Happy April Fool's Day!

Good morning world!   I love the idea that I can post date posts and make it look like I am not a complete loser that goes whole years between blog posts!

Write on!

Writer's Block

I want to write, to write some prose

I can’t think of words… writer’s block I suppose

Nothing comes to my head, my fingers cannot type

Writer’s block is real and lives up to its hype

My mind says there is something that we need to write

But here I sit wordless, night after night

Just when I think I have something to inscribe

My mind goes blank and I am left blind

The gears are turning and I can smell smoke

But nothing comes of it, this is not a joke

They tell me write, to write everyday

But they don’t tell me how to keep the ‘block’ away

Creative juices aren’t flowing in this head of mine

I need inspiration, revelation, something divine

To the creative muses, before you I grovel

Please oh please help me write a novel….

I’ll write something clever, that will really show ‘em

Something better than this silly Writer’s Block Poem

I’ll write and write, give it all that I’ve got

Maybe I’ll win a Newbery or the Caldecott

One day I will write something in which the World will take stock

If only I can get over this horrible Writer’s block!

Time

Sometimes time just seems to slip away... I feel like I just posted here, but according to the date of the last post, it was over a week ago...  wow.  

I need to start getting back into life and getting myself up and out more often...  I have just felt so tired all the time that I have stayed in bed too much and not done anything productive in too long.  I get to sleep around 5 am and sleep until noon.  That in and of itself is not so bad, but I need to find more to do during the day so that I can keep moving.  Otherwise I kind of crawl into bed and waste all my time playing games and watching Facebook... not good.

Writing...  you would think that while I am on the computer, I could be writing -  but I am not.  I need to get a routine together for getting up,  keeping house a bit, writing, etc.   Wednesdays are a good start,  I am going to be getting up and out on Wednesday and meeting my writing group...  writing all day.  (ok mostly hanging out and chatting with friends, but OUT of my house!!!)

No,  I never accomplished the writing I promised in the last post...  I need to write SOMETHING...  Sue was right, I should write what I know and I am going to do just that...  stay tuned....

until next time....

Dialysis

Off to dialysis...  should have left 10 minutes ago, but thought I would quickly post something...  anything...

I can't get to blogspot while there, so annoying!  I think I will try to work on my writing tonight though...  I wonder what the creative muses have in store for me tonight... I will try to come up with something and post it here tomorrow...  please comment..  give me ideas for writing... ideas for crafting or just tell me off...  otherwise I feel like I am talking to a wall...

hello wall...

until next time...

Little Girls...

Tonight we have company... each one of my daughters has a friend over...  sisters too...   neither set of sisters gets along with each other and my house is very small.... what was I thinking?

We drove around a little bit tonight and sold some Girl Scout cookies...  then we came home and ate pizza... one of the few things this motley crew can agree on...   now I am hiding in the bedroom and listening to the mayhem....   think they will all fall asleep soon?  I doubt it too...

uh oh...  I think they have found me...

Until next time...  

Basketball

My butt hurts tonight from sitting through three basketball games on Monmouth Academy bleachers.  It was self inflicted as my daughter was only in one game, I sat through the other two strictly because I wanted to.  The boys JV game was really good, when we arrived they were ahead by a small margin, then Monmouth caught up and went ahead, then we caught up and tied... eventually Monmouth won by a point or so... it was a fun game to watch.

The girls' game was not as exciting to watch, they lost by a significant margin.  They always look so much better than the score reflects.  According the scores each game, the girls always lose by a lot, but to watch them, they are giving each team a good run for their money.  Our biggest issue is not putting the ball in the basket,  we get good plays and run the ball well enough, just when the shot comes...  it misses and the other team seems to be able to sink it with their eyes closed and one arm behind their back....   if we started making the shots we take... we would be beating these teams.  Someday,  it will all just fall into to place for them... one of these days....  but I really admire the way our girls go out there, time and time again and give their all... they play hard down to the last second of the game regardless of the score...  true players all the way!

The boys' varsity game was as thrilling as the JV game...  only with a different result!  They won!   I think the ball was turned over about 6 times in the last fifteen seconds of the game... not exaggerating.   The final score was very close...  intentional foul penalty shots made the difference in the last second of the game.  A real nail bitter!     I hope the paper writes about the win for Winthrop... they have only had 2 now.   They, like the girls, seem to miss their shots, but are just as good as the teams they lose to,  just need to sink those baskets!

Until next time...

