Saturday, December 3, 2011

Saturday



Today is my RWA chapter's Christmas party. Amazing food, good friends, and talking about writing all afternoon. What more could you ask for?


I'll post the highlights later. I can't take any photos, my camera finally died a long and painful death, which sucks, that I haven't gotten a new one but with trying to buy a house (yikes! I just said trying!) and Christmas, things are sort of tight around here.


Later, gators!

Friday, December 2, 2011

Cold and well just cold



Cold day today. It's still dark but the weather report says it's supposed to snow today. I'm hoping for a non-stressful Friday. I don't have to do anything with the house purchase today. I feel as if I've been running paperwork all over the county for weeks!


I'm going to try to get some written on my horror story this weekend. Don't have much planned. I also want to pick up a planner for 2012 and get started in that. My goal for next year is to be more organized. How about you?

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Happy Thursday!



I knew I was getting low, but this morning I just used my last coffee. Caribou Coffee, the Keurig cups. Mmmmm..... I found a lot of coffees that I did not like throughout my Keurig journey, but I think the Caribou I will stick with for quite awhile. I'm not a big fan of flavored coffees, especially french vanilla, although I know lots of people who love it. I really like Green Mountain's Wild Berry, but that's about it as far as the flavs go.


News on the house is still moving forward, but it's still stressful, and I haven't even thought about the packing part. My mind keeps wondering, "Will we get it?" My husband says he lost his psychic hat when I repeatedly ask him. Hmm...


The Christmas party for my RWA chapter is this Saturday. I want to go, provided the weather is good. I don't like driving long distances in snow, and they're predicting it, so we'll see.


Happy Thursday!

Monday, November 28, 2011

Cyber Monday



I'm not doing the Cyber Monday. Just going to work like a regular Monday, for which I'm glad of. I'm not done Christmas shopping but I'm burnt out from it already. Got a good dent put in the shopping, and got the tree up, which I'd take pictures of but my camera has died, and aside from that I need to take a break for awhile. A rest on both the mind and the wallet. Had a really nice weekend though. Thanksgiving was wonderful, and Friday we had the inspection on the house we're buying done. I really have a hard time even thinking the home is our until we close and have keys in hand, but it's soooooo hard not to plan my new writing room. So difficult!


Yesterday I got a lot done on a synopsis I'm working on for a new historical proposal, and I plotted out a new outline for a horror I want to target to Ellora's Cave Shivers line. If you're a horror fan you've got to check out that line. They have some amazing talent there.


So that's all for early Monday.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Proposal



I still have not gotten the new proposal out. I don't know why. I'm stressing about the holidays, about the house, things like that. Maybe if I worked more on the writing I'd think less about real life...






Thanksgiving was very nice. My husband cooked a wonderful meal, and family was over. It was very nice and I'm thankful for the things I have an the people in my life.






How was your holiday?

Saturday, November 26, 2011

My green thumb



I have a strange way of planting. Outside my green thumb thrives. Without bragging, I can grow beautiful impatients (my favorite), shrubs, create water features, etc. However, inside I kill everything. It's gotten worse since we moved into the apartment. There is little light here, no window sills to speak of. I bought top quality dirt, new pots, new plant stand, and every plant I owned has since died. I'm really blaming it on the light this time. Sometimes it's my cats, yes, but they've been good little furr balls as of late, so I'm blaming the light or lack of.


My grandmother's cactus was one of the plants to bite the dust. I feel really bad about that because it was one of the last ones left that she grew.


However, hopefully...fingers crossed!...we will be moving into the house soon. I have soooo many plans in store for the new yard and garden come spring. I don't want to start "serious" planning until we have keys in hand because buying a home is so up and down. Anything can happened, and believe me, it's already happened more than once. So I'm really trying not to get my hopes up too high...but it's so difficult. I really want to start laying out my new garden, where my pond is going to go, etc. Not to mention my new writing office!


Deep breath...not yet, fingers are still crossed.

Friday, November 25, 2011

New stuff



I'm testing the waters by writing a horror story. I don't know if it's even any good, but the thing is practically writing itself. I have no idea really why I'm writing it, how I would even market it (really, it's that weird) or if I'll just retire it in the file cabinet after I'm finished.






But it's fun. I'm enjoying writing, and that's the important thing.






How about you? Any Black Friday plans? Or are you already out there hitting the pavement?