Thinking Day!

So on Wednesday our district celebrated "Thinking Day"
One elementary school gymnasium,
2 Sparks units,
3 Brownie units,
3 Guide units and
2 Pathfinder units.
That is a whole lot of young girls in one room. I think my hearing finally started to return to normal today *G*

We did a Olympic theme and had the girls divide up into "countries". They then worked their way around the different 'events'. Mine was volleyball. They only spent 10 minutes at each station so I wanted to keep it as easy as possible. Hense the birth of mosh pit volleyball! LOL Just tossed both the beachballs and the goal was to keep them off the ground. Gotta tell you the Brownies (7&8yrs) are brutally competative at that age LOL. They will attack with out any sort of plan. I had to break up more then one tugging match. The Guides and Pathinders are older and willing to help the Sparks get a turn. Of course everyone won a gold metal in the end. It was incredibly exhausting but a lot of fun. My girls both got home and literally fell into bed.

The local paper was there too taking pictures but we didn't make the paper. Some moron drove a car through the back doors of a highschool, apparently that is more newsworthy then us. BAH! Now if we magically appear in the weekend edition then I will post a copy on here.

I haven't had much to say regarding the Olympics although I love to watch them. I enjoy the winter ones more then the summer. I'm sure if has something to do with the hockey. *G* Our women's team took gold again! An awesome result that I feel was over shadowed by the dissapointing efforts from the men's team. I mean even with a bloody gold medal all the news wants to talk about is grezkey and his moaning.

Hello! The women don't play NHL and make millions, let them have their moment!

Now on the other side of the rink! CINDY KLASSEN!!!!!!! Need I say more.
Canada's newest favourite sport....Speed Skating!

I've watched a couple interviews with her and she is a class act. While being interview right after the 5,000M. She continued to praise her team mate Clara Hughes for a wonderful skate. Then the two of them on the podium with big beautiful smiles, singing the anthem and laughing was a great site. I love to see any metal winning athlete enjoying their moment. They should they worked hard for it!
Well this blog has taken me forever to write because I have been running downstairs to watch replays of Cindy and Clara's race and also because I wanted to see the awards ceremony. They showed an interview with Clara and we as Canadians are fortunate to have such class acts representing us. I mean she won a gold metal today. Not to forget that she is the first Canadian athlete to metal in both the Summer and Winter Olympics (she won bronze in cycling)

This was her moment to talk and instead of talking about herself she changed the course of the interview and spoke about an organization called "Right To Play" . She said that she watched a documantary about it and decided that if something good happened to her in this race then she was going to use her moment to promote it. Can you ask for better role models for young girls?!

I did it!!!

Yuppers I finally did it!!

Washed the mountain that is reproducing on my laundry room floor? NOPE

Slayed the multitude of dustbunnies with my swiffer sword? NOPE

Knit and purl my way to the end of at least one of the knitting projects I've started in the last year? NOPE

BUT

I did actually entered a real live contest!!!!

Four copies of the first ten pages of my manuscript were sent off to Wisconsin. For the WisRWA "Fab Five" contest. Now to some it's not that big of a deal but for me, holy shit! I mean there will be real people reading what I wrote. Complete strangers who don't know who I am and don't care.... ya ok I feel a bit nauseous.

They say that people who jump off high locations experience a moment of panic when the body/mind realizes there is no turning back. I had a moment similar to that. Almost tried to crawl into the post box to retrieve my entry.

Now all that is left is to wait........

My treat to myself.

Ok I realize that my posts of late have been a tad on the "woah is me" side of life. I realize this so today is going to be about something completely silly but cool.


I finally got a new coffee mug. Now I know this is not that big of a deal but it made me happy. Best thing was...it was on sale! LOL Now I have wanted a big latte cup for ages and this one has the added feature of being covered in pictures of chocolate and looks as though there is choccy overflowing the rim. Really what else does a girl need in a mug? Perfect for morning coffee and my cuppa tea when I write.

Writing it going well. I am working on my contest entry and if all goes well then I will be sending it in this week. My only concern is getting a SASE. I mean how can I buy american stamps here? Also they stipulate no metered postage? Hell, what's that?

