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Journal entries of my life as a writer. |
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This is a journal of my writing life since I joined the Writing.com community of writers. This is such a different place for me, I think it's a good idea to document my new writing adventures. |
June 21 Blogging Prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  June 21, 2014 is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. After June 21, the days will get shorter and shorter until the Winter Solstice. Some people celebrate the solstice. How will you celebrate the longest day of the year? Will you write verse? Will you write prose? Will you have a BBQ? Will you protest? Summer Solstice Boy is this day long How long is it? Today's long enough to dance around a ring of fire and bang on drums in day and night That's funny, I was just going to have a BBQ There's enough time for that, too But I'm going to do it online Okay, that's odd I'm celebrating with reviews What? The whole group is reviewing each other Reviewing what? Poetry and stories and anything else So you're celebrating indoors? I'm free to roam I guess doing something nice for others is cool So is banging on drums and having a campfire Enjoy Peace |
| June 21 Blogging Prompt for "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" Let's take a walk on the wild side... We all have something we'd like to write about, but that doesn't really fit our blog. Write it anyway. I was sad to find more evidence of wrongdoing yesterday. I was writing an updated version of HTML information and I wanted to see what I did years ago when I was a teacher with Visions in Education Charter School. I had loaded it up to my website for safe keeping because I didn't want to lose it as I have lost so many of my posessions trying to get away from my stalkers by physically relocating. I saw that my work had been tampered with on my website. Parts of what I did were still there so at a glance all would look fine, but the key details were all destroyed. So I am leaving this proof of something people do to me as is and I am moving on with the new version of my work. I can only hope there will be no more damage done. I do check things from time to time, so hopefully I will be able to catch other things that could be done in the future. The cyber attacks are very annoying when people destroy my work and try to make me look bad. This morning I noticed I was no longer a fan of the Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum. Is this yet another attempt to make it impossible for me to do something I want to do or is it just that I scrolled down to the bottom and unfanned it myself without realizing what I had done? |
| June 21 Blogging Prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends " Often our blogd have taglines. But what if humans did, too? If I had a tagline, it would be, "Handle with care." But the underlying meaning would be that if people don't handle me with care, they might not want to tangle with what they get in responce to their cruelty. So if everyone had a tagline, people would want to make them incomplete so people would still want to get to know them. Otherwise people might just take a pass on getting to know the real you because they already read the tagline and thought that was all there was to know. |
| June 20 Blogging Prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" If you could be any kind of animal, what would you be? If I could be any animal, I would be a cat. It's not too hard to get adopted and it's not too hard to get cuddles and lots of pets and it's not too hard to get spoiled rotten and cats pretty much do whatever they feel like doing any time of the day or night. Cats pretty much rule the house and own their owners. It sounds like a pretty good life if you pick the right family to adopt you. You can always run away if it gets too bad and start all over forcing another family to fall in love with you. I would do my stray cat strut to not be stray anymore. Cats get pampered. |
| June 20 Blogging Prompt for "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" The fountain of youth ecists, but you have no idea what age you will be once you drink it. Do you chance it? I say no. What if I end up all alone as a baby? Who would raise me all over again? Why would I want to grow up all over again? So I'm just going to stay youthful and live forever and ever. |
| June 20 Blogging Prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends " What was your first job? I was a babysitter when I was twelve and that didn't go very well. My first job with a paycheck was at age eighteen as a Girl Scout Camp Counselor. I made six hundred dollars. The pay was low because they provided cots and meals. I got hired over the phone because there were several counselors who came into camp drunk from their day off. They were fired on the spot and replacements had to be found or they had to close because they didn't have enough adult supervision. I got the call because I kept in touch with someone who I met at counselor in training the previous summer. The following summer I was promoted and got eight hundred dollars. The third summer I made nine hundred dollars. You just have to forget about the pay and look at how much fun the job is. You get to have fun at summer camp all summer long. |
| June 19 Blogging Prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" If you were a mutant, what would be your power and why? This is based on X-Men comics and movies. I would choose the psychic ability to compell people to do things I wanted them to do. I know this could be used evilly, but I want to compel people to do right. I want to compel people to do what they should do to help me to not have to be a never ending stalking victim. After all of these years, it still continues and I want my stalkers to be stopped from harming me in any way and I want the victim restitution won for me in court. People were convinced not to give it to me because they said I would be dead soon and they told people not to give it to me because they claimed I was a criminal and they told people not to give it to me because they said I'm mentally retarded and wouldn't know what to do with the money if I had it. I'm a little sick and tired of the exact same things and a few new ones happening over and over and over again. I don't even care about being investigated anymore. The investigations will vindicate me. They support my claims of being victimized by my stalkers and the investigators are duty bound to handle the criminals and stop the crimes they do find. The investigators end up being my witnesses whether they want to be or not. |
