Haven't blogged for days. Haven't hardly been home.
Discovered a couple days ago that I totally messed up the story I'm writing. Can't go into detail as of yet. It's a historical novel, and I somehow, stupidly overlooked really important facts. I've researched, written & have re-written this story for 10 years. Now, I have to completely re-write it. Again! I can't tell you how frustrated I am. How incredibly stupid I feel. I had made so much progress, too. I SO want and financially NEED that story to be published. Now this. Oy.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
11/11/11
Another one of those weird dates. My cousin got married today, at 11:00 a.m. They best not ever forget their anniversary!
It was a great, brief wedding & lively reception in a room crammed with Italian & Irish family & friends. It was great to see everybody again. I feel kinda weird and melancholy, I guess. I remember her parents' wedding as clear as if it was last week. Now their daughter's married. Life is SO short and just flies by. My kids are nearly all grown, too. Really makes me realize how brief life is, and makes me really think about what's important. It's sad how much time goes by in-between visits with family & friends. It was really nice to have a family get-together that didn't involve burying anybody.
Thank God for family & friends. This world would be a literal hell of a place without them.
It was a great, brief wedding & lively reception in a room crammed with Italian & Irish family & friends. It was great to see everybody again. I feel kinda weird and melancholy, I guess. I remember her parents' wedding as clear as if it was last week. Now their daughter's married. Life is SO short and just flies by. My kids are nearly all grown, too. Really makes me realize how brief life is, and makes me really think about what's important. It's sad how much time goes by in-between visits with family & friends. It was really nice to have a family get-together that didn't involve burying anybody.
Thank God for family & friends. This world would be a literal hell of a place without them.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
11/5/11
Wow. This is my first post in November. Been unbelievably busy, hardly home, and sick. Today was a yard sale out in the cold (cold for California, high of 59 degrees). In-between rain storms. I hate yard sales. First, you're up early on Sat., when you should be sleeping. There are these weird people who come to your house in trucks & cars and vans, already loaded down with stuff from yard sales. Who ARE these people? Where do they come from? Don't they sleep? Then you have something truly worth over $100. You're basically giving it away for $50. Then somebody offers you $5. Are THEY stupid, or do they hope that YOU are? It's really insulting. They assume that just because you are selling your belongings just to survive that you are also a complete moron.
Then, you're stuck with all this stuff that didn't sell. NOW what do you do with it? Put it back somewhere? Give it away? It kills me to give away stuff that I COULD have SOLD. I NEED the extra $. But no, now I have to either find some place for this semi-unwanted stuff, or give it away. And no sooner do you give it away, but you need it. You find out the ghastly brush thing you threw away was Napoleon's toilet brush, worth $75,000. Or somehow, some thing you've had for years in a closet or garage and would probably NEVER need, you give it away and suddenly you NEED the stupid thing. If you'd kept it, you'd NEVER need it. You know how it is. It's like when you're home alone and nobody calls... until you're in the shower.
Well, tonite's the time change. We "fall back" an hour. I don't like when it gets dark early, but I can dig another hour of sleep. Well, speaking of time, thank you for spending a piece of your time reading this. I hope that somehow you enjoy it.
Then, you're stuck with all this stuff that didn't sell. NOW what do you do with it? Put it back somewhere? Give it away? It kills me to give away stuff that I COULD have SOLD. I NEED the extra $. But no, now I have to either find some place for this semi-unwanted stuff, or give it away. And no sooner do you give it away, but you need it. You find out the ghastly brush thing you threw away was Napoleon's toilet brush, worth $75,000. Or somehow, some thing you've had for years in a closet or garage and would probably NEVER need, you give it away and suddenly you NEED the stupid thing. If you'd kept it, you'd NEVER need it. You know how it is. It's like when you're home alone and nobody calls... until you're in the shower.
Well, tonite's the time change. We "fall back" an hour. I don't like when it gets dark early, but I can dig another hour of sleep. Well, speaking of time, thank you for spending a piece of your time reading this. I hope that somehow you enjoy it.
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