Ten Things Thursday: 10 Awesome Things That Happened This Week

Good evening everyone!

I bet you thought I would not do this, since I am posting so many other things each day, eh?

SURPRISE!

I almost did not, due to it being so damn late and I am tired...but I still wanted to do it so here I am.

This week I am doing Ten Awesome Things That Happened This Week.

Ready?

1. So. Much. Writing.

Seriously. There is so much writing to be done this month in general, but this week, the start of it all, has been so damn awesome. Add to that the fact I got asked to do an author interview? Psssht. I am so freaking thrilled.

2. Jack is returning to normal

This would have been number one if not for how happy I am about all the writing. Jack has been a total ass due to being in pain and zonked out on mood altering pain meds, lack of sleep, not wanting to eat...it has been terrible. The last couple of days have been so much better. His mind and temperament is returning to normal, even if his body is still healing. The stress is so much less. That means I can function so much better if I am not walking around on eggshells. For real.

  3. Closure

Not to sound morbid or anything, but now that there is a fast approaching concrete date for us to scatter my father's ashes, I feel better. No more will we have that looming over our heads, dragging on. It will all be over and done with, and then we can begin to heal in earnest, and not have this duct tape patch over our hearts, holding us together until we could do this last thing, which is spread his ashes as he wanted.

4. The weather

Even thought the temperature is bouncing around from cool to hot, as is typical for early Fall in Florida, the evenings have been much cooler finally, and I have been able to open my bedroom window at night with a fan stuck in it, drawing the cool air into my room. I have been sleeping so much better. Last night the air was cooler, AND it was raining. I was sleeping SO deeply. It was awesome. I can not wait until the temps stay cooler during the day so I can keep the house open all the time.

5. Bones is back

Fall means that some of my rare TV shows come back. (Rare meaning I hardly ever watch TV, unless it is something to do with Gordon Ramsey..) First to come back is the show Bones, which I adore. I love the characters of that show, they are all so awesome, and I actually think about them when the show is off for the season lol. Oddly enough, I do not care for the books the series is based on at ALL. I do not like that version of Brennan. I like the TV version so much better. Plus, I relate to her...I am a walking textbook at times, ask my friends lol. SO misunderstood *winks*.

6. New friends

I have had the fortune to meet some new people over the last couple of months, mostly through the writing projects that I am a part of, and I am very happy about that. They are awesome people, and I am proud to be associated with them.I look forward to getting to know them even more as time goes on.

7. Fall Food

Aww yeah. Chili, soups, stews, casseroles. I am so happy that there is a nip in the air, because the first thing I want to do is start making hearty things to eat for us. Tomorrow I am making potato, onion and bacon soup for dinner. Alex will be in love, it is one of her favorite meals.

8. Spark

I love this time of year, for many reasons, but the main one is my spark, my fire returns. As the darker half of the year approaches, I feel something inside of me return to life...like a hibernating animal, only I sleep during the hot and miserable days of Summer, and I revel in the cold, crisp nights, and the clear and chilly days. My energy comes back, I have more focus, I want to be busy all the time. These writing gigs came at the perfect time...in the first few days of the awakening, when everything is fresh and new feeling.  I am still sluggish enough to be exhausted by the time bedtime hits, but not long after waking I am full of fire and feeling good. The colder it gets, the better I feel. Until full on Winter hits and I will be shivering and bitching about my ankle, but until then, it will be awesome lol.

9. Books

I have picked up so many kick ass books for my tablet ( or rather, the kindle cloud reader, as I do most of my reading here on the desktop these days ) that I am now totally sure I will never be able to read them all in the rest of my lifetime, but still, every day I go and get more. I am a book whore, which works, since being a book whore and leaving a book review is what got me the gig writing the author interview. Woot!

10. Movies

I have not watched any movies in a while, I just have so much going on I do not have the time or the focus to sit down and watch a whole movie, but we had company over the weekend, and I watched The Avengers ( which was awesome even though I missed a bit in the middle, I had a couple of things to do ) and The Hunger Games, ( which sucked ass; I mean I know most movies never do the book justice, but that movie was terrible ) and it was nice to sit down and chill for a while, and watch a good movie with good company. Jack even sat out here with us in the living room for the first time since surgery. He paid for it later in the pain department, but it was nice to "see" him. I am usually here at my desk, and he is usually in the bedroom, laying down and watching TV or playing his game on the PS3...resting. So it was almost "normal" for a few hours. It was nice.




