We were rudely awakened this morning at 330 am by Gracie, my wonderful Alpine Mastiff jumping on our bed - meaning across us. Remember she is now full grown and weighs around 140 pounds and she - jumped - on - the - bed. It was a very rude awakening. And she didn't want to get off. We were slated to get up at 4am in order to get to the airport in time for his morning flight to Oklahoma City, anyway, but I was not happy at all!
But, even if we were getting up in less than an hour, it was still rude. I also really needed the sleep. So now I have been up for almost 5 hours and I can't nap, because I won't be able to sleep later. It's one of those things with off shifters that are constantly worrying about when we are going to sleep, how much we are going to get, and how to get more. I guess you could say I'm obsessed with sleep. You would be too, if you never get enough sleep.
So, I am snuggled with my puppies, drinking my tea, watching 'Independence Day' and computer on my lap - beginning to tackle my novel. I am ready to be in this position until I need to run to do my 'psych' visit - I am getting my hair cut and nails done! Better than seeing any shrink. Holly (not my famous sister in law Holly, although she's great too) who does my nails and Jessica who does my hair - I couldn't get any better treatment - that salon and spa is the ONLY place I go. "Act II Salon and Spa" in Utica is friendly and do wonderful work. It is a great way to re-new one's self and self esteem. I always leave with a smile on my face - besides looking better. So I will have a great day, even if I am tired...
The notes I have on the novel are on the table to my left, Boomer to my right, Gracie on my feet. There is a great need in me to get this novel done - I just feel the need to finish - I like this story and want it out for the world to see... and read, hopefully! But it is more of a validation for me than anything. I like to write but feel my 15 minutes is NOT up yet. One of these books will be the one - I know it.
I may not blog until Sunday night - I will be working tomorrow, then doing the whole scrap booking thing all weekend. I will tell all about it on Sunday night when I get home! I intend to have a really great time with my sister Pat, our sister in law Carol and niece Cherie. We will scrap til we drop - or something like that...and make all kinds of wonderful pages (at least 6) - and these cards for my mom and Aunt Ruthelma for Mother's Day. That's my goal for the weekend. I'll write on Sunday night, after I get home...
D M Wiseman, spending the day writing and then doing my whole spa thing...published author...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Hump day but not for me...
Today is Wednesday, which people call 'Hump day' because it is the hump to get over before you get to the weekend. I always thought it meant something else altogether, but now I get the 'middle' thing. I really do, and I don't like it. Not this week, not for me, anyway.
I have always had weird working patterns, shift work, weekends, 12 hour shifts, etc cause you to have weekends in the middle of the week (if you look at the week as a rigid calendar) but when my husband, my friend, my soul mate's calendar for work was always a 6 day with repeat - 24 hour shift on, 24 hour shift off, 24 hour shift, 72 hours off. It was very simple to figure out, but if you didn't live it - it was hard to imagine.
I worked between his shifts, so we didn't have a lot of babysitters and no daycare. We were lucky (and St and S were too, because they had one of us home with them everyday) in that way. So now, 5 days a week IN A ROW working, I am having a really hard time with. I am messed up, while on orientation. Once I am on my shift, and get some kind of a schedule (for me, that is) then I will find some kind of peace. And hopefully sleep!
I will take my husband, etc to the airport in the am, come home and nap - then spend some quality time with my puppies. I will spend a good part of the day writing for my goal of finishing my novel by the end of April as well!. I really have a good train of thought going and will take the characters to the end soon. I feel good about it. Really. I can't wait until I can get back on the computer to write, but first - I really have to sleep...
D M Wiseman, sleepy once again, and no end in site, published author...
I have always had weird working patterns, shift work, weekends, 12 hour shifts, etc cause you to have weekends in the middle of the week (if you look at the week as a rigid calendar) but when my husband, my friend, my soul mate's calendar for work was always a 6 day with repeat - 24 hour shift on, 24 hour shift off, 24 hour shift, 72 hours off. It was very simple to figure out, but if you didn't live it - it was hard to imagine.
I worked between his shifts, so we didn't have a lot of babysitters and no daycare. We were lucky (and St and S were too, because they had one of us home with them everyday) in that way. So now, 5 days a week IN A ROW working, I am having a really hard time with. I am messed up, while on orientation. Once I am on my shift, and get some kind of a schedule (for me, that is) then I will find some kind of peace. And hopefully sleep!
I will take my husband, etc to the airport in the am, come home and nap - then spend some quality time with my puppies. I will spend a good part of the day writing for my goal of finishing my novel by the end of April as well!. I really have a good train of thought going and will take the characters to the end soon. I feel good about it. Really. I can't wait until I can get back on the computer to write, but first - I really have to sleep...
D M Wiseman, sleepy once again, and no end in site, published author...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tired, very tired, and its only Tuesday...kind of week...
OK, I whined yesterday about the rest of the week, and I know I was whining. So, I really don't want to whine again, but I am more tired today, than yesterday, and I have to get up at 4am to work again - a 12 hour shift, and get up again at 4am to take my husband, my friend, my soul mate again on Thursday - and the worry is that he and I were not on the right page about when he is coming home.
I kept talking about Sunday, he didn't realize that it was Saturday he was coming home, and this doesn't work at all. I will either have to leave an entire day (actually 22 hours early) to pick him up - or not go at all - to my crop weekend. I am already going late to this crop - three hours late, but that's OK. So instead of 48 hours of cropping - I will only do like 25 hours, so the question is - do I go, and sleep half the time? Or do I just stay home, happily driving all over the world.
Maybe I'll do the stay home thing, and let S and V still come over - I'll watch Leo so they can visit Erik and Erica - their really good friends. I don't know. Maybe I'll just go, and then pick him up on my way home, sleep in (!!!!) on Sunday and just spend a leisure day - before doing the whole work week thing over again...
AND I will write so much on Sunday, I am bound to get caught up... really, I will. I have so many thoughts going through my brain, I have to write...but first, I must sleep...and get up at 4am... Ok, I am whining again...
D M Wiseman, so tired I can't think straight or even write worth beans, published author
I kept talking about Sunday, he didn't realize that it was Saturday he was coming home, and this doesn't work at all. I will either have to leave an entire day (actually 22 hours early) to pick him up - or not go at all - to my crop weekend. I am already going late to this crop - three hours late, but that's OK. So instead of 48 hours of cropping - I will only do like 25 hours, so the question is - do I go, and sleep half the time? Or do I just stay home, happily driving all over the world.
Maybe I'll do the stay home thing, and let S and V still come over - I'll watch Leo so they can visit Erik and Erica - their really good friends. I don't know. Maybe I'll just go, and then pick him up on my way home, sleep in (!!!!) on Sunday and just spend a leisure day - before doing the whole work week thing over again...
AND I will write so much on Sunday, I am bound to get caught up... really, I will. I have so many thoughts going through my brain, I have to write...but first, I must sleep...and get up at 4am... Ok, I am whining again...
D M Wiseman, so tired I can't think straight or even write worth beans, published author
Monday, March 28, 2011
Wow! 4am is really early or really late, depending on how you look at it, kind of day...
I got up early today at 4am - so I could get ready and get to work by 6am - and I still don't know if this means I got up really early, or was this considered really late...either way, I am tired, and mixed up on sleeping times... I got up early YESTERDAY so I would be tired enough to go to sleep early last night, so I could get up this morning, and work. I have no idea what I just said.
