So the New Year is upon us and this means new beginnings and new resolutions. Normally I do not set resolutions because I find like most people, I never full fill them. Though from this past years resolutions, Eat better and dress nicely one a week has ebbed and flowed but has probably been the most successful out of my 24 years of resolutions...Hmm, now that I think about it. I probably have only been setting resolutions for about 10 years. Interesting...
Back to the point, this year I have set the following:
Only eat one sugary thing per day
Do at least 30 minutes of exercise a day
Read all the books you have not read but are sitting on your bookshelf.
Now, doing the 30 minutes of exercise and eating less sugar are probably going to be easy (except for that time of the month, oh boy that is going to be difficult) but I realized today when I did my inventory of my books that I have 84 books I have not read on my bookshelves. I really think this is going to be the hardest thing to do. I have a list of the books I need to read on my List of Books Read page.
Have a Wonderful New Year everyone! :)
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Yule
The shortest day of the year is upon us! Which means that the sun will become more prominent as each day passes! The Oak King has defeated the Holly King, and with his defeat the Oak King brings light and hope. So light a candle, be thankful and celebrate the coming of the light as the wheel turns to start another year.
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| My Yule Tree |
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Brrrr....It is cold outside!
Today was a day of adventures. The car got a flat tire which ended up not having any problems with it other then low air. Weird, but I was cold this morning when the weather was bitterly cold at negative nine degree Fahrenheit. This afternoon as I walked to pick my car up from the garage down the street, it was ten degrees Fahrenheit...Whoa it was warm!! :) Tomorrow will feel hot at twenty three degrees Fahrenheit!! I am so excited. I love winter in Wisconsin, especially when you can say twenty three degrees is warm! :)
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Winter's Loving Embrace
Snow, ice, wind and cold. The elements which bring everyone's memories of sweat dripping from their bodies from the hot and humid weather of summer into mind and longs for those days. I always find it funny, for I do the same, when in the depths of winter, we long for the hot days of summer. Then when summer comes the joys of winter, like Broomball, skiing and hockey are missed but not the weather which allows for the winter fun. But yesterday as I was wandering around the city obtaining the gifts for my loved ones for the Holiday Season, I watched the cars make their way along the slick and slippery roadways. I thought how a fawn or any young long legged animal taking their first steps or watching an animal walk across ice. The awkward movements and slow pace was a vision which cheered me up as I waited in traffic for three quarters of an hour.
The tree outside my window has most of the snow fallen off of smaller branches but small ice globs encase the tips causing the light to reflect off of the small ice drops. The tree looks like small lights are shining off the ends of the branches. Even though the trees are sleeping, I enjoy the winter days. The sleeping earth awaiting its shift to bring the warmth of the sun back and allow all the trees and small plants to awaken and make the world green again. Spring will be wonderful. But for now I will enjoy the crisp mornings and the enjoyment of skidding across the sidewalk as the ice forms every morning.
The tree outside my window has most of the snow fallen off of smaller branches but small ice globs encase the tips causing the light to reflect off of the small ice drops. The tree looks like small lights are shining off the ends of the branches. Even though the trees are sleeping, I enjoy the winter days. The sleeping earth awaiting its shift to bring the warmth of the sun back and allow all the trees and small plants to awaken and make the world green again. Spring will be wonderful. But for now I will enjoy the crisp mornings and the enjoyment of skidding across the sidewalk as the ice forms every morning.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
The Wheel Turns
The year ages and soon the days will be equal with light and dark. The birth of the sun will give all hope that the spring will be near. The light will start to linger longer before he sets in the west. Yule is upon us, rejoice!
Our first snow fell last night and within six minutes of being awake and out of bed, I was out side playing. A snow angel was made and snow fights ensued. Now the neighbors are awake and the landlord is moving snow. The clean, pristine snow land I woke up too is no more. The tree in front of my apartment is nearly undisturbed. I feel that I should name the maple in the front yard. I sit and look upon the maple every day. He bore beautiful golden leaves this fall and I did not take a picture, I regret my laziness at capturing the beauty of autumn.
I hope people say home or spend the day with friends and family. Today is not the day to spend shopping, but a day to be happy for who you are with. I am missing my alumni track meet today because of the holiday shopping season. I was angry but I understand sacrifices must be made for others to have a good day. I hope UW-Platteville Track members and alumni have a good day. I am reliving the old days...
Go Runners!!
Our first snow fell last night and within six minutes of being awake and out of bed, I was out side playing. A snow angel was made and snow fights ensued. Now the neighbors are awake and the landlord is moving snow. The clean, pristine snow land I woke up too is no more. The tree in front of my apartment is nearly undisturbed. I feel that I should name the maple in the front yard. I sit and look upon the maple every day. He bore beautiful golden leaves this fall and I did not take a picture, I regret my laziness at capturing the beauty of autumn.
