You can now find it here.

But I do feel better. My head is not nearly as scattered as it was yesterday, but I still haven't found it in myself to be able to sit down and write a chapter, sooo, I am going to have to work on that this week, because, darn it, I have deadlines, even if they are self imposed.

Okay, enough complaining. I am setting up blogs for my 4-year-old, and my 6-year-old. Why? Because I am crazy, I think, and because they asked me too. I know it won't get a lot of use now, but, I am working on daily journaling with them anyway, and I know they will think it's cute. So, I am trying to find templates that they like and all that other jazz that goes with setting up a blog, but the plus side is we are having fun doing it, and they are learning a bit about computers and about how things don't always work the way they are supposed to.

I guess that's all for now.
~E

They started on the roof yesterday, and boy is that a loud project! And it goes on all week. I have no idea how I am supposed to make school work, but I am going to try. Oh, and I think I may have found a way to help Phoebe, at least with her numbers.

Penn's Colony is an event that happens in the Pittsburgh Area once a year during the last two weekends of September. We had fun, the girls got to ride in a Surray (Horse & Cart) And the guy let my sister's son (almost 2-years) drive-with help, lol. The girls got these cool whistles, that sound just like birds. So they aren't too annoying. All in all, we basically had fun, and the girls want to do it again next year. Maybe I will have some of my own money to spend, because they do have some really cool stuff there.

I started journals with my girls this last week. It's helping me with communicating with Pink a little easier. She seems more than willing to just talk and talk and talk some more while I am filling in a page in her journal. She'll tell me everything, from how she felt about something, to why she did something she wasn't supposed to do. It's interesting, but it's like I am not even here while I write the entry for her. (She's only six, so she can't really write everything on her own yet, and I kind of like this look into her life right now) And Bugs, she just likes to tell me things, and she thinks it's cool that I am writing it down, but she' bluntly honest about things anyway. So, that's one more thing I've added to my life of things to do in a day, but it's well worth it to finally learn how to communicate with one of my kids.

Who am I? (Yes it's been one of those days.)

I am a thirty-year-old (As of 2008) stay-at-home-mother of two, wife of ten years, pet owner of three cats, and one dog, home owner, and homeschooler. I go out with my mother twice a month, I go to my parents house once a week for “family” dinner.

I write high fantasy, romance, and comedy screen plays. I go out with a writing buddy once a week (provided I have the time, or the husband doesn’t need the car, and I meet with a write group once a month.

I love to write and I will be published one day (not some day). When I write, I write a lot, upwards of 10,000 words per day, but I usually average about 5,000 words (though I am trying to cut back).

I knit and I crochet. It’s mostly crap, but I am getting better at it. I can also sew and do funky crafts with my girls.

The husband and I get along most of the time, though I do have my mood swings-and he has his. I go through phases of not liking him, but like every other bad thing in life, it passes. My current phase is not liking him. (Make it difficult to write a love story.)

My girls fight like the siblings they are, but I usually find then curled up together at the end of the day, sleeping in some odd place. They love to sleep anywhere except their beds. They are the best of friend and the worst of enemies (Unless there are cookies in the top cupboard).

My oldest started first grade this year. We are homeschooling, because I feel she would be one of the ones left behind. I don’t think she has a learning disability or anything, but, I can easily see her getting lost easily in a thirty child class setting. So, I am homeschooling her, which means I get to do the same with my youngest next year when she starts kindergarten.

So, who am I? I am all those things I talked about, and so much more. I am me, and being me is great, when it doesn’t suck. But isn’t that life and the beauty of living?

Okay, I know it's been a long time since I have posted. I've just been uber busy with life, writing and projects. I am well, the girls are well and so is the husband and the pets. I write a better post tomorrow. I have writing to go do!
~E

Or WorD writing group.

Well, I joined a writing group today - a face to face one, which I think is going to prove benificial to me and my writing. I stay locked up in my house way to much and the husband is right (don't tell him I said that) I do need to get out more. It's exactly the kind of group I have been looking for, while they focus on Sci-Fi, I think having fresh eyes that aren't fantasy obsessed might be a good thing. I am willing to bet all of them have read LOTR at some point in their lives, so if I can captivate a Sci-Fi group, my little novel just might stand a chance.

Writing Update HERE.

Okay, so either I am an idiot, he is or we both are, lol, but we totally got things screwed up. I waited for him until 6:20 and he waited for me until 6:15 in two different Panera Bread's within like 5 miles of each other. The Hubby said I can go to the writer's meeting Bill is attending on Thursday, so hopefully we will get together then.