 I think I forgot to blog about my latest images for this site. I ended up winning a gift certificate for an image shop run by EMB and it covered three images. They were beautiful and I had a difficult time choosing my three favorites. These are the ones I picked.** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| June 19 Blogging Prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends " You're awoken from your midnight sleep in your favorite chair to your dog barking wildly in the living room. Pulling her aside, you look out the window, only to see a face staring right back at you. Whose is it? Why are they there? This is scary. I can hope it's a friend or relative wondering why my drapes aren't drawn, wondering if I'm okay. But the chances are it is someone looking to rob me or possibly worse. I think I would call 911 and hope they can sort it out. I would seriously be having a scare attack if this happened to me. |
| June 19 Blogging Prompt for "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" Write a post in your blog, but three years in the future. What will happen? This prompt is a little scary for me. I have had so many odd and unexpected things happen to me that saying what I wish would happen versus what will most likely happen and everything in between just makes my head spin. Will I still be living in the nursing home? Will some man actually swoop in and help me get back on my feet again? Will I get the asistance I should get because of court action ending up with money being awarded to me as victim restitution? Will I end up being homeless outside again? My life is continually up in the air. For all I know, this could be my posting for three years from now. I could very well be asking these very same questions. And I could be singing about how much better off I am and how much happier I am. There are way too many factors in my life to be able to look that far into the future. |
 My kid's book I made for my niece and nephew arrived in the mail today. It looks so nice with the black hard cover and the slick dust cover and the glossy colored pages. The artwork looks great. The font size is big and easy to read. The background color on the pages almost matches the dust cover.I hope my family buys copies of it. I beg my family to buy my books and I just don't have the money to buy it myself for all of them. I might get this one around Christmas time when I have a little money again because it's so special and I want the kids to have it while they're kids. Once again they have said they will buy my book and I just have to give it time to see if they are lying again. In the mean time, I am so proud of myself for doing such a good job on the book design and content. I think https://www.ShopMyBook.com is a great choice for personalized books for gifts. There's no marketing, but you get to see your writing in book form. That's what I like. https://www.LuLu.com is another option I use, but the process is more difficult. |
| June 18 Blogging Prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends " Song Stuck In My Head. I have a song stuck in my head... Do with this what you want and have fun. I had kind of a strange upbringing as far as music goes. I had classical music and Girl Scout folk songs until I started driving. The car radio was it. So I break into Girl Scout song every once in a while. Those songs represented fun times, so they cheer me up. But I love just about all music out there. It all feels magical to me. Make New Friends Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold. Campfire's Burning Campfire's burning, campfire's burning Draw nearer, draw nearer In the glowing, in the glowing Come sing and be merry I feel like many of the Girl Scout songs I sang were teaching songs. I feel like I learned a lot about life from those songs. A girl said to me one day at camp that she didn't want to sing grace because she wasn't religious. I was a counselor and I told her I wasn't religious, either, but I liked singing the songs because I thought they were so pretty. I didn't even let her know singing grace was optional. She just assumed it was manditory. I let her deal with it however she wanted to deal with it. I had to write a religious autobiography to get my BS from a Jesuit university. I wrote a compare and contrast between my Girl Scout experiences and my cousin's religious experience. I was one of the only passing essays and hardly anyone gets a passing non religious autobiography. The teacher had me read it to the class because I said some harsh things and thought it would make a good discussion. The room was silent. No one made a single comment. I have a lot of problems with my mom, but when the other troops were full, she stepped in to take on the extra girls so I could be a Girl Scout like the other girls. My parents met through Girl Scouts. My dad's mom was my mom's Girl Scout leader. So I exist because of Girl Scouts. |
| June 18 Blogging Prompt for "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" Why is a raven like a writing desk? I love when the Mad Hatter asks Alice this question. There is no right answer. Just an opinion question. When Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven," was there a raven sitting by his window when he was at his writing desk? Maybe the raven flew in and sat at his writing desk. Lyn got me to thinking about riddles. I want there to be a right answer to this bird desk thing. Maybe they're both black and the writer flies like the raven when he writes at that raven black desk. It's like magic. It's just not the same to write anywhere else. It has to be that magical raven black desk. I struggle with riddles. It upsets me when I don't know the answer because I think I should be able to figure it out. |
| June 18 Blogging Prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" Volunteer jobs... I was a Girl Scout for 1st through 12th grade and then a camp counselor for three summers as an adult. I had opportunities to do some volunteer work over those years. It felt good to help out as much as kids can help. One of the things we did one time was go to an old folks home to cheer people up. We were told they would love to see kids. I remember being shocked that just seeing us would mean so much to the elderly. I was a Delian and we were told it was our responsibility to tutor other students because school came easy for us, so we should help those who were struggling. I ended up being the marching band math tutor. I only asked for money when I couldn't pay for gas for the car. I did it for free for years. I realized that I had a different way of explaining things than the teachers and the kids understood me. Years later I volunteered as a math tutor for Intel. It was tough to remember the math I hadn't used in a really long time. I apologized at the end of the year for being so rusty. She told me I taught her how to use her notes and the textbook. She thought I had done a wonderful job. I was already working to get my teaching credential at the time. She taught me how important it was to teach study skills to students and not assume they already have those skills. The head of the school walked in on me teaching middle school students how to use a textbook. The students didn't even know answers were in the back of the book. I earned brownie points that day. Volunteering is important. Helping others is how we help ourselves. It betters the community and we are enriched by the experience. I think volunteer work looks good on a resume, too. I totally recommend volunteering for Habitat For Humanity, too. You get to meet the families who get to live in the houses. |
