I woke up this morning with a massive headache and to be honest I am tired of this headache, I would like a new one. Would it really be wrong of me to lay on the kitchen counter and let the coffee maker drip in my mouth the caffeinated nectar of life, JAVA. I will take my fuzzy bunny slippers off if it makes you feel better before climbing up there to lay myself out. I was up late last night working on the book Bear & Sparrow, and had a blast writing a hunting scene. I am part Blackfoot Indian and my father was an excellent hunter and tracker. Now although I am a only child, not a boy like he really wanted, he still took the time to teach me hunting and tracking. When I was young going hunting with dad was a chance to peel off the dress that mom had put me in. My dad used to carry an extra set of clothes in his truck for me to change into to go hunting. So writing this buffalo hunting scene really brought back some memories and gave me the chance to hunt in my mind and really get into it. Not to say I wouldn't go out hunting now, at my age. Ah but things are different... There is not a deer alive that would stand still with me creeping through the trees and my mob of loud hormonal daughters behind me with my son pulling their pony tails. Just take yesterday for example. I have a two and three year old that pretty much stick together when they play. However yesterday that translated into, when it was time to fight with someone, they were pulling, shoving and ripping toys from each others arms.
The hormones that fly around my house on a normal day, is like standing in the middle of a typhoon. Lets just face facts now, with all these girls I can pretty much write off retirement. When you think of the cost of prom dresses, cars, weddings and holy smoke the cost of feminine products alone for six girls makes your head spin.
I have to find a way to regroup from toddler-hood and get ready for the big hormone factory of their teenage years. It's coming and I know it....brace yourself is all that screams through my head...BRACE YOURSELF!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Pizza or Sex?
As I was sitting today working on my new romance novel, Bear & Sparrow, I was being stalked by a child wearing pizza as a fashion accessory. It is really hard to get into "the mood" to write a romantic sex scene while a two year old has a slice of pizza stuck to her bare chest and is wanting to debate with you over a slice of cheese. You see my youngest is a cheese hound and seems convinced that if she does not have cheese that she will in fact just fall over and die, on the spot. There really is no debating with a two year old or trying to get her to belive that she will not die if she doesn't get the cheese. Oh but you mention Santa Claus and she is stoked and all on board for the holiday creeping up around the corner. Come on, really cheese verses Santa, I know hands down the big guy in the red suit wins right? Nope as the pizza was sliding down her chest to rest on the top of her diaper and one hand scratching her head, cheese had consumed her mind.
So one wonders...at what point does pizza lose its use as a fashion accessory? With all the kids that I do have, I am confident when I say...sometime in their teen years. I know this because my ten year old son still wears a red tomato face mask after eating his pizza.
So one wonders...at what point does pizza lose its use as a fashion accessory? With all the kids that I do have, I am confident when I say...sometime in their teen years. I know this because my ten year old son still wears a red tomato face mask after eating his pizza.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
What's new?
On a personal note I have reached a unusal goal. I have been working out and have lost a full pant size. I know not a big deal to most of you but for me...HUGE!
Exciting news with Konrad Hollenstein, he is moving along with his new Sci-Fi book Gods Vs. Aliens. It is a funny yet amazing story that I am thrilled to watch him develop. It will be a great book and I'm sure very popular, I will be sure to tell you all when it is released.
The current book that I have been working on is pouring out of me as well. What I find totally fascinating is all the people that are involved in my time line and location of the book. There is a fellow that has been labeled as one of the top 100 American's to help mold the United States. Now the steps he took to get on that list are not in the best light but still completely interesting to me.
That is about it for now other than the weather finally has cooled off in this state. I am so a Northern girl and the South does not agree with me in the least. I am glad to see the heat chill out a bit and the humidity go with it.
Exciting news with Konrad Hollenstein, he is moving along with his new Sci-Fi book Gods Vs. Aliens. It is a funny yet amazing story that I am thrilled to watch him develop. It will be a great book and I'm sure very popular, I will be sure to tell you all when it is released.
The current book that I have been working on is pouring out of me as well. What I find totally fascinating is all the people that are involved in my time line and location of the book. There is a fellow that has been labeled as one of the top 100 American's to help mold the United States. Now the steps he took to get on that list are not in the best light but still completely interesting to me.
