Playing catch up...again!

Just a short blurb to catch you up...

Well nothing much new with me. I've got a bit of a second job with making sweets. I love cupcakes!!
Also, been thinking of a new business idea of taking old furniture and giving it new life.
Writing has taken a back seat. I haven't pushed myself to write in a while mainly because I put my RWA and CRW groups on hiatus this year. But I miss it a lot!
Work, the five-thirty to two job, is going well. Starting to work some from home; which has been a dream of mine for a long time.

Kitchen Pictures

Before and after Kitchen.

Happiness

I have a quote posted on my monitor; "Light tomorrow with today" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This is one of those things I do to remind myself to be positive and to be happy everyday. (Sometimes easier to be said than done, but it is all about trying or is that perspective?!)
I currently have lots to be happy about, most importantly at work I got to move back upstairs! OK so I know this is not a big deal to most people but this is a big one for me. I need to see the outdoors. When I worked downstairs I was in the basement at the very back and there is absolutely no natural light in that place. Not my happy place. Now I'm back upstairs and I'm much happier.
I have finally gotten my kitchen renovation underway and other than living with the mess I am so looking forward to it being done. This has been a long time coming. Pictures to follow.

Chris' 40th birthday!

We're celebrating my brother's 40th birthday, which only means I'm that much closer to 40 myself! Well we went to the beach house for the weekend and enjoyed some sun and family togetherness. This is the first time my mom and grandmother got to see the beach house, I was able to come down about 7 or 8 years ago. My brother's wife, Amy and her mother own it and Amy's great grand father built it. Originally it was built on the street with a row of houses in front of it plus a dirt road in front of those houses then the ocean. Currently it is ocean front. Guess you never know! It has been really nice to spend time with my sister-in-law and her family, especially my niece Elizabeth. She's super cute and that's not just my biased opinion (see picture)!

Music

I have been listening to some really great music recently. Laura Izibor and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals to name a few. I'm always excited about finding really awesome music. Let me know if you've got some current favorites.

Happy 4th!

So much of nothing going on I can't even summons the need to blog.
Facts:Too hot in North Carolina this summer and that makes me miserable. Thank God for air conditioning, this relieves some of the misery. Taking a break from writing. Clearing my head.

New Year, New Laziness

Looks like I have sunk to a new level of laziness with the blog. I keep telling myself to do better but then I start another home-improvement idea and cease to contemplate the blogosphere!

Well today is a new day (not that I know what tomorrow will bring)!

Watched a new series on PBS called Faces of America that really intrigued me. So if you get a chance check it out. It is all about Genealogy and puts a question to the participants about thinking about how their ancestors shaped their lives? For which I find fascinating because of my own ancestry.

December 2009

So the year 2009 is coming to an end and along with it an end to a decade. I wonder what December of 1909 was like... Did someone journal about their thoughts on the end of that year as well as the end of that decade?
I am going to think about that for the next two days and see how 2009 stacks up.

Baby Matthew has arrived!

Matthew Lee was born today, November 23, 2009 at 5:30 weighing in at 8 lbs 1 oz.
Can't wait to see him. And how nice of him to arrive in time for Thanksgiving.

Wow how time flies...

With all good intentions I had planned on being better at posting but then life happens. I have been more frequently posting to Facebook, took a break from MySpace and pretty much stopped visiting Twitter. Oh, well.

So since July...

Nothing much has happened. Still working the job (although it has gotten more involved I'm still liking it) and still just being me!

My niece is getting so big, Layton's two and talking up a storm and I can't wait to meet my cousin's baby (Matthew) who's due in November. There's a lot of baby news. My friend Ashley had her baby, Gabriella in September, Stephanie is due in December (Sydney) and Heather is due in January (Sean). Whew...I'm so excited!

I've been writing but it has been a trail. Thanks to Heather that is a thing of the past. This month we're going to keep track of each other and motivate. We call our two person group, Kick Arse, because we need the other to kick our arse into gear so that we have a finished product at the end of the year. Here we come PRO!

Planning a vacation in November, possibly a cruise. I've never been on one so I'm not sure I'll like it or if I'm afraid I'll like it too much but I like to do things I haven't done before.

That's all for now maybe I will get better about posting if my life gets interesting I will definitely post about it!

