Lazy Lazy Lazy Lazy Lazy ...Jane

Okay, yes. I'll stop being lazy and actually post something real for a change. How 'bout that?
New things? Two more weeks left of school. I feel like I should almost be excited about that. I'm not really. I've really enjoyed this semester. I've written some fun things, made some cool friends. But I am looking forward to next semester. It looks like I'll probably be taking a math class ...fantastic. (OOOZING with sarcasm!) I really Hate Hate Hate math. I'll take something fun too, like film something something theory something and maybe even ballet again - I took that at Dixie a couple times eight years ago. Me, ballet? I know.

Also, I'm really excited. No, I still haven't gotten a job, I'll admit I've been taking my time with that, waiting it out for the best of the best. And finally an opening has come up at a place I've especially been waiting for - don't want to give too much away too soon, don't want to jinx it or anything. But I'll definitely be applying for that and it'd be absolutely perfect and no, it's not at the library again. :) I'll let you know what happens.

My novel has been coming along incredibly, I have to say! I've Finally broken 20,000!!! Almost half way there! I'm sure it'll end up a little over 50,000 - 65 or 70,000 might not be terrible - So exciting! It's amazing - every time I sit down something new just flows out, fast and not all trash. I'm in the process of adding a third storyline, the one I've been avoiding most and it's just been so easy. I'm excited to get farther and someday actually have somebody read the whole thing... or at least the whole beginning, as a start.

I'm liking my apartment and will very soon - I hope - have all of my books at my place. Or at least most of them. I miss my books and could use the bookcases. The built in shelves are already pretty well full up. I think I'm even still averaging maybe a new book every other day... maybe it only seems that way. Maybe it's become a book a week or two weeks... not sure.

Oh, here's something. I saw Dark Night (Knight?) last night - anyway, I just call it Batman II !!
I have to say it was good, but ...exhaustingly intense. By the end the action and twistedness was a little overwhelming and the plot is SO similar to Koontz's Velocity (hope that doesn't ruin it for anyone) which isn't a bad thing, really. I won't say more in case others haven't seen it yet, but it was fun. I'm not a big movie goer, really. I have to be in the right mood or with the right people or it has to be the right kind of theater movie. Like Ocean's 13 - not a theater movie but a take home movie and watch 3 or 4 times to get everything out of it (maybe Ocean's 11 or 12 - 13 wasn't as good) But Indiana Jones, Batman, Spiderman, Sahara (no Boos!) all excellent theater movies.

I'm having fun. I'm at Cup O' Joes (as usual) only it's open mike night where everybody who wants to can read something of their stuff that they wrote. It's an especially big crowd tonight and the mood is good and the reading for the most part is especially good quality tonight. I've refrained from reading the past few times, but sometime I'm sure I'll read again. I do more prose than poetry, of course. But I guess really I read both.

Time to do that 3-page paper I've been avoiding all week! GACK!

As Baby Dreams

So some of you have been requesting bits of my writing. This is one of my favorite pieces that I've dedicated to my children. I wrote it when I was pregnant with my daughter and just have always loved it. And a lot of you have read it already, but I've changed it up a bit here an' there.
Really it's just an extension of laziness cuz I don't actually have time to blog this minute, but wanted to update in some way.
So, enjoy! Lemme know your thoughts on it.
(wow and that could be dangerous ;)

Roses rise, entwining emerald thickets,
Whispering through shades of green.
Fairies dance under ferns of fire
Encircling sapphire butterflies.

Amidst the clamorous yellows
A wee babe chases buttercups.
Creatures cluster behind willow canopies
Guarding her dream in silence.

Moonlight sheds his soft pale glow
Shimmering through leafy patches.
Reflecting waves of brilliance,
Magic makes the garden grow wild - free.

Dapples dance with daffodils
Illuminating Night.
Awakened by Twilight's tinkering tune,
The wee babe blinks from slumber.

She stretches, and stretching, rises
Like ocean seas a-glitter.
Gazing at the moon above,
She hears his knightly whisper:

What will your creations be?
What magic will you bring?
The gifts of life and lasting-love,
The dreams you'll see in slumber -

These are yours to keep and hold.
These are yours to wonder.

31 Things I do Instead of Writing.

Do you do any of these? Or any others?
(Obviously this was written a few years ago, but I just couldn't cut those ones!)