That is about it for now other than the weather finally has cooled off in this state. I am so a Northern girl and the South does not agree with me in the least. I am glad to see the heat chill out a bit and the humidity go with it.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Biggest Loser Workout
I tried to do some research on book sizes for printing of Raven today and the internet was up and down like a yo-yo, it was terrible. Did some writing on Bear and some arranging. When I write I tend to not insert Chapters unless I am ending a major scene, so the rest is pages and pages upon pages. So ever so often I have to go back and insert chapters in my work.
On a personal note after birthing 7 kids, including a set of twins over the past 15 years...I am taking my body back, again. Yep I have said this before but I am going to burn that butter, melt that fat and try to not pass out face first on the floor. Now I am going to either be brave or stupid right now, I'm going to tell you all how much I weigh...273 pounds. I will be 39 in about a week and a half but over the last 3 months completely changed the way I had been eating. In hopes that now exercising every night would be easier on my body and not send it into convulsions lol Yep pretty much right now I have the rear end of a Ford Pick-Up truck but let's see if I can get it to the size of a Porsche. Bought the Biggest Loser wii disc a while ago but the kids put it somewhere, tonight I started diggin for it and found it. Plugged it in and got yelled at by a animated version of Jillan for my lack of calorie intake. height, weight and age says 2161 calories and I rolled up with 900 and yep she yelled at me. Who can eat 2161 calories, maybe around the holidays I could get close to that but daaaamn. So I have to eat healthy snacks now, can you see me trucking through the house with a pocket full of grapes and a child smashes into me. I'm going to have to then mark the grapes as a drink and lick my sweater pocket to drink my grape juice. The overall thing is that if your are not meeting your daily calorie intake, your body thinks it is starving and turns everything into sugar aka fat in the form of love roll bars lol So apparently my body hasn't learned over the past 38 years how I feed it, great I am brilliant and my body is a bit slow GREAT!
Now each day you will get a writer's update and a Crystal Rayne burning butter update lol lucky you...poor things but your my witnesses so suck it up and prepare for moaning.
On a personal note after birthing 7 kids, including a set of twins over the past 15 years...I am taking my body back, again. Yep I have said this before but I am going to burn that butter, melt that fat and try to not pass out face first on the floor. Now I am going to either be brave or stupid right now, I'm going to tell you all how much I weigh...273 pounds. I will be 39 in about a week and a half but over the last 3 months completely changed the way I had been eating. In hopes that now exercising every night would be easier on my body and not send it into convulsions lol Yep pretty much right now I have the rear end of a Ford Pick-Up truck but let's see if I can get it to the size of a Porsche. Bought the Biggest Loser wii disc a while ago but the kids put it somewhere, tonight I started diggin for it and found it. Plugged it in and got yelled at by a animated version of Jillan for my lack of calorie intake. height, weight and age says 2161 calories and I rolled up with 900 and yep she yelled at me. Who can eat 2161 calories, maybe around the holidays I could get close to that but daaaamn. So I have to eat healthy snacks now, can you see me trucking through the house with a pocket full of grapes and a child smashes into me. I'm going to have to then mark the grapes as a drink and lick my sweater pocket to drink my grape juice. The overall thing is that if your are not meeting your daily calorie intake, your body thinks it is starving and turns everything into sugar aka fat in the form of love roll bars lol So apparently my body hasn't learned over the past 38 years how I feed it, great I am brilliant and my body is a bit slow GREAT!
Now each day you will get a writer's update and a Crystal Rayne burning butter update lol lucky you...poor things but your my witnesses so suck it up and prepare for moaning.
Lake of Splash
I loaded up 2 of my kids last night to take them to the lake to go swimming. We had one of those family inflatable pools. First let me say by "Family Pools" that is what it said on the box, I am pretty sure they meant a family of maybe 3, not a boat load of people. If you put my whole family in the water at the same time, we pretty much look like a ship sunk and we are the survivors :) The pool was not ready for that. Yes the pool got a hole, patched it, then another hole, patched that too but the 3rd and fatal hole was not found so the pool was deflated and tossed.
