https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/"Hurry up with your life!" Agnes juggles her life's needs and wishes: from writing a novel to commenting on the latest movies, from childcare to climate control.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/587223Sometimes I'd like to be that intelligent, wise, well-spoken person on tv I watched and listened to today. How come he can say such true and well thought words? Where does he find the time to find the words? Sometimes I read a book I wish I could write. They say to aspiring writers to embrace...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/586439In just an hour or so, my house will be flooded. My husband and I are relaxing behind our respective computers to bide the time until THEY come. My parents, my brother, my aunt and uncle, are coming for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Tomorrow evening the group will be extended with my...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/582733Seven weeks and counting. Yes. Counting. If there's one thing that REALLY sucks about your first trimester of being pregnant is the counting and coincidentally the waiting. You've got nothing exciting going on. Even worse, you're either sick in your stomach, dizzy, or too tired to care about...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/580328Isn't that just a great word: "expecting". It describes accurately the condition I'm in. When you're pregant that very first time, you're jittery, nervous, elated, and you can hardly hold your tongue in every situation you enter, let alone plow your face into 'normal pose'. I've had my first...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/577856Vacation is over. It is the last evening before work knocks hard on your front door. You've done alright with the first diet day to lose those vacation pounds, but now you're dying for a glass of wine. Just to get through this extremely melancholy evening. The house is quiet. As if it's waiting...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/564396I spoke to your voicemail And left you a message I wrote you an e-mail And gave you my message I texted you words And sent you my message I spoke to your voicemail And repeated the message I wrote you an e-mail And re-sent the message I tried the other number I tried the other address But every...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/564385Define: Accomplishment. You set yourself a goal and then you make it happen. What if you're a real nitwit in doing that? What if you've been raised to matter. Everything you do has to matter. We have an annoying word for it in Dutch: nuttig, which translates generally into 'useful'. In the sense...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/563247I've never thought about the concept Anxiety Attack, except as a synonym maybe for Hysteria. However, they're miles apart. Two different concepts completely. You see: I am not hysterical. I have, however, experienced an anxiety attack. Thus, I now see the difference. Last night I couldn't sleep....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/560904My novel is set in the mid-nineties and I cannot change that (anymore). When I started working on this novel, many years ago, the gap between my life and the lives of my characters wasn't impressively large yet. After all, I was still in my twenties, albeit the final bit. Now, the mid-nineties...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ALocke/560711What is it with evil, vicious -- in one word BAD -- men on screen? How come they are extremely sexy in a seriously disturbing way? I am speaking of course about 'Currently Most Famous Dead Boy' Heath Ledger. I saw A Knight's Tale, I saw Brokeback Mountain, and especially after the last one I...