Life is Good

Blog Prompt: Today is Evaluate Your Life Day. Reflect about your life and how it's going so far.

Here's a breakdown of today's snapshot of my life:

1. Kids are both feeling better and a trip to the doctor confirms that Danae has nothing more contagious than a simple cold. Yeah!
2. I'm feeling better and have the house to myself for a few hours to recoup some of my missed weekend.
3. Vikings are 6-0 for the first time in six years. Yeah, baby!
4. I sip a good cup of coffee and blog while outside my window the landscapers are hard at work on my birthday-Christmas-anniversary-for-next-five-years'-present. (We're getting retaining walls, a fire pit and a garden, along with edgings, bushes and trees! Now that we've been in this house five years we'll finally have landscaping to show for it.)
5. Last night I came up with a glimmer of an idea for my novel (see previous post). I think it'll be a geek-love story, so my next hurdle is to come up with a working title. Any and all suggestions for appropriately nerdy titles will be reviewed and considered.

So I guess, the conclusion for me, today (and every day)...LIFE IS GOOD!


Glitter Graphics

Taking the plunge!

Okay, so I'm home this weekend sick, taking care of kids who are no longer really sick, which only makes my job a little harder. At least when they were laying around on the couch with me, I could keep track of them :) We're supposed to be in Mobridge, SD for the annual Anderson Family Reunion & Pheasant Hunt (if it had an official title, that's what the t-shirts would say).

So possibly because I'm in a compromised mental state from fighting off some kind of virus or because I just can't bear to let my schedule have any breaks, I went ahead and registered myself at NaNoWriMo.org to state to the world that I'm going to spend my month of November writing a novel. [That's what NaNoWriMo stands for--NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth.] The goal is to write 50,000 words between Nov 1 and Nov 30. I think it should be "fun" (in the most stressful interpretation of the word), but as of right this moment, I still have no idea what kind of book it's going to be, what genre I want to tackle, who my characters will be or why anyone else in the world would want to read something I've written.

The email I received after I registered gave this piece of advice: Tell everyone you know that you're writing a novel in November. This will pay big dividends in Week Two, when the only thing keeping you from quitting is the fear of looking pathetic in front of all the people who've had to hear about your novel for the past month. Seriously. Email them now about your awesome new book. The looming specter of personal humiliation is a very reliable muse.

So there goes.

Scrapping Sales (aka "Let's Go Shopping!")

A couple of "my" designers are having sales, so maybe it's time to get some new supplies!

Scrapper Girl:


Totally Twisted Scraps:

My Space (of the reading kind)

Blog Prompt: Where is your favorite place to read?

It depends on the season, but I have to say my very favorite is to sit somewhere in the sunshine and read. A few weeks ago I had the privilege of spending a few days out at our church camp, Storm Mountain, in the beautiful Black Hills and in between all the other activities, I had the chance to sit on the grass, in the sunshine, 65 degrees, light breeze and escape to another world. Considering this morning we awoke to our first snow of the season, I'm all the more thankful for that last beautiful summer day.

Top Ten list

Blog Prompt: You've been hired as a writer for "Late Show with David Letterman." Your first assignment is to come up with a witty, nonpolitical Top Ten list for him to read on air.

Top Ten Reasons Why Books are Better than TV:
10. Some of the greatest books have been around for hundreds of years; even the best TV shows haven't nearly stood the test of time.
9. In a loud, crazy, chaotic world, books are blessedly quiet.
8. My book doesn't require a converter box or care whether the signal is digital or analog.
7. I never have to steal a book away from my husband (unlike the remote).
6. I don't have to wait until someone tells me how it ends if I don't like it. I can just read the last page.
5. No need for batteries, a power supply or an outlet.
4. I'm sure I will never hear a pilot in an airplane say, "Please turn off all your books because they're interfering with the navigational instruments."
3. Portability (And don't tell me about 2-inch screens on your iTouch. I don't buy it.)
2. I never have to adjust the volume on my book.
1. No commercials.