I am so mixed up, and it's only Monday morning. I will work 9 to 4pm tomorrow, then do the same thing again on Wednesday, but a twelve hour shift. I was looking forward to Thrusday morning, but realized that I will have to get up early to drive my husband, my friend, my soul mate to the airport by 730am - which means getting on the road around 5am! On my day off! Not thrilled, as the next day - yep, back to work on that Friday and for another twelve hour shift. Then I am planning on driving to Woodhaven (where that is I have no idea because 'down river' means nothing to me! I assume Detroit River is the river they are talking about) for the Crop Weekend with my sister Pat, Carol, and niece Cherie.
I am tired already and it is only Monday. Oh, why didn't I sleep in more when I was off work? I still have hours yet to catch up on - from my prior sixteen odd years on midnights. Ok, yeah, I know. You can never get caught up, but I could hope... Anyway, I will be sleeping a lot this week, and then maybe next week I will be more on target - 2 eight hour shifts, and 2 twelve hour shifts with Friday off - I can do that! Although, I will be going with my sister Barb to the U of M for her first chemo this time around - I am not missing it - she is too important to me. And I obsess if I'm not there...
The puppies were very excited to see me when I got home today, and after dinner, they both began to do the normal MORNING routine, and it was dinner time. Already they are mixed up - but hopefully I can get them into some kind of schedule - as well as myself. For now, I need a nap before I go to sleep...but I WILL write atleast a chapter before I pass out each day - it is my GOAL, like a promise to myself, and a goal of end of April to get it done, edited and published! Better to give myself a few weeks to get used to no sleep while I am orientating, so I can hit the goal - a reasonable goal I might add, end of April, but aim to complete it before!
D M Wiseman, tired, wondering where the week has gone already, published author...
I am so mixed up, and it's only Monday morning. I will work 9 to 4pm tomorrow, then do the same thing again on Wednesday, but a twelve hour shift. I was looking forward to Thrusday morning, but realized that I will have to get up early to drive my husband, my friend, my soul mate to the airport by 730am - which means getting on the road around 5am! On my day off! Not thrilled, as the next day - yep, back to work on that Friday and for another twelve hour shift. Then I am planning on driving to Woodhaven (where that is I have no idea because 'down river' means nothing to me! I assume Detroit River is the river they are talking about) for the Crop Weekend with my sister Pat, Carol, and niece Cherie.
I am tired already and it is only Monday. Oh, why didn't I sleep in more when I was off work? I still have hours yet to catch up on - from my prior sixteen odd years on midnights. Ok, yeah, I know. You can never get caught up, but I could hope... Anyway, I will be sleeping a lot this week, and then maybe next week I will be more on target - 2 eight hour shifts, and 2 twelve hour shifts with Friday off - I can do that! Although, I will be going with my sister Barb to the U of M for her first chemo this time around - I am not missing it - she is too important to me. And I obsess if I'm not there...
The puppies were very excited to see me when I got home today, and after dinner, they both began to do the normal MORNING routine, and it was dinner time. Already they are mixed up - but hopefully I can get them into some kind of schedule - as well as myself. For now, I need a nap before I go to sleep...but I WILL write atleast a chapter before I pass out each day - it is my GOAL, like a promise to myself, and a goal of end of April to get it done, edited and published! Better to give myself a few weeks to get used to no sleep while I am orientating, so I can hit the goal - a reasonable goal I might add, end of April, but aim to complete it before!
D M Wiseman, tired, wondering where the week has gone already, published author...
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday morning and the puppies are awake...
I got up early today so that I can go to bed early tonight, because I need to get up earlier tomorrow morning. I think that just about sums up my life. I can't believe that I have to get up at 4am tomorrow in order to leave the house at 5 am and be at work at 6 am to learn to work a desk - you know, answer the phones etc, check orders etc, and I have to do this on Wednesday too. So this is the way it goes...Monday 6 am to 430 pm, Tuesday 9 am to 430 pm, Wednesday 6 am to 6 pm (yep that's right a 12 hr) and Thursday I am off! Yeah, I will need it to recoup for Friday...
Because on Friday I will work 7 am to 7 pm so another 12 hr and leave right from work I am going to a crop (that's crafting 'crack', for those of you who are in the know...) and its all the way down in Woodhaven. like 50 some miles from my house. S and V are bringing Leo over to stay the weekend, because my husband, my friend, and my soul mate is also going to be out of town. I am going to the crop thing with my sister Pat, our sister in law (long story there!) Carol and our niece Cherie. It is from like 6 pm on Friday to 6pm on Sunday. An entire weekend of crop. So the puppies are S and V's responsibility.
I have no idea what I am going to do for an entire weekend! Pat has gone to these before, and she says they are really fun. Carol and Cherie have gone too, and my famous sister in law Holly has gone before as well. She is sad she cannot go, but not really. Her family will be in California visiting her sister T who has been in this blog prior, not going to explain the entire details how she's related to me either. Holly says all weekends crops are fun, and you can get a lot done on your pages as well. I still have trouble with cards! It took me three hours to make one card yesterday, and then I wasn't too pleased with it...
St is going to be in Vegas. He is going to be at the ACM Awards, the new awards ceremony - The American Country Music Awards - meeting everyone! But, he has met a lot of stars prior, so its no big deal to him, he's used to it. So, a lot of family going to be out of town, leaving S and V to watch the puppies. It is interesting that most of my entire family is going to be somewhere else, but all seeing someone in our family, just the same...except St who will be in Sin City, hopefully not sinning...
I wrote last night, watching one of the greatest picture of all times - "Rocky Horror Picture Show" - I just love it. Tim Curry is too much. I think his best character ever. Really, ever. So I wrote a few hundred words, got caught up on my emails, facebook, and my blog. I will be switching back and forth between morning and evenings, depending on when I am awake...and alert enough to make any sense - Ha, not that I make any sense most days in my ramblings...
D M Wiseman, happily writing, happily watching the puppies play, published author...
Because on Friday I will work 7 am to 7 pm so another 12 hr and leave right from work I am going to a crop (that's crafting 'crack', for those of you who are in the know...) and its all the way down in Woodhaven. like 50 some miles from my house. S and V are bringing Leo over to stay the weekend, because my husband, my friend, and my soul mate is also going to be out of town. I am going to the crop thing with my sister Pat, our sister in law (long story there!) Carol and our niece Cherie. It is from like 6 pm on Friday to 6pm on Sunday. An entire weekend of crop. So the puppies are S and V's responsibility.
I have no idea what I am going to do for an entire weekend! Pat has gone to these before, and she says they are really fun. Carol and Cherie have gone too, and my famous sister in law Holly has gone before as well. She is sad she cannot go, but not really. Her family will be in California visiting her sister T who has been in this blog prior, not going to explain the entire details how she's related to me either. Holly says all weekends crops are fun, and you can get a lot done on your pages as well. I still have trouble with cards! It took me three hours to make one card yesterday, and then I wasn't too pleased with it...
St is going to be in Vegas. He is going to be at the ACM Awards, the new awards ceremony - The American Country Music Awards - meeting everyone! But, he has met a lot of stars prior, so its no big deal to him, he's used to it. So, a lot of family going to be out of town, leaving S and V to watch the puppies. It is interesting that most of my entire family is going to be somewhere else, but all seeing someone in our family, just the same...except St who will be in Sin City, hopefully not sinning...
I wrote last night, watching one of the greatest picture of all times - "Rocky Horror Picture Show" - I just love it. Tim Curry is too much. I think his best character ever. Really, ever. So I wrote a few hundred words, got caught up on my emails, facebook, and my blog. I will be switching back and forth between morning and evenings, depending on when I am awake...and alert enough to make any sense - Ha, not that I make any sense most days in my ramblings...