Ha, I am so lucky. I got a night off tonight, I get one off tomorrow night, and one off on Thursday and possible on Friday as well. For a sahm, that's not to bad, four nights off in one week, I'm not sure I want to know what the husband did to be so nice, lol, and he gave 40$ too, I really don't want to know ;) he's a good boy, I don't have to worry about him, but I do wonder what he may have broken that I don't know about.

I have a meeting with another writer tonight. Y'all are probably thinking that's great, right, well, no, I'm a chicken, well, neurotic is a better name, I think. So I am nervous as hell, and driving even the dog nuts.
I didn't get the pictures of the socks taken, I'll try later today, right now I have a load of laundry to do, kids to feed and bunch of other things to do before I have to go. Oh, I got a new word count done for SF (Shadowed Friends)

Journal update HERE

I have two pairs of socks - one for Pink in of course pink and one for bugs in green - completed. I must admit that I cheated a little and found a Bond sock pattern, but hey, the kids wanted socks and I wasn't about spend hours and hours of time making socks they are going to grow out of in a week. I post the pictures of them tomorrow.

I think my creative ADD is catching up to me. I need to start getting some of these projects done so I can start more, lol. Of course the girls keep adding to the list of things they want me to make for them - and I still haven't decided what I am doing with all that yarn my mother gave me! I need to decided on a project and just start it. I want something just for me self in those bright, beautiful alpaca colors.

Writing Journal update HERE. So far so good with keeping track of everything - though doing that adds about 15 minutes to my day, so I have gut some time out somewhere else. I'll figure it out.

I am way to tired for a real post tonight, so this is one of those quizzes one takes to wast time, lol.

Raistlin Majere

An intensely private individual that chooses actions with care, you strive to further your own skills and powers.

This happens because I choose it to happen!

Raistlin is a character in the Dragonlance universe. He has a short biography at Wikipedia.

I have decided that I would find as many free Hobbit web themes as I could and updated my personal website, my blog and my writing journal to reflect that. I have credited everyone that I could, so if I missed someone, I am sorry, drop me an email and I will either give the credit or find a replacement for the image and take it off my site. I hope you all like the new look.

~Emma

I have started a writing journal on another site. I hope it will help keep me on track and motivated, since it's a site for writers. You can see it HERE. It has two tools that I think will really help me. A WIP (Work in Progress) manager and a word count meter - and I can link the two. When I update the writing journal, I will post a link in my regular posts.

My mother decided she need some of her black yarn back - but to make up for it she gave not 1, not 2, but 30, yes count them, 30 skeins of alpacka superfine yarn (5 of 6 different colors). I think I can give back 2 little balls of black yarn for that!

I started a scarf with some yarn my mother bought for me – it was Wool-ease from Pat Catain’s. I have a discount card there and she lets me get stuff when we go there, I save her a TON of money. Anyway, I really need to be working on the Christmas Stockings. I only have like 2 weeks to get that finished so I can stay on track.
Anyway, back to my scarf. It’s going to be huge. I am doing it on my ISM Bond knitting machine. I am trying some Illusion knitting with a few color blocks. When I am done with side one, I will have to knit a whole ‘nother side, but that’s okay, it’s going to be really cool and really warm!

Well, it's not going as well as I hoped - but I am getting writing done and a lot of knitting done. The ravelry site is really helping to organize and get my yarns and projects in order, so that's a help.

Ravelry is really cool. You need an invite right now to join - it's smiple, just put in your email address and wait for the invite to show up, then enjoy



Believe me it is worht the wait and you'll be suprized at all the great tips and things you will beable to find. - They even have a tool bar icon you can use to keep track of all those patterns you find on the net, and then lose the link - so you will never lose another pattern again!

My mother loves me. She gave me 4 – count them – 4 Skeins of black Alpaca Yarn – at like 8.50 per skein to make whatever I want. I am going to make myself some socks. They will be expensive socks, but they will be worth it, my feet are always cold.

I joined NaNoWriYe (National Novel Writer’s Year) You pick a huge goal of novel writing words for the year of 2008 and then you go all out to reach the goal for the whole year. I picked 400,000. I think I should up the word count since I am close to that already. Maybe something that might make me work for it 800,000. It’s a doable goal for as much as I write and it will keep me on task with my writing – and I can count Scrip Frenzy in April and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writer’s Month) in November. So that’s like Three Birds with one stone.