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LiveJournal for Eneit.
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| Thursday, April 6th, 2017 |
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| It's been a bit hectic, but how in the heck have we gotten to the end of first term already? I've managed to almost complete Ep 1 of Season 3. Season 2 is nearly ready to be launched into the wide world. The boys are doing amazingly well this year. I have five new labral tears through shoulder, and life continues on :) | ||||
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| Thursday, February 23rd, 2017 |
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Last week I got the news that my cousin had died. It wasn't unexpected and it was a release from pain, and if I'm totally honest - that he survived all the dumb things to get to the age he did was remarkable, but still the news was a blow. Then I recieved a call from one of my ex's aunts (I introduce the aunts to people as my aunts, I kept them in the divorce. It's kind of true - these two elderly, very religious ladies gently and proactively, kept me in their lives.) One of the aunts had died, it was very sudden, and although I could be grateful she didn't suffer, and linger - still the loss was immense. This week was the funerals. For the aunt, it was a hyper religous one and a half hour long service in the beautiful old church where she had lead the choir for over sixty years. The priest had not only known her personally for many years, but had been with her when she died, having given her the last rites ... Oddly I sat in the church, and listened to this service and felt nothing. I know good things were said but the whole ceremony felt like a theatrical event, the words said by rote; meaningless, altered, stretched and sung in ways that made them near incomprehensible. There was no connection, no emotion. I, who cry at sad adverts, found myself dry eyed at the funeral service for a woman I love very much. By comparison my cousin's funeral the next day, held at the funeral home and conducted by the funeral director who had never met my cousin, was respectful and deeply personal. My cousin had written a poem that the director read, telling us he was driving his V8 in a direction he'd never gone before; leaving his love with us always, while he went off for this very long road trip. My cousin's flaws and dumb life choices were honestly acknowledged, along with the equally deep and abiding love we had for him and the trust he'd earnt, that always kept us hoping that one day he'd beat off his demons. The mourners were invited to come up if they had anything they wished to share. So many spoke freely about their connection to him, and the loss he would be to them. There wasn't a dry eye in the room - including those of the funeral director and his staff. |
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| Thursday, January 26th, 2017 |
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Book 3 has been put on hiatus until the second week that the kids go back to school. Monday, I expect to be a wreck - Baby J starts high school. Tuesday looks like I'll be babysitting grandchildren. Wednesday I'll be helping my Dad plus the granddaughters start primary school. Thursday more doctors visits (for the kids, this time, not me,) plus, it's my birthday so family time is in order. Friday is potentially free, but I'm not holding out too much hope lol. But I've seen the cover art for Book 2 making lots of gorgeous progress, hopefully the next writerly stuff will be to announce it's finally out :) |
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| Friday, January 13th, 2017 |
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Trying to write when the boys have extended time off school ... doesn't really compute. Apart from a few bibs and bobs on the non-fiction project the most writerly thing I've been doing has been editing the books about to come out, and discussing cover art for all of Season Two with my publisher and art director. And deal with the heat. |
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| Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 |
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It's almost as if it wants to take some of the very best people with it. Since Rick Parfitt died three more people who inspired me, and enchanted my world when I was younger, have passed. George Michael (I wasn't a fan, but I liked the way he came across in interviews.) Richard Adams, Vera Rubin (I can't believe she was never awarded a nobel prize for her work!) Then today's news of Carrie Fisher. As a child, there were very few female leads who could kick arse when required. Leia was one of only a very few in either miovies or books, who felt real. Then Carrie Fisher emerged from Leia's shadow to be brutally honest, and funny about her life with mental illness and addiction. Carrie the person was so much more of a hero than Leia to me because yes, she was failible, no her life wasn't picture perfect, but she dealt with it through honesty and humour, and said to the world, "This is who I am, deal." This afternoon I read this, and it absolutely brought me undone. I believe I am going to stay up to watch 2016 become 2017, just to ensure it really has gone away. |
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| Monday, December 26th, 2016 |
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2016 has taken so many talented people. Yesterday I woke to the news that Rick Parfitt had died, and was instantly transported back to Christmas 1978 and my almost thirteen year old self: bored on a hot, dusty summer's day so I raided my brother's albums (If You Can't Stand the Heat was the new one) and really listened to their music for the first time. This was about the time I decided to not allow my brothers to play their own records if they came home drunk. I'd get up and put the records on, and take them off. Music was too important to be treated badly, as far as I was concerned. I never had teenage crush attractions to the musicians who created the music I liked (though I did feign one on Leif Garret so as to fit in at high school.) But the music itself? I just can not imagine life without music. For me, Status Quo was a big part of that. Their music is woven around so many important milestones in my life, good memories, sad memories, their music was there. It never worried me that they shifted at some stage to become a caberet act.That music and time wasn't what I remembered best, I was just happy for them that they were still working. But the words Status Quo to me, encompasses the albums from Dog of Two heads to Back to Back. Vale Rick, and thank you for the music. |
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| Saturday, November 19th, 2016 |
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I've been around, been reading, mostly just lurking, commenting occasionally. Realised I hadn't posted anything but just lately posts would have consisted of "I hurt" or "Kids are sick" or "bureaucracy sucks." On that last part, however, there has been some development, and it looks like bureaucracy still sucks, but in our case it's given the approval for the second M-Cat unit. In just over eleven weeks Baby J will start high school. I am so not ready for this. |
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| Saturday, October 8th, 2016 |