D M Wiseman, happily writing, happily watching the puppies play, published author...
Saturday, March 26, 2011
I can't believe I didn't blog kind of day...
My husband, my friend, my soul mate is a maniac when it comes to cleaning. I, on the other hand, am not. He has always been that way, and I learned long ago to get out of the way, and just let him clean. In fact, I haven't really cleaned the bathroom in years. He does that cleaning. I kind of got mad one day when my mom was coming to visit, and I cleaned one of our two (at the time) bathrooms and he went right behind me to 'clean it better' - the last time I cleaned any bathroom. He has a way of cleaning, and I didn't quite do it 'his' way... So, I am perfectly happy NOT cleaning bathrooms. So, today, was for cleaning, and I didn't blog! This cannot happen. I cannot not do my job. But, I digress...
I do most of the grocery shopping and most of the laundry (he has a tendency to wash and dry almost EVERYTHING which means my things get shrunk. So, it's an even trade off for the whole bathroom thing. I don't feel bad that way. But, we trade off in the cooking department. I do most of the dinners, and on weekends, he makes great breakfasts. We work have worked out everything pretty well, give and take, he does this, I do that, and we love each other. The boys St and S have learned to do both what I do, and what the dad does. This way, they will make the best husbands and partners. It's a win win situation.
I am pretty happy with the way we have lived our lives, and I am happy with how our boys have turned out. And we really love each other, all of us. I know we did good.
Our puppies are thrilled tonight as S and V came over bringing their puppy Leo and since dinner, there has been nothing but our of control playing. Boomer is tired, due to the amount of meds he is on, but he's getting his licks in - and we got to see St and K for dinner as well. Then we went to see the play at Romeo High School, "Beauty and the Beast" - it was very well done. I love that play, as well as the Disney movie. Gotta love the songs, too.
I love sappy love stories, loved the made for TV show (you know the underground 'beast' and Linda Hamilton character that barely speaks and always looked like she was going to cry)/ The whole beast and beauty thing has always makes me want to write a story like that, with a man that is not 'perfect' like all leading men are - OR better yet - make it the woman not perfect, and have a drop dead gorgeous man fall for her! Even better. Now I am thinking...and I will have to write that one too...
I will begin to outline that story line, and see where it takes me...in the mean time - I need to finish the one I'm writing, and the other one that I started, and really need to finish, and THEN write this new one that's in my mind... along with the three others that I have jotted down to think about...but one at a time...
D M Wiseman, thinking of too many things, not finishing anything, but still, a published author...
I do most of the grocery shopping and most of the laundry (he has a tendency to wash and dry almost EVERYTHING which means my things get shrunk. So, it's an even trade off for the whole bathroom thing. I don't feel bad that way. But, we trade off in the cooking department. I do most of the dinners, and on weekends, he makes great breakfasts. We work have worked out everything pretty well, give and take, he does this, I do that, and we love each other. The boys St and S have learned to do both what I do, and what the dad does. This way, they will make the best husbands and partners. It's a win win situation.
I am pretty happy with the way we have lived our lives, and I am happy with how our boys have turned out. And we really love each other, all of us. I know we did good.
Our puppies are thrilled tonight as S and V came over bringing their puppy Leo and since dinner, there has been nothing but our of control playing. Boomer is tired, due to the amount of meds he is on, but he's getting his licks in - and we got to see St and K for dinner as well. Then we went to see the play at Romeo High School, "Beauty and the Beast" - it was very well done. I love that play, as well as the Disney movie. Gotta love the songs, too.
I love sappy love stories, loved the made for TV show (you know the underground 'beast' and Linda Hamilton character that barely speaks and always looked like she was going to cry)/ The whole beast and beauty thing has always makes me want to write a story like that, with a man that is not 'perfect' like all leading men are - OR better yet - make it the woman not perfect, and have a drop dead gorgeous man fall for her! Even better. Now I am thinking...and I will have to write that one too...
I will begin to outline that story line, and see where it takes me...in the mean time - I need to finish the one I'm writing, and the other one that I started, and really need to finish, and THEN write this new one that's in my mind... along with the three others that I have jotted down to think about...but one at a time...
D M Wiseman, thinking of too many things, not finishing anything, but still, a published author...
Friday, March 25, 2011
Impressive lecture this morning and learned alot this afternoon...kind of day...
I went to work AGAIN today, and now I understand the saying TGIF - I really am thankful that I don't have to work tomorrow. I just want to sleep until I wake up - since I still am having a hard time falling asleep at night, and so I am tired in the mornings. Mountain Dew helps but I really could use more than five hours of sleep at one time, without having to get up to that damn alarm. I really hate that alarm.
Boomer is feeling better, but then he ate dinner and threw up. I am taking him to the doctors anyway. He is acting OK, but still threw up, so we are taking him in - just in case, because last time, he had pneumonia. Really, and he was sick. We don't want to over worry but we want to make sure. Gracie is fine, she is acting like nothing happened and seems absolutely normal. So, Boomer is going to see the vet. I need him to be OK because S and V are bringing Leo over to play tomorrow!
We are going to have dinner hopefully with St and K as well, and then we are going to see the play "Beauty and the Beast" at the Romeo High School. They always put on a great show and it is run by my wonderfully best-est friend Kendra. And I love the show, the songs, as well as the whole story line. I really do like Disney shows any way!
So, after making sure the baby is not really sick, maybe just needs some puppy Prilosec or something like it, I will come back and hopefully get a few chapters before I fall asleep. I just want to get the novel done, I really do need to get it done! I want to have an even half dozen novels published. Then I will start on the next half dozen... I have said it before and I'll need to say it again - I need to write. I really do need to write...
Another reason I am happy it's finally Friday is my sister Barb's radiation is completed, and she did well at getting her port in today (no chemo though, and I am not going to the why of that - she will start in two weeks, but too mad to explain why she didn't get it today...) and I will begin to only work 4 days a week, not 5 days! That's great as well...
D M Wiseman, still worried about my puppy and so glad its Friday, published author...
Boomer is feeling better, but then he ate dinner and threw up. I am taking him to the doctors anyway. He is acting OK, but still threw up, so we are taking him in - just in case, because last time, he had pneumonia. Really, and he was sick. We don't want to over worry but we want to make sure. Gracie is fine, she is acting like nothing happened and seems absolutely normal. So, Boomer is going to see the vet. I need him to be OK because S and V are bringing Leo over to play tomorrow!
We are going to have dinner hopefully with St and K as well, and then we are going to see the play "Beauty and the Beast" at the Romeo High School. They always put on a great show and it is run by my wonderfully best-est friend Kendra. And I love the show, the songs, as well as the whole story line. I really do like Disney shows any way!
So, after making sure the baby is not really sick, maybe just needs some puppy Prilosec or something like it, I will come back and hopefully get a few chapters before I fall asleep. I just want to get the novel done, I really do need to get it done! I want to have an even half dozen novels published. Then I will start on the next half dozen... I have said it before and I'll need to say it again - I need to write. I really do need to write...
Another reason I am happy it's finally Friday is my sister Barb's radiation is completed, and she did well at getting her port in today (no chemo though, and I am not going to the why of that - she will start in two weeks, but too mad to explain why she didn't get it today...) and I will begin to only work 4 days a week, not 5 days! That's great as well...
D M Wiseman, still worried about my puppy and so glad its Friday, published author...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
I have potentially two sick puppies, and still have to work tomorrow...kind of day...
I got home from work, and Boomer didn't feel good. He was gagging, throwing up and didn't want to eat dinner - not even with gray on it! He just didn't want to eat. He also didn't want to play with or suck on his puppy - the pacifier issue... and that worries me. He was excited to see me, and did the whole excited dog thing, and promptly threw up. Kind of wrecked the moment, but I still love him.
