Can I ask my bloggy friends out there, why do you do contests?? Is it just for fun? Or do you hope to get something out of it?? More followers? A boost in sales??? I'm really curious as to your reasons for doing it.
I did one contest on my blog a while back. I had seen others do them and it seemed like a neat idea! Give away a cool prize (make someone's day) and maybe boost my follower list in the process!
But I was a little disappointed. I only had about 10-12 entrants and my follower list only bumped up by 2 or 3. But I did enjoy making someone's day! :)
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
The Waiting Game
Life seems to be a waiting game. Every day. You wait in lines, wait for food to be ready, the laundry to be dry. In this day and age we've come to want everything immediately- an instant gratification society. I can't say I enjoy waiting, but I do try to make the most of my time. Hate to rush life by.
But I do hate waiting to hear from an agent. Man that is excruciating! Not so much the query letters...but a partial. It's step one in the journey. It may be the only step you get. It's excruciating to sit back and just wait to see if you'll be moving your career forward...or not.
My partial has been with the agent I met with at The Write Stuff conference for over a month now...close to 5 weeks. Her website says 10-12 weeks for partial requests...so I know I need to sit back and chill. But it's so hard!!
But I do hate waiting to hear from an agent. Man that is excruciating! Not so much the query letters...but a partial. It's step one in the journey. It may be the only step you get. It's excruciating to sit back and just wait to see if you'll be moving your career forward...or not.
My partial has been with the agent I met with at The Write Stuff conference for over a month now...close to 5 weeks. Her website says 10-12 weeks for partial requests...so I know I need to sit back and chill. But it's so hard!!
Friday, May 7, 2010
I need to carve out more time!!!
Seems there's always something to take up my time and minimize the time I get to write and work on writing related projects.
There's the house and chores and dinner preparation, laundry, food shopping. There's always something we're prepping for: we have a costume party this weekend and I need to shop for supplies and make our costumes.
And then there's the kids. Every parent knows that the kids always need you the second you sit to do something for yourself. If my son didn't take a good nap every afternoon, I would not be sitting here typing this right now!
I hate to sound like I'm complaining, I'm really not. I know how lucky I am to get what I get. But I so badly want to make this career a success and I need to somehow find more time to give to it. But how do I do that without feeling guilty?? The most logical is after dinner. Hubby is here and able to take over parental duties 100%. I keep telling myself that if I worked a job out of the home, that is when I'd have to do it. But that is the only time we have as a family and that time is precious to me. The kids are only this age once. who knows how much longer we'll have before they won't want to play with us anymore.
I've tried the get up early thing...does not work for me. I am so not a morning person. I am better at night, but editing seriously makes me so sleepy!! I can usually write new stuff at night, but not edit.
Thanks for listening...I know there's tons of you out there who can relate!
There's the house and chores and dinner preparation, laundry, food shopping. There's always something we're prepping for: we have a costume party this weekend and I need to shop for supplies and make our costumes.
And then there's the kids. Every parent knows that the kids always need you the second you sit to do something for yourself. If my son didn't take a good nap every afternoon, I would not be sitting here typing this right now!
I hate to sound like I'm complaining, I'm really not. I know how lucky I am to get what I get. But I so badly want to make this career a success and I need to somehow find more time to give to it. But how do I do that without feeling guilty?? The most logical is after dinner. Hubby is here and able to take over parental duties 100%. I keep telling myself that if I worked a job out of the home, that is when I'd have to do it. But that is the only time we have as a family and that time is precious to me. The kids are only this age once. who knows how much longer we'll have before they won't want to play with us anymore.
I've tried the get up early thing...does not work for me. I am so not a morning person. I am better at night, but editing seriously makes me so sleepy!! I can usually write new stuff at night, but not edit.
Thanks for listening...I know there's tons of you out there who can relate!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
What's their story???
Do you ever see a person or a group of people and watch what they're doing and wonder why they're there and what brought them to do what they do???
I do. All the time, actually. Is it my writer's brain that makes me think like this?? Or am I just nosey??
There is a McDonalds not far form my house, I pass it every single time I leave my house or come home (unless I come the back way, but that's rare.) And as soon as the weather turns nice, there is this little group of old men that congregate in the parking lot. They open up the hatch-back of a mini van and sit around it in folding camp chairs like they're tailgating. Sometimes they're there early, like today- it was noonish when I drove by. And there've been other times I've seen them as late as 9 pm. And I am so damn curious as to why they sit there, in the parking lot, only about 10-20 feet from a very busy road. Why would they choose to sit there rather than one of their houses or a bar or a park or anywhere else on the planet beside a fast food restaurant parking lot!
Humans are fascinating creatures. It's so interesting to observe and wonder and see what they'll do next. Maybe this is why reality TV has become as popular as it has. It's completely unpredicable. (well, sometimes. I know there is completely scripted "reality" tv out there too...but those shows are so lame.) I think poeple like to see other people and to know they're not alone in their idiosyncrasies.
What do you think???
I do. All the time, actually. Is it my writer's brain that makes me think like this?? Or am I just nosey??
There is a McDonalds not far form my house, I pass it every single time I leave my house or come home (unless I come the back way, but that's rare.) And as soon as the weather turns nice, there is this little group of old men that congregate in the parking lot. They open up the hatch-back of a mini van and sit around it in folding camp chairs like they're tailgating. Sometimes they're there early, like today- it was noonish when I drove by. And there've been other times I've seen them as late as 9 pm. And I am so damn curious as to why they sit there, in the parking lot, only about 10-20 feet from a very busy road. Why would they choose to sit there rather than one of their houses or a bar or a park or anywhere else on the planet beside a fast food restaurant parking lot!