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It's been a very wet start to Spring here. The Murrumbidgee, Murray and Ovens rivers are all in flood, you can see some photos here. Where I live was built on a clay pan, so we'll have standing water for several weeks yet, and the crops are unable to be harvested. City down stream from us on the Murray, had a breach in the town levvees last night, so waiting to hear if they've gotten everyone evacuated safely. In personal news, despite the broken body issues, have gotten edits on Ghost Ship done, and back to publisher. Already started on Season Three of the Underground series. :) Boys have been on school holidays. Today we are planning on making white chocolate and macadamia biscuits, from a recipe which claims to make 100 biscuits. Good thing I have a large oven ... |
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| Sunday, September 4th, 2016 |
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Snaffled from 1. ARE YOU NAMED FOR ANYONE? |
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| Tuesday, August 30th, 2016 |
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I put off even glancing at Minecraft because I know myself, I'd get hooked and have to create all the things. After trying all sorts of lures to get me interested in it, Gelf finally said "You could even build your worlds in it - you could walk around your cities." So, I've already created most of Maykerra, built the shuttle link system and am now starting on Belua. Then I need to create Utilis and Faern - set up the black volcanic lake, and then I can go build the other two planets :) Every time I get stuck on the correct wording, or how I want the next step to flow, instead of playing cards or faffing about on fb - I build. It's surprisingly very handy. A couple of times I've built something, and then gone back and rewritten a section of the story, because I'd missed some of the description. Yes, I am having way too much fun with this. |
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| Sunday, August 28th, 2016 |
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| Friday, August 26th, 2016 |
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So I finished Ghost Ship - barring an editing read through. Am creating my sci fi world in Minecraft - it's helping me sort out a few issues. Renewed and updated the website. Found out the boys don't have asthma (confirming what I thought, but the drs wanted to assess their breathing) Got sciatica on both sides, then I promptly got a virus. Started writing Season 3 as I can't edit. Then I got an email from lj telling me they'd reset my password. Hmm, hadn't requested such. When I finally managed to log in, with new password, it was only to find all the pages were now in Russian. Looked pretty, but I couldn't read it. Took a bit of finangling to get the page language set back to English. There has been much cakeness. A cake representation of the DK Mountain track from Mariokart, no less. Child was very happy. |
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| Thursday, June 9th, 2016 |
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I've been volunteering at the boys school to do a program called Reading4life. It's a 17 week program that helps kids catch up on missed reading skills. Each volunteer works with one child for the full program. The child I am working with really struggled the first few weeks. Each page read was a chore. Then he learnt I'm an author. Now I get quizzed about how many words I've written each week and what's happening with my characters. He is reading full readers each session, and has gone up three reading levels already, and we are only halfway through the program. Apparently he didn't realise people could create their own stories, and that when you read you are learning how to tell your own stories. His teacher tells me he's attempting harder writing exercises in class voluntarily. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this little guy goes over the rest of the program, and over the rest of the year :) |
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| Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 |
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| My house is quiet (it's getting close to midnight, it damn well should be quiet!) I've been drinking coffee while writing. Ep 3 of Season 2 has a lot that has to happen in it, so I've had Radical Face playing in the background. Good music to write to, good beat and not too obtrusive. He's one of the very few artists I listen to while both writing and editing. Always Gold was on his 2012 release; Family Trees: The Roots. I adore the line 'You were always gold to me.' | ||||
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| Thursday, May 19th, 2016 |
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| So I made a brocolli and ginger soup. Not entirely sure I'll make it again. | ||||
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| Saturday, May 14th, 2016 |
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| Writing has been happening. The broken body is degenerating, but still going, and that's the main thing. Currently doing some editing, got the fire going, and boys playing quietly. Life's good | ||||
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| Monday, April 4th, 2016 |
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kids are asleep, Chris is asleep - he surprised me with roses when he got home from work :) I'm working, my house is quiet. Very, very quiet. Why is my house quiet? Because I have my terrifyingly fast, and eerily quiet new computer. I named it Jim - because hey, "It's life Jim, just not as we know it!" |
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| Monday, March 21st, 2016 |
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As of last month, I have been on this planet for half a century. It got me thinking. 1 I'm hard on houses. I have lived in six homes in my lifetime (one of those was still 'home' despite me living in varying shared accomodation/flats etc) Only two of those houses are still standing. One of those is the house I am currently living in - and thus far it's survived a lightning strike.
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| Saturday, January 2nd, 2016 |
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| Christmas was loud, obnoxious, and a lot of fun. Had nearly all the kids here for lunch, and the boys got spoilt rotten. New Years was quiet, the boys managed to stay up to watch the fireworks (yay for streamed fireworks) but were in bed asleep by 12.15 lol. So far 2016 has contained writing, research, music and food. It can continue this way, thank you :) | ||||
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| Thursday, December 10th, 2015 |
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| yeah, it's been a while. There's been computer issues (old computer went into deathroes, now playing with the SNC - or Slightly Newer Computer) I've been sick (again/still/sameshitdifferentday) I've been writing (notnearlyfastenough) and we've been dealing with autism issues with the boys (preteen with an asd child is ... one hell of a learning curve!) Seems I just get past one thing, and another pops up. Right now, however, I'm relaxing in a tinsel filled room, because nothing says Christmas quite like dragons and a Creeper (ala Minecraft) all covered in purple and silver tinsel, right? I thought so :) | ||||||
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LiveJournal for Eneit.
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thoughtful.
hopeful.
confused.
cheerful.