I picked the 8 and 10 yr old last night and my laptop, off we went. Found the place backed the truck up and I sat in the back writing on Bear and Sparrow. My daughter was swimming along have fun but my son...holy shizzle! The child can swim, he reminds me of a elephant trying to do the butterfly stroke, its just not pretty and there is a whole lot of water flying all around. I know the boy can swim normal but I think it was just the sheer joy of being in a body of water bigger than my butt, which the pool was just barely bigger than that. At our old house we had a pond in the backyard, so this pool thing is pretty new to them all. When we first blew it up and after seeing purple stars and passing out from lack of oxygen, when my husband and I finally came to sprawled out flat on our backs on the deck...The kids were just excited to know cold water was going into it, they didn't even blink when I had to pull out a giant shoe horn to pry them all out of the pool later like sardines.
You can't take the 2yr. old to a lake this year, you just can't. She has become a nudist this summer and I have seen way more naked than I have seen in all my years with my husband. That is saying a lot because I am married to a man with a body like a Greek God and walks through the house dropping clothing it seems. It's almost like there is an invisible vacuum that as he walk either sucks or blows his clothing off him, I find piles or pieces here and there. My 2yr.. old spends her entire day almost naked and since she is potty training, the rest of her day is spent trying to hide or get rid of the diaper. So I live in NakedVille where naked is...EVERYWHERE lol
So I sat in the back of my truck in the burning sun while my legs sweated, got attacked by mosquitoes and watched my 2 kids swim or something similar to it. It was fun, I got a few more pages of Bear written and things went well. The great thing about having so many kids is that when we got home, 45 minutes later, they were all excited to see us. Almost as if we had been gone on a safari for a year. They were screaming and hugging, shrieking and kissing and then we ushered them off to bed for the night. Still have to say after all these years, a very odd feeling having a family this large and growing up a only child :) Some might say I over did it with the kids, I'll just say I made up for the lack of my parents participation in childbearing :)
I picked the 8 and 10 yr old last night and my laptop, off we went. Found the place backed the truck up and I sat in the back writing on Bear and Sparrow. My daughter was swimming along have fun but my son...holy shizzle! The child can swim, he reminds me of a elephant trying to do the butterfly stroke, its just not pretty and there is a whole lot of water flying all around. I know the boy can swim normal but I think it was just the sheer joy of being in a body of water bigger than my butt, which the pool was just barely bigger than that. At our old house we had a pond in the backyard, so this pool thing is pretty new to them all. When we first blew it up and after seeing purple stars and passing out from lack of oxygen, when my husband and I finally came to sprawled out flat on our backs on the deck...The kids were just excited to know cold water was going into it, they didn't even blink when I had to pull out a giant shoe horn to pry them all out of the pool later like sardines.
You can't take the 2yr. old to a lake this year, you just can't. She has become a nudist this summer and I have seen way more naked than I have seen in all my years with my husband. That is saying a lot because I am married to a man with a body like a Greek God and walks through the house dropping clothing it seems. It's almost like there is an invisible vacuum that as he walk either sucks or blows his clothing off him, I find piles or pieces here and there. My 2yr.. old spends her entire day almost naked and since she is potty training, the rest of her day is spent trying to hide or get rid of the diaper. So I live in NakedVille where naked is...EVERYWHERE lol
So I sat in the back of my truck in the burning sun while my legs sweated, got attacked by mosquitoes and watched my 2 kids swim or something similar to it. It was fun, I got a few more pages of Bear written and things went well. The great thing about having so many kids is that when we got home, 45 minutes later, they were all excited to see us. Almost as if we had been gone on a safari for a year. They were screaming and hugging, shrieking and kissing and then we ushered them off to bed for the night. Still have to say after all these years, a very odd feeling having a family this large and growing up a only child :) Some might say I over did it with the kids, I'll just say I made up for the lack of my parents participation in childbearing :)
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Calorie Roaster or Calorie Incinerator
We or us old folks took on the twerps last night and we or I whipped some booty :) Super Hula Champ still oh yeah feel the burn at 818 hip rotations in 3 minutes. What you didn't think I had 7 kids and no skills LOL Old girl here and get all this junk moving in the same direction, just watch the hell out that you don't get knocked over. It was fun and the kids were having a good time. You just know you start out felling good and cheering and then before you know it the thrash talking starts lol so you have people up on that poor wii board getting the batteries mushed out of it and the person is doubled over laughing because everyone is cracking jokes. If you have to give a wedgie so be it, all is fair in this house!
