Decisions, decisions ...

"Jennifer stood there, quiety ovulating."

-- an opening line from the Lyttle Lytton Contest

Today has been a day of see-sawing between lows and a high. Lows:

• I fell asleep in middle of a chat session last night, missing out on the fun.
• while I was asleep, Will closed the laptop, not realising that I hadn't saved an email draft I was composing. *cries*
• this morning I woke up to Will reading Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar and I pointed out I was reading that book. He said he'll give it back to me when he's done with it. We squabbled and ended up agreeing to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. As I type this, he's reading the damn book.
• I have no reader interview lined up. This week I'll look around for more readers, just enough to start again from September onwards. [If you are a reader and interested in giving this lark a try, please email me on applecross @ gmail.com]
• One of my cats decided to express his displeasure to me for locking him out in the rain by throwing up in middle of the living room floor.

High: A visitor emailed me recently to say that she thought she may have the back-up of my blog as she, from time to time, downloaded my blog for offline reading. I was pretty much overjoyed to hear this. I wrote back, asking if she has all reader interviews as I'd love to have them back online. This morning she sent a reply to say that she has the entire blog in her hard drive after all and she'd be happy to email the lot to me if I'd like it. Holy Jesus! That's fantastic! Of course I wrote back, saying I'd love to have it. I think I gibberished a bit, too, but still, I was really pleased that my old blog is still alive. Now the question is how much of the old blog should be returned to this blog? I think for the time being I'll focus on getting reader interviews back online, and then decide whether to have the entire old blog back online. Or just make a selection? If I went with the selection, on what basis should I choose? Decisions, decisions ... Speaking of decisions! I'm trying to decide what to write about in place of a reader interview tomorrow:

• a round-up of good published/aspiring authors' blogs I think it'd be interesting to visit some lesser known writer blogs, particularly those who make a lot of efforts to make their blogs interesting and lively.
• write a mini review for each romance that features deaf character[s] So far I read twelve romances out of fifty-nine novels that feature a deaf character. I still think Mary Balogh's Silent Melody has the worst portrayal of a deaf character, and Lyn Stone's The Highland Wife is not that far behind.
• another round of link slutage I found quite a few interesting - and some bizarre - links.
• a Bitch Kitty rant It was written originally for a RTB column, but I decided that it'd be better off here because a) this blog has a much smaller number of people and b) I have the control over comments. Me and my Delete button. Hur hur!
• another round-up of authors' web sites Enuff said.
• dissect a historical romance I was thinking of doing something similiar to History Spork, but for a historical romance. FWIW, I refuse to touch a Scottish-setting historical. I mean, I recently spotted an absolutely insane geographical error in Patricia Cabot's Kiss the Bride and ... oh, I'll shut up. For the sake of my blood pressure, it'll have to be an English-setting historical romance.
• Top 20 Favourite Romance Covers I have my favourites, oh, yes. There is quite a few that I bought for covers alone. Tragic? Hey, I don't collect stamps like a certain cousin does.

Link of the Day: Googlism Be good, be bad & be safe.