So I am putting my faith in the postal outlet near my work that they will be able to help me. May the postage gods hear my plea. Perhaps I had better send a prayer to Hermes himself, before he reads my book and realizes what I did to him. (eek)

I need more hours in the day.

I think that hardest part of writing is actually sitting down and getting it done. During the day I think of what I want to write. I'll perhaps plan out exactly what it is I want to get done. I have a 35 minute commute to and from work every day and the time is always spent with the music blaring and my mind on my writing.

Trouble is when I finally get the girls to bed, and after 50,000 interruptions, I can actually put my thoughts to paper (computer screen)..........They're gone. Or I can't let go of what has gone on during the day and the harder I try the less the right side of my brain works and then I end up like I am right now. Pissed off and frustrated.

Yes I have a f'n platter full of crap in my life right now and I am juggling them pretty well but the one thing that is suffering the worst (besides my housework)
is my writing and that is the one thing I want to do the most.

I have thought of getting up earlier and squeezing in some "me" time then. Yea great idea till the alarm goes off at 5 am. Then all I can think about is how I want to get up but can't 'cause I am so tired and then I feel guilty. Yea so the early idea is just setting my self up for failure.

Trouble is my children as night owls just like me, so they don't go to sleep at 8 or even 9 like I wish. It can b 10:30 and they are stil awake calling out every once in a while. And I don't have to say that the moment I sit down is the moment I get my name called.

Where is my unemployed hubby you might ask. Playing online poker of course. Sure he tells the girls to stop yelling for mummy; but then he yells upstairs from the living room and I am a few steps away trying to write. I guess he doesn't realize listening to him get impatient with the kids is just as distracting.

*sigh*

ok I think I am done whining.....maybe not but I'll stop inflicting you with my endless complaints.

I just need to feel inspired.

I need all the crap in my life to suddenly dissapear.

I need to win the lottery so I can move to Wales and sit in my garden just behind my thatched cottage with my laptop and write. Or better yet a hammock in Puerto Vallarta. Yea I bet I'd get tons of writing done then. In between my naps of course.

Valentines~Schmanentines

I know it doesn't sound very romantic but I am just not a big fan of Valentiens Day. Despite the fact that I did have fun dressing up my avatar LOL.

Such a big deal is made out of this one day as if our self esteem or self worth is measure by it. This was the day I hated most when I was in high school. The school sold flowers that got delivered to home-room on the morning of the 14th. I can remember wishing and praying that I would get at least one but never did. Of course I wasn't one of the "pretty" girls. Too tall, too skinny, too shy. Whatever.

Of course over time I grew into my height, meaning that I eventually developed curves in all the right places, even if I wish now I wasn't so curvy in some places *G* I'm still a bit shy around people I don't know but I am comfortable with my self. I don't beat myself up when I have goober moment.

I found a wonderful man who drives me insane and pisses me off and loves me to death. So the 14th of February doen't mean what it used to anymore. I have fun doing things for my girls. Hubby picks up a small boquet of flowers for each of them and meets them at school with it. LOL I pity their future boyfriends they will have such high expectations. For me I have my hubby and my writing everyday of the year.

Throughts from the Creative Side of Life

Things have taken an decidedly craftier tone around the house lately. I'm cross-stitching again. Not sure why but I found a small one I had been working on years ago. It's a wee winter star(pentagram)that I got as a freebee when I placed an order with Witches Stitches. Damn that has to be at least 4 years ago now. I just noticed that you can download that star pattern from the website for free. I'll put up a picture of mine when I have it finished. I'm about halfway through my "Green Man". Haven't touched that in over a year either.

*sigh* I'm getting off topic LOL

I have discovered that doing a bit of stitching actually gets my creative side rumbling much more then knitting. I rewrote a couple scenes in my book and am much happier with them. Perhaps knitting is so mechanical for me that I don't have to be creative...with cross stitching I have to follow the charts and sort through colourful skeins of thread and the colours are changing much more frequently then when I knit. OR perhaps it's as simple as I need to set down my knitting needles for a bit. What ever works right?