I hope people say home or spend the day with friends and family. Today is not the day to spend shopping, but a day to be happy for who you are with. I am missing my alumni track meet today because of the holiday shopping season. I was angry but I understand sacrifices must be made for others to have a good day. I hope UW-Platteville Track members and alumni have a good day. I am reliving the old days...
Go Runners!!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
A Year and A Day
I looked at an almanac today and I realized how much changes in a year.
November 23rd 2009 I was coming home from GIS waiting for tuesday to end so I could go home on Wednesday for Thanksgiving.
Novemeber 23rd 2010 I am waiting to go to work at one of two part time jobs, engaged and not doing what I thought or dreamed I would be doing as a twenty four year old woman. I am living down the street from the hospital that I was born in.
November 23rd 2011I will be a quarter of a century old and married.
November 23rd 1986 I came home from the hostipal for the first time having been born two months early.
In a year life will change and it is amazing to think of what you accomplish in a year and all the times with friends and family. I was told today by an seamstress that times like Thanksgiving or Christmas, whether you think the holiday is commercial, overrated or not of your religion, those days when all your friends and family come together are the days that break up life and make life worth living for, worth remembering.
It is is a little early, but Give Thanks to all who are in your life.
November 23rd 2009 I was coming home from GIS waiting for tuesday to end so I could go home on Wednesday for Thanksgiving.
Novemeber 23rd 2010 I am waiting to go to work at one of two part time jobs, engaged and not doing what I thought or dreamed I would be doing as a twenty four year old woman. I am living down the street from the hospital that I was born in.
November 23rd 2011I will be a quarter of a century old and married.
November 23rd 1986 I came home from the hostipal for the first time having been born two months early.
In a year life will change and it is amazing to think of what you accomplish in a year and all the times with friends and family. I was told today by an seamstress that times like Thanksgiving or Christmas, whether you think the holiday is commercial, overrated or not of your religion, those days when all your friends and family come together are the days that break up life and make life worth living for, worth remembering.
It is is a little early, but Give Thanks to all who are in your life.
Monday, November 22, 2010
In a funk.
I have felt like I have been in a funk for a while. I cannot seem to know why or what is causing the rut which I find myself in. I sit to write, and get a page written before I am zapped creatively or I feel that if I write anything it will be changed the next time I sit down. Or if I go for a run, I feel good but the next day there is no drive to get out and repeat. I sat and read but after about half an hour, I feel sleepy and decide to get up and do something else so I do not fall asleep early again. I sat in the circle today. While in the circle, I decided that I wasn't focused enough to talk but I reverted to the beginning exercises. Then I fell off the wagon and my mental strength failed. I wish I could stand out side and let the wind blow away the cloud which surrounds me...deep breath...I will turn on some Harry Potter book on CD and crochet the blanket I am making for Katie.
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Turning to better subjects then my complaining about my mental attitude, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 was very good. I saw the movie with my fiancee's friend and wow...what a great movie. Sad, but now we are at the point where ground is gained and the stand off is close at hand. Evil will be defeated but at a cost...I cannot way for July.
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Turning to better subjects then my complaining about my mental attitude, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 was very good. I saw the movie with my fiancee's friend and wow...what a great movie. Sad, but now we are at the point where ground is gained and the stand off is close at hand. Evil will be defeated but at a cost...I cannot way for July.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Days to Remember
Dedicated to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Cross Country Runners.
Congratulations to the fourth place finish at Nationals! Congrats PK and Garvens on the All-American status!!
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There are days as you are puking at the side of the M after running up the steps twice because Coach thought it was a good idea. That is a day to remember to tell freshman at Pigeon Lake.
There are days when you are running around the indoor track thinking that after a 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 800m that you are halfway done. That is a day to remember to when you ran your PR in the race of your choice (MDs all the way!!).
There are days when you step up to the line with the best runners in the Nation and look out over the first three hundred meters, feeling the adrenaline pumping through your veins as you watch the race official race the run. That is a day to remember when you cross the line and start to plan for the next season.
There are days when you step over the finish line for the last time. That is the day to remember all the great times you had as a distance runner.
There are days when you pull out your awards and dust them off. Place them on the shelf and you stand back and admire with a smile. Then all the good times and accomplishments are not tarnished by time or pettiness. That is the day you pass one more person and push a little harder on your run.
There are days when you pull down your All-American Trophy, Participation medal, and Conference medal to show your grand kids that at one point in your life you were one of the fastest runners in the nation. That is the day when you remember every single moment of your running career and relive it though the eyes of the young runner in front of you.
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Congratulations to the fourth place finish at Nationals! Congrats PK and Garvens on the All-American status!!
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There are days as you are puking at the side of the M after running up the steps twice because Coach thought it was a good idea. That is a day to remember to tell freshman at Pigeon Lake.
There are days when you are running around the indoor track thinking that after a 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 800m that you are halfway done. That is a day to remember to when you ran your PR in the race of your choice (MDs all the way!!).
There are days when you step up to the line with the best runners in the Nation and look out over the first three hundred meters, feeling the adrenaline pumping through your veins as you watch the race official race the run. That is a day to remember when you cross the line and start to plan for the next season.
