Starting to freak

I have no idea how I will pay my bills after June 30th. Will I have health insurance? Should I just apply to Wal-Mart now?

Productivity

Accomplished a bunch of things this weekend. Ironed on the Superhero logos the kids at work designed for their t-shirts (8 of them), made a sea shell wreath from an idea I got at the Christmas Tree Shops, while I had the glue gun out, I repaired a Christmas ornament that had gotten busted, did three loads of laundry (have yet to put it away), sorted three boxes of books for Dad to take to a garage sale, typed a couple pages of some writing. I finished two books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief and Symptoms of Withdrawl by Christopher Kennedy Lawford, put a ton of laundry from last week away, did dishes (have more of those to do), cleaned out the refridgerator, and organized some bookshelves.

Go me!

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I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.

Generousity

So, as part of my crazy plot for turning 35, I decided to walk a 5K with a good friend of mine to raise money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and do something healthy for me. A total win-win.

As part of the training, I was required to raise $500. The deadline is May 24th. I was starting to panic but after a mass email to everyone in my address book, and pleas on Facebook, I have surpassed my $500 goal!!!!

It amazes me the people who contributed, friends from Kindergarten, my family, high school, work collegues, my Boston friends that I pilfered from my cousin. It's a nice feeling to be supported in something so important.

I cannot than them enough.

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Getting there. Stuck at the moment trying to make a situation plausible. Yanks beat the Mets, Phillies beat the Sox but the Twins are kicking Brewer Ass.

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Thank the Yankees/Red Sox for those few hundred words. I decided to type some thoughts I had on this story in my journal. Go Sox! Thought for a while there that it was a repeat of yesterday's game. But this time Paplebon held on. Poor Mo thought.

Now it is totally past my bedtime.

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Guess I have stalled out a bit. In my defense, I was out of town with my sisters and my mom, note the rant on my sister driving me crazy. It was a good weekend though. I got more reading finished on "The Happiness Project" but Gretchen Rubin. I am almost finished with "Symptoms of Withdrawl" by Christopher Kennedy Lawson. I did finish "Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief." I liked it, although I saw many similarities to the Harry Potter series (not nearly as annoying as all the similarities between the "Twilight Saga" and the series "True Blood" Series, it was a quick read with lots of action. I liked all the references to Greek Mythology, I vaguely remember reading some of it back in school.

I like children's literature, so sue me. It was nice to see in "The Happiness Project" that I am not the only one. I have read the Princess Diary Series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, anything by Mike Lupica, The Twilight Saga, anything by S. E. Hinton, and classics like Little Women (series), and Anne of Green Gables (series).

Yes, Ma'am

Okay, I need help. I have two pet-peeves. Okay, so I have more than two but these two really get me going.

My sister is twelve years older than me, she works as a secretary, so she is really big on manners and customer service. I have a customer service background as well, but I also am huge on the correct use of language.

My sister says "Ma'am" to EVERYONE. It drives me crazy. When she is being waited on my a nineteen year old waitress it seems rude to me to call the girl "Ma'am" when you're old enough to be her mother. Maybe I am just sensitive, or perhaps this country has become lax in its grammar (duh! not the US!). Wikipedia says that "Ma'am" is acceptable for all adult women and that Miss is only for the really young. My skin crawls whenever anyone calls me "Ma'am," unless I am old enough to be their mother, then while I may not enjoy it, I at least understand it. My sister is adamant about using it in EVERY instance she comes across, mostly I think she is just trying to piss me off.

My other pet peeve, is that when she sees something, a pair of shoes, a stuffed animal, a dress, she says "That's cuteness!" First of all, she uses it constantly so it's grating, but it's also an incorrect grammatical use of the word.

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Despite the road bump I hit looking for the elusive papers I was looking for, I got quite a bit written today. I'll try for another 1,000 tomorrow.

Imaginary Things

I just spent an hour and a half going through every back up disk, flash drive, hard drive, scrap of paper and notebook in my apartment searching for a story I could have sworn I started a while back. I have scenes from said story in my head but I cannot find a lick of it anywhere tangible, so I guess it is from scratch I go. I should have gone to bed 2 hours ago. Argh!

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Slow and steady wins the race.

I have so many things to do today but I am working the writing mojo right this second. Go me!

Scrapped one, started another

See, ADD, I tell you. I scrapped "An Unorganized Life" - it's too much like a memoir and I'm not ready for that. I still have SOS and Swinging for the Fences, plus Queen of Diamonds and Jared. But I am working on something I vaguely remember writing once before. It's set in Cape Cod, someone trying to find their way, torn between two guys.

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more

231 more words, very little direction

Writing Books

I picked up Maeve Binchey's Writer's Club (or something to that effect) the other day. I always liked her books. I've probably one read 2 or 3, but one of them was Circle of Friends, which I LOVED. I've read it 3 or 4 times.

That's the problem, once I find a book I love, I am happy to read it over and over again. I've read the 7 Harry Potters at least 3 times each, same for the Twilight Saga, The Outsiders, Les Miserables, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables. They're all like old friends I like to visit with. There is comfort in it.

I have enough unread books I've bought over the years to have my own library. I buy but often resort to the re-read. OR I have 7 different books going at once and nothing gets finished in a timely fashion.

Guess it explains why I never finish any of the writing I start.

An Unorganized Life

716 words in 30 minutes. Not a bad start.

What does it say about me?

That I read more books about writing a book than I actual write... Hmmm....

5 Favorite Titles This Week...

1. Someone to Love - Jefferson Airplane
2. Ever Fallen in Love - The Buzzcocks
3. Tired of Waiting - The Kinks
4. You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones
5. Need You Now - Lady Antebellum

Being the Dumb Mouse Again

So, I watched "He's Just Not That Into You" last night. It was like a light bulb. Things I knew but refused to acknowledge. If he wanted to be with me, he would. He would call me. That I over-analyze and look for "signs."

I need to let it go and move on.