A touch of glamour

I know I haven't been around much. Work has been crazy to say the least. There are two of us trying to wrangle doing the work of three/four people. We already know we lost the one position and I'm bidding on the other because it would be a promotion. And both contractors are just having a ball filling up our calenders with meetings. (Gah, so many meetings). Usually when I come home, I am so brain dead. I'm sort of irritated over not having written much of anything or even reading. I really need to fix that, even if it is half an hour before I go to sleep.

On top of that, I haven't done much jewelry making either. I need to get working on some things. I've mostly been doing custom requests.

If anyone wants to take a look, it's currently up on Facebook, Bead Foundry. I'm working on getting stuff up in an Etsy shop as well. Small stuff but I'm hoping to have more up soon, depending on my time constraints.

Writers: Does anyone use Duotrope to search for open calls? I know they have gone to a subscription service of like 5 bucks a month. I've been tossing it around for a while on if I should join it.

Mother's day was nice. Went out to eat at a local diner that has banging food, went to a place that opened up that is frozen yogurt that is pretty damned yummy and got stuff to start the garden for this year.

This year has not been working out much. Had to get a new car because my Saturn was just taking too much to keep inspected, Cyrano crossing the Rainbow Bridge, the freezer dying and having to get a new (used) one and the motherboard on my laptop slowly dying. *sigh* That's the new one. There is the choice of spending the money on having the motherboard replaced or buying a new laptop. The new laptop really isn't much of an option and considering that Microsoft now came out and said that Windows 8 is pretty much a failure, I really don't want to get one. So it's pony up the 300 and get mine fixed.

It might be helpful to write more if I had someone to do it with but those I have on any sort of messenger usually aren't on at the same time. At least then it is the whole accountability thing.

Anyway, enough whining from me. It's time for another fun filled day at work tomorrow.

In the past week, I have written over five thousand words. Saturday I didn't write at all because I was buying a new car (much as I enjoyed not having a car payment) and I just clocked in under two hundred yesterday. But it definitely has been a good week.

One thing I need to do is sit down and write down my different universes. Because I started writing in another two. So yeah. I'm like the dogs in Up. I'm all SQUIRREL! sometimes when it comes to writing stories because I go by what pops into my head and then the characters start to talk to me and keep poking to be written.

On top of that, I saw that Rebekah posted about a World Building Blog Hop. And I thought to myself "WHY NOT!" because I don't have enough on my plate to work on to get everything straightened out. X-D Anyway. Click on the Earth and learn more about the World Building Exercise.




It will be interesting to see how far I can go.