Happy Spring!

Happy Spring, everyone! I hope your weather has been fantastic and continues to improve. Holy cow, I can't tell you how much I disliked this winter - I do not do well in the cold. Not at all. It makes me exceptionally crabby and unproductive.

Isn't this a cool perspective?
If this pic is yours, let me know so I can
give you credit! It's beautiful.

What is it about nice weather that motivates? Is it the sunshine? The soft breeze? The colorful flowers and greenery poking through the brown dirt (or red, as it is in my neck of the woods)? I'm not sure but it certainly gets me moving (see, I even wrote a blog post after a many-day hiatus. A hiatus that was completely unintended. Time just slipped away from me!).

It's even got me working on not one but TWO writing projects! The first is actually my NaNo project, which needs a complete overhaul, including a new beginning AND a new ending. And a whole bunch of fixin' in the middle. (eep!) Plus, I'm researching and plotting my next story. I'm trying my hand at a mystery, and I'm pretty darned excited about it. I've always loved mysteries but have been a bit too... intimidated, I guess, to attempt one. Forget that, I finally said to myself. I've read a zillion mysteries, watched a kabillion mystery shows, I can do this! So, we'll see if I'm right. I hope so. I'm really liking my main character and her family - they seem like a crazy bunch (which is always fun to write).

And, to keep myself motivated writing-wise, I'm doing the A to Z Blogging Challenge, in which I'll write a post for every day in April except for Sundays. And each day's theme matches a letter of the alphabet. While I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to write for twenty-six posts (as opposed to the very comfortable once a week thing I've got going). As of today, there are almost 550 bloggers of every shape and size taking on the challenge, so it should be interesting! 

Care to join me? (*snort* that's like asking if y'all are nuts. Wait, are you? Good! Wanna join me?)

Yes, I am a Book Addict...

...and there is no cure! (God, I love books. Don't you?) However, I need to chill a bit on the book buying, which has been out of control lately. But So. Many. Good. Books! I mean, check out my TBR shelves:

Oh, wait, that's not all...

Yeah. And that doesn't even include the books on my Kindle! I'm telling you...no more books until I get these shelves tamed! (Yeah, right.) I just started UNEARTHLY by Cynthia Hand on my Kindle and, so far, very different than most of the angel books out there so I'm really enjoying it.


Anyway, how's your TBR pile(s) looking? Anything in particular that's on the top of your TBR pile?