Well, it has been a while since I have had time to update my blog. We are STAAR testing this week (State testing for Texas schools) so things have been hectic...
Had to get a "new" car with very little money. Ended up with a '98 Nissan Pathfinder. OK for now. It will become my husband's truck eventually when we can save up enopugh money to get me a good car. It will do for now, but I may have to rob a bank to feed it... lol. Well, I guess this is all for now. Chat later.
 

Been so busy at work I haven't had time to do much of any writing. However, Spring Break is just around the corner. Out of school for a whole week... starts tomorrow. Hopefully I will get some time to just sit and write and read... We will see. More later.
 

Well, today we seemed to have a little hiccup for my WDC access at school. I teach middle school and use stories, ideas, info from newsletters, etc... quite a bit in my teaching. So today I get to work and a new firewall and blocking software has been put in place. You guessed it, WDC is now blocked through our school district's internet. I had a fit! I immediately made a few calls to find out who had the authority to unblock the site. When I explained how valuable the site was, it was unblocked. Yea!!! Now I can, once again, wander around the halls of WDC with my students and let them have "real world experiences" to attach their classroom learning to. Thank you WDC!
 

Well, Happy Valentine's Day everyone. I will be so busy at work and at One Act Play practice today that I won't have much time for anything else. I was given the job of One Act Play director at the last minute when the Theater Arts teacher had a family emergency and had to resign suddenly. I was the director last year when our Theater Arts teacher was transfered to the High School leaving a hole here. I filled in. Well, when this happened they came back to "Old Faithful" again. This time, however, I only had 2 weeks to polish out the play they were working on, and I had never heard of the play either. Boy did we have work to do! Dress rehearsal in tomorrow and competition if Friday and Saturday. We are scheduled to compete on Friday afternoon... Wish me luck!

 

It was a long weekend. My husband was running a high fever with sweats and chills most of the weekend and yet he HAD to go to work. He would be fine in the morning, but by the afternoon he was so weak and wiped out that I was left to pick up the pieces at home. I would get him in and out of the shower, force him to take some medicine and get him into bed. He would wake up the next morning with the bed and himself soaked from sweating off the fever. He would, of course, feel better and off to work he would go. That evening we would repeat it all over again. Needless to say, journal writing was not on the top of my list of things to do. It therefor was put off until today.
Miguel, one of our boys, shipped out into the Army on Sunday. He will be going to basic training in Fort Bening, Georgia for 14 weeks. He is in the infantry so my worrying is just beginning... He is excited, I am chewing my nails to the quick.
I did write a short story on Friday night. It is up for review. Let me know what you think. Well, chat later.
 

Well, I had a great time yesterday reading and reviewing others' works. There are really a lot of great stories out there! Anyway, I need to get back to my book sometime today. I did take a little time yesterday to write a short story about a trip to my grandmother's house a very long time ago that suddenly poped into my mind. I have not made it public because I need to do quite a bit of editing on it for grammar and spelling. Yesterday was simple a rough draft. I read it to my mom on the phone last night and she laughed as she remembered when it happened. As I read it out loud I ran across several sentences that were a little awkward so I will have to work on them before making it public. Maybe I can tweak it some today.
I guess I need to get to writing so, check back later. See ya!
 

Well, just getting around to exploring the many Forums here at WDC. Many cool places to go. I have been a member for a long time but never truely explored the different corners of the site. I am really having a blast checking it all out. Hope to be spending a lot more time around here. It is actually a great get away after a long day at work.
I am trying to get more regular at entering into my blog (even if I can't think of much to write...). If my trend continues, I'll be back in a day or two... maybe even tomorrow. lol
 

I am really putting my all (or trying to) into writing this year. I would really like to finish the book I started writing with pen and paper nearly 15 years ago. It is a children's adventure story aimed at 5th -8th graders for the most part. I worked on it for a while and then I moved to Texas. Once here, i really didn't have time to do much of anything. Then I discovered WDC. It stirred the muse in me to go back to writing. I was gifted an ungraded membership so I added the beginnings of my book to my port. Well, gifted membership expired and money was short so... only free account and my drive drove off. Well, my husband agreed to pay for my membership for 6 months so I could again work on my book and here I am.
Six chapters down and pen and paper sketch for the next six. I really want to keep the writing up... we shall see.
 

Well, what a great Super Bowl weekend! Go Giants! It was a great game.
Had a good, yet busy, weekend. Spent time cleaning and getting things ready for the big game. Since I am on a major diet I had to work hard to make diet snacks for the game. I made homemade chips with low carb/high fiber flour tortillas to have with homemade guacamole. It came out pretty good with way less carbs. It satisfied my munchies while the boys chowed down on regular tortilla chips. Lean burgers and fries for them, salad for me rounded out the meal. For dessert, they had chocolate cake... I made a wonderful sugar-free strawberry jello pie for me. They boys kept eyeing my pie. lol
Overall it was a good weekend. Too bad it had to end...
 

Happy Groundhog Day!!
Started back on my book... It was funny, I haven't touched it in several years and when I read what I have already written, I found so many misteaks. LOL
The story itself seems to be going well, however. Wish me luck. I really want to get it published. We will see.