tuesday - Writer’s group meeting! Yay! Busy, but good. A productive, fun meeting. Carpooled with a fellow WI member. We got lost (it was at another member’s house, out of town), but it was all good.

Wednesday - I don’t remember anything about Wednesday. Hmmm. Okay, on to the next item of business . . .

Thursday - Worked, as usual, then played Keno with some ladies from work. Super fun! Everyone went home with something, which always rocks. Ate way too much unhealthy food. Took work home. Realized I really need to get groceries soon. Also got my package from the Church of the SubGenius!

Friday - OMG! Thank “Bob” it’s Friday! There is cake and chocolate caramel-covered apples at work! Do the gods want me to be disgustingly fat? Apparently. We realize at work that the books we’re working on has MANY MAJOR FLAWS! Namely, once everything is properly paginated, half the page references will be WRONG! Fun! This is really one weird book (I work at a company that publishes tax and accounting handbooks—it’s riveting. Come home, and find out Rio, my boy kitty, has decided he needs to MARK HIS TERRITORY! @#$*&%! Why, Rio? You are the only boy kitty in the entire apartment! Nay, you are the only boy anything in the entire apartment!!!! Luckily, he only marked a dirty towel as his territory, so it wasn’t that bad, but who knows what he’ll mark in the future. So, he’s now on the fast track to getting neutered. I’m calling the vet tomorrow. I was told six months was the magic age for that (he’s five months right now). It think he still has to get two more shots before he can get fixed, so he’s getting those ASAP!!!! Oh, and Clementine, my girl kitty, ate string earlier this week (the blinds in my apartment are vinyl and have frilly, stringy trim on the bottom, NOT kitty-friendly, but they belong to the apartment, not me, so I guess they have to stay), and ended up barfing and pooping it out over the week. Not a good week on the kitty front, for sure!

Now I’m hanging at The Boyfriend’s apartment, listening to Sara Shannon’s new album. I am SO glad this week is OVER!!!! I hope next week is a bit more low-key.

This has probably been one of my favorite songs since I was 17 or so. Love the synthesizers, the lyrics, the video, and Devo! Check it out!

(Oh, more writerly posts to come soon. It’s been a busy, weird, crazy, messed-up week.)

I got a Facebook account. Isn’t that swell?