There are days when you step over the finish line for the last time. That is the day to remember all the great times you had as a distance runner.
There are days when you pull out your awards and dust them off. Place them on the shelf and you stand back and admire with a smile. Then all the good times and accomplishments are not tarnished by time or pettiness. That is the day you pass one more person and push a little harder on your run.
There are days when you pull down your All-American Trophy, Participation medal, and Conference medal to show your grand kids that at one point in your life you were one of the fastest runners in the nation. That is the day when you remember every single moment of your running career and relive it though the eyes of the young runner in front of you.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Whoooosh...
I feel like I cannot wait for the weekend. Even though I work both days of the weekend but the fact that it is Friday nearing lunch, I just cannot wait for everyone to be doing something so they are not posting dumb things on facebook. Then I just realized as I went to go and state in a rather irritable state that if someone doesn't want to know about a movie, or a game or what ever you are not up to date on then do not read it...but then I realized I needed to take my own advice. So that blew all the steam out of my slight rant.
But back to my normal self, I love The Mists of Avalon. I did not find a lot of time to read this weekend and I am still on book one but it's great. Vivianne and Morgaine are great. I am interested in the younger life of Arthur and the little glimpses of Galahad are great! Maybe tonight I will brew a pot of coffee and read all night. :)
I love gray, cold November days. I just wish I could stay inside and read and write about Alistair. Instead I get to make people happy by selling them pretty things. But Alistair's Story is going well. I'm still running into difficulty with making him a bumbling, awkward young man, but I think I am getting there. I hope. :)
But back to my normal self, I love The Mists of Avalon. I did not find a lot of time to read this weekend and I am still on book one but it's great. Vivianne and Morgaine are great. I am interested in the younger life of Arthur and the little glimpses of Galahad are great! Maybe tonight I will brew a pot of coffee and read all night. :)
I love gray, cold November days. I just wish I could stay inside and read and write about Alistair. Instead I get to make people happy by selling them pretty things. But Alistair's Story is going well. I'm still running into difficulty with making him a bumbling, awkward young man, but I think I am getting there. I hope. :)
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Gray Novemeber Days
Days such as these, gray, rainy, and cold are meant for wrapping up in a warm blanket with tea and/or coffee and escaping from reality into the realms of the imagination. Whether the realm is already written for you or of your own creation, it does not matter. I have let myself go and have written a couple more pages of a new story which I have thought of. But now I am realizing I need to think of how to make my main character more down trodden and hopelessly low on self esteem. Poor Alistair. Oh well, he'll soon meet Liam and be off to the land of Tserof. I hope at least.
I finished the amazing book Rebecca last week. Oh my, I love that book. I cannot believe I have not read it before now. It is amazing. Maxim is great. I really enjoyed his character and once he has told the second Mrs. de Winter about Rebecca how different a person he is to his wife. Also the critical 24 hours in which the second Mrs. de Winter grows up. Her thought process and devotion is mesmerizing. I want my fiancee to read this book to get a better hold of how women tend to take the littlest things out of proportion and blow them up and get themselves into a tisy. This would be the best book for that! ha!
I have moved on and found my next book I having been tempted to read. The Mists of Avalon. I'm on page 60 something and I really love Igraine. I do feel bad for Glorios but you cannot defeat or trick fate can you? So far I like the real person feel to the characters. These characters which at times can be so oversized based on the years and the deeds which they have done are very real life. I think they are at least. I enjoy the pagan/woman views of the events. I cannot wait to get farther into the story.
I will take a 7 hour break for work and then get to work on the book!
I finished the amazing book Rebecca last week. Oh my, I love that book. I cannot believe I have not read it before now. It is amazing. Maxim is great. I really enjoyed his character and once he has told the second Mrs. de Winter about Rebecca how different a person he is to his wife. Also the critical 24 hours in which the second Mrs. de Winter grows up. Her thought process and devotion is mesmerizing. I want my fiancee to read this book to get a better hold of how women tend to take the littlest things out of proportion and blow them up and get themselves into a tisy. This would be the best book for that! ha!
I have moved on and found my next book I having been tempted to read. The Mists of Avalon. I'm on page 60 something and I really love Igraine. I do feel bad for Glorios but you cannot defeat or trick fate can you? So far I like the real person feel to the characters. These characters which at times can be so oversized based on the years and the deeds which they have done are very real life. I think they are at least. I enjoy the pagan/woman views of the events. I cannot wait to get farther into the story.
I will take a 7 hour break for work and then get to work on the book!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
New Books!
I acquired two more books yesterday! Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon and A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book. I am very excited to read these. Both are rather large books and both have cool covers. I have heard many great comments on The Mists of Avalon. I am excited to read the Arthurian book. It would be my first and that is always exciting, delving into new territory. :) The Children's Book has the hint of mystery and family disturbance all bound up with a nice bow. The back summary caught my attention, so I hope it lives up to the intrigue I have for it.
