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Best quote to describe me (Anonymous): "Do not think you are on the right road, simply because it is a well-beaten path." I am what I am. Learn to live with it. And realize that comment is as much directed to myself as any reader who ventures here. Tempest arrived 31 March 2009 - changing everything, but she's pretty awesome. Dogbert arrived 13 January 2012 and is working on making the rules change again. I have two writing personas, Ransom Noble and Sheta Storm. Each has goals, and I work on them slowly. Both are published, and will continue to strive toward bigger and better things. I finally figured out how to describe myself in three words: Creative, Determined, Ambitious. It doesn't have anything to do with how I relate to others, but I do use all of those in my many relationships as well as my career goals. I know others use words sometimes like "kind" or "caring" but I think that list is the most accurate if only using three words. Cast... Sesheta: Me Dilbert: My Husband Tempest: My Darling Daughter Dogbert: My Hungry Son Sheer, Nemo, EyeKandy(K), Diego: Friends/Brothers Sugar, Wolvenwings, Mrs. Light, Jori, Trillium (others will be added): Friends It's a start, anyway. Off-Site Blogs: http://ransomnoble.wordpress.com/ http://sheta-storm.blogspot.com/ Upcoming Events: Beaverdale Books signing for Art of Science - TBD Other Items about Me: "Invalid Item"  "Invalid Item" "Failing is a part of success. To make goals effective, you have to fail at them 50 percent of the time, or they didn't stretch you far enough." Chip Wilson, courtesy of an article by Ella Lawrence called Set Your Course from Yoga Journal |
| I have edited only one chapter in 6 days. *shakes head* This does not speak well for my goals. Neither does trying to print out the novel from what i thought was a good copy only to find that i am missing chapters and the ywere totally not in the right order. Makes me want to reprint it tomorrow. Because now, of course, I found the good copy. After searching my office for the binder the current copy was in. Printed off notes (which at least were in order and not messed up by printing). Luckily this thing isn't very long, 30k+. Mom visited yesterday. It was a nice visit, though she explained she feels unwelcome in my house and SHE STILL BRINGS UP THE FREAKING CHRISTMAS OF 2007! It's only been 5 years. And 10 years since one of her other examples. And there really aren't that many examples. But I also piped up about how she always said (at least, in '07) that it HAD to be christmas eve or it wasn't "christmas". And she didn't have much to say after that. But she did poke problems at Dilbert because he HAD to clear the driveway and sidewalk before coming down on christmas eve (straight from DBQ through snow because I forgot the presents and we had to go by the house) to which Dilbert will reply tha there are ordinances in the city where we have to clear it. nobody would have reported us on christmas eve. And then we went home christmas morning without even eating breakfast. And mom complained about that, too. But she talked about her parents and I finally actually have their names.  Dilbert actually went to bed already. He must be sicker than I thought. Made a good preschool snack like trailmix. And my friend took me out because she missed my birthday.  Dogbert hasn't been feeling the best, either, only taking catnaps and waking at odd hours of night. Best I go to bed, too. |
| But no editing yet. Left dilb at home with kids for three+ hours. While I got CPR and first aid certified for the Y. I missed two questions total, and one of them I nearly chose the correct one, but oh well. I passed. And he and the kids survived. And Tempest is very big on wearing underwear and using the potty suddenly!! Dogbert working on sleeping a bit better. I guess one problem with having all the army friends is some of them move suddenly and I was out of the loop.  gah. They move even more than we do.Picked up girl with dragon tattoo again, and making slow progress. ReAd about Barnes and Noble only allowing downloads of ebooks purchased so long as an active credit card is on file, and that sounds totally nuts. But that is a worry for another day. Like when I actually have an ebook out there to worry about. Coming up on two years waiting. |
| Dilbert is cute when he is brewing beer and bottling beer... up until the point when he looks at me and says "What have you been touching? Did you sanitize your hands?" I think he sanitized his cell phone, even though accidentally. I think he salvaged the first batch and brewed a second. It is nice to see him so excited. On the other hand, he isn't so good at timing when the kids will be sleeping so I can help him. I did put them in the pack'n'play (two is better than one) and managed to keep them distracted for most of the part where he needed help. Which he grudgingly admitted. I subbed yoga this morning. I hope it was okay. A few of them talked to me after and said it was a good class. There were 17 of them there, so woot! Plus I chatted with one of Tempest's preschool friend's mom after. She is really nice. My arms are sore. I corralled my comments from DTYM, though I did not get time (did you see all the help I did with the BEER?) to actually edit. Thought I had drafted another copy of Ch 5, but I can't find it. Ch 5 is the one I hate and need to redo completely. Dogbert tries hard to talk. So cute. Gave the kids baths tonight, separately, to give them a good distraction away from daddy cleaning up more bottles for beer. Should have added to my goals list: get to bed at a decent time. But I had some correspondence to catch up on. |