Went to Michaels to pick up some floss yesterday, I let the girls pick out a rug hooking kit each. I think I was about their age when I first tried it. Teaghan is a latching fiend! She has been sitting at the kitchen table for the last two night working on her and is she ever getting quick! Ryleigh has one as well but her attention span is much shorter. I'll be sure to add pictures when I have them.


Speaking of creative... Is this not an amazing cover for a book! I absolutly love it. Not sure what it is about it, but that misty magical current dancing along her finger tips is awesome. This is Michele Armstrong's newest book cover. Available through Loose-Id in the, hopefully, near future. I'm not sure the exact release date but there is her first book in the series, Blood Kiss that is already available.

The Heroine formerly known as "That Nameless Bimbo"

I dont' believe it. Last night she finally agreed on a name. Amaryllis? Can you believe it? It's Greek and means "sparkling". I'm sure it will work into her personality at some point because it's not a term I would use to discribe her. But she is willing to let me shorten it to Amy (which means well loved). I am keeping with the Greek God(esses)it just seemed logical to give her a greek name since there is some confusion at the beginning. Took some getting use to but by this morning it was starting to grow on me. Amaryllis Bitonou....yea it works. It is amazing how much better I feel now. I actually can't wait to write more. *G*

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So far today I have brushed up on my Navarra wine regions, painted one coat on my nails, plotted some more on my book, finished reading "Bait' by Karen Robards, and that was after I got the kids up, dressed, fed, lunches made and driven to school. Can you say nervous energy?

I'm trying not to let my own anxiety level creep up on me. Annoying as hell is the fact that I know what is bothering me and I knew it would happen. Logically one would think that they would cancel each other out? *snort* Apparently not. So back to plotting and distracting myself.

Spanish Wine and Cheesey Insecurities

I'm working a really cool function called Bravo Espana tomorrow night. Can't wait, but I should brush up on my Spanish regions tonight. LOL

I know the table I am working at is featuring wines from the Navarra region. Should be fun, the tickets weren't that expensive so it cuts down on the amount of arrogant wine snobs that will attend. I hate having to work functions filled with pretentious know-it-alls. Spoils it for everyone when you get some loud mouth spouting an opinion that no one, especially myself, wants to hear. My guess is the crowd will be younger and more willing to experiment. Spanish wines are apparently the newest trend and are forcasted to take over the Australian dominated younger market. The crowd tomorrow will be more telling then any number cruncher when it comes to trends though.

The only drawback is that it's downtown Toronto and I won't get home on the train till after 11. Travelling around on the subways and Go trains at that time of night makes me a bit nervous as well. Yes my daughter inheritated her anxiety levels from me. I'll have myself work into a nervous wreck by the time my train leaves tomorrow but I'm sure it will be fine. I'll have 45 minutes on the train, peace and quiet with no one bothering me to work out plots and personality traits.

I've really been draggin' my heels over my writing. Missing that contest really took the wind out of my sails. But I'm not going to let it bother me anymore. *stomping foot*

This is my year! I will finish at least one book and have it submitted to every editor I can beg and plead my case to. *G*

I do find that I spend more time thinking about what I should write then just writing. Still not sure if it is a good thing. Plotting is good but can you over-plot? I mean I am almost sick and tired of second guessing myself all the time; To the point where I am ready to ditch it and start something new. Of course that could be one of the major reasons that I don't have anything finished.

Happy Super Sunday!!

Just about 3 hours till kick off.

Yup my last football related post for another 7 months. I may sneak in the odd picture of #43 here and there though LOL. Hubby and his best friend are already parked in front of the tv watching pre-game stuff.
Hubby is a stress filled mess, couldn't sleep last night, can't eat today. Hopefully we won't have a repeat of the last time the steelers were in the Superbowl. Bad night.

Let's hope I have a happy post later. It will be picture filled regardless *G*

Found hubby's dream car LOL

The Pierced, Cheap Book, Wild Duck, Day

I love days like today. What started as a normal boring laundry filled day off, ended quite differently.