Hostage

Have to blog early tonight because once I enter dialysis I am not allowed to freely converse with the outside world...  I may reveal trade secrets or beg for help...

Today was wasted, I was sick and did absolutely nothing...  no really NOTHING.   My cat and I stayed in bed the whole day and read Facebook, the KJ and the Bangor Daily News.  I didn't even turn on the television.   I did play Peggle for awhile, but never managed to get a level cleared of all pegs,  so I did not even accomplish anything there.   Thinking back...  how was I not bored to death?

Tonight I am heading into Dialysis, hoping, no GOING to be there early.  NCIS is new tonight and I want to be hooked up and settled in before it starts...  I am so in love with that show it scares me  :)  That and NCIS LA - which some say is not as good,  but I am a sucker for romantic tension and I just want to take Deeks home with me...  so I am hooked.

Tomorrow is writing group and I am hoping to actually write something worth being written, we will see.  I need to work on the group's web site as well, but I am not sure what to include on the site.  It is a blog site and will have its own writing blog, but about what???  I am not sure, other than writing.  We gather as a group but we need to define our purpose and work toward that, right now we are 4 friends who gather to gab once a week.  We strive to be a writer's organization who gather once a week to promote and inspire Maine writers.  I am also hoping to count myself among them one day...

OK, that cat is now driving me nuts because I am typing instead of petting him...  did I mention he has been at my side ALL DAY LONG???   He needs to get a life... :)

until next time...

OK, so not EVERYDAY...

Not sure why, but it looks like Fresenious Dialysis unit does not want us getting any messages out while they have us strapped into LaZy Boys.   They seem to block anything for blogging,  aol, facebook and other fun sites...  no streaming video either.  Thank goodness the kids taught me how to get around Facebook being blocked.  It really bothers me that they block so much stuff, I am an adult and should be allowed to use the internet as I see fit...  if the blocking is for the employees...  then what kind of message is that?  I am supposed to trust these people with my life, but their own employer doesn't trust them to not watch porn all night...   huh.

Yesterday was a busy day.  I got up,  still feeling sick, with a cold in my throat.  I picked up Vicki and headed to Augusta for brunch at the Senator Inn.  It was busy...  but busy buffet means fresh...  I ate too much, but it was yummy...  it was nice visiting with Ariel, Donna, Vicki, Helene and Tony... remembering Laurie.  After brunch I went home and got Ashleigh and we drove up to Orono for auditions...  Lord Hall at UMaine.  It was really fun to see campus... Lord Hall is just a bit down the road from my old dorm Hancock Hall.

BlueBird Auditions were weird and not great.  Basically everyone got a number and we went into a room about 8 at a time and answered questions from the director and a couple of producers were present.   They hardly asked us anything and then ran out of time, we were the last group of the night and were rushed.    It was not worth the rise all the way up to Orono, and I am glad I was not called back today, cause it would have been a pain in the butt to drive back up again.  Not sure if we will bother going in to be extras if asked... we'll see, no idea where they are filming.

We ate supper at Pat's Pizza in Orono,  I love that it never changes...  it is the same as it was 20 years ago when I lived up there...  the pizza is different but good.   We left and drove home, just in time for me to get to dialysis...  I didn't sleep well, but I did finish my book  "Midnight in the Moonlight" and read the prologue of the next book, "Strangers in the Moonlight"  but I can't actually find the second book.

Until next time...

Can't let Linda have all the fun...

OK another year another blog...  well not quite as this is the same blog I have had for years... and written in a few times.   I really would like to call myself a writer, only problem is,  I never write much.  That needs to change, so I am going to attempt to write each and everyday.  Maybe not always here, but something everyday. If I have any readers I will be impressed.   I would love to hear comments from the peanut gallery unless you are allergic to peanuts,  then by all means,  please sit in the Almond gallery,  or the soy gallery or whatever suits you.

I was sick today with a sore throat and did not really do much.  I did work on a puzzle that I got for Christmas... it is difficult and 1000 pieces and now I just want to get it done so I can have my table back.   Tomorrow  -  actually later today-  I am driving up to Orono to audition for another movie role.  I am really excited and yet don't really expect for anything to happen.  My first role in "The Eighteenth Hour"  was a blast and I hope the movie gets finished soon.


Tomorrow is also the annual Brunch at the Senator in remembrance of Laurie.  Every year around her birthday a group of us gather for brunch at the Senator.  I miss her wisdom and advice.

OK,  enough for tonight,  don't want to give it all away in the first entry....

(insert witty sign-off tag line here)