| I swear every program to count words chooses different ways to count them. I have somewhere between 71k and 76k words in this book. Have a few notes to make, and I'm happy with where I am. Which leaves me open to do some editing for DTYM and send that thing out - by year's end. Dogbert has a new tooth. Last night I told him to say 'Night-night, Daddy' and he tried. Sounded like 'nigh nigh, aaaa.' Amazing. Trying that again, he definitely mimics it. He and Tempest play well together in most venues, too. Very fun. Dilbert got home early from work. The humidifier wasn't working and his beer stalled. So he spent the next 2+ hours trying to get them to work. He asked me for the humidifier receipt 6 times before he took it back to the store (I only bought it Tuesday). Either STOP FREAKING ASKING or watch the kids while I look for it. How hard is that? Tomorrow I sub yoga for my friend at the Y and the next day I get CPR training. Today, like Wednesday, I was late for yoga even before I got to the Y. So I got kids checked in and realized I even had the wrong time. Dang. So instead, I did cardio on the elliptical (figured I would need it for racquetball next week) and some chin-ups and dips for strength training. At least I did something. Plus, I went by the bank and deposited some checks plus cashed a few for me. Whee. Goals:  Not look like a fool in front of the yoga class. Do some fun yoga things for this class and also my new class (Tuesday start with actual people, I hope) Learn Racquetball and/or Squash. Catch up on Crowdtap Edit/rewrite/polish/whatever you call it for DTYM Make Christmas fun for my family (or at least not so much to dread for me) Stop playing these silly games on iPad. (Picked up 4 this month, though I've dropped one and a second I can't play much more without paying, and I don't want to pay. The fourth isn't time-consuming, so I guess I just need to give up one.) Make a workout habit. Maybe clean out the inbox... since my gmail currently has 9221 unread messages and I deleted over 100 earlier today. Whoops. My iPad doesn't like it when the gmail number is 5 digits. It cuts out and says 10..0 to fill the bubble. (it adds unread email with unread blogs and that is not a healthy number to flash in front of me) Get back into the social media: Facebook, Twitter, blogging, not necessarily in that order, and figure out what other irons I may have dropped along the way. But no, that isn't an ambitious list. For next month! And somewhere in there, I need to Figure out next year's resolutions list. Might also be handy to figure out what else I've dropped from the 2012 list that's worth salvaging. |
| So... I went to yoga the last two weeks, only to have my supervisor email me and ask if I wanted to start teaching after the new year because of the holidays. OMG. BUT ... I made friends at yoga last night. I talked to the racquetball guys. And in exchange for teaching them yoga (two volunteered!) I am going to play racquetball. Even though I've never played before and I explained that. Nice guys. And supervisor and i worked it out to start next week, and she's going to promote now. I hope that works. And we have things for the mommy and me mostly together to do a survey. Yay. Dilbert was sick Mon and Tues. Yikes. But back at work today. I bought humidifiers and I think I might be obsessed with the idea of a sherpa blanket for my bed after the black friday shopping. SO SOFT. Talked to Diego on the phone, then Trillium. But with Diego, I made an offhand comment about Dilb's sis (someone he knows from high school and college years) and I being done having kids, barring accidents. Diego: Accidents. It's not an accident. It's the logical conclusion of what happens when A goes into B. Me: So you're saying A doesn't go into B at your house? He has always been very open about saying he never wants kids. To my knowledge, he never got snipped, either, so that was a fair comment. I must have shocked him, though, because there was DEAD SILENCE for at least 30 seconds. Me: Okay, I see how it is. And we changed the subject. He should know me well enough to know I'd turn that back on him. And then a few other things that Trillium has said here and there clicked in my head, and I hope I didn't stir up a hornet's nest for them. But oh well. I should eat lunch. Haven't done that yet. I also want to clean, take stock of xmas gifts, and get other stuff in order. I made notes last night about what my novel needs at this point - a few scenes that haven't quite gotten finished. Will end up 10pm sprinting again with the TV on, I suppose, but I did good things otherwise this naptime. |
| Tempest threw up each night: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I went to bed last night hoping that she wouldn't be sick again, and (YAY) she wasn't. Friday night was particularly bad because I was in bed with her (so exhausted i didn't even register it). Woke to find M&M vomit on the pillow next to her. Poor, poor baby. Then Dilbert blaming me because he said I just wanted to go there so I could go shopping. I took offense to that. And I worry his dad was listening. Sigh. Wed night I think she was sick, and kinda Thursday. But Thursday night she drank chocolate milk, maybe too fast, maybe empty stomach? Who knows. And Friday night again she didn't eat dinner even though it was pizza, and it made sense with the M&Ms later. No idea how she got them. I think the other kids. FIL didn't know. Dilbert didn't know. I wasn't there to watch her. But I