Meanwhile, as I resist to start reading both of these, Rebecca is amazing. I starting to break into new ground with the book. I started reading and got about 100 pages in before I was lead off on a new tangent. But the second Mrs. de Winter is so adorably in love and nervous. Mrs. Danvers is creepier then Alfred Hitchcock's version of Mrs. Danvers...And Maxim, Laurence Olivier is the only image I see when I think of Maxim. Sigh, I watched Rebecca yesterday on youtube and I am stunned every time I watch it.
I love books.
Meanwhile, as I resist to start reading both of these, Rebecca is amazing. I starting to break into new ground with the book. I started reading and got about 100 pages in before I was lead off on a new tangent. But the second Mrs. de Winter is so adorably in love and nervous. Mrs. Danvers is creepier then Alfred Hitchcock's version of Mrs. Danvers...And Maxim, Laurence Olivier is the only image I see when I think of Maxim. Sigh, I watched Rebecca yesterday on youtube and I am stunned every time I watch it.
I love books.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Action, Adventure and Juan Cabrillo
Maybe because I am partial for the axed/wronged spy/government agent who wants do get back to his job/do the world some good with no strings attached at the moment, but the Clive Cussler Books of the Oregon Series are so much fun. I just finished Sacred Stone. The no strings attached adventures, the men and women who are smart and confident under pressure as well as a lead character who is awesome, suave and funny is really interesting to me at the moment. Juan Cabrillo is great, and I picture The Chairman as a Micheal Westen/Jeffery Donovan look alike despite the descriptions of him as a blue eyed, blond man with a mustache...I will admit it, Dark Haired men are more attractive to me. *Shrug* But Juan seems different than other action adventures...not much of a ladies man and bad things can happen to Juan. I mean he has a fake leg because the original was blown off when he was serving his country. The book deals with space meteors, space viruses, nuclear bombs and a crazy man who wants to destroy the Islamic Religion. I enjoy the plot and learned cool little tid bits about the holiest places of Islam structural and HVAC systems. Having studied environmental engineering and engaged to one mechanical engineer, it's so cool to read about those things. But the meteors and space virus was a pretty cool scifi aspect to the story. I enjoyed reading more about the difficult and delicate situation in the Middle East and trying to do the world some good to stop a crazy bad guy without starting WWIII...fully knowing nothing in real life could happen like what happened in the book. All in All, Cussler books are to Action Adventure as Nora Roberts is to Romance, which is awesome. I hope to keep reading more about Juan and the Oregon. Dirk Pitt is fun too. But on to Rebecca. Or to Hero's Story first...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Cats on my coffee mug...and other random thoughts.
I love my coffee mug. not for the obvious reason that the mug gives me coffee and with the coffee caffeine, but for the sake of the cool looking cats! Since my fiancee will not allow me to have a pet until I can prove that I can clean up after myself. Now in my defense, my fiancee and I have vastly different views of what is clean and what isn't. My fiancee things that a coffee table book sitting on the coffee table is messy. He is silly. But back to my cool cat coffee mug...it's just awesome.
Life has been busy or not. I worked super late on Sunday and got back home around 2am, so not until yesterday did I feel back to normal. So in that weird state of trying to get your sleep schedule back to normal I found a lady who will do our cake for the wedding and only need 4 more addresses to finish off the save the dates. So I have been productive.
Saturday is my Birthday!! Twenty four years old....crazy!! I love being 23 though. It is my favorite number. But we're going to go try on bridesmaid dresses and out for a few drinks Saturday night. I'm so excited to see the girls for I have not seen a lot of them since the beginning of September...and that is way to long.
I have been bad and haven't started Rebecca yet. But I am almost done with Sacred Stone by Clive Cussler! It's a fun book. I really enjoy the Oregon Files. Juan Cabrillo is pretty much super awesome. Pretty much on par with Micheal Westen from Burn Notice.
Ok....the coffee has set in and I'm super scattered brained and random! Enjoy the awesomeness that is October!!
Life has been busy or not. I worked super late on Sunday and got back home around 2am, so not until yesterday did I feel back to normal. So in that weird state of trying to get your sleep schedule back to normal I found a lady who will do our cake for the wedding and only need 4 more addresses to finish off the save the dates. So I have been productive.
Saturday is my Birthday!! Twenty four years old....crazy!! I love being 23 though. It is my favorite number. But we're going to go try on bridesmaid dresses and out for a few drinks Saturday night. I'm so excited to see the girls for I have not seen a lot of them since the beginning of September...and that is way to long.
I have been bad and haven't started Rebecca yet. But I am almost done with Sacred Stone by Clive Cussler! It's a fun book. I really enjoy the Oregon Files. Juan Cabrillo is pretty much super awesome. Pretty much on par with Micheal Westen from Burn Notice.
Ok....the coffee has set in and I'm super scattered brained and random! Enjoy the awesomeness that is October!!