My oldest suddenly announced that she wanted to get her ears pierced. I know many won't realize the feat that this is but my daughter is prone to anxiety and tends to worry herself to death over little things. As of her 7th birthday I told her that she could get her ears pierced when ever she wanted. It's been a year and a half and every once in a while she mentions it but doesn't want to do it yet. We were wandering through the mall and she whispered to hubby that today she was ready. So it was off to the drug store to get an 'emla' patch.(it numbs the skin) She kept saying that she was a little bit scared but didn't want to change her mind.

We let her pick which ever pair she wanted and after a painless split second click; she was sporting a sparkly pair of earrings. She is so proud of herself and obviously so am I. This was a big step for her and we made a big deal out of her bravery. Of course it took forever to get out of the mall because she had to stop and admire her ears in every mirror she spotted.

My youngest is counting down the days to her 7th birthday.

Then I found a book sale. 10% off already reduced paperbacks. WooHoo!!!
Picked up an anthology called "Man of my Dreams" Featuring Sherrily Kenyon, Maggie Shayne, Suzanne Forester and Virginia Kantra; "Bait" by Karen Robarts, and "Behind the Mask" by Metsy Hingle. I've never seen Ms. Hingles work before so I'm looking forward to reading it. Who knows I might have just stumbled on my next favourite author.

When we got home I cooked up some wild duck. One of my customers at work was kind enough to give me some to try. It was awesome if I do say so myself. I fried bacon and onion in the pan and then placed the two breasts in the middle of it. Now my customer suggested making a cranberry sauce using a bunch of cranberries, brown sugar and maple syrup and then let it simmer into a sauce. But I didn't have whole cranberries and instead ad-libbed and put a quarter can of jellied cranberry sauce in the pan with everything else.

The result was awesome. I loved it and so did the girls. My youngest annouced she wanted to eat that everyday and my oldest liked it as well. Hubby refused to try it as it doesn't fall into the "oink,moo,cluck" catagory. The only meats he will eat. Go figure I love experimenting with food and I marry a man who is the fussiest eater on the planet.

After a good read and soak in the tub, I am revamping my novel. I'm still cool with the beginning. It's the rest I'm not sure about. I'm goign to attempt plotting and see if that helps. There is a great post on Angela Knights blog that I found helpful.
Look to the left her name in in my daily reads.

I also looked into so online classes from a local college that I might take in the spring. One is "Grammer for Writers" LOL. Without a doubt that will be the first one I take. Then there is "Writing for Publication I & II" and a class on Romance Writing and "Suspense and Mystery Writing" Should keep me out of trouble for the next year. *G*

Just as a side thought I wish there were smilies on this site. I love using them. There has to be some sort of way to do it? hmmm something new to play with LOL

Husbands are the most frustrating creatures!

So hubby has discovered online poker. Am I happy? NO! damn I can't get him off the damn computer. And I used to bitch about the amount of time he and his buddy played X-Box. Yes what was that saying "Becareful what you wish for???"

When I can get a moment on the computer my train of thought is interrupted a dozen times by him asking me questions like "How long to do I boil eggs for?" and "I read this article today on Cowher." *smcking forhead* Yes I am back to thinking of renaming this blog "Things I think about when my husband talks football." Thankfully there is only 1 game left. *yea, I see the light*

My heroine while apparently hating her name hasn't been kind enough to tell me what she likes. I've been pouring over namebooks and listening to her endless complaints over each one that catches my eye. Told her she better pipe up or I am moving on to one of my historicals. *nodding* That should smarten her up, but since she is a figment from my thought processess, it won't.

Been looking through my "GoodFaeries/BadFaeries" book by Brian Froud. A couple of the little munchkins started announcing their positions in my mideavel piece.
Hhhmmm faeries in a romance?? It could happen. Now the question is would they help or hinder? That all depends on their mood I would assume.

Things I think of in the bath.....