Humans are fascinating creatures. It's so interesting to observe and wonder and see what they'll do next. Maybe this is why reality TV has become as popular as it has. It's completely unpredicable. (well, sometimes. I know there is completely scripted "reality" tv out there too...but those shows are so lame.) I think poeple like to see other people and to know they're not alone in their idiosyncrasies.
What do you think???
Monday, May 3, 2010
Back to reality...but did I ever really escape??
We're back from our alone trip to Disney World, just hubby and me. We had been looking forward to this trip...we so needed some alone time and a chance to reconnect and just "be" without worrying about anything. I knew the trip would not be 100% worry-free...we were left our kids for 5 days and they were over 1000 miles away, but still. They were in mostly capable hands.
The trip itself was fantastic. Fab weather- 85-88, sunny, only rained one night and it was later on. We had a lot of fun and were silly and posed for lots of pictures. We rode all our favorite rides and re-rode them too.
On the Tomorrowland Speedway:
Waiting to be seated for Mickey's Philharmagic 3d show:
At Winter Summerland Mini Golf:
Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival:
The Morocco Pavilion in the background:
Streets of America at Hollywood Studios:
On the Teacups at Magic Kingdom:
And Cinderella's Castle:
Sunset Boulevard at Hollywood Studios with our favorite ride in the background- Tower of Terror!!
But of course it was stressful too...our son got sick, just a little virus or something, but because he has asthma, it becomes a bigger issue. Luckily I had prepared our sitters ahead of time and he seemed to be okay. But still.....very hard for me to be that far away at a time like that.
And the relaxing nights we had planned for the resort's hot tub...yeah...that didn't happen. There were tons of school trips and such while we were there and every night, when we headed to the hot tub, we were pretty much the only adults there, surrounded by a minimum of twenty unsupervised teenagers.
The trip was well worth it and we did find ourselves missing the kids and very much looking forward to our next trip to "The World" with them in December!
The trip itself was fantastic. Fab weather- 85-88, sunny, only rained one night and it was later on. We had a lot of fun and were silly and posed for lots of pictures. We rode all our favorite rides and re-rode them too.
On the Tomorrowland Speedway:
Waiting to be seated for Mickey's Philharmagic 3d show:
At Winter Summerland Mini Golf:
Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival:
The Morocco Pavilion in the background:
Streets of America at Hollywood Studios:
On the Teacups at Magic Kingdom:
And Cinderella's Castle:
Sunset Boulevard at Hollywood Studios with our favorite ride in the background- Tower of Terror!!
But of course it was stressful too...our son got sick, just a little virus or something, but because he has asthma, it becomes a bigger issue. Luckily I had prepared our sitters ahead of time and he seemed to be okay. But still.....very hard for me to be that far away at a time like that.
And the relaxing nights we had planned for the resort's hot tub...yeah...that didn't happen. There were tons of school trips and such while we were there and every night, when we headed to the hot tub, we were pretty much the only adults there, surrounded by a minimum of twenty unsupervised teenagers.
The trip was well worth it and we did find ourselves missing the kids and very much looking forward to our next trip to "The World" with them in December!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Getting ready to leave!!!!!! YIPPEEE!!!!!!!!!
We've got about 2 days, 3 hours and 55 minutes before our plane takes off!
It's funny how you never realize how badly you need something `til you actually start planning it. I love my kids more than life, but every parent knows you just need time away to recharge and rekindle your relationship as a couple and not just as mom and dad. We're leaving our kids in safe hands- their grandparents- so I feel confident in going. They will have fun being spoiled and we will have fun spoiling ourselves.
My apologies for the lack of posts the past week or so and I will most likely not be posting again `til after we come home! Enjoy your week!
It's funny how you never realize how badly you need something `til you actually start planning it. I love my kids more than life, but every parent knows you just need time away to recharge and rekindle your relationship as a couple and not just as mom and dad. We're leaving our kids in safe hands- their grandparents- so I feel confident in going. They will have fun being spoiled and we will have fun spoiling ourselves.
My apologies for the lack of posts the past week or so and I will most likely not be posting again `til after we come home! Enjoy your week!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Man Candy!!!!!! Had to steal this idea!!!
My new bloggy friend Gina Gordon is sharing her favorite pieces of man candy this week and I thought I'd borrow her idea!!!!!
Get ready ladies....here are my favorite drool-worthy, I'll-sit-through-this-so-not-me-movie-if-I-can-stare-at-you men, in no particular order:
Paul Walker- I don't watch The Fast and the Furious cause I like cars.
Zac Efron- He's legal...it's okay to look.
Ryan Reynolds- I've loved you ever since you were Berg on Two Guys, A Girl and Pizza Place.
Bradley Cooper- Even beat up and bloody in The Hangover, he was still hot as hell!
Cameron Mathison- I actually met him....he told me I smelled good....*swoon*
Get ready ladies....here are my favorite drool-worthy, I'll-sit-through-this-so-not-me-movie-if-I-can-stare-at-you men, in no particular order:
Paul Walker- I don't watch The Fast and the Furious cause I like cars.
Zac Efron- He's legal...it's okay to look.
Ryan Reynolds- I've loved you ever since you were Berg on Two Guys, A Girl and Pizza Place.
Bradley Cooper- Even beat up and bloody in The Hangover, he was still hot as hell!
Cameron Mathison- I actually met him....he told me I smelled good....*swoon*
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