Then, Gracie went outside to play by herself, and when I went to let her in, she was running around like a spaz - and ran up the outside stairs, instead of waiting for me to let her in downstairs. So, as I went up the stairs, I could hear her running around the deck like a fool! and she was soaking wet. I looked down at the in ground pool that has been frozen, then was thawed, and now is kind of both - and yep, she fell in by the looks of the broken ice and the fact she was dripping icy water. She doesn't like to be wet, thus the running around like the fool she was. It took two of us to dry her off, and numerous beach towels.
I hope she is fine, because I can't do two sick dogs at once - I did that after Thanksgiving when Gracie was post-op and infected, and Boomer had pneumonia. I don't think she is sick, as she was chewing her favorite bone, and demanding to be rubbed. Boomer is snoring, but still worries me. I will take him to the vets tomorrow, if he doesn't eat dinner. He won't miss two meals, unless he is sick. Even my husband, my friend, my soul mate thinks he might need to go in. I thought I was the only one that obsessed about the dogs...and I will make sure that Gracie feels good although right now, she is rolling around acting like the fool puppy she is! so I think she is fine...
I wrote another chapter, but still need to get the whole episode revved up and get to the ending soon. I really need to get it done, if I want to do the next one that I have been playing with in my mind started. I just seem to keep thinking about the next one, as I am nearing the end of the current one. Maybe I really am an author! Ha, as two more books were sold... I am an author, not just a full time writer now that I am working...and let's just say working five days a week is NOT what anyone should do. I want my 10hr shifts and only four of them please! And while I'm on it - get me to nights!
D M Wiseman, potentially going to the vets tomorrow, and definitely going to worry all day, published author
Then, Gracie went outside to play by herself, and when I went to let her in, she was running around like a spaz - and ran up the outside stairs, instead of waiting for me to let her in downstairs. So, as I went up the stairs, I could hear her running around the deck like a fool! and she was soaking wet. I looked down at the in ground pool that has been frozen, then was thawed, and now is kind of both - and yep, she fell in by the looks of the broken ice and the fact she was dripping icy water. She doesn't like to be wet, thus the running around like the fool she was. It took two of us to dry her off, and numerous beach towels.
I hope she is fine, because I can't do two sick dogs at once - I did that after Thanksgiving when Gracie was post-op and infected, and Boomer had pneumonia. I don't think she is sick, as she was chewing her favorite bone, and demanding to be rubbed. Boomer is snoring, but still worries me. I will take him to the vets tomorrow, if he doesn't eat dinner. He won't miss two meals, unless he is sick. Even my husband, my friend, my soul mate thinks he might need to go in. I thought I was the only one that obsessed about the dogs...and I will make sure that Gracie feels good although right now, she is rolling around acting like the fool puppy she is! so I think she is fine...
I wrote another chapter, but still need to get the whole episode revved up and get to the ending soon. I really need to get it done, if I want to do the next one that I have been playing with in my mind started. I just seem to keep thinking about the next one, as I am nearing the end of the current one. Maybe I really am an author! Ha, as two more books were sold... I am an author, not just a full time writer now that I am working...and let's just say working five days a week is NOT what anyone should do. I want my 10hr shifts and only four of them please! And while I'm on it - get me to nights!
D M Wiseman, potentially going to the vets tomorrow, and definitely going to worry all day, published author
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
"Is it just me?" kind of day and other quotes...
I know that "Is it just me?" is a book written by Whoopi Goldberg - and it does have tons of quotes that would work for all kinds of things that happened today...but I need to say it. It's spring already and we got 5 inches of snow, sleet, rain and ice - so we are still in a 'winter advisory' kind of couple of days. This is just wrong. We need SPRING and soon. It's not fair to wear just a t-shirt not just a couple of days ago, and have to get the boots on again...and people can't have forgotten how to drive from last week's storm... and I need a vacation!
My husband, my friend, my soul mate drove me to work today because my Jeep (that I love, don't get me wrong!) broke again. The transmission pan leak is back, and now there is another leak in the oil pan. The dealership, of course wanted to fix a million other things that they 'found' wrong - and told me I have too many miles on my Jeep, and that I am 'too hard' on it - too much dirt roads that is causing all this damage. It's a Jeep - its supposed to be an off road vehicle - and I live on 4+ miles of dirt roads before I get to our paved street. Honestly, what is the point of a Jeep? It kills me when people tell me that I should wash my vehicle, and their SUV has never SEEN dirt...why drive one, if you are not going to get it dirty? Just saying.
So, driving with my husband (etc) was nice. He drove, he cleaned off his car, and it was warmed up when we left. I could get used to this! And, after sitting in orientation for 8 hours listening to lectures and taking proficiency tests on a computer, it was nice to be driven home too. But, after orientation - I go to nights which I love much better...I will miss him, but I like my night shift...Is it just me? No - I have a lot of friends that work nights and can't sleep unless on our shift...even when we are off...
I am already up a chapter, as I wrote one last night (didn't think I would) and started on the two I promised myself to do today. I was thrilled to see that I sold another novel sometime in the last few days, really need more sold, but I am happy with every one I sell. I would just love the numbers to climb... writing and reading and now, sleeping - which for me is different...is it just me? Nope, and at my house, the dogs are messed up in their schedules as well...
D M Wiseman, it's not just me, I think it's all of Michigan, published author that is still selling away...
My husband, my friend, my soul mate drove me to work today because my Jeep (that I love, don't get me wrong!) broke again. The transmission pan leak is back, and now there is another leak in the oil pan. The dealership, of course wanted to fix a million other things that they 'found' wrong - and told me I have too many miles on my Jeep, and that I am 'too hard' on it - too much dirt roads that is causing all this damage. It's a Jeep - its supposed to be an off road vehicle - and I live on 4+ miles of dirt roads before I get to our paved street. Honestly, what is the point of a Jeep? It kills me when people tell me that I should wash my vehicle, and their SUV has never SEEN dirt...why drive one, if you are not going to get it dirty? Just saying.
So, driving with my husband (etc) was nice. He drove, he cleaned off his car, and it was warmed up when we left. I could get used to this! And, after sitting in orientation for 8 hours listening to lectures and taking proficiency tests on a computer, it was nice to be driven home too. But, after orientation - I go to nights which I love much better...I will miss him, but I like my night shift...Is it just me? No - I have a lot of friends that work nights and can't sleep unless on our shift...even when we are off...
I am already up a chapter, as I wrote one last night (didn't think I would) and started on the two I promised myself to do today. I was thrilled to see that I sold another novel sometime in the last few days, really need more sold, but I am happy with every one I sell. I would just love the numbers to climb... writing and reading and now, sleeping - which for me is different...is it just me? Nope, and at my house, the dogs are messed up in their schedules as well...
D M Wiseman, it's not just me, I think it's all of Michigan, published author that is still selling away...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Why is it snowing again when it's supposed to be Spring? kind of day...
I went to my second day of orientation, and then got some really great news. The spider or the fly question, it was really just a big fly, not a spider after all. I feel blessed, happy, and want to just scream out loud! I feel so relieved - and just a bit selfish. It was all about me, for a little bit. Ha, and my sisters will understand THAT joke. We sister's have a good sense of humor, even in the face of such a thing like Barb's cancer. Ya' just gotta laugh, or what? Cry? Makes your nose red and look all bad. Not for us...