Anyone remember the tub scene from the first "Nightmare on Elm Street"? If I close my eyes while soaking it will replay in my memory at least once.
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I'm about to turn 35. Shouldn't I have grown out of my fasination with tatoos yet?
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It has come to my attention that my heroine HATES! her name. Nice of her to mention it now. Hello! It's been 3 months ya couldn't have said something sooner? Sheesh. Ok so I will admit that her name was a quick choice with little actual thought in place. Also the fact that after polishing the first 35 pages it suddenly dawned on me that I haven't really discribed her at all. I wonder if that will make it flow better.
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Where would I put another tatoo?
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If I was to quit my job what else would I do? Besides being a published author, that's a given.....
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My characters tend to become permanent voices in my head. Some come and go, others never leave. Although I am curious to see if writing thier stories exorcises them? Simply put, it's getting crowded in there.
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I wonder if my brother could help me with a website?
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Should I concentrate on next....a sequal to the book I am writing or one of my historicals? Mideavel or Regency?
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Did the intervention of the fates last week save me from a crushing blow from negative score sheets, forceing me to improve the content before sending it in?
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Is building a website positive thinking or complete arrogance?
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hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm I wonder if I will ever soak enough to answer these or will I just come up with more questions???

Man did I do a stupid!!!!!

So it's a toss up...
Either I had a full on "d'oh" moment this week, or the Fates are bitches! At the risk of retribution, I am saying the latter.

Take this as a lesson from me. Never pre-order anything and believe the delivery date they give you. If you do then make sure you have LOTS of room on your credit card. I play my cards pretty close to the edge, hey I'm human and like most the human race out there. So I had a wack load of stuff on order but one of the books wasn't due to be released until February. The delivery date on my order was Feb 6-20th.

So as some of you will remember, I have been working all month on an entry to the Passionate Ink contest. It's pretty much take up every waking thought and been almost my sole topic of conversation.

Well Amazon shipped early. A fuck'n week and a half early! Wiped out the remaining credit on my card. Of course the payment I made earlier in the week won't be posted to my account till Monday. Why is it I can purchase something and have it instantly come off my card, but when I make a payment it takes 3-4 business days to clear?

So no credit, no contest.

Yes I could have puked and indeed thought about it. Only bright thought is the books themselves. Kinda hard to be pissed off when I got new books. One was Beth Ciotta's newest Lasso the Moon. Finished it already. LOVED IT! Can't reccommend it enough! It was a great read and stopped me from pounding my head on the nearest wall for my sheer stupidity.

So I am back to being pissed at the fates. Sure I could work on my entry more. There is still work to be done on it and the entire book, but I really wanted to get a score sheet on it. See what they thought the weak parts were. I'm not that arrogant to think that it was perfect. I know it need more work and doesn't flow as nicely as I wish it would. Fuck! Grrrrrrrr still pisses me off.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From the other side of my brain.....

So my obsession with everything Faery is no secret. Imagine my delight when I found two of my passions blended into one!

I am a HUGE! fan of Brian Froud. He is the author of Good Faeries/Bad Faeries and Lady Cottington's Pressed Faerie Book. His artwork makes me grin and personally I have always enjoyed the pictures of ugly faeries as opposed to the etherial perfect ones.



Now what I found are wineries that have used his artwork on their labels! Yes I know the wine could suck but who cares, the bottles would look beautiful on a shelf *BG* There are two, Summerhill Pyramid Winery is from BC. The other is Chateau Lorane from Oregon. I'm actually going to email the New World buyer at work and see if maybe we can get these wines in. It could happen! *Fingers Crossed*

Yes Honey, this one is for you too.

Need I say more? February 5, 2006

7 more days and the good guys face the Seahawks (aka badguys)

One Step Closer

Well if it isn't already obvious, this post is in honour of my hubby's favourite team of all time.

The Pittsburgh Steelers!!!!

Tomorrow they play in the AFC Championship and if they win then they go on the the "S" game. (Can't say it in case I jinx it.)

My loving, yet slightly insane, husband has been pacing since he woke up this morning. The pressure is getting to him and he doesn't even play for the team. I will admit that he is doing much better this year then he did at this point last year. The game last year was against New England and they lost. This year they play Denver, Not that this means anything to me, but since hubby keep repeating it, it must be important. LOL
Featured here is one of the most intense coaches out there. Mr Bill Cowher! Man I have seen this guy pissed out on the field and am glad that I will never be in some of his players cleats.

You didn't honestly think that I could have anything steelers related with out a picture of MY favourite player #43 Troy Polamalu

I'm still looking for some nice pictures of Big Ben and the Bus. I'll add them as sooneas I find them.

Until then...

