My life at the present and a peek into the future

It has been at least a few weeks since I last posted something so I decided that I should though I have very little to speak of.

Unfortunately I have not been able to do too much writing the past few weeks as we have been busy and after such a crazy month of doing nothing but writing I feel rather burned out...maybe I shall try and start afresh in the new year.

I am quite pleased of my plan to finish this year and I have no doubt that my expectations will be met. On Christmas morning I and my family are traveling up to MI to celebrate Christmas with our family. I am so looking forward to this and can't wait to see everyone and spend the time together. From there a couple of us are traveling up to Canada to be a part of a young people's New Years Celebration. I haven't gone before but some of my cousins have and have enjoyed themselves so when I was invited this year I was happy to accept and even more so when I discovered I could get the time off of my job to go to this.
From there we will probably travel back to MI and my parents will pick us up there. So I am looking forward to my last week or so of 2010, and am looking forward to starting a new year and all the amazing possiblities that come with it.

Speaking of my job though, I have had a great time working there so far. All the people are very nice and patient with me as I learn. I am working a lot this week as Christmas is almost upon us and the store gets a lot busier. But I am really enjoying myself and look forward to continuing.

I have more to write about, no doubt, but I feel this post is quite long enough as it is and I'm afraid it isn't very interesting. But the other things that I will try to write about soon are quite interesting and can take up a post of their own. Mainly maybe some more on my story and on the new Narnia movie, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Nanowrimo 2010

On November 30th 2010 the Word Document word count of my story read 50,000. I wrote 50,000 words in the month of November through Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) that takes place annually every November. It was quite a feat but I accomplished it. My story still needs a lot of work even for simply the rough draft. But I hatched a plan. The next time November rolls around I want to have at least the rough draft of my story done. I have paced the story out through the next year and hopefully by at least this time next year I will be done with at least my rough draft... I don't want to promise to much for I cannot boast in tomorrow or what the next year may bring forth.

But next year Nanowrimo, if I participate I want to be able to have a new fresh story with my other one completed. So this time next year I will see how I did. Hey, it could be one of my New Year's Resolutions. =)

A book about Cassie

I have made a decision. I'm going to write a book about Cassie. It will probably only be for my imediate family but I want to write it even for myself. Cassie has been a huge part of our lives for nine years and there are so many things that I want to remember and treasure about her and her life with us. So, I'm hoping to begin writing a book. I don't know when but I do want to write it - write the experience of Cassie in our lives because its something that I always want to keep close personally. I want to write about and remember the great things and all the little things too.

My Sweet Baby Cassie

I just experienced one of the hardest mornings of my life. Our dog Cassie had been sick the past few days and this morning we took her to the vet's office. Cassie had a bad habit of getting into things - like socks and rags, etc. Mom feared that she had eaten something again.



They x-rayed her stomach and sure enough she had eaten something. The only option was surgery. Cassie had already gone through one surgery and she was getting old. We knew that the best thing for her would be to put her down.



Even though we knew that it was best...it was so hard. I love her so much and I know everyone in my family does too. But that was our only option.



So, this morning at the vet's we were with Cassie when she fell asleep. Though it was hard and I'm going to miss her I remember the amazing nine years we had with her.


Isn't she just a beauty!! Love you, Cassie!

My life in a nutshell since last post

It has been too long since I last posted anything on here. But I have the excuse of busyness on my side.

We have moved. We have been in the new house for a few weeks. I have not been able to really settle in yet, most of my boxes are still packed, sitting around my bedroom. We moved into the house and had a week to get ready for our conference. We had the conference and it was lovely. It had great ministry and I was so surprised and happy when my cousin Colleen walked through the door. I had assumed that she couldn't make it and she wanted to surprise me when she found out she could. So that was awesome having her.

And my Grandparents from Ireland came all the way down for our conference and then after the weekend my Mom went with them and my uncle down to Trinidad and Tobago, because Mom had been born there when my grandparents were missionaries.

After that November started. I am a writer and a few years ago I heard about Nanowrimo. This year I was planning on doing it. I have been doing it and I am happy to announce that last night I reached 25,000 words, the half-way point.

I also started a job at a Christian Store that sells books, music, movies, etc. So, I have been pretty busy the past few weeks and haven't been able to write on here. So I thought I should update my blog with what has been happening to me the past few weeks. So there you have it!

By the way, I love the new house and I love my new job...so I'm a pretty happy girl right now. =)

I wish I could say that I have been so busy writing that I haven't been able to post. Well, that isn't true. In fact, I haven't done very much writing at all unfortunately.

You see, not long after my last post we had put our house on the market and what do you know, it sold in a little over a week. Yeah...

So, we have been pretty busy with the start of school, purging and packing, and looking for somewhere to move. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that we have to get out of the house by October 22 so the buyers can move in...if the inspection that happened yesterday comes back with good results.

As far as my writing though I have postponed it till the beginning of November, where I will probably be taking part in NaNoWriMo and get a good launch from there toward getting done with the book.

I have also been looking into a writers program called The Christian Writers Guild, run by Jerry B. Jenkins. I have recently looked at the classes they are offering and I'm thinking that it would be very good to try it for a year. So starting in January hopefully, I will sign up for the online program. I'm really looking forward to it.

Well, I just thought I should check back in here and write something and since this is a very big thing happening in our lives I figured it was worth sharing. =)

Hoping to post again soon!!

SeedSowers and Writing Update

Well, just got back from SeedSowers Saturday night and haven't had time to post until now. I loved having my company over and it was very nice to visit with them all again. Not too long later however I saw them again at SeedSowers. Ottawa SeedSowers was amazing fun. There was a very large group, about 160 people, a hundred or more being young people that would be distributing 10,000 texts and gospel invitations across the city of Ottawa. Though the campground we stayed at was on the scanky side, the mornings and nights were a little chilly, and there was one night of unrelenting rain the christian company more than made up for it. I met a lot of new friends and got in touch with some old ones and overall had a very great time.

Update of my writing, hopefully today I will get started on development and outlines and work on them for about two weeks till I start after Labor Day on my 'Write my Novel in a Year' project. So I'm looking forward to it and I hope my critics are too.