So we are all just relieved, because it's not all about me... I was driving home and my famous sister in law Holly called me frantic - to turn on the radio station in our area that is known as Young Country - really the ONLY station I listen to, unless my son is on the other station, and then I put that one on. Holly's third child, Sarah's boyfriend Wyatt (are you following me?) was asking her to the Prom over the radio. It was so romantic. She said yes, of course! So, there are other people in the world, not just me. It was nice for that to happen. And that it had alittle fun poked at Wyatt by my son St.
S and V are coming over this weekend to go to see "Beauty and the Beast" at our local High School - run by my wonderful best-est friend Kendra. Both the boys were in the 'theatre' crowd at school, St being known as The Wiseman, and S being the second one - called Baby Wiseman. It was funny, because S is about three inches taller than St's 6' 3" - and its always a treat to see the productions that Romeo puts on. They really are wonderfully done. We go to almost every one of the shows, even though the boys don't live with us anymore. It's fun! Maybe St and K as well, still up in the air about that...hoping though (fingers crossed).
I got no writing done today, but plan on at least two chapters tomorrow, and the same for Thursday, as I have to do laundry as well as the vacuuming, I'll have to get used to working full time again. Not wanting to do the whole working thing - I'd rather stay home and write, but looking forward to learning the ropes at the new job. They are so friendly, seemed to be growning and going in the right direction with the most important thing for me - keeping the patient first! Yeah, such a novel idea! I like that, being that I am a nurse - a manager second. So, I will keep up the writing, but not as much as prior, unless I do a lot on the weekend...I don't need to sleep, after all...
D M Wiseman, not having any spiders in my life! and learned a lot in orientation, published author...
So we are all just relieved, because it's not all about me... I was driving home and my famous sister in law Holly called me frantic - to turn on the radio station in our area that is known as Young Country - really the ONLY station I listen to, unless my son is on the other station, and then I put that one on. Holly's third child, Sarah's boyfriend Wyatt (are you following me?) was asking her to the Prom over the radio. It was so romantic. She said yes, of course! So, there are other people in the world, not just me. It was nice for that to happen. And that it had alittle fun poked at Wyatt by my son St.
S and V are coming over this weekend to go to see "Beauty and the Beast" at our local High School - run by my wonderful best-est friend Kendra. Both the boys were in the 'theatre' crowd at school, St being known as The Wiseman, and S being the second one - called Baby Wiseman. It was funny, because S is about three inches taller than St's 6' 3" - and its always a treat to see the productions that Romeo puts on. They really are wonderfully done. We go to almost every one of the shows, even though the boys don't live with us anymore. It's fun! Maybe St and K as well, still up in the air about that...hoping though (fingers crossed).
I got no writing done today, but plan on at least two chapters tomorrow, and the same for Thursday, as I have to do laundry as well as the vacuuming, I'll have to get used to working full time again. Not wanting to do the whole working thing - I'd rather stay home and write, but looking forward to learning the ropes at the new job. They are so friendly, seemed to be growning and going in the right direction with the most important thing for me - keeping the patient first! Yeah, such a novel idea! I like that, being that I am a nurse - a manager second. So, I will keep up the writing, but not as much as prior, unless I do a lot on the weekend...I don't need to sleep, after all...
D M Wiseman, not having any spiders in my life! and learned a lot in orientation, published author...
Monday, March 21, 2011
All five of my books are in the premium catalog...kind of day...
I just looked at my 'dashboard' at the http://www.smashwords.com/ and all five of my books are in the premium catalog! That means my last two books will be shipped within a few weeks to all the eReader venues! I am excited beyond words. The first book went up pretty quickly, and the second, then third took longer, but let me tell you this last two, really made my day!!! I am so happy for myself - proud and to be honest - I like the validation.
The first three were already on the Barnes and Noble site - that is so cool by the way - so cool that I look at the site everyday. I'm my biggest fan! I found out recently that people actually read my blog. My son S, both my sisters, and my famous sister in law Holly along with two others, I have no idea who they are - and they don't put down their name, or comment, so I'll just say 'Hi!' and thank them. I also want to mention that I am so thankful that the affore mentioned Holly's mom (and dad) are home from their nightmare vacation - getting stuck in The Dominic Republic when mom got sick on a cruise. Nothing makes you appreciate the good ol' USA than getting sick some where else! Gives my husband, my friend, my soul mate more fuel for his fire - never leaving the country!
Today, I started my new job, and sat through 8 hours of lectures. I have four more days this week, and then next week as well, before I go on my unit next Friday. I would rather be on the unit now, and on midnights, but gotta do the time to learn the system first. So far, everyone has been so nice, very welcoming, and positive. One of my friends works midnights, so I look forward to working with her! I will feel better when I work with someone I know...but I met a good bunch of people...
I didn't get any writing done today, but I snuggled with my babies, and played 'Keep away' with the lion that my son St bought the puppies at Christmas. It's really a well loved toy (meaning ripped up really good) and now they are begging for food from my husband (etc) because they are spoiled rotten puppies. They don't beg at the table, but its open season, if you eat in front of the TV... they'll get a bite, because we are bad parents and feed them bites of people food on the occasion. S and V don't feed Leo any people food, which makes it hard when he comes to play. But, we recognize their wishes...he gets a lot of cookies instead!
I will try to write tomorrow, but it's the day I find out if the spider is a fly, or a spider...or maybe a different bug all together. I'm praying for the fly, but the U/S results make me lean towards the spider...when you are a nurse, you should never read the radiology results before you see the surgeon... so I will write and blog more tomorrow. Right now, I am too tired to even finish watching the American Pickers...
D M Wiseman, published author of five books in the Premium Catalog and going strong, author...
The first three were already on the Barnes and Noble site - that is so cool by the way - so cool that I look at the site everyday. I'm my biggest fan! I found out recently that people actually read my blog. My son S, both my sisters, and my famous sister in law Holly along with two others, I have no idea who they are - and they don't put down their name, or comment, so I'll just say 'Hi!' and thank them. I also want to mention that I am so thankful that the affore mentioned Holly's mom (and dad) are home from their nightmare vacation - getting stuck in The Dominic Republic when mom got sick on a cruise. Nothing makes you appreciate the good ol' USA than getting sick some where else! Gives my husband, my friend, my soul mate more fuel for his fire - never leaving the country!
Today, I started my new job, and sat through 8 hours of lectures. I have four more days this week, and then next week as well, before I go on my unit next Friday. I would rather be on the unit now, and on midnights, but gotta do the time to learn the system first. So far, everyone has been so nice, very welcoming, and positive. One of my friends works midnights, so I look forward to working with her! I will feel better when I work with someone I know...but I met a good bunch of people...
I didn't get any writing done today, but I snuggled with my babies, and played 'Keep away' with the lion that my son St bought the puppies at Christmas. It's really a well loved toy (meaning ripped up really good) and now they are begging for food from my husband (etc) because they are spoiled rotten puppies. They don't beg at the table, but its open season, if you eat in front of the TV... they'll get a bite, because we are bad parents and feed them bites of people food on the occasion. S and V don't feed Leo any people food, which makes it hard when he comes to play. But, we recognize their wishes...he gets a lot of cookies instead!
I will try to write tomorrow, but it's the day I find out if the spider is a fly, or a spider...or maybe a different bug all together. I'm praying for the fly, but the U/S results make me lean towards the spider...when you are a nurse, you should never read the radiology results before you see the surgeon... so I will write and blog more tomorrow. Right now, I am too tired to even finish watching the American Pickers...
D M Wiseman, published author of five books in the Premium Catalog and going strong, author...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
I will blog everyday (hopefully) but unknown time kind of day...
