and then there was September...
Another month is gone, whisked away by a clicking tock and leaving me here wondering 'what did I do this month?' Not much, honestly, except for work which, thankfully, oh so thankfully, is going very well. My boss and I share similar character traits - a weird, offbeat quirkiness, a love all things English (and Welsh! for me at least), books, plants, animals and helping people who get into horrible situations out of sheer stupidity. We have a few cases like that, true heart-breakers, and while we won't make a dime helping these people, somehow keeping a wife from being indicted, and helping a lady get her dead mother's things back from a too-quick to gleefully snatch and run neighbor, it feels good to do. I am glad I work for someone like this, even if LOL sometimes he just stares at me like I am nuts. Okay I am, but that is okay! Right?
Nick is here in less than two weeks, and while the visit will be too damn short (sigh) it is nonetheless an awesome thing and I am so looking forward to seeing him again in the flesh, and road tripping! We will be off to New Mexico... going via Roswell, NM absolutely on purpose. First to Santa Fe for a day of just tromping around, as one does, and then to the GRL conference in Albuquerque. I am super-intrigued about going to Albuquerque as I did such an extensive railroad project there. I know the rails that zoom through there, oh yes I do! LOL.
Learned recently that my old job - been gone almost 2 years now? wow - had major layoffs.
Writing...well. Still waiting to hear from my editor, and other than that, have been busy living and working and such, and haven't written much. I've quit a few times, stabbed at different genres, quit again, and probably will yet again. But, I keep going back to it because it is what I have, and I am proud of what I have done for the most part. My confidence currently sits at about the same level as a cockroach (low low low) and I am trying to figure out why that is. Self-doubt sucks, and I can't see where it has any place in one's life, how it is useful at all. I would just rather not experience it at all, okay? Yeah.
Thrillers...my new love to read after a huge spate of YA fiction. We'll see how long this lasts.
But now I must go - am still at work and the boss brought me a tape. (checks time) Okay probably won't finish it today but I have nothing to do when I get home except walk the dogs so might as well just go ahead and finish it. Yes?
Nick is here in less than two weeks, and while the visit will be too damn short (sigh) it is nonetheless an awesome thing and I am so looking forward to seeing him again in the flesh, and road tripping! We will be off to New Mexico... going via Roswell, NM absolutely on purpose. First to Santa Fe for a day of just tromping around, as one does, and then to the GRL conference in Albuquerque. I am super-intrigued about going to Albuquerque as I did such an extensive railroad project there. I know the rails that zoom through there, oh yes I do! LOL.
Learned recently that my old job - been gone almost 2 years now? wow - had major layoffs.
Writing...well. Still waiting to hear from my editor, and other than that, have been busy living and working and such, and haven't written much. I've quit a few times, stabbed at different genres, quit again, and probably will yet again. But, I keep going back to it because it is what I have, and I am proud of what I have done for the most part. My confidence currently sits at about the same level as a cockroach (low low low) and I am trying to figure out why that is. Self-doubt sucks, and I can't see where it has any place in one's life, how it is useful at all. I would just rather not experience it at all, okay? Yeah.
Thrillers...my new love to read after a huge spate of YA fiction. We'll see how long this lasts.
But now I must go - am still at work and the boss brought me a tape. (checks time) Okay probably won't finish it today but I have nothing to do when I get home except walk the dogs so might as well just go ahead and finish it. Yes?