Friday, October 15, 2010
Next book
I resisted the urge to go to Barnes and Noble today. I have a book shelf full of books I should re-read as well as many books which I have meant to read but have gotten pushed aside for another new and light book. So go me! But I have decided just now as I smell the wonderful smell of Golden Apple Orchard candle and peanut butter brownies that I will read Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier! I'm so excited to read this book for the film version with Laurence Oliver is amazing and was the reason I bought the book in the first place. So once I finish the book, a review will follow.
If anyone has recommendations, comments are always welcome with recommendations for books, movies and music!
Get out and enjoy life.
If anyone has recommendations, comments are always welcome with recommendations for books, movies and music!
Get out and enjoy life.
Monday, October 11, 2010
'It's 3 Am and I can't sleep without you...'
Christmas is all set up at one job and I am here awake, waiting to start my other job at 5am. The effects of the coffee are starting to wear off so I may take a two hour nap and see how I feel at 5, but work needs to get done. I am thinking of editing my story a bit to see how far I get or if my brain is even coherent enough to process creative thinking such as writing and editing a story.
So many options at the moment to pass the time: Staying up for 24 would be fun, but I remember the last time I did that...though I did not drink coffee then...I could write or read or draw, or go for a run...so many fun things. But I have a feeling the couch and I will be come good friends in a few moments.
What would you do if you were up at 3am?
There have been few instances when I have been awake at 3am wondering what to do. Most of the time I would be awake because of a sleep over in with my friends in high school, working on a project for classes in college or celebrating being awesome with college friends on second street or at the Court and/or Cross House...But never passing the time until jobs. Oh the great awesomeness of being grown up.
But it is now 3:07 am and 'I think I've found the perfect words to say,' ...more coffee...
Kudos for the people who know what song I've quoted... :)
So many options at the moment to pass the time: Staying up for 24 would be fun, but I remember the last time I did that...though I did not drink coffee then...I could write or read or draw, or go for a run...so many fun things. But I have a feeling the couch and I will be come good friends in a few moments.
What would you do if you were up at 3am?
There have been few instances when I have been awake at 3am wondering what to do. Most of the time I would be awake because of a sleep over in with my friends in high school, working on a project for classes in college or celebrating being awesome with college friends on second street or at the Court and/or Cross House...But never passing the time until jobs. Oh the great awesomeness of being grown up.
But it is now 3:07 am and 'I think I've found the perfect words to say,' ...more coffee...
Kudos for the people who know what song I've quoted... :)
Friday, October 8, 2010
To day feels...
Today feels like a day where anyone could do anything, win a war, ask that girl out on a date, write down a story idea which will make them famous, meet their hero, become a hero...So get out there and do it!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
GGD
The Sweetest Lie
Big Machine
Slide
Dizzy
Here is Gone
Second Time Around
Smash
Can't Let It Go
Black Balloon
Home
Better Days
Stay With You
Tucked Away
Name
Let Love In
As I Am
All Eyes On Me
Iris
Not Broken
Broadway
Best Show Ever. I hope to go again.
Big Machine
Slide
Dizzy
Here is Gone
Second Time Around
Smash
Can't Let It Go
Black Balloon
Home
Better Days
Stay With You
Tucked Away
Name
Let Love In
As I Am
All Eyes On Me
Iris
Not Broken
Broadway
Best Show Ever. I hope to go again.
Inspirations
Inspiration is so fleeting. I am sure many more people have written more concise thoughts or have had deeper meaning to their words then what I will type in the next few minutes.
I am sitting at my computer after being told I do not have to work the flex hours that were planned for me, I pulled up my story. Sitting down, I looked at the words: "Prologue...In a castle, carved into the Cliffs of Dnalsi," and then immediately went to the word document, "save the date template" and continued to print out 100 copies of save the dates for my wedding.
From this regular occurrence, pulling up my story sitting down ready to tackle the next round of editing or adding a chapter to create a well rounded story, I change paths and do something more productive or at times less productive...coughfacebookcough. Even now as I sit here, I have wandered off to read the news that the Goo Goo Dolls have gained another Top 10 song only furthering their lead with 14 songs! Way to go!
But this is only furthering my point on how fleeting. I sat down to write a post talking about the fleetingness of my inspiration, muse, attention span...take your pick and I am only being lead around by my blank mind. I wonder if this is my muse telling me to get the creativeness flowing or to trigger a thought from an image or another post. Hmmm...now that is a thought.
I love to write. I love the characters I am creating, but why is it I cannot keep at it for more then a few minutes? There are other times when I can sit down and forget time and space and the four hours I have to get my work done is gone...
To my muse,
You are brilliant and I wish for you to stay with me as long as you deem.
Yours,
Emma
I am sitting at my computer after being told I do not have to work the flex hours that were planned for me, I pulled up my story. Sitting down, I looked at the words: "Prologue...In a castle, carved into the Cliffs of Dnalsi," and then immediately went to the word document, "save the date template" and continued to print out 100 copies of save the dates for my wedding.
