Won’t be anywhere near email, chat, or phone for the next seven days because I’ll be at work. I’ll still be posting because I always write a little before bed and when I wake up and I have this niffy little desktop blogger but aside from that there will be no contacting me unless you’re lucky.
I send love and peace to all and hope this work week doesn’t break the last bit of my resolve.
*hugs writerly buddies, especially Jessie, Quill, and LisaB*
*and Chibi!!!*
Hey! Heads up to all of my wonderful blogger buddies out there!
I’ve gotten several things together so I can start blogging on the main Written Whispers again (this is the blog ((/blog)) the main is just the .com). I’ve decided I’m going to make a bunch of posts first (which I have been doing) and then I’m going to schedule them to upload/post regularly so I don’t feel so stressed to manage it like I was starting to do before.
Some things I’m posting include prompts, interviews (I have not forgotten you JC, I’m just picking the perfect time!), news in the writerly world, my own insights (of course) AND- I’d like to start featuring other people’s blogs and helping to send some traffic to my fellow writers.
Is anyone out there interested in some free traffic?
I’m also going to change some things on the main site… I’ve finally pinned down a direction I want to go with that blog. I’ve always known I wanted it to be about writing and I wanted to help others… I can’t explain it too much just yet but I want to say thank you to those of you wonderful people who helped me and don’t even know it yet. :)
Hello, all! Hope everyone’s day is going well. I’m a bit tired but doing good. This upcoming work week is going to be hell on me. Heh, yesterday was hell on me. I’m not cut out for manual labor and that those few in and of themselves sum up the greatest understatement of all time- honestly. That aside…
I have tomorrow off and then I have the next seven days on. I knew it was coming, this is summer after all and the tourists have slowly been filtering in. I should be happy but… I’m not. I know I need the hours and every hour I work is money but I don’t look forward to all the aches and pains, the working up to my elbows in other people’s food, the cleaning and scrubbing, the lifting and running. It’s all a lot to go through and each time I find myself wondering how I’ve managed to make it through the day.
Then, aside from the physical aspects of my job, there’s the stress. Constantly alert and listening, trying to stay one step ahead of everything else. Fixing the machines, counting the plates, trying to estimate and predict what we’re going to run out of or need next. It’s… tiring… In fact, writing about it is tiring too so I’m just going to stop.
I’ve been working on a new project. Well, not working on it per se so much as tinkering with an idea or two… or five. I’ve been thinking about taking my best writings from my blog here and putting them somewhere else, a WordPress.com blog perhaps, so they get a little more attention and when I want to show off my writing I can just give people that link so they don’t have to sift through all my bloggy stuffs. I don’t know yet though.
It’s not like I’d have to give it much of my time, just upload new bits of my writing now and then (with my desktop blogging software that’s no problem) and make sure my stuff isn’t stolen. Another perk of putting some of my stuff up there- uncluttered by other things is that I could use it as a writing portfolio of sorts. Hmm.
The more I think about it the more I want to give it a go.
I’m curious to know what others think of this idea.
Ow, ow, ow…!
Not doing so terribly well at the moment. I laid down for a nap a few hours ago and two of my little kitties decided they wanted to play right by my head. Normally not so much of a problem there but tonight they decided to run right across my face. Tommy’s back claws cut into my top lip like a knife through butter. Lots of blood and it’s not very pretty- obviously.
The good news is I don’t need stitches though I have to be really careful not to pull it back open because we have to make the band aids I’m using. It’s in a really awkward place and at an odd angle so Hunny has been cutting up makeshift band aids most of the night to see what works best. The sad thing is since we couldn’t find ‘real’ scissors he’s been using these little plastic (plastic blades too) kindergarten scissors so that’s kind of funny. :)
The bad news, I have to work the next three days with this thing on my face. Now, I don’t normally give a hoot how I look but I have this thing about my teeth… some of them aren’t all in the right spot and it’s bad enough that sometimes I try not to smile when I talk because this one tooth sticks out really far. The cut and the band aid is right over said tooth, pointing it out like a beacon in a storm. :( So, that sucks and it hurts to eat, and talk, and smile but all of that aside- it could have been worse.
Anyways, that was my venting for tonight. I’ve been meaning to get around to every one’s blogs lately but I’ve been having some laptop issues. I’ve also been meaning to make some very important posts on my other blog/site but I’m not going to force it. I know I need to make them, I want to make them, but it needs to happen when it happens.
Working the next three days so if you don’t hear from me you know why. :)