1. I play Solitaire.
2. I’ve played solitaire so many times I got bored and downloaded Mahjong. Now I play Mahjong instead.
3. I go to the Barnes and Noble café for a quiet place to work and spend all my time reading books on the history of Mahjong.
4. I call people I haven’t talked to in ages and time myself on how long I can get them to stay on the phone with me.
5. I baked cookies for one of my friends and then had to bake cookies for everybody so nobody would feel left out.
6. Let’s just say, my house has never been cleaner.
7. Now my car is clean too.
8. I think up new episodes for Monk that would make the show even more humorous.
9. I reread Harry Potter… this will be number nineteen, just once more and we’ll have an even twenty. Monk likes even numbers. We’ll try for that.
10. I think up numerous ending possibilities for book 7.
11. I fantasize about a book 8. There just has to be one.
12. I reread my writer’s digest collection looking for ways to not procrastinate.
13. I spend all my time thinking “What would Kevin do?”
14. I call my writing buddies and talk to them about ways we procrastinate on writing.
15. I make myself food that I somehow don’t get around to eating.
16. I’ve finally perfected my sandwiches.
17. I put in a movie for inspiring background noise and spend all my time watching it.
18. I’ve updated my list of movies about writing so it now includes Stranger than Fiction and Music and Lyrics.
19. I sort through my music collection looking for the perfect writing soundtrack.
20. I finally sit down to write and get stumped on a fact which I can only find the answer to on Wikipedia.
21. Wikipedia is so fascinating I spend all my time running searches.
22. I look up writing jobs on Craig’s List and go to interviews for jobs I don’t intend to take.
23. I finally realize the true meaning of “I’ll just Google it!”
24. There’s no better time to teach my five-year-old how to color by number.
25. During the day I tell myself I’ll be able to concentrate better after the kids are in bed. But I forget that my spouse will be home in the evenings and, well, you know how that goes...
26. Every time I sit down to write I fall right to sleep.
27. I now have 54 favorite backgrounds for my computer and I’m too busy deciding which one to use.
28. I fantasize about writing for the Writer’s Digest, and I’m sure if I could just do that, I wouldn’t procrastinate at all.
29. I look up flight prices to exotic places and then fantasize about going to them.
30. I pick the crumbs out of my keyboard. I can’t type with them in there anyway.
31. I write articles like this.

Burning Hot Sun...Swollen Toes...

What did you all do to celebrate our country's independence?? I feel like that keeps seeming more like an oxymoron with each passing year. Anyone else feel that way? ...or that it's just... somehow twisted...you all know what I mean even if I can't say it right...I guess the question I'm going for here is is our country really free? Compared to other countries it's absolutely free, but within our own country... I think the expectations for freedom could be higher. There.

I'm really not into politically controversial debates - I don't consider myself politically savvy in Any way, which I'm working on, especially now that I'm in school...I think we should at least be aware of what's going on in the world around us even if we don't want to be active in changing things or helping things along...I think we are all active by default anyway and if more people knew more about all of it it would all happen much more smoothly maybe or they would at least be more aware of the impact of their actions...but now that's just being down right hypocritical.

ANYWAY. Enough of that...crazy. So we went to Provo to celebrate, up Provo Canyon to a really great fire pit spot and roasted hot dogs and made smores!! Yum! And then we drove up to Squaw Peak and watched all the fireworks happening across the valley and especially the Stadium of Fire show. It was lots of fun. The children are especially hilarious and compete with each other for cuteness recognition. Ivan was explaining to the kids about why we celebrate Independence Day and mentioned George Washington. Lochlan started asking a clarifying question and got as far as something like "But what did George Washingmachine...?" That kept us laughing for quite some time : )

Random change of subject...Okay, so on my way to becoming urban-ized, metro-savvy ...something... ...I've decided that some days public trans just sucks. Thursday was definitely one of those days... I had two appointments, one at 2 and one at 3... great setup, right? I waited 40 minutes for the bus to take me seven blocks down state street to my 2:00. I should have just walked, right? Only I couldn't have picked more uncomfortable shoes (my black 3 inch heals...way to go) I was twenty minutes late. fantastic. Then I waited another 40 minutes for the bus to take me the seven blocks back the other way and pretty much missed my 3:00 appointment. So, yes, public trans is great for fun when you don't actually have to be anywhere at any specific time : )

And that's not factoring in the crazies that invite me to go to bars with them...yikes!

I can't wait for when I can get my bike! I found the perfect one at the bike shop and the way it works is I can put in volunteer hours fixing up other bikes to earn the bike I want and while doing so I can learn all kinds of stuff about how to fix bikes so that when the one I have needs something I'll know exactly what to do. It's so cool! Not to mention it feels good putting in service hours helping other people. I don't feel like I do that near enough. So I should have a bike in a couple of weeks. And not just any bike, the classic double-baskets on the back, girl style, old-fashioned road bike of my dreams! The kind I love to ride in Maine!! 'nough said, right?

Speaking of Maine I was invited by my family to go there this summer.
(they'll all be there in one week...)
Gosh I miss it.

Well, it's Saturday and I have the Entire day to work on my book, so that's what I'm gonna do. I'm so excited! I finally figured out how to factor in one of the main story lines! I know exactly where to start it, at least for now and how it's gonna work. Some writers say you should never talk to anyone about your stuff till it's all done, but how would you ever come up with where things fit and new ideas if you don't talk about it?? I think, as in all things, there must be a balance.

Have a great Saturday and hope ya'll enjoy the weekend, wherever you may be.