There are days...

I spend a lot of my time online, reading headlines (only headlines because full storylines depress me beyond words); seeing the trends on Twitter; noting the high/middle school mentality on Facebook. The more I am exposed to these things, the more I understand the need for many to get lost in a book. It makes me work harder to give you, my readers, something to take you away from the daily stress of the economy and the bombardment of horrible things happening in the world. I hope that I have given a shred of hope to someone, or one of you the strength to carry on, or just an escape for a brief time. With all the real life drama, I promise to keep giving you books to disappear in.

Twitter trolling...

I was wandering around the Twitter-verse this morning and came across the trend that it's National Watermelon Day. Who thinks this stuff up? And how loony do you have to be at the time to think "We should make a day for random fruits and melons." Then I noticed the trend of #MondayMotivation. Well, do we have to? LOL What motivates me on Monday is the vain hope that I won't have to get up and face Monday. One day I'll get to have the schedule I like... yes, I like to dream... I'll be able to write until the wee hours of the morning, go to bed and sleep well past noon and then get up and do it all over again. Hey, I said I like to dream. ;-) However, in the reality of it all... I have three nerdlings who I do enjoy being around (most of the time) and an extended family who doesn't get my weirdness. Therefore, such dreams, while lovely, are unrealistic. So, I'll continue to dream while enjoying a watermelon margarita on #NationalWatermelonDay and avoid any sort of trappings of #MondayMotivation. To the writing cave... with my margarita. ;-) LOL

Holy cow the summer is almost over!

Happy August everyone! Where has this summer... year... gone? Gee whiz! In a short 12 days, my middle nerdling will be 12. I'm seriously not ready for this.

Now on to other things aside from the all too rapid passage of time. My newsletter was sent out and if you aren't already getting it, you should be! Go to the contact link on this site to find a link to sign up for it. In the meantime, here is a link to this month's newsletter. http://eepurl.com/buSNHP