can't imagine how many she had. And let me say that is a FREAKING MESS to clean out of her hair. Thursday we had a small meal with FIL, gf, and FIL's brother and wife, and us. Very small, but nice. We visited Dilb's cousin and a large gathering, then went to FIL's gf's birthday party. No dinner. Probably because they ate later. I should start figuring out how to get food there. I need to do the whole feeding kids thing better. Dogbert has been teething - finally number 7 is visible today. Friday SIL and I went shopping. Dilbert decided not to go to the game, which was better than expected even though Iowa still lost. Dilbert, his dad, and gf watched 6 kids, 3 under age 1. And the oldest one day under 10. The 6 yr old stayed home with his daddy because he thought Dilb wasn't going to be there. I swear our nephew is a mini-Dilbert. While I need to take final inventory, I made a big dent in xmas shopping. Before shopping, Dogbert's teeth (?) got us up at 4 am. And he cried until he went bak to sleep around 5:45. We didn't go shopping until 7. And I had looked through the ads the night before, got to bed at 11. Sleep deficit. (And Tempest woke during that time, around 5, for milk, was sick shortly after.) Then I just got in the shower. No point to trying to sleep then. So Friday night I tried for half an hour to write. To keep up the 117 day streak. Though Dogbert was awake and fussy. FIL has wifi, but something happened and it didn't work. My cell phone didn't work. I gave up and went to bed. She got sick at midnight. Then Dogbert (who originally woke me) was all about the needing me with teething. So Dilbert sent both kids to bed with me. And I didn't get back to sleep. I dozed. I nursed the one, I snuggled the other, and I simply couldn't. My neck ached from the angles because Dogbert needed me to sit up and Tempest needed me to lie down. I hurt, I was exhausted, and Dilbert (who appeared to sleep fine) got all barky about how I wasn't packed and should've packed the night before. To which I said I couldn't have, and his dad backed me up. Sheesh. Kinda dozed on the way home. But last night I got to sleep early, and stayed in bed until almost 7. (with nursing interruptions, of course) I feel so much better today. Plus, with the sprint - I have 69.8k, which is more than I've ever written in a month before. Plus I am back on the wagon to finish this novel. since my streak is already broken, I have fewer qualms about stopping to focus on editing and getting DTYM out. Plus going back to world building my lovely Freeborn project. There are only 5 days left of November, huh? Time to get ready to switch gears. I can do this. I will do this. |
| Why is it I didn't play games before November, and now I have bubble witch saga, candy crush, hay day, and flow? Okay, forgive me flow. That thing is awesome! |
| sometimes, anyway. Dilbert has been more helpful with the kids lately. Not sure what that change is, but it is nice. Last Saturday Tempest attached herself to him and didn't go with me to Saturday yoga. She even sat by him late at night before bedtime. Sweet. Dogbert keeps getting people saying he looks so much older lately. Turning into a toddler look. I found pictures of when I was a child to show Dilb's relatives who never saw me as a blond and wonder where Dogbert got it. Most of SIL's kids are blond- probably all except the girl twin, but they get it from their daddy. Funny how that works. Yesterday the financial planner guy came through and wrecked my naptime writing adventures. He's nice and is good at telling us stuff we need to know, so I can't be too upset. Only managed a little over 1k. Today I went to lunch with one friend and her kids (and my kids and Dilbert, since he took the day off). I wanted to have more of us at lunch, but everyone else had something interfere. Two traveling, one sick, one had a plumbing nightmare. Hope that one got cleaned up. Dilbert managed to get us to shop for a xmas tree (sigh) and I took a nap rather than fluff the tree from the box shape into tree shape. Not sure that helped. I still have a headache, like I have all day Managed another 2k+ sprint, leaving me at 67683 words. With Thanksgiving and Black Friday and already being "behind", I doubt I'm going to hit 100k. However, I will finish this novel. I have already thought of several things I didn't bring into specific focus in the outline, and I will be drafting those scenes as soon as I get to the end, which might be tomorrow. Probably will be tomorrow. Also been taking advantage of the 750words option of simply pasting in my words from the sprints without doing the 750 first. It leaves weird stats, because it knows you pasted the words in, but I haven't killed my streak. So my 2059 was done in 0 minutes and leaves off the usual wpm stats. But it means I'm at a 116 day streak. Not too bad. Dilbert got me an emerald ring and a sapphire ring for my birthday. He also got himself a watch. Plus he found out how much his bonus is for work. And I found out how much his bonus is for work. That company definitely takes care of its employees. |
| 50,056. Maybe I can sleep tonight. From 750 words, which is backing up my words: "244 wpm when typing" I think they counted all the words I cut'n'pasted from writeordie.com But halfway on the 15th speaks well for getting ahead and actually managing 100k this month, eh? I feel good about the dreck that is this novel. |
| Dilbert looked at me just after they called it in Obama's favor. "You better look for a full time job now to pay the extra taxes." |
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