From this regular occurrence, pulling up my story sitting down ready to tackle the next round of editing or adding a chapter to create a well rounded story, I change paths and do something more productive or at times less productive...coughfacebookcough. Even now as I sit here, I have wandered off to read the news that the Goo Goo Dolls have gained another Top 10 song only furthering their lead with 14 songs! Way to go!
But this is only furthering my point on how fleeting. I sat down to write a post talking about the fleetingness of my inspiration, muse, attention span...take your pick and I am only being lead around by my blank mind. I wonder if this is my muse telling me to get the creativeness flowing or to trigger a thought from an image or another post. Hmmm...now that is a thought.
I love to write. I love the characters I am creating, but why is it I cannot keep at it for more then a few minutes? There are other times when I can sit down and forget time and space and the four hours I have to get my work done is gone...
To my muse,
You are brilliant and I wish for you to stay with me as long as you deem.
Yours,
Emma
Monday, October 4, 2010
The Weekend
What a great weekend! First, I did not have to work, which despite keeping me occupied and making money, I enjoyed not having to work this past weekend. But my best friend and I were running around all over the place. First we went to Waukesha to witness the awesome wedding of Nick and Amy. Congrats!! Watching them be so happy despite the extreme stress of the day, was so exciting for me. I am very excited to get married. Which seems very womanly. Which also plays into my thoughts about how I feel like society wants me to become a successful professional woman. Doing stuff, taking names and kicking some butt. But in all reality, I really would love to stay at home and take care of my family. I wouldn't mind taking up a part time job so I can have some money for myself. But I feel like everyone in the world today seems to think if woman wants that in life, she has failed. Which makes me sad. Do not get me wrong, I am all for women progressing in the professional world. I have a degree in Environmental Engineering. But I wish people would not look down upon men and women who want to raise a family and live a simple life.
But leading on past the amazing weddings (for another friend, Anissa, was married this weekend. Congrats!!) Sunday morning, I had a great breakfast with friends. Spinach, tomato, feta and scrambled eggs are delicious, fyi. But I got my birthday present early...tickets to go see the GOO GOO DOLLS!!! I have listened to these talented men since I was in seventh grade. It was so amazing. Besides being my favorite band ever, the concert was also my first concert ever. I would like to thank the Goo Goo Dolls for making my first concert experience the best!
This weekend was a success. :)
But leading on past the amazing weddings (for another friend, Anissa, was married this weekend. Congrats!!) Sunday morning, I had a great breakfast with friends. Spinach, tomato, feta and scrambled eggs are delicious, fyi. But I got my birthday present early...tickets to go see the GOO GOO DOLLS!!! I have listened to these talented men since I was in seventh grade. It was so amazing. Besides being my favorite band ever, the concert was also my first concert ever. I would like to thank the Goo Goo Dolls for making my first concert experience the best!
This weekend was a success. :)
Monday, September 27, 2010
Excerpt from Hero: Acceptance
An excerpt from my story:
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Nodding, “Like Naomi. But there are those who have a great potential that the gift manifests and becomes a power, a power which could rival the Oracles. Only after a few generations did the Oracles realize this flaw in their gift giving. So to prevent any one human from gaining too much strength, the Oracles would enslave and ultimately conquer all and anyone with enough power to potentially threaten their own power.”
“They enslave people?”
“Well, enslavement is a bit of a stretch. The enslavement is more of a subclass of Oracle. The Oracles locate and place a marker on the individual. This marker not only allows the Oracle to know where this individual is at but also to call them to their presence. The Marker also keeps the individuals power in check. Giving the excess power to the Oracle and depending on which Oracle the individual belongs to can lengthen or shorten their life.”
Hero blew out a overwhelmed breath. “I did not realize how involved we were to the Other worldly ones.”
“As I said before, humans have been ignoring or have forgotten how tangled our destinies are,”
“So where do nymphs come to play in the whole scheme of Oracles and gifts?” Hero asked as she gazed up into Tristan’s uncloaked face.
“The individuals are called many different names to humans. To Fluta her most powerful humans are often ghosts; Clarina’s are sirens; Lumeau controls mermaids, Lumeau was rather jealous and made her power humans suffer the transition to mermaids.” Hero watched Tristan shudder as if he were remembering a rather painful memory.
“Glais holds court over centaurs. Not quite as painful as the mermaid transaction but still not something you want to experience. Xopho loves to make her powerful humans the poor gypsies. Istle and Piccia are rather kind. They both control their powerful humans through connecting them to the joys in their lives. Istle connects hers to the crop seasons. These creatures will live from spring to the end of the harvest when they die. They are eternal, so as long as people crop and harvest crops these creatures will live. Some humans who have had the fortune of see them think of them as the living dead. Piccia connects her powerful humans to a tree.”
Hero sat chewing on her lips thinking of all the information which Tristan had spouted out.
“I do apologize for dumping all the information on to you,”
“It is a vast amount of information,” Hero smiled. “So my mother is a nymph. The Oracle Piccia saw how powerful she was and bound her to a tree.”
