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Oh my aching HEAD!

13 Saturday Jul 2019

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I’m keeping this short for a number of reasons, number one being yet another headache!  I woke with this just before 6 this morning… yeah, that’s right, I bypassed 4 a.m. but I have been awake since 5:50.   I took meds, the headache went away and started to come back shortly before lunch and is just progressively getting worse.

I have tried to ignore it, I did some work on the final article but I was really struggling with work and articulating words.

I had a glass of wine last evening, that didn’t work.  I think I will have to resort to some of my mightier sleeping pills that I keep for these occasions especially.

I know what I really need but… well, maybe someday!

I am off to a birthday party… with kids… IF I can manage it.  I’ve tried some oils and I’ve just taken my migraine meds so with a little luck in an hour I will be feeling MUCH better.

Belated Thanksgiving

15 Monday Oct 2018

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Well!  Here I am!  I tried desperately to write a post last week… to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving…

I failed!

Miserably!

I have now finished two weeks of the new job and have FINALLY just opened up three hours of available time at the wellness studio!

I also spent the last two shifts at Passport Health training someone new.

And through it all, I’m still trying to wait patiently to hear from the publisher about my book!

On the writing front it has mostly been attempts at blog posts and business letters and introductions for the wellness studio.

It’s supposed to be an exciting time yet I feel tired and uninspired.  I’m finding it difficult to focus on anything.

Last Monday we finished closing the pool.  Wednesday I took off to the trailer and the weather was fantastic!  I went to the beach and we had to turn the A/C on to cool the trailer down.  We never had to turn on the heat.  Had I actually worn my water shoes, I might have actually gone into the lake!  However, on Thursday we closed the trailer.  Summer, my friends, is O.V.E.R. and that makes me sad and gloomy too.

But that does mean Nanowrimo is right around the corner… full on writing for a month! At least I can HOPE.

If you’re thinking of joining Nano this year, now is the time to jump on the website and get signed up!

It might be time for me to work out the sequel to the novel that I’ve sent out to that publisher.  Sometimes forcing yourself to write 1,667 words a day is what it takes to get a story out of you and onto the page.  You have to work so fast that everything comes pouring out.  Then you can pick through after the 50,000 words are there and organize it all and see what you can come up with.  It works… it has worked for me many times and I hope that I have the time and patience for it to work again.

So, come on, join in the fun!

I did it!

31 Sunday Jan 2016

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So I told myself this year that I was going to do my best to be a more active participant in the arts in the region as well as my craft itself.

So far, I have submitted to two competitions and I just submitted two poems to a local Call for Entry for Art That Moves You… this is a joint project to put art on some of our buses for riders to enjoy.

When I write poetry, usually the mood has to strike so this was different.  I wrote down words that might be encouraging to riders, especially at the end of a long day.  I think, I hope, I came up with something that will first be appreciated enough by the judges to reach those riders who need those words.

So I’m trying!  Helping my daughter with her Creative Writing homework actually helped to spark it again for me… don’t tell her!  Actually do!  I think deep down she knows how important my writing is to me so for her to know that she helped with this in some way might be just what she needs!

I have much on my to-do list!  I want to schedule a Cursive Writing class for after March Break sometime.  I’m also waiting to hear back from the Button Factory but that will likely take some time since the Winter Session is really just starting up and I’m supposed to be going on in the Spring Session.  I also need to start planning an Advanced Camp.  I’d hoped to hear back from more campers parents than I have so far because this year it goes from a 4-day to a 5-day which means an extra day of rent plus an extra three hours of ME!  Plus extra crafts!  I’m not sure what to do if I don’t hear back from at least a few more who promised they were going to bring their young writers back if I ran an advanced camp.

This is what happens when you have more than one pot to stir!  One pot always ends up being neglected and, in my case, it’s often my writing that gets ignored!

Let’s shoot for the stars this year! I believe I already said that this year!  I’m saying it again so let’s do it anyway!

I will definitely keep you posted on the Art That Moves You project.  I do hope that I am one of the chosen.  I think it’s a terrific project idea and hopefully it will lead to more focus on the arts we have in this region!

Could I have MORE time please?

21 Thursday Aug 2014

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All I really want is more time.  More time to get some writing done.  I might have that soon though.  This weekend… I’m off to the beach!  My daughter is bringing along a friend.  I’m hoping that means that they will entertain themselves while I can sit and do some writing!

And reading… my newest copy of Writer’s Digest arrived on Monday and I have yet to even open it.  I’m saving that too.

I am on to Chapter 6 though which isn’t a lot really since I was on Chapter 4 a week ago.  However I haven’t had a lot of time and, I’m sure you find too, it’s always a trade-off.  It’s either clean the house or write and sometimes the vacuuming just has to be done. 

I’m also on vacation for two weeks starting Friday and have every intention of doing a lot of writing.  Maybe I can even finish it?  That’s probably asking a lot!  But I do have high hopes!

So far I made it to Chapter 6 and I am just about to open the… oh, wait a minute, I don’t want to spoil it!!  Anyway, I can now move it forward more and before I know it, that part where I didn’t want to rush into the climax?  That will be upon me!

Going back to no time… Teenager, horseback riding, grandmother with Alzheimer’s… pretty well covers it all!!  It takes time to actually get into the writing.  It’s not something I can just sit down and do for five minutes and then go running off out the door.

I continue to hope, but first I have to hope that I can get my desk cleared off in the next day and a half so I can get out of there for two weeks.

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