This time when it feels like I've missed a week it's because I have

How many posts can I use the tag "excuses" on? This would be why there's no book out there in the stores with my name on the spine. :)

February is a month of many celebrations in my house: birthday, V-day, anniversary, birthday. Each week holds something new. By the end of the month I'm wiped. But it's a new month now, so I'm back. Not very exciting, but here and ready to blog some fascinating tidbit.

Right after I come up with it.

Where my mind has been lately:

Happiness - how do you acheive it? is it long-term or a fleeting thing you have to chase daily? what do you to be happy? what makes you happy? does happy = contented = joyous ??? they somehow seem different to me, on the scale of contented, happy, joyous

Do the right thing, people - what would the world be like if everyone did the right thing? boring, probably, but heck, it seems like I hear more and more stories about greed, corruption, theft, murder....you get the idea. as part of my job I get these daily summaries of all the bad news all over the world - every day. I need some sort of counter balance that sends me all the good news that's happened. Oh, but wait. For some reason that's not news. Yes, there's some out there, but most of what you see is bad.

And now to counterbalance that vibe I'm going to leave you with a few quotes that resonate and bring me that fleeting happiness...

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath
-so get over it.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ~Jules Renard
-totally relate to this - heck, it's perfect in my head. If I could just do a Vulcan mind-meld with the computer I'd be set.

I got nothing this week. Except cedar fever. And it's sucking the life out of me. I've only done a smidgen of the writing I planned to do. Only a smidgen of the planning, too.

The worst part is that with weather in the 70's in the afternoons (almost 80 yesterday), I fear the cedar blooming is just gonna get worse. Ugh.

I'm at the point where I'm hoping this is the flu so that it will go away. Before, say, March. :)

Next up: find a contest for my current WIP. I'm looking for the right agent or editor as the final judge. This manuscript (ms) doesn't fit into any of the nicely defined categories I typically see in contests, but it could maybe swing it as Mainstream with Romantic Elements or something along those lines.

Okay, good. I've posted a goal. Now I just gotta get on it.

Blogging - A Study in Perseverance

Here's how my blog entry went today:
8:15 am - see reminder, but ignore it to check email and pay bills
8:50 am - remember I was going to leave for work at 9:00 but I haven't even gotten in the shower yet; see reminder again and make a mental note to do it tonight

8:40 pm - as I'm reading through something I should have critiqued a while back, remember I was going to blog tonight - I even have a topic that's been brewing since Saturday (so why didn't I just do it then, huh?)
8:41 pm - open IE and go the the "Blog Sign-in" bookmark. Sad that I have to do that, but I used to waste hours trying to find the sign-in page through other peoples' blogs.
8:42 pm - ah, yes, my blog....I should check out Deepish Thoughts and see if anything's new since last time (yes!)
8:45 pm - now I need to check Lexi's blog and see what's happened. Oh, look, comments on one of her posts.
8:50 pm - Oh yeah, THAT'S who Avery Beck is.... cool, she sold another book! Neat website.
8:55 pm - Hmmm, website designed by Stonecreek Media.... I'll just go see some of their other work.
9:10 pm - There's Avery's site! Ooooh, who's Gregg Olsen?
9:30 pm - Wow. I should read one of his books. Hmmm, let's get back to the Stonecreek Media site and see what else is there.
9:40 pm - Cool. Murder She Writes - I should check that out. Oh, look. Allison Brennan blogs here. Last night at the ARWA meeting Jan Hudson mentioned Allison Brennan writes thrillers with some romance in them and I made a note to check her out. Let's go see her website.
10:05 pm - OMG it's 10:00 and the kids are still watching TV!
10:30 pm - Okay everyone's in bed. I should really go write my blog now. Right after I check out this one link.....

Time Warp

Wow. I don't know about you, but my May rocked. I got swooped off to parts unknown, and saw worlds no human has seeen before. The clouds were the most awesome shade of purple, and the plants (at least I think they were plants) were bizarre twisted furry spindles that resembled pipe cleaners. It was awesome!

Instead of time freezing, however, it continued at it's normal pace, and I seem to have missed several weeks.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

The alternative ending is that we only have one computer and my almost-teen beats me to it every evening.

But that's way too boring. :)

Next up: selecting a second computer.