Thursday, March 31, 2016

And the beat goes on

Rainy Tuesday but no tornado here this time.  This has been one crazy ass March.  Words don't escape me but the swearing kind aren't good.

Tomorrow will begin April and I usually do April Fools writing challenge.  The site that we used to all record and push each other has gone the way of old sites...dust in the bin.  But I want to start that little challenge anyways.  I have zombies to raise as it were.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

It started wet....

No Dan, this is not a bad girl starting story.  I was going to say the 80% chance of rain went for 100% by 4 pm.  And now....

Complete with lovely interrupting Tornado Warning!!  Yeah another half hour and it should be clear.  I hope.

I'll try to remember to update soon.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Into every life a little rain must fall

That said I wonder how bad this coming hurricane season is going to be.

Good news my writer friend Barry wasn't in Brussels today.  That was last week.  He was in Paris when that nasty bit hit so I was concerned.  I count my blessings where I get them now.

Tough dang decade (I stopped counting years and slid into the next bookmark).  Too many deaths, work issues, friends with troubles....all starting to wear at me.  I have tons of words and so little time.  As some know I have a nasty dreamscape when I don't write.  I don't thinking I am screaming aloud but with the dog nudging me awake some nights or the cat I could be wrong.

A writer's mind is unique to each of us creatures.  Personally writing chases out the worries and actively crappy things happening and lately I haven't been clocking enough sentences much less pages.  So my monster come look for me.  I am screaming help or get the hell away from me - laced with some nasty cuss words.  Thankfully my closest neighbor is totally trashed by dark and never hears me.

I hope everyone has a good week.  This too shall pass.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Stepping out

My friends talked me into stepping out on Friday to hear a local band they raved about and said it was a must hear.  Supposed to be like Stevie Ray Vonn (spelling?) but not so much.  I still had fun.

Work's oddly distracting.  Being laid off but not until May means I can't do too much looking for a job or I lose the the perks.  The frustration of being oh-so-nice is exhausting. Add in the time change and I am one tired woman.

So the manager announced the three of us being given the 'opportunity' of being laid off and then had the gall to ask for ideas for our going away party.  No I am not kidding.

Not much more to add.  Go figure.


Tuesday, March 8, 2016

March Madness has cometh

Yeah my life went butter side down again.  As of May 6th I will be officially laid off from my job of nearly six years because of outsourcing.  I've been told many times this is a great opportunity for me - and it will be - but dang!

So I took Friday off to wrap my head around my growing opportunity after being violently ill Thursday o'dark and pretty much giving myself a slightly sprained neck aka whiplash.

Monday I walk into work still stiff and one of the other gals in the office tells me I look like a princess.  OMG so a stiff neck and sheer pride makes me look regal?  Or was it the glint of 'off with their heads' caught her attention.  It reminded of me a game my mom used to play with us kids on rainy days (I am certain they were rainy days because otherwise we would have been outside terrorizing our neighbors and their kids). Show of hands ... who put hardcover books on top of their heads and walked around trying to keep the book or books from falling off with their siblings?

Hands?  Dang just me?  I knew it was a game to amuse my mom more than us but I was good at it!

So keep me in your thoughts guys and gals since this is flipping my muse into hiding mode because stress mode is pushing harder!!!!


Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Forbidden Fruits

I have a rather torrid confession to make.  I am a candle fan.  Not just any candles but lovely, expensive sorts.  Party-Lite candles end up as liquid and disappear completely.  What's not to love?  They have great scents and I've been burning them in my Himalayan Candle holders.  They are salt carved and supposedly cleansing.  Bed, Bath and Beyond with coupon worked for me.  I've been burning in bathroom when company over and in kitchen when cooking.

Now to some bad news.  My nephew's father-in-law passed this past month and Friday is service.  There is no way for me to make it but others will.  That means all of my nephew's wife's family have died in the past 3 years.  Horrid.

Writing not so good ...too much noise in my life and my world.

Checked off "See professional golf tourney"  Honda Classic.  Probably won't go to another ever again but hey...did it.