So there you have it folks. This week has been pretty awesome for me, and now you know why. I am happier and more relaxed mentally, and really busy physically, which is pretty awesome. Now, my writing is FINALLY done for the day, and I STILL have several things to do before I can fall in to bed tonight. But you know what? It is "Friday Eve" ( phrase coined by one of my friends/readers Robin's son ) which means tomorrow is the start of the WEEKEND! This witch is SO sleeping in this weekend! I hope you enjoyed all the posts today, and I will be back dark and early in the morning!

Have a great night folks!

WTFE Wednesday ( On Thursday )

Ack, another week where I am a day late!


I have been at my parents house the last two days, in my defense lol. I worked more there than I do here but it was still fun. I love cooking over there, their kitchen is huge!


Punk (eldest daughter ) and I watched " I Am Number Four " today. It was okay, to me it was like a 'Smallville' meets 'Spiderman' meets 'I know what you did last summer' meets 'Twilight' kind of movie. There will definitely be sequels. I expected more from the previews I guess. I expected it to be deeper than it was.


So that is where I have been, having some family time and enjoying myself. I had a great time but I am glad I am staying home tomorrow. I got used to sleeping in rather quickly and I did NOT like having to get up at five in the morning again lol.


Tomorrow I get to do laundry, visit with Vix and shell black eyed peas from the garden *Big smiles* It is going to be a good day!


I hope you all have a great weekend!

The Crazy Witch Goes to the Movies!

Boy if this keeps up, I am going to be to wore out to enjoy my vacation! Jack took off work today so we could run some errands we would not otherwise have time to do before we leave Friday, and once we finished those we decided to go see The Book of Eli with Denzel Washington. It was a special treat, as Jack and I have not been to the movies since not to long before Alex was born 5 years ago, and the last time I went to the movies myself was back when An American Haunting was in theaters.

Jack and I both thought the commercials for the movie looked interesting, and it just so happened to be starting 10 minutes from when we pulled up to check the times, so we went for it.

3.hours.later. I fairly ran for the door when it was over. The movie itself was not bad really, but let me tell you, the previews you see on TV are the best scenes in the movie lol. The story is VERY slow moving, and drags on and on, while not really telling you anything, and then boom your at the end, which was anti climatic and left you sitting there thinking : " Did I really just sit for almost 3 hours for THIS??"

I highly recommend waiting for the DVD and renting it before you run out and buy it. I have to give props to Mila Kunis however, as she played her part well and I think she was gorgeous in the movie. It was nice to see her in a serious role instead of in her superficial whiny bimbo role as Jackie on That 70's Show.

Also, to the AMC movie people...not everyone is a size 2, how about making some seats that bigger folks can fit into without compressing vital organs and having to prop my boobs in a cup holder, k thx bai.

Before all that we were at a pawn shop looking for ammo for the 7.62x54 Nagant I forgot to mention I bought Jack over the weekend from the gun show, and I found a ton of DVD's I wanted, and got like 6 or 7 of them. Monday when we went to replace my defective PS2 game for another one I found six Star Trek double disk collectors edition DVD's which made me have heart palpitations. Yes I am a huge Trekkie thanks for asking lol. So now I have 7 of the 10 movies, and will be getting the final three off Amazon when we get back from vacation.

Which is only 2 and a half days away now, WOOT!

We went out for dinner and I happily realized that I have not had to cook in FIVE days which is unheard of. That changes tomorrow however, because unless I just HAVE to, I refuse to leave the house lol. We have been going for 5 days straight and I am wore out! Tomorrow I start on laundry and some cleaning, and same for Thursday so it will all be done when we leave Friday and I wont come home to a messy place.

I really have to rearrange my bathroom tomorrow as I have bought more lotions and hair care products and shampoo and conditioners I only get once a year so I buy enough to last me a few months, and my shelves and sink are covered in bottles at the moment lol..

Jack: Do you REALLY need 3 bottles of foot lotion?

Me: YES, you KNOW I have a lotion obsession, shut UP! Lol...

Trust me folks, every drop of lotion in this house will be put to good use lol.

SO, the next two days will be filled with cleaning and slowly weaning my inner hermit off the Valium I have had to dose her with to keep her from sitting in a corner screaming. ( Don't worry, it is imaginary Valium for my semi imaginary inner hermitess lol ) The poor gal has been severely traumatized over the last few days lol.

I hope you all are having a fab week and I might get to squeeze in another post or two before I head to that private balcony overlooking the ocean....