******GO STEELERS GO******

Random thoughts from an unorganized mind

So I am looking for a website to find out what the Greeks wore before the first century and what do I stumble scross? A Quiz. Very appropriate too concidering where my mind has been living the past couple weeks. *G* And I am Artemis!!! One totally kick ass Goddess if you ask me. I'll get into why I like so so much at some later date. Not today.




I really don't wear much in the way of jewllery, to the point where I can't remember the last time I put in earrings. Ever since I grew my hair no one sees my ears so what is the point? I wear the same watch and the same necklace every day. That's just me but then this whole rubber wristband trend arrived and I really like them!!! They are kind of a casual way to accessorize and still make people aware of things that are important to you. Most of the ones I wear are children related. The two at the top are the ones I pretty much wear on a daily basis.

Black is an anti bullying campaign ~ Dare To Care
Green is for the Girl Guides of Canada ~ Make new friends but keep the old...
White is for the Children's Miracle Network ~ Glow for Kids (it really glows in the dark!)
Dark Pink is for Breast Cancer research ~ I Am The End
Light Pink is another for Breast Cancer Research ~ Sutter Home For Hope
Sutter Home is a California winery and cudos to them for their annual campaigns for research.

There is another couple I want to get, they are put out by P.E.A.C.E. and Project Edan They are available through their websites and as soon as my credit card is happy with me again I'll be treating myself *G*

Neurotics 'R' Us

Wow I can't believe how fast this month is passing. It's the 11th already? Damn and the month is just about to go even quicker. I just realized that a contest I had given up on entering is still within my range only I have to have everything ready by the 28th!

Originally I heard about this contest back in November when I was plugging away at my nanowrimo. So I figured what the hell, but December was a complete write off and i kinda toss the idea thinking maybe next year. That is until I got a reminder notice in my email and realized I only have to have the first 35 pages done. Well hell I have over a hundred so tweeking the first couple chapters should be no problem right?
WRONG!

Ever have every insecurity and neurotic tendancy blow up to 10 times their normal size in the matter of a few hours? I went from being totally pumped to aaarrrgghhh! It all sucks!

Silly eh? But I guess this is just one of those things I either deal with or toss the entire thing. So I have resorted back to what I usually do when my anxiety level starts rising. Break it down to small goals. The first time I entered a contest was a year ago and my goal for that one was just to get up enough nerve to actually enter it. Which I did. No nothing came out of it I'm not even sure where I landed as far as marks go they never said but that is ok because I accomplished what I set out to do.

Now this one is a bit more detailed, 5 page synopsis, no more then 35 pages long with a projected length of over 25,000 and the such. So this goal will be to actually get it all done and ready and entered before the 28th. I will not beat myself up if I don't do well, it's just one step closer to the day that I do get an acceptance letter.


My that sounded rather calm and rational didn't it? Of course I fully expect to have bitten off all my nails by the end of this, be sporting a few nasty pimples, and have eaten my weight in Vanilla~Candycane~fudge~crackle~icecream.

I was telling hubby about it and he suggested that I enter more then one catagory. *snmackingforehead* I'd love to but not this year. As tempting as it is to see if I could crank out 35 pages on one of my historical ideas I think adding that much more stress on myself would probably drive me insane. The sick think is I am tempted to try, LOL. It's nice to have so much support from him and the knowledge that he thinks I could do it. It was when I mentioned that one of the editors looking at the entries is from AVON(!) he suggested tring to get a second entry ready. When I first started seriously thinking about becoming an author I had said many times that I would love for my historicals be published by them.

Ok I am almost talkinn myself into this here, which is dooming myself to 2 quarts of icecream I know it!

Ok before I bite off more then I can chew, I'm going to concentrate on my paranormal entry then *IF* I have time then I will see if I can crank out something half decent for a historical entry.



Karma says "Huh?"

How old is old??

Okay it is possible I might have made a real "eeewwww" step in my life.
Exactly how old do you have to be before your considered a "dirty old lady"? Why you might ask, well it all started out innocently enough....