| June 17 Blogging Prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends " Have commenters about your blog posts ever made you change your mind or helped you make a decision? Tell us about that time. I did have someone help change my mind about something, but it was a newsfeed post rather than a blog post. I was discussyour ng my search for a writing program and I was announcing which way I was leaning and someone wanted me to try a different program before making my decision. I ended up trying Scrivener at his suggestion. It was actually a program I was interested in, before I heard about WriteItNow. The trial version of Scrivener allowed me to try all the features, including the ability to save my work for thirty days as a trial to see if I liked it enough to purchase the software. That's what did it for me. I went through the tutorial, which is very long and very helpful. Then I was so excited about the software, I used it to pull together a nice collection of my writings and poetry and even blogging. I liked it so much that I worked hard at exporting it the way I wanted it and worked on some final formatting in Word and then off to publication it went through https://www.ShopMyBook.com. They are a free publisher and I ordered a very nice keepsake to be sent to my favorite cousin who likes my writing. I realized I forgot to check for typos in one of the sections. But it was a good effort and she can remember me for my writing and my typos from typing with a smartphone. Oh well. It just felt fantastic to give her this special gift and that was all made possible because of the comment from a reader of my post. |
| June 17 Blogging Prompt for "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day in the United States, but everyone can play. What is your favorite veggie? I'm going to have to gp with my family of corn farmers on this one. My favorite vegetable is corn, even though Weight Watchers says it's a starchy vegetable. So to please the third generation Weight Watchers side of me, I also have many salad choices as a close second to corn. I don't like everything people put on a salad, but I could make a meal out of a really good salad. |
| June 17 Blogging Prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" Is it ever better to take the low road over the high road? Why or why not? I believe in normal day to day life it is better to take the high road, so that you build a sterling reputation about yourself. The only thing that comes to mind as to why it could be better to take the low road is covert operations. But if the operation was rwally to bring about the best outcome for continuing society, then it would just be a war tactic to winn out for good. So it might be a strange way of taking the high road due to the complexity or level of danger in the opportunity. So upon reflection, as long as people are doing their best to achieve a lasting society, which means a lawful and supportive society, then it could be looked at as taking the high road, even if it were some sort of strange covert operation. Taking the high road supports a good way of life. It's the best option whenever possible. |
 I had another productive day today, but not as productive as yesterday. I painted more tiny acrylic paintings for my cousins. Then I went on to paint with the water colors on larger paper. I want to make sure there is a variety of artwork for them to see when they get here. I also created more educational resources based on my photos with questions about the photos.Then I saw the pictures sent by that guy who said he was going to come live with me. I haven't heard from him in a few days, so I sent him an email letting him know how sad I was to think he might have been working a confidence scheme with me and lying about his feelings for me. I don't know if I will hear from him again or not. Of course I wish it were all a big misunderstanding, but I doubt it at this time. My gut said something would go wrong, but I felt it was important to move forward with the thoughts of possibly making it a reality. I've dealt with enough issues to know to look for red flags and what they could mean. And I know about making due if that is what's needed at that time. Maybe there is more of this story to unfold. Maybe there is more to learn. Maybe I'm just grasping at straws. |
| June 16 Blogging Prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" Shadows Within... I do have shadows within. I have been through too much not to have them. But I still try to play it up in a positive way. I have a wish for my large group of stalkers to learn all about the right to due process guaranteed to us in the Constitution of the United States of America. My stalkers took away my right to due process by deciding I was guilty and telling all sorts of people I was guilty and deciding to punish me for being guilty without me having a chance to defend myself. I don't know how many times they have tried to turn me in as a criminal. I have no idea how many investigations they may have triggered in the process. I know I am presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I haven't been arrested or charged or convicted. The accusations are just plain false, so there isn't any evidence. This doesn't stop people from trying to trick me into doing something illegal. They try their hands at setting up their own version of sting opperations. They don't actually understand how that works, so it becomes a broken record of strange things happening over and over again. I have great sadness hiding in my shadows within. Why didn't people want to help me resolve the issue up front? Why did people decide to go behind my back? Did they really think I was guilty? Some of these people knew me for years. They knew me to be a good person. Why didn't they stand up for me? Why did I have to fight the battle alone? Sadly, I know no way of stopping a rumor mill. I will just continue to live my life the best way I can. Living a good life and writing seem to be my only defenses against this disaster that destroyed my life. |
| June 16 Blogging Prompt for "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" Why did you do it? The details are yours to discern. I did it to make it difficult for my cousin's kids to choose what they want. But what is it that I did? I made ten tiny acrylic paintings to give away to my soon to visit cousins. I want to lay out the paintings I've done today and in the past and give them too many to choose from. I think it will be fun. They have to pick ones out for themselves and the rest of the family back in Virginia. I don't get too many visitors, even though my family lives on the other side of Los Angeles. So I feel like celebrating the occasion. |
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