Also one of my daughters has a birthday on the 23rd this month and you know what that means? See in this family we learned a long time ago that when the kids were tiny at the first birthday, it is no fair to us adults that only the child gets to make a bloody mess of the cake. I changed the rules on that a few years back though :) Now on birthdays we: light the candles, sing the song, cut the cake, scoop the ice cream and start mashing cake in faces and hurling cake at each other. Wha...like I'm a bad parent you know you want to peg your kid in the forehead with a hunk of cake...DO IT!!! Besides the dogs love birthdays, you need not wonder why hehehe
Writer's update is....I didn't write today. I did however go over some details and a promo plan of attack with the Fabulous Tomaz, cause I need his mad skills to get the promo stuff together. We had a good talk today about other details and info gathering in the Europe area that he and Konrad will be handling for me. So maybe not a writer's update but more of a PublicNation business update I guess or at least a nice mix of both. On a good note Tomaz is enjoying his vacation with Nela, only thing is that where they ran off too, is raining a lot :( The good side to that is that they have plenty of cuddle time and he gets to enjoy her awesome cooking skills. Mark my words, you heard it here first, Nela will be a brilliant chef with her own bistro, you watch. That is about it for today other than the fact that as I sit here typing I have to wonder to myself...why am I getting bit by a mosquito in the house...hate that and got me on the bottom in the arch of my foot too. Night all!
Also one of my daughters has a birthday on the 23rd this month and you know what that means? See in this family we learned a long time ago that when the kids were tiny at the first birthday, it is no fair to us adults that only the child gets to make a bloody mess of the cake. I changed the rules on that a few years back though :) Now on birthdays we: light the candles, sing the song, cut the cake, scoop the ice cream and start mashing cake in faces and hurling cake at each other. Wha...like I'm a bad parent you know you want to peg your kid in the forehead with a hunk of cake...DO IT!!! Besides the dogs love birthdays, you need not wonder why hehehe
Writer's update is....I didn't write today. I did however go over some details and a promo plan of attack with the Fabulous Tomaz, cause I need his mad skills to get the promo stuff together. We had a good talk today about other details and info gathering in the Europe area that he and Konrad will be handling for me. So maybe not a writer's update but more of a PublicNation business update I guess or at least a nice mix of both. On a good note Tomaz is enjoying his vacation with Nela, only thing is that where they ran off too, is raining a lot :( The good side to that is that they have plenty of cuddle time and he gets to enjoy her awesome cooking skills. Mark my words, you heard it here first, Nela will be a brilliant chef with her own bistro, you watch. That is about it for today other than the fact that as I sit here typing I have to wonder to myself...why am I getting bit by a mosquito in the house...hate that and got me on the bottom in the arch of my foot too. Night all!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Friday the 13th
Well as for a writer's update...I completed the First book in my Raven series, a western historical romance and started working on the second book last week. I am about half way through, which is great due to the fact that I sent my deadline for the second book for fall of 2011.
On a more personal note, it is Friday and in this house the family competition begins soon. All the little kids are in bed for the night so its the big kids aka Youngbloods verses the adults or aka The Parents. We toss in the wii fit disk and do some down hill snow boarding, ski jumps and my record winning game the SUPER HULA! It is smack down time folks, I'm representing everyone over the age of 30. Yeah sad I know the kids think anything over 30 is like crypt keeper age and that we walked with Dino's. So wish me luck and cross your fingers I can get out of bed come morning :)
On a more personal note, it is Friday and in this house the family competition begins soon. All the little kids are in bed for the night so its the big kids aka Youngbloods verses the adults or aka The Parents. We toss in the wii fit disk and do some down hill snow boarding, ski jumps and my record winning game the SUPER HULA! It is smack down time folks, I'm representing everyone over the age of 30. Yeah sad I know the kids think anything over 30 is like crypt keeper age and that we walked with Dino's. So wish me luck and cross your fingers I can get out of bed come morning :)
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Sagar'un Tales Of a New World
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Welcome Home
First I would like to welcome you all to my new home. If your looking for updates on what I am currently working on or just looking for a peek into my life, this is your telescope. I may not be your conventional writer or even tame blogger, so I will just say fasten your seat belts it could be a bumpy ride.
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