I was watching Sky High with the girls. The disney movie, and instead of getting lust bunnies over Kurt Russell, like any normal person. I find my self checking out one of the other *coughyoungercough* actors. Steven Strait to be exact. Now the pictures here don't really do him justice. He looks much better in the movie. My only excuse is that his character is exactly the type of guy I was attracted to, yet terrified to speak to, in High School~the broody, angry, bad boy.




Yes I will admit that getting the hots for a (almost) 20 year old at my age is kinda nasty but he has a gorgeous smile and my brain never really matured past twenty-five so that makes it ok right?? Oh god worse yet does this make me a cougar *gasp* Oh the horror!!

He has good taste in older women, since he is posing with Carrie Fisher, ok I promise no waxing on about 'you know who' and my favourite movies series of all time.
*coughstarwarscough*

Well I'm off to continue working on some plot ideas for a project and tomorrow I am going to officially start edits on my nanowrimo. I think I am terrified to actually look at it. What if is it all crap? What if it all sucks? Or worse yet what if I like it and have to grow a big pair of hairy balls to get the nerve to actually submitt it!

Or better yet What if I stop all this "what iffing" and start What iffing my plot lines. Oh that makes more sense *BG*

And finally it is over....

January 2nd...is there any better day? Not, if you work retail. Sure now there are the endless return and exchanges but that I can handle. The holiday madness is over the bitching, whining, lineups, endless questions that are pratically identical. Holestly if anyone asks me again what wine goes with turkey, I may just plop one on their head!

(*NOTE: I spent almost an hour looking ofr a picture of Friends' Joey with a turkey on his head from that Thaksgiving episode. And couldn't find one anywhere. Go figure!
So just picture it in your heads for me OK?)

So now that the insanity is over my plan is to get my ass back into writing mode. I have my personal untitled WIP to work on and the project Paxa and I have been bouncing around.
Also there is my fun writing I have gotten back into lately that jump starts my brain and helps get the creative juices flowing. My posts are usually just a couple paragraphs long and only from my charries POV Mystique

It was started a couple years ago by myself and another writing partner that enjoyed writing things a but more on the graphic side. Sad part is that RL caught up with us shortly after and it kinda got left in the dust. But we caught up with each other again and got the ball rolling. It's just the two of us writing things back and forth and it's been fairly tame as of late but as I start working out frustrations and ideas on it things will steam up again.

ON a personal note I am just about 80% done the thrid book from Beth Ciotta. Are they good you might ask? Well I started them 2 days ago. They are awesome and great fun to read!!! I can't wait till her next one is out.

Have fun in the snow or sun depending on where you are and I'll catch up again later!

*muah*

At last a bit of calm......

Okies so as everyone within a 50 mile radius of my ranting can tell, I've been a little edgy as of late. First sign is always when my use of the English language gets a little more colourful. *G*

Life while still stressful, is manageable; either that or work is so bloody hectic that I don't have time to worry about anything else because I am dead tired by the time I get home LOL

My WIP has stalled out for the time being, simply because all available brain cells are otherwise occupied but come Jan 1, I will be working double hard on it.
I'm still writing on funstuff, things that only require a paragraph or so a day. Some possibilities for future projects and most just to keep the right side of my brain active.

Despite all my 'whoa is me' crying some really Cool Stuff that has happened.
I got a signed cover flap and book mark and pen from Mary Stella as a prize for my comment I wrote for a writing challenge she opened to everyone who reads her blog. Who Killed Rock Granite? This was back in October and everyone who submitted an idea got one but I'm still thrilled about it.

Then a couple days ago I dropped in a couple additions into a Round Robin that Beth Ciotta was doing and my name was one of two that won an autographed set of her three books!!!! Jinxed, Charmed, and Seduced

I hope that one day I am in the same position as these two ladies and hope that I can be as generous. This is just way cool and a massive pick me up for such a bummer month. I am just tickled about the possibility of 3 new books coming my way and ones that I had planned to purchase as soon as my credit card was happy with me again. Her newest book Lasso The Moon is being released in February and I have preodered one already.

On a side note I have to toot my own horn on my progress with the HTML stuff. I'm getting good at the links and stuff. Of course it takes me a few hours to do it but *shrugs* who cares, it actually fun. I might actually take a course on website building one day.