Sunday found me (1) waking up late and had to hurry (2) happy that the Jeep's leak in the transmission pan - which I found out is very important to making the car go, transmission fluid that is (3) hurried to the Bride's To Be Expo in Ann Arbor - only to be 15 minutes earlier than S and V with her mom Barb AND (4) last day of freedom - tomorrow I have to go to work.
The puppies were not happy with me leaving them, and they will not be happy tomorrow when they find that I will be doing this five days for three weeks - then going to midnights for four per week. I will have to make an effort to snuggle with the babies everyday - and to blog, as well as keep up my efforts to write the last novel. I am behind where I really wanted to be at this date, but I can still keep going. I want to finish it - get the sixth one published, you know an even half dozen, the keep going. I don't want to give it up, because I'd rather give my nursing up...really, I would.
I am pretty sure that I won't be able to do the April www.NaNoWriMo.com 's screenplay month contest this year. I can't start a new job, change my whole sleep schedule around AND write a screenplay. Even with my A type personality and multitask orientated stressful life can I think to do this in April. So I will have to NOT do this one thing, not when I have this much on my plate. My plate is only 7 inches and I have a 10 inch plate full on that 7 inch plate - you know, too much at this time. My eyes are bigger than my stomach kind of analogy. But, come November - I will be all over that novel contest again!
I am going to blog at odd times this week, probably after work, before I fall asleep at night. Then when I go to midnights, I plan on blogging in the morning, before I fall asleep for MY NIGHT. I will write whenever I can, until that novel is completed... so help me God. I promise, I really mean it. OK, I will try my best.
Just a word on the Brides To Be Expo that I went to today - I thought that all the scrapbook stuff I've been doing was like 'crack' for crafters - well this expo was like 'crack' for Brides to be! Holy Cow! There was not this much crap to think about when my husband, my friend, my soul mate and I got married. Our entire wedding (including EVERYTHING - I mean even including the honeymoon!) cost what the wedding dresses cost now. It's a racket, a scam, and I need to get in on these deals...seriously, do you need your names etched on the vases at the tables? Do you? Because if they are for the guests, they'd use them more if your name is NOT etched on them...That's all I have to say, today. It was an eye opener, and I'm (kind of, but not really) thankful that I don't have girls...it's going to be expensive enough, but - I want them to have a wonderful day, so we'll pony up. It will be worth it...love both my boys and will do whatever to make their day the best. But, who can say elope? and party later... NOT mine, they better not...
D M Wiseman, last night of freedom, not looking forward to getting up at 6am for work, published author...
The puppies were not happy with me leaving them, and they will not be happy tomorrow when they find that I will be doing this five days for three weeks - then going to midnights for four per week. I will have to make an effort to snuggle with the babies everyday - and to blog, as well as keep up my efforts to write the last novel. I am behind where I really wanted to be at this date, but I can still keep going. I want to finish it - get the sixth one published, you know an even half dozen, the keep going. I don't want to give it up, because I'd rather give my nursing up...really, I would.
I am pretty sure that I won't be able to do the April www.NaNoWriMo.com 's screenplay month contest this year. I can't start a new job, change my whole sleep schedule around AND write a screenplay. Even with my A type personality and multitask orientated stressful life can I think to do this in April. So I will have to NOT do this one thing, not when I have this much on my plate. My plate is only 7 inches and I have a 10 inch plate full on that 7 inch plate - you know, too much at this time. My eyes are bigger than my stomach kind of analogy. But, come November - I will be all over that novel contest again!
I am going to blog at odd times this week, probably after work, before I fall asleep at night. Then when I go to midnights, I plan on blogging in the morning, before I fall asleep for MY NIGHT. I will write whenever I can, until that novel is completed... so help me God. I promise, I really mean it. OK, I will try my best.
Just a word on the Brides To Be Expo that I went to today - I thought that all the scrapbook stuff I've been doing was like 'crack' for crafters - well this expo was like 'crack' for Brides to be! Holy Cow! There was not this much crap to think about when my husband, my friend, my soul mate and I got married. Our entire wedding (including EVERYTHING - I mean even including the honeymoon!) cost what the wedding dresses cost now. It's a racket, a scam, and I need to get in on these deals...seriously, do you need your names etched on the vases at the tables? Do you? Because if they are for the guests, they'd use them more if your name is NOT etched on them...That's all I have to say, today. It was an eye opener, and I'm (kind of, but not really) thankful that I don't have girls...it's going to be expensive enough, but - I want them to have a wonderful day, so we'll pony up. It will be worth it...love both my boys and will do whatever to make their day the best. But, who can say elope? and party later... NOT mine, they better not...
D M Wiseman, last night of freedom, not looking forward to getting up at 6am for work, published author...
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Everyone knows and everyone is happy kind of morning...
Boomer is sleeping near my husband, my friend, my soul mate's feet, as Gracie is chewing her bone next to him. I just went through the numerous messages I had on FB to tell me congratulations on S and V getting married. It was so exciting to be able to tell and talk - about the up coming wedding. It was just killing me. S called all his uncles (and we have a lot) as well as both his grandmothers. He told St in person by just blurting out 'how would you like to be my best man?' Guys are so weird. I couldn't say something until after they had a party last night to tell their friends. Any way, the word is out now...
I didn't get too much written last night, but hopefully I will later today after my husband (etc) takes a nap. He does need one, or so I'll help him think so... and then I'll get some much needed writing in. We are watching (me mostly listening to) the Harry Potter Marathon. Just to make sure I haven't missed any details the other two hundred times I've see them. I would like to go see the first half of the last episode again. Is it still in theatres? I will google it and attempt to get a movie out of the husband today...
Tomorrow, I am going with S and V, along with V's mom Barbara to the Bride's To Be thing at a hotel in Ann Arbor - you know the kind where everything you might need, are told you need, and now want - for your wedding, is under one roof to act like CRACK for Brides. My husband (etc) and V's dad are suspiciously staying home. S is going, as any good groom would - start out the planning right.
I am officially starting my new job on Monday - but still have not heard if my fly is a spider, or is it really a spider. I feel it could go either way, and it didn't help that they 'couldn't find' my chart or the results, when I called THREE times yesterday. Why? If it's in the computer, just look for God's sake! I really need to know, I am going nuts, and still the same. But, my mind is going crazy and I would really like to know if the spider is really a spider, or not...I would really like to then, just kill the fly.
So, today, I will run the dogs (last night they played with the soccer ball until I had to take it away from them - Boomer could barely breath. And I will write, as well as spend time with my husband (etc) hopefully at the movies. I will be just as tired as he is, starting next week...I have to go to work - yuk.
D M Wiseman, excited to be a mother in law, HP kind of day, published author...
I didn't get too much written last night, but hopefully I will later today after my husband (etc) takes a nap. He does need one, or so I'll help him think so... and then I'll get some much needed writing in. We are watching (me mostly listening to) the Harry Potter Marathon. Just to make sure I haven't missed any details the other two hundred times I've see them. I would like to go see the first half of the last episode again. Is it still in theatres? I will google it and attempt to get a movie out of the husband today...
Tomorrow, I am going with S and V, along with V's mom Barbara to the Bride's To Be thing at a hotel in Ann Arbor - you know the kind where everything you might need, are told you need, and now want - for your wedding, is under one roof to act like CRACK for Brides. My husband (etc) and V's dad are suspiciously staying home. S is going, as any good groom would - start out the planning right.