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So that is a bit of new writing I have done for my story. The whole story is still really rough and I'm going through for the second time trying to get a smooth flow...We'll see how that goes.
I need to think of a better title then Hero. Hmmm...need to work on that.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Tserof
Sixteen years ago I started looking on the internet a lot. As any Middle School girl growing up in the late 90s, the internet, instant messaging and chat rooms were the place to be...at least for me. All my friends would run from the bus kicking up little bits of rock from their gravel driveway to beat their younger siblings to the computer so we had the ultimate computer usage before our parents came home and kicked us off until they went to bed.
Within this massive waste of time chatting with random people from places I do not know or getting marriage proposals from men who cannot speak or type English well, I found an amazing website which opened a door into the vast world of fan fiction. My journey started with Anne of Green Gables. Using the Anne3 Forum, fan fics would sprout up daily from my computer. Some good, some not so good. How I wish I could have some of those old stories back. From solo fan fics I ventured into two author fan fics with a great friend I had in alie.
From then on, I found my passion for Lord of the Rings. I mean who does not like Lord of the Rings? I joined The Company. All members of the Anne3 Forum who loved Lord of the Rings. We had an on going fan fic about all of us in Middle Earth as a significant other to one of the characters in the vast world Tolkien had developed.
Now, at this moment in my writing journey I asked myself. How amazing is Tolkien? To develop a whole world on his own, in his mind. Then I asked myself, 'do you think you could do that?' And so my dabbling into the sphere of original writing began.
I started out with smaller four to five page stories, I even tried poetry. Putting the poetry up on the shelf, I began to write and so emerged Muse and Hero. Even fifteen years after Muse emerged from my thoughts, she still has no definite world or purpose. A very detailed idea of who she is and what she is to do, but nothing compared to Hero. Hero began as a great idea, a different view of a fairy tale. Now 128 pages later, Hero is a real thing. Tserof is the home where Hero lives and a very amazing place which is the name sake for this blog.
Dreaming large dreams, I hope people will be able to enjoy Hero someday. But that may be a while. So now I head to bed to dream about Tserof where the Cliff Wizards live in their vast castle and people like Hero and Naomi. Good night!
Within this massive waste of time chatting with random people from places I do not know or getting marriage proposals from men who cannot speak or type English well, I found an amazing website which opened a door into the vast world of fan fiction. My journey started with Anne of Green Gables. Using the Anne3 Forum, fan fics would sprout up daily from my computer. Some good, some not so good. How I wish I could have some of those old stories back. From solo fan fics I ventured into two author fan fics with a great friend I had in alie.
From then on, I found my passion for Lord of the Rings. I mean who does not like Lord of the Rings? I joined The Company. All members of the Anne3 Forum who loved Lord of the Rings. We had an on going fan fic about all of us in Middle Earth as a significant other to one of the characters in the vast world Tolkien had developed.
Now, at this moment in my writing journey I asked myself. How amazing is Tolkien? To develop a whole world on his own, in his mind. Then I asked myself, 'do you think you could do that?' And so my dabbling into the sphere of original writing began.
I started out with smaller four to five page stories, I even tried poetry. Putting the poetry up on the shelf, I began to write and so emerged Muse and Hero. Even fifteen years after Muse emerged from my thoughts, she still has no definite world or purpose. A very detailed idea of who she is and what she is to do, but nothing compared to Hero. Hero began as a great idea, a different view of a fairy tale. Now 128 pages later, Hero is a real thing. Tserof is the home where Hero lives and a very amazing place which is the name sake for this blog.
Dreaming large dreams, I hope people will be able to enjoy Hero someday. But that may be a while. So now I head to bed to dream about Tserof where the Cliff Wizards live in their vast castle and people like Hero and Naomi. Good night!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Summer Reading
How amazing are books?
I've been a bit disappointed in myself for not reading more this summer but I did accomplish one book (Monte Cristo) that I have been reading for a long time. More on that in a bit, but here is my summer list:
Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler
Plague Ship by Clive Cussler
Cottage Witchery by Ellen Dugan
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
The Wiccaning by Sister Moon
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Currently I am reading:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
So close your eyes and imagine yourself in the student center of UW-Platteville...sitting with Katie (everyone should have a friend like Katie. Katie = Amazing). Anyhoo, the great idea pops into your head about a book club. So you and Katie form Hannibal Livy Charlemagne Tully Book Club. A great cool idea with all the great possibilities of reading everything you couldn't get through without help from someone else! Our first book: The Count of Monte Cristo. And so started my summer reading.
Rating the books I read this summer:
1.)The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
2.)Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3.)The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4.)Plague Ship by Clive Cussler
5.)Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler
6.) Cottage Witchery by Ellen Dugan
7.)The Wiccaning by Sister Moon
Well today ends the summer of 2010, but that leads into the fall (best season ever) and another season of reading. Hopefully I can get through our next book club book (To Kill A Mockingbird) I have a lot to catch up on.
But it's time to end this little diatribe. Off to practice and help young runners achieve their greatness!
