Checking In

Not much has changed since the last post...

Except I've read much more Harry Potter, done mounds of laundry, and been working a ton. Seriously, when you work between 35-40 hours a week and try and read all the Harry Potter book in two months there isn't time for much else.

I have found time to "window shop" on my favorite webpages (Etsy and Wanelo) and I found a shirt with this image on it...

Needless to say I 1) agree and 2) want that shirt. And while there may be no such thing as too many books, there is such a thing as not having enough space to store them all.

Whats a girl to do?

Well I am now 1,228 pages into the 4,100 pages that I need to read by February 27th. I think that's like 30%...

I will say this. I am not the biggest fan of this whole *fingerwiggles* independent study thing. At first I thought "Sure, it'll be hard but not that hard." It's not the reading that's difficult. It's the research. Ugh. The public library only has so much of the type of research materials I need and I have to pay $50 to join the local university's library (that is just illegal if you ask me) and the library on my campus can send me things but I'm getting tangled in all of the red tape I have to get through to get the books and documents. 

*Sigh* I am done freaking out/ venting/ whatever-ing at the moment. 

I promise that I will be back sooner (rather than never) with new and exciting blog posts. My friend's blog is really starting to show mine up and I'm super competitive - so we can't have that now can we? ;-) 

Reflections and Resolutions

Growing up my family had dinner together at the table every week night. We'd gather around and then have a POW-WOW. A POW-WOW is where everyone tells their low points (pows) and high points (wows) of the day. It was pretty fun. I mean it was different than just the usual way of talking about your day. 

So I thought I might have a POW-WOW for 2011. We'll start with the pows...

1. A year ago yesterday Uncle Perrin had his first massive stroke and then died in early November 
2. The end of April this year mad 100+ straight line winds tore past our apartment and through my parent's neighborhood. Later that day three tornadoes ran through the state.
3. Our little parakeet Buddy "Boo Boo" died in October 

And some wows...

1. I got married!
2. My husband and I were lucky to get to honeymoon in Maui
3. I am much further along on my degree
4. I have a job that pays well and that I love
5. We got baby Beaker 

Is this POW-WOW list comprehensive? Not at all. But those are the ones that come to mind.

So now some resolutions. I am not going to resolve to loose weight or get in shape because I never stick to those resolutions. Instead I resolve three things that I hope will be easy...

1. Finish at least 2 rough drafts of my novel by 2013
2. Cook more
3. And treat myself better (ie, doing more things I like to do but am always "too tired", eating better or at least making healthy choices, and making an effort to keep the apartment more organized) 

Also, incase you are wondering I do have some (hopefully) helpful posts planned out for soon. One that you can look forward to is how to map your novel. I even drew a picture :-) It's going to be awesome. So, loyal readers, keep coming back this year! Your comments make me happy!

Here's wishing you a fantastic 2012!

Picture by Arden Photography 

  

Here I Sit

And here I sit, not doing anything that I SHOULD be doing.

Here's what I should be doing:

1. Working on my poetry presentation for my online class. This is due Monday.
2. Reading the poetry that was assigned for my online class. I'm not sure when this is do.
3. Reading A Wrinkle in Time also for my online class. I think this is due later this month.
4. Working on my description presentation for my other online class. This is due in November. I think.
5. Laundry.
6. Unloading the dishwasher and then reloading it.

What am I doing instead? Blogging. Blogging and it's not really an exciting post. But in a way it is productive. I mean, I like blogging. Even when I have nothing to say...

Well I did get a new job. So yay! Not a completely starving artist! Only slightly starving. I have a feeling that this new job (while I enjoy it) is part of the reason why I don't want to do anything today. But it's cool. It's at a cafe/bakery/catering place. I get free baked goods (sometimes) and I have discovered that I am terrified of the walk in freezer. This is when having an over-active imagination is bad.

Here is what I think will happen:
So to get into the walk in freezer you have to walk through the walk in fridge and then go to the BACK CORNER to a door that leads into the freezer. Even though both doors have way of opening it from the inside I don't care. I see me getting locked in the freezer (which is REALLY REALLY cold and small -- I am not a huge fan of small places with only one door that is hard to open). I see me banging on the door, but no one can hear me because the mixer is making cake batter and really, how could they hear it through the fridge door? And I see me turning into a frozen me.

Here's what really happens:
I go into the freezer for bread or whatever. The door is a bit tricky to open. So I freak out, push the door knob in (the way to open it from the inside) and throw all of my 130 pounds into the freezer door -- which flys open and I'm thrown into the fridge. And then, from here, I can exit like nothing is the matter.

Needless to say, I don't like the freezer.

At all.

So, I'm debating about posting some of my creative writing stuff here. If you would like to read it -- well comment and let me know. Serious. You don't have to have a g-mail to leave a comment. I'm magic like that.

OKAY! HERE I GO! BACK TO WORK!
...maybe