A Light Through the Darkness

I'm re-reading the Advent Story today, making character lists and notes for when I redo it for Advent Murders, and remembering why I loved writing this story. It's a fun place. Everyone's nice (for the most part). It's full of magic.

It's PERFECT for a murder. Almost begging for it. I can see Miss Marple in the corner, knitting a baby blanket and waiting for the axe to fall.

I'm also going to be putting up a Molly's Kitchen soon, because I will be down on the Cape tomorrow for my grandmother's surgery. I might have internet access, but I don't know. I will have MiniMe with me, and will continue to work on both Tales and Molly.

In sinus news - bleah. I hate fronts right now.

Because I gotta run, and I'm still not dressed. (Yeah, I know, you wanted to hear that. I'm in my pjs still, guys! Seriously!)

Got about 600 words done on the summary for Tales last night, before I succumbed to the Evil that is The Guild - I'm finally caught up to Season 4. Took me until 1 am, but I'm almost caught up!!!!

Know how I'm going to rework the first episode of Tales, so I can do that tonight, after dinner with the parentals. Yay!

And I am pleased that I am finally being an adult and realizing that there are certain things that must be done every day. Yeah, it's taken a while - I can be a slow learner sometimes.

Now, I need to clean up after breakfast, clean the litter box and then head out. Have a good Sunday, folks, and I'll be back later tonight!

What is it about writing that makes me crave salt, soda and pizza?

Discuss.

WC Update: 1892 for the day.

I doubt I'll have a lot of updates this week. Due to the storm yesterday, I got up way early, and got home way late (but I got lots of exercise, between shoveling the driveway in the morning and cleaning off the car at night), and so got no writing done (literally, I walked through the door, toasted an english muffin, ate it and went to bed). However, I might get some done tonight. We'll see.

The Company Holiday Party(tm) is tomorrow night, so instead of working my noraml shift of 11:30 am to 8 pm, I'm working 8:30 am to 5 pm. Bleah. But getting to have dinner with hubby, yay! We're going to watch Spiderman 3 and some of our other movies. And Cake for dessert - I'm determined. :D There might even be some WoWing done.

Thursday, I'm ALSO working 8:30 am to 5 pm, because Donna and I are going to see Dierks Bentley at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell. He's her fav country artist, so the tickets are my Christmas present to her. Needless to say, there will be very little writing done Thursday.

Friday - I have regular shift, and then Dance class!!! I'm so excited - I haven't danced in over a year, and I'm going back!!! That's why today's icon is what it is. Yay belly-dancing!! I have to find my stuff.

Gods, my life is boring. :p But I leave you with a hot image:

Wow. It's been a busy few days. I'm sorry I haven't posted - I haven't had time!

The day job is picking up - we're heading into Annual Enrollment season, so I'll be working more hours there. And there are changes coming with that too - suffice to say, I shall not be working nights much longer.

Like I posted before, I finished Blood Sacrifice on Monday night - now I'm working on my chapter for the Magic guide book. Honestly, I don't know why this is giving me fits, but it is. I've eked out a few words yesterday and a few today - I'm determined to finish it this week. I have tomorrow at beard5's and Friday at the hospital (Remicade treatment). It's only supposed to be 4-8k - I shouldn't be having this much problem with it.

The final draft of Sacrifice is due to the editor of the anthology on October 31, so that's next week's project. I'm working on the backbone of Descent Into Darkness during my lunch periods this week, since that's my NaNo this year.

Oh, and I set up the NH group! We're under the group forums - it's the NH/SCA group. Join us if you're in the area - we will be doing at least one write-in during November!

Signing off for now.

Today was actually a good day. Here's how the remainder of my list worked out.

2. Finish my damn chapter (finally!)-no, but I got 1400 words, which is a damn sight better than I had before.
3. 10k on Seasons-got a good start on it - 1500 words and the prologue done.
4. Get Dreams printed out (I might need to get a printer cartridge for this, I think we're out)
5. Vacuum the living room
6. Four loads of laundry-Yes!!!
7. Make zucchini bread tonight (when it's not as hot)-nope. Not tonight.

Not bad. Now to bed, and to do tomorrow.

Wow. Thanks to zombiegoat for alerting me to all the changes Theo is making!