I am officially starting my new job on Monday - but still have not heard if my fly is a spider, or is it really a spider. I feel it could go either way, and it didn't help that they 'couldn't find' my chart or the results, when I called THREE times yesterday. Why? If it's in the computer, just look for God's sake! I really need to know, I am going nuts, and still the same. But, my mind is going crazy and I would really like to know if the spider is really a spider, or not...I would really like to then, just kill the fly.
So, today, I will run the dogs (last night they played with the soccer ball until I had to take it away from them - Boomer could barely breath. And I will write, as well as spend time with my husband (etc) hopefully at the movies. I will be just as tired as he is, starting next week...I have to go to work - yuk.
D M Wiseman, excited to be a mother in law, HP kind of day, published author...
Friday, March 18, 2011
It's Friday and the world will know today!!!
How excited am I? Very. S and V are getting married! Yeah I get to tell people... We went to dinner to meet S and V to see Jamaican pictures but really for them to tell us they are engaged! She had on a ring that I had never seen before, but they weren't saying anything. Then S had one of those 'sh-- eating grins' on his face. I questioned him twice, but he still didn't say anything. So finally I asked what the ring was all about and they told us.
I love V and together they are great! Leo is excited as well, that his mommy and daddy are getting married. It's just too exciting! They are planning for June of 2012 and they have some plans - all that are perfect for them. They are having a big party at a local place to show their friends the Jamaican pictures and surprise them with the engagement... Gotta tell you, S is calling personally all the Aunt's and Uncle's to tell them - which has made me crazy! I wanted to tell someone, squeal, be excited, talk to someone about it! I am going to be a mother in law - definitely NOT a monster in law. I think, any way...
So today, besides just hanging with my puppies, I will be having lunch with K and chilling on my last day (Monday through Friday day) to do 'nothing' as I start a new job on Monday. A couple of weeks on Days, then hopefully send me to nights! I do much better on midnights... so I am just chillin' with the dogs, having tea, watching Criminal Minds - to get me in the mode to work. I still have to buy my scrubs...
D M Wiseman, happy that my youngest is getting married! chillin' with my puppies, published author...
I love V and together they are great! Leo is excited as well, that his mommy and daddy are getting married. It's just too exciting! They are planning for June of 2012 and they have some plans - all that are perfect for them. They are having a big party at a local place to show their friends the Jamaican pictures and surprise them with the engagement... Gotta tell you, S is calling personally all the Aunt's and Uncle's to tell them - which has made me crazy! I wanted to tell someone, squeal, be excited, talk to someone about it! I am going to be a mother in law - definitely NOT a monster in law. I think, any way...
So today, besides just hanging with my puppies, I will be having lunch with K and chilling on my last day (Monday through Friday day) to do 'nothing' as I start a new job on Monday. A couple of weeks on Days, then hopefully send me to nights! I do much better on midnights... so I am just chillin' with the dogs, having tea, watching Criminal Minds - to get me in the mode to work. I still have to buy my scrubs...
D M Wiseman, happy that my youngest is getting married! chillin' with my puppies, published author...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wearing of the Green today, making CB and Colcannon kind of day...
Today is St Patrick's Day - so Happy Day to the Irish, and the fake Irish - may you be able to hold your liquor and not embarrass yourself today! I am Irish - my grandmother on my father's side (may they both rest in peace and hopefully having a blast in their afterlife in heaven!) came from Ireland. So, he always said I am Irish - no matter how much, I am just plain Irish through and through. He also said you didn't have to wear Green today to prove you are Irish, you are Irish your whole life, 365/24/7 - well not in those words, but he made his point. I still wear green, just in case the red hair didn't give it away...
So, I'll be wearing of the green, and of course making CB and Cabbage (Corn Beef) and then having Colcannon (left over mash potatoes with cabbage and onions - lots of butter all mashed together - yum!) and then Shepard's Pie maybe tomorrow... But I won't be drinking and puking like the 'Fake Irish' that think today is all about drinking green beer. St Pat's Day is for remembering our families, the St Patrick that saved us from our snakes, as the day really should be spent in Church. It is a day for that kind of thing. I said a prayer when I got up, and not one of my father's funny ones - the ones that are almost ditties... yeah, those aren't the normal prayers you think of when you think of church...
And besides, I have to go and do the whole pee in a cup - to prove that I am not a degenerate and takes meds that are not precribed to me. So, I will do that, then have some wine with my CB and Cabbage, and more importatn - SLEEP in tomorrow. I have been somewhere everyday this week, and would really like a PJ day. I need a good snuggle day with my babies. And of course, to write my novel...
Did I ever tell you about Boomer's special look at water? He will drink from a puddle, the pond, our swimming pool - but, if the water in his bowl is not CLEAN and SPOTLESS (meaning no slime from previous drinking) he will not drink out of it. It's like on that movie 'Signs' - he refuses the water because it has 'dust' in it, or' it's contaminated' or 'it's old' - but not in that creepy little girl voice. Mostly he stands and stares at the bowl and then whimpers at it. Or barks which is really funny, since he never barks. It's like he is spoiled or something... well he just did the 'it's contaminated' thing at me and it was HIS slime from just a minute before... gotta love my dogs, they are a scream.
D M Wiseman, Irish through and through (sorry Mom) and spoiler of puppies, published author...
So, I'll be wearing of the green, and of course making CB and Cabbage (Corn Beef) and then having Colcannon (left over mash potatoes with cabbage and onions - lots of butter all mashed together - yum!) and then Shepard's Pie maybe tomorrow... But I won't be drinking and puking like the 'Fake Irish' that think today is all about drinking green beer. St Pat's Day is for remembering our families, the St Patrick that saved us from our snakes, as the day really should be spent in Church. It is a day for that kind of thing. I said a prayer when I got up, and not one of my father's funny ones - the ones that are almost ditties... yeah, those aren't the normal prayers you think of when you think of church...
And besides, I have to go and do the whole pee in a cup - to prove that I am not a degenerate and takes meds that are not precribed to me. So, I will do that, then have some wine with my CB and Cabbage, and more importatn - SLEEP in tomorrow. I have been somewhere everyday this week, and would really like a PJ day. I need a good snuggle day with my babies. And of course, to write my novel...
Did I ever tell you about Boomer's special look at water? He will drink from a puddle, the pond, our swimming pool - but, if the water in his bowl is not CLEAN and SPOTLESS (meaning no slime from previous drinking) he will not drink out of it. It's like on that movie 'Signs' - he refuses the water because it has 'dust' in it, or' it's contaminated' or 'it's old' - but not in that creepy little girl voice. Mostly he stands and stares at the bowl and then whimpers at it. Or barks which is really funny, since he never barks. It's like he is spoiled or something... well he just did the 'it's contaminated' thing at me and it was HIS slime from just a minute before... gotta love my dogs, they are a scream.
D M Wiseman, Irish through and through (sorry Mom) and spoiler of puppies, published author...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Scary Wednesday that just will not quit... kind of day...
My famous sister in law Holly's mom whom I love like my own, and has been my children's 'Aunt' and besides that is awesome! Is sick. Not just sick - but in the Dominic Republic and sick. We are all having nightmares that are happening for real! Dad can't speak Spanish, Mom can't speak Spanish and apparently, none of the medical personnel in that hospital can speak English! So she is down there, and we can't get her home. She was supposed to come home with a RN today - but that nurse was robbed by a cab driver and can't bring her home (having a hard time figuring out THAT correlation). So, she is still there! The US Embassy and the Consulate said to Holly - get her out of there. We are trying really hard. Help! And, besides that, we don't even know what is wrong - can't get anyone to tell us - in English. Prayers please...