Almost another day

Today I have been very productive. I have cleaned three rooms, organized my office & computer, made lunch, snack and dessert--believe me that is a good day! And here it is almost midnight. I should be sleeping, but I'm hyped up about my characters. It feels like I have finally gotten a handle on them and am ready to write. Not that I haven't already written 114 pages on this story-please God don't let that be wasted-and just now figured I got a handle on it!? Yeesh! Talk about taking the long way around. Anyway just thought I'd share my bit of good news. And believe me it is good news. Now back to writing before going to sleep.

Just another one of 'those' days...

If it can go wrong, it has. Today has been one of those days you wish you could have stayed in bed. But here I am at work, just trying to make it through. Now lets add; time to renew drivers license, dinner plans and needing to get something by the post office. urgh!
I can't wait until I'm in the bed tonight and hopefully everything is done!

Good Morning America Weekend Window

Good Morning America Weekend Window on one of my favorite places.

Chimney Rock Another House, Part II

Chimney Rock Another House

Chimney Rock Work

This may be even more than I can do. I did however find a couple of other really great fixer uppers. Will keep looking.

Chimney Rock

I found a house. It needs a bit of TLC but as you may remember I'm up to it. I'm glad I don't remember how bad it was in the thick of things while doing the remodeling but this won't be as bad. The bare bones are good just needs cosmetic sprucing. Will let you know more as the matter either comes to fruition or not. Wish me luck!

The day after

I was lucky enough to be invited (told to go) to a conference hosted by my company yesterday. The site is two hours away from my company and I was to come into work and do the first part of my job (the hard part that no one else wants to do) then come down after I finished (be there for lunch). I start with getting my key fob (security for entrance into the building) set for 5 AM verses the normal 6 AM (the fob lets you in 15 minutes before you start time). I arrive at 5:08 and the fob does NOT work. I keeping checking every 15 minutes until 5:45 (my regular time) when I am finally able to get in. **Bad start for the day ahead** Well, I have a light day (THANK YOU GOD) and so I finish up this at 9:30. Off I go to the conference. I arrive at 20 til 12, lunch is at 12:15 (horrible food at that) and then proceed to sit through 3 hours and 30 minutes of speakers (this is my company hosting, so the information is nothing to the actual work I do--so boring). Then we have a free hour to freshen up for the dinner and keynote speaker, (Steve Gilliland-totally awesome speaker) and delicious dinner (Pine Needles Hotel). Now, I said no one wants to do my job so I'm expected to be at work the next morning to do my job as normal. When the speaker finishes at 9:47 PM I get in my car to enjoy the next two hours in my car heading home (super nasty lightening and rain storm--low to no visibility) and make it home at midnight. Today is a blur and I only hope that I can catch up on my sleep tonight. Forget that I have a program I'm participating in called First Draft in 30 Days of which today is Day 5 and as yesterday was a bust I'm a day behind!!!

Sunday Overtime

I know in the world we're living in today I shouldn't, but I can't help myself: I'm sick of working overtime. Medical billing is definitely not included in the recession. Urgh! 

My office is a mess and I'm trying to get ready for a workshop with my local romance writers group, Carolina Romance Writers in June. Our fearless leader, Virginia Farmer is trying to get every member up to Pro status by the end of the year. Meaning having a completed manuscript that has been sent out to an agent or publishing house. My current work has been on the back burner in preparation. Not that I'm not fleshing out bits in my head at the oddest times, including at work today. I just really need an extra day (or six) to get the condemned area back up to par for my brain to function instead of bogging down in procrastination.

For Mary (My Life in Scotland)

Thanks Mary for giving my a thorough tongue lashing about my incompetence of not posting. --Over exaggerating the facts, but hey it got me to post.
I've been busy writing again. The new position at work has finally settled into normal and I've been jazzed about my new story. I'm writing a Young Adult Paranormal with a Celtic Mythology theme, my heroine's name is Emma Sara Reid, or as she likes to be called 'Em'. Two weeks from turning sixteen Em finds out she has god-like abilities, including shape-shifting into a raven, after meeting a super hot, Scottish guy, Archer, that her Uncle Cormac just informed her parents would be staying with the family for the next year. Something like an exchange student. Needless to say her Junior year is going to be very interesting!
I try to keep up with Tweeting in between working at the 9-5 job (which is really 6-2:30). Check me out at:UserName: JustAboutWrite
Well, back to work. Lunch has ended with me just blabbing away. Thanks again Mary, I will try to do better.