First, Kason Gabbard has gone to the Rangers in return for Eric Gagne. This gives Tito the chance to make Papelbon a starter if needed. I'm sad to see Kason go, but it will be cool to see how he does out of the media bearpit that is Boston. Good luck to you, Kason!

Second, Joel Pinero is gone too, sent to the Cardinels for a player to be named later. Hmm, wonder who on the Cards team Theo has his eye on?

And finally, in a bizarre move, the Evil Empire gets another hitter for a reliever. What is going on? Um, they're HITTING, they aren't getting PITCHING, so let's get another HITTER and trade Scott Proctor! Yeah. Brilliant. I think Cashman's finally lost it.

So sayeth I. *grin* I'll shut up now.

Edit: Well, well. Gagne's going to be Jonathan's set-up man and backup. How very interesting.

I didn't do any writing. I'll state that up front (and yes, I'm heading over to novel_in_90 to do my mea culpas and take my lumps), but it was a good weekend nonetheless.

Saturday was the faire. It was a new faire, and as such, I think we had maybe 100 people. BUT, Dereca and I made enough to cover our site fee, plus a bit more for dinner, so we're counting it a good day. Especially since we had a GORGEOUS day weather-wise, and neither of us got sunburned. But we didn't leave the site until about 8:30 pm (we helped some other folks pack up) and I didn't get home until after 11 pm. So, since I'd been up since 6 am on 4 hours of sleep for the prior two days, I gave up and went to bed.

Sunday, argus7hills let me sleep until 1:30 pm. Heaven!!! Then I slugged for the rest of the day. I did laundry, watched a very old horror movie with Zsa Zsa Gabor called "Picture Mommy Dead" and watched the Sox lose (boo). I did some brainstorming on WHY the book wasn't working with tambowrites - thank you again, hon, for letting me whine at you!!!! But no writing.

Today, I got up and went to the doctor's to get my varicose veins looked at. The guy was obnoxious (I don't like him) but his scale rocked - I'm down to 254.1 lbs!!! That's a stunning total of 23.9 lbs since January!!! And one of the girls at work stopped me and told me I looked AWESOME - made my day!

Of course, that was balanced by the realization that I left ALL my stuff for Seasons and Sacrifice at home (sigh). So I'm going to start the new brainstorming/outlining for Treaty. Since I've gotten a wee bit more sophisticated since I last looked at it.

I'm going to work with domynoe's sheets on this again, and see how it works. Very exciting!

Oh, and it was a good news/bad news day at work. Bad news? I have to work OT tomorrow - 12:30 pm to 12 am. Bah. Good news? My friend Rick is making me dinner! Yay!

More later.

Wow. What a week. And it's only Wednesday.

For starters, I had to be down in Worcester at 8 am Monday morning to get Argus' car fixed. Then it was home to change and shower, then work. Tuesday was trying to clean the new house, which I didn't get very far into because my mother called to tell me my grandmother was in the ICU and they didn't know if she'd make it. Went to work again (because having all of us descend on the ICU in Manchester would have been counter-productive) and stressed the entire day.

Today was back to Worcester, for my Remicade treatment. Found out that Gram has an ulcer - they're treating it with medication and she'll be back in the nursing home by tomorrow. Good news there. But I'm exhausted, and all the soda in the world isn't keeping me awake. I'm alternating black tea and Pepsi - I'd do coffee, but then I'd be in pain.

Tomorrow, I have to clean out the car for Quest. Friday, I have to repack the car, for Quest. And Saturday, we'll be out the door by 6 am at the latest, so we can be there by noon.

And then Val collapses.

No, then Val fences! And then drinks!!! And then collapses. :)

Despite this schedule, I've gotten a bit done on the reworked plot summary for Seasons. Found out that Rick and Justin LIED to Nikki - when she finds out, there's going to be hell to pay. And the story is much, much more interesting now.

I'm bringing Cassandra to Quest (stop, I'm on a deadline!!!) and I'm determined to spend at least 1 hour a day on the computer, writing. Even if I have to retreat to the car to do it.

More later.

Starting Weight: 278 lbs
Current Weight: 262.2 lbs
Current Weight Loss: 15.8 lbs