Iriani

Yesterday a day with mild setbacks all over the place

• Sean sick
• keys to the car without a trace in the early morning - not the best time for them to play with me
• woman on a bike in front of me on a road where no bikers are allowed, very dangerous situation
• lots of students with sign on exam-laziness
• left eye got worse, need stronger contacts
• left leg stopped functioning as it should: deaf feeling, plus stabs of pain in the right

 On the other hand

• finished building website for conference, everybody was happy about it
• the new contacts might chase my head aches away
  
• kids ate well: white rice with Indonesian shoarma dish (my own recipe) and mixed stir-fried vegetables, Vman like it too
• had a nice talk with former brother-in-law
• was so tired that I slept throughout the night

On top of that today had a real surprise in store: at Sean's school, where I was with him and my ex, I met an old friend, whom I lost sight of years ago. Her name is Iriani and she's a great small wonderful kind and gentle woman. It was so nice catching up with her, that we decided to get back in touch. Gave her my email-address, hopefully she'll contact me soon.

Outline

Am reading blogs about writing and one of the main things is that you need to write every day. Having no time, no inspiration is no excuse. Simply sit down and get to it. Write, make your fingers move and words will come. It's not a hobby, it's work, driven by the need to express thoughts.
And I must say it's working. The outlining is getting better, the story is starting to gain shape. How I love this.
But now it's time to close this notebook and get some sleep. Will see you tomorrow.

Punch

Whom did I punch? ;-) Well nobody. Us HD girls made punch, while the mensies made paintings for a Christmas auction.

^^ painted by my Vman

There was egg nog on the menu, fruit punch and Christmas punch. The experiment with the egg nog didn't turn out that well. On first try we used flour in stead of flour sugar. The result isn't even worth mentioning. On the second try the ingredients were all right, but the sauce shifted. Down the drain all went.

Onwards to the fruit punch. With bananas, oranges, kiwi's, orange juice and vodka not much can go wrong haha. Tasted good.

Last but not least: the Christmas punch: pine apple juice, whiskey, orange juice, honey, a bit more whiskey, ice cream and ginger ale. The stirring resulted in wonderful creamy substance that asked for more. Even the men liked this one. We will definitely make it at the Christmas party.

Dutch

Restless for days, not finding the time to let thoughts develop inside so I can pour them out. Work is demanding to the extreme, dusty rooms and laundry scream in silent words, kids and Vman want to be near. There's always something that needs to be done first. Staying up late won't solve anything, because I'll be too tired the day after.

Dragon Age is enchanting, at times I get lost in that game. Reading my beloved books is alluring. Still that means absorbing words and images. I need solitude to be able to create phrases and stories myself. Another goal to find time for writing. No use in fretting over it, but time to act. I need time! More time! Or do I want too much? Do I have to accept... naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah no way, that's not my style.

Started a story anew in Dutch, the idea for it has been spooking around in my mind for months. Let's find out if writing in my native language is as rich as writing in English. Should be, since my vocabulary in Dutch is better than in English. 

Guest Blogger: Gloria Weber

Welcome to launch of the Gaslight Demons Virtual Book Tour! I’m your hostess, Gloria Weber, author of Gaslight Demons, published by Morbidgames Publishing. Don’t be alarmed! Marion is quite aware of the fact I’m here. And, once again, I would like to say thanks to Marion for allowing me to guest post here.

Now that the shock has worn off, you might be asking yourself, “What is a virtual book tour?” Well, that’s what I plan on explaining today.

Let us get the obvious out of the way first: the goal of a virtual book tour is to get word out to people about a book. In this case, Gaslight Demons, published by Morbidgames Publishing, written by me, Gloria Weber. And yes, shameless plugging is also a part of it.

Now most of you might be familiar with the traditional book tours, where an author goes from book to bookstore, maybe even visiting a library or two. A virtual book tour is somewhat like that, but instead of bookstores the author pops up on other people’s blogs or websites. The author then spews some bit of wisdom and, when appropriate, shamelessly plugs her book.

No, I’m not doing it again. I know you got the idea by now.

So, why would any sane person do this? Generally, it is done as a form of cross promotion. I’m not just writing this post and forgetting about it. Everyone I know is hearing about me being here on this blog. And you, Marion’s faithful followers, are getting to hear about the Gaslight Demons Virtual Book Tour.

Quite simple, isn’t it?

With the explanation done, I must now return to shameless plugging. If you would like to know more about me, where I’ll be virtually book touring next, or where to buy Gaslight Demons visit: http://gloriaweber.wordpress.com If you are into pen and paper role playing games, you may also want to check out my publisher, Morbidgames Publishing: http://www.morbidgames.com/ Thank you, for your time.

© Gloria Weber

Drieske's house rules

Finally my patience was devoured by all these little stupid tiny unimportant incidents, but the combination of it irritates the hell out of me. Hence I wrote a mail to my sons. Yes a mail. Both are gone today, one to work, one to his dad. I made a list with house rules to make our lives easier and less stressful.

What? You want an example? Well let me name some:

• shoes: when you come in, leave them in the hallway, and not where ever your feet land;
• school bags: take them up with you to your room where you should be studying, and not drop it on your way to the fridge;
• laundry: guess what: there are three baskets in the attic that were made especially for that use... how convenient;
• dishes: put them in the dish washer and not in your bedroom, or on the living room table: they'll never get clean over there;
• PC/notebook: using it for school work is excellent, to game great... but not this often. Take a board game downstairs and let's play!

Enough examples? Just tell me, I thought of more. Well they haven't reacted yet, so let's see what they have to say about all of this when they come home later on.

Reflection

Today was not a good day. If I keep up this pace, it's going to overtake me and I will go down. Don't be mistaken: I love my work and many tasks, but it can be too much at some point. Unfortunately my boss can't do anything about it yet. But one day our team will get reinforcements and we have to hang on 'till then.
On top of that the irritation and emotional effects caused by the never ending comments of my ex *stares*. He isn't mean or anything, but we have a different way of interacting. Me as little as possible, only for the kids. He as often as possible for anything.
Ah well, writing this down helps me to calm down, put it off my mind for the day. It's after 9 pm and that's time for relaxing, not fretting over things that can't be changed.