I've been a bit disappointed in myself for not reading more this summer but I did accomplish one book (Monte Cristo) that I have been reading for a long time. More on that in a bit, but here is my summer list:
Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler
Plague Ship by Clive Cussler
Cottage Witchery by Ellen Dugan
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
The Wiccaning by Sister Moon
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Currently I am reading:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
So close your eyes and imagine yourself in the student center of UW-Platteville...sitting with Katie (everyone should have a friend like Katie. Katie = Amazing). Anyhoo, the great idea pops into your head about a book club. So you and Katie form Hannibal Livy Charlemagne Tully Book Club. A great cool idea with all the great possibilities of reading everything you couldn't get through without help from someone else! Our first book: The Count of Monte Cristo. And so started my summer reading.
Rating the books I read this summer:
1.)The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
2.)Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
3.)The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4.)Plague Ship by Clive Cussler
5.)Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler
6.) Cottage Witchery by Ellen Dugan
7.)The Wiccaning by Sister Moon
Well today ends the summer of 2010, but that leads into the fall (best season ever) and another season of reading. Hopefully I can get through our next book club book (To Kill A Mockingbird) I have a lot to catch up on.
But it's time to end this little diatribe. Off to practice and help young runners achieve their greatness!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A New Look
A year from now I will be Mrs. Klein. I will be married. To me that sounds crazy, in an excited and cannot wait for June 11th to get here, crazy. So that leads me to look at my life now and see if I need to make a few changes in order to stay sane during the wedding planning, working two jobs, searching for another job, and keeping up with my interests (running, reading, drawing/painting and writing). So hurray for a schedule! I feel like I am back in middle school when they scheduled every moment of your day in school so you do not stray into the horrors of being a pre-teen. But after five years as an engineering student, I can understand and appreciate schedules. For they never go away and are probably one of the constant things in life...you will always need a schedule, you'll die, you'll pay taxes and 2+2 will always equal 4 (sigh...math).
So where do you start? I love to run. I do not run now because I am always going from here to there for work or back in order to do laundry so my fiancee has black socks for work tomorrow. Sounds like I will be getting up at 5am to go for a run!! :) Anyone want to join?
Next, work from 6-12ish (depending the day).
Now here's where it'll get difficult. Pier 1 will schedule in afternoons and nights. Soooo I guess that means I could get laundry and other chores done in the afternoon if I work at night or later afternoon. Now for reading/writing/painting/drawing. I feel I must make myself only do them for a half an hour here or there, when I have time to do them.
Then dinner and relax time, if I do not have more chores to do at night.
That seems like a good start. Now I should get a planner. I have a really cool one right now but it doesn't have enough room for my large handwriting and/or the amount of things I would like to put on my schedule. It's more of an appointment book with awesome tips on how to garden and when to harvest, moon signs, etc. Really cool stuff. So maybe that should be my next step in my new look. Get a planner.
So now, I am tired all the time and I love coffee. I do not want to drink it all the time so I get addicted to it. Another problem withe my sleepiness is sweatpants. How I love my UWP Track and Field sweat pants, but I always get sleep when I am in them. so I must wear jeans and look nice in order to stay up and not take a nap. I know that seems like a weird thing to write, because most people love wearing jeans. I really like wearing sweat pants when I relax and am at home. But that must change. Ok, only wear sweatpants after 9:00pm.
There tools to work with and goals to accomplish. Run at 5am; make a schedule; do not wear sweatpants before 9 pm. Now off for some errands....
So where do you start? I love to run. I do not run now because I am always going from here to there for work or back in order to do laundry so my fiancee has black socks for work tomorrow. Sounds like I will be getting up at 5am to go for a run!! :) Anyone want to join?
Next, work from 6-12ish (depending the day).
Now here's where it'll get difficult. Pier 1 will schedule in afternoons and nights. Soooo I guess that means I could get laundry and other chores done in the afternoon if I work at night or later afternoon. Now for reading/writing/painting/drawing. I feel I must make myself only do them for a half an hour here or there, when I have time to do them.
Then dinner and relax time, if I do not have more chores to do at night.
That seems like a good start. Now I should get a planner. I have a really cool one right now but it doesn't have enough room for my large handwriting and/or the amount of things I would like to put on my schedule. It's more of an appointment book with awesome tips on how to garden and when to harvest, moon signs, etc. Really cool stuff. So maybe that should be my next step in my new look. Get a planner.
So now, I am tired all the time and I love coffee. I do not want to drink it all the time so I get addicted to it. Another problem withe my sleepiness is sweatpants. How I love my UWP Track and Field sweat pants, but I always get sleep when I am in them. so I must wear jeans and look nice in order to stay up and not take a nap. I know that seems like a weird thing to write, because most people love wearing jeans. I really like wearing sweat pants when I relax and am at home. But that must change. Ok, only wear sweatpants after 9:00pm.
There tools to work with and goals to accomplish. Run at 5am; make a schedule; do not wear sweatpants before 9 pm. Now off for some errands....
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