I got up and took a shower, freaking a bit when the door that I know I shut, opened and a deep breather came in. Thank God I know who that was! Boomer was awake and wondering why I was in the shower this early. I wondered, too. I have an errand to do, before I spend some time with the a fore mentioned famous Holly. Then, off to a dinner with S, V, and my husband, my friend, my soul mate to celebrate his birthday late, and see S and V's pictures of Jamaica... and to celebrate V's great news of having a JOB and in MICHIGAN - she was interviewing everywhere and I was a bit worried it would be in Nebraska or Arizona. I would visit - a lot! but still not the same as having your kids in the same state. She deserves a great job, so I am so happy for her - and happy for us as well - that she is in Michigan. A sigh of relief for both a job (I was very sure that she would of course, be snatched up instantly - she is awesome!) and in Michigan...
My worst fear though is spiders. Don't you hate it when you know it's a fly on the ceiling, and still you freak thinking it's a spider? I am having that kind of a day... the potential 'spider' is upon me and even though I know it will be a 'fly' I am still having a hard time. I couldn't sleep, I am having a full blown anxiety attack, and really wish I could have a drink, but I don't drink and drive...I also don't drink that often. But it would give me a nap...
One fear - that Nebraska would be my next vacation is gone, second fear is for my Penny in Dominic Republic and needs to be home TODAY is still ongoing, and my own 'spider'. I can't kill it yet. Maybe later today...In the mean time, no writing today, as I will be out of the house most of the day... but I have a lot of car time, so watch out characters, I will be thinking up my new and potential wonderful novel...
D M Wiseman, hopefully killer of at least one spider today, published author of five novels ...
I got up and took a shower, freaking a bit when the door that I know I shut, opened and a deep breather came in. Thank God I know who that was! Boomer was awake and wondering why I was in the shower this early. I wondered, too. I have an errand to do, before I spend some time with the a fore mentioned famous Holly. Then, off to a dinner with S, V, and my husband, my friend, my soul mate to celebrate his birthday late, and see S and V's pictures of Jamaica... and to celebrate V's great news of having a JOB and in MICHIGAN - she was interviewing everywhere and I was a bit worried it would be in Nebraska or Arizona. I would visit - a lot! but still not the same as having your kids in the same state. She deserves a great job, so I am so happy for her - and happy for us as well - that she is in Michigan. A sigh of relief for both a job (I was very sure that she would of course, be snatched up instantly - she is awesome!) and in Michigan...
My worst fear though is spiders. Don't you hate it when you know it's a fly on the ceiling, and still you freak thinking it's a spider? I am having that kind of a day... the potential 'spider' is upon me and even though I know it will be a 'fly' I am still having a hard time. I couldn't sleep, I am having a full blown anxiety attack, and really wish I could have a drink, but I don't drink and drive...I also don't drink that often. But it would give me a nap...
One fear - that Nebraska would be my next vacation is gone, second fear is for my Penny in Dominic Republic and needs to be home TODAY is still ongoing, and my own 'spider'. I can't kill it yet. Maybe later today...In the mean time, no writing today, as I will be out of the house most of the day... but I have a lot of car time, so watch out characters, I will be thinking up my new and potential wonderful novel...
D M Wiseman, hopefully killer of at least one spider today, published author of five novels ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Tuesday and its finally warming up, still catching up and laid low...
I spoke last night to S who told me that Leo slept all day long. He was exhausted from his week long 'dog park' and so did mine. There was hardly any play at our house either. It's nice to know that Leo needed to rest too. S and V went to see her parents for dinner, and we are going to see them tomorrow night, meet them for dinner. I am looking forward to seeing the pictures.
I would like to go to Jamaica, but I think I would like to go to the Abbaco Islands or St Lucia instead. Or maybe the Grand Cayman Island - there is a ship wreck for diving - supposedly one of the best in relatively shallow - not over 60 feet, so I would be able to dive it. Yes, I have am a scuba diver - and it's beautiful! The colors are unbelievable!!! I would love to go again. But, my husband, my friend, my soul mate dives more than I do. S and V went diving, and S went three times, but V only went 2. It happens like for us too. But, it's so beaufiful, I have to go...
So today I will write, try to get a good amount of the novel done, and make Bar B Q'd Chicken Pizza for dinner. As well as snuggle with my puppies, I need to do that of course, because they really needed it. Boomer needs to snuggle, it's part of his life. I like it too - it's almost a reality check - like taking a Valium so you 'have to' be calm...have to sit for a while, witha puppy on my lap and one at my feet...
D M Wiseman, getting down to the wire, almost going to be working full time, but I'm a published author...
I would like to go to Jamaica, but I think I would like to go to the Abbaco Islands or St Lucia instead. Or maybe the Grand Cayman Island - there is a ship wreck for diving - supposedly one of the best in relatively shallow - not over 60 feet, so I would be able to dive it. Yes, I have am a scuba diver - and it's beautiful! The colors are unbelievable!!! I would love to go again. But, my husband, my friend, my soul mate dives more than I do. S and V went diving, and S went three times, but V only went 2. It happens like for us too. But, it's so beaufiful, I have to go...
So today I will write, try to get a good amount of the novel done, and make Bar B Q'd Chicken Pizza for dinner. As well as snuggle with my puppies, I need to do that of course, because they really needed it. Boomer needs to snuggle, it's part of his life. I like it too - it's almost a reality check - like taking a Valium so you 'have to' be calm...have to sit for a while, witha puppy on my lap and one at my feet...
D M Wiseman, getting down to the wire, almost going to be working full time, but I'm a published author...
Monday, March 14, 2011
Calm Monday morning, all of us missing Leo, birthday kind of day...
Woke up to a softly snoring Gracie with a very noisily snoring Boomer laying on her at the foot of my bed. Both barely moved when I stepped over them. There was no puppy excitedly barking to get up and get the day going. It was too calm. I miss my grand puppy Leo. Even though the day is going along swimmingly, the dogs doing their normal 'get over Leo' kind of day - Gracie is up on the fainting couch passed out sleeping, and Boomer is laying on my right arm as I type, snoring like crazy having apnea episodes, he is sleeping so heavily. Don't worry, I keep waking him...
We are all missing Leo. The dogs are resting, getting caught up on sleep - and I am missing my little puppy. He finally would go up the stairs yesterday - and then we had to take him back to his mommy and daddy. You see, S and V came home from Jamaica, happy, relaxed and tan. They had a grand time and it sounds like I need to talk somebody into an all inclusive trip!!! But, he'll never go to Mexico, or Jamaica but maybe one of the Bahama Islands... I'll work on him...
We are celebrating a birthday today - not mine, you will know when it is my birthday - it is my husband, my friend, my soul mate's birthday today. He has told no one at work and forbid me to call Dora, the department's secretary. I wonder if I should tell one of the fire fighters, who would tell everyone. Doesn't everyone like birthday cake? I love it. But not chocolate - just saying come October - I like white (the boring wonderful wedding cake kind!) with white icing...
I'm just saying what kind of cake, because for the first oh, maybe 20 years of my marriage, I was always given a chocolate cake with chocolate icing - because both St and S along with my husband (etc) love that kind of cake. They didn't know, or remember, until St was out of HS and bought me a cake and apologized because it was NOT chocolate - and I told/reminded him that I didn't like chocolate cake...
I really laugh, because all the days that kids make mommy breakfast in bed - you know Mother's Day, as well as birthdays, I always got woke up (wrong thing to do, if it is MY day! just saying and especially when I am an insomniac that works midnights - if I'm asleep, let me sleep!) with pancakes smothered in maple syrup - and if you knew me, I don't like maple syrup. I would eat it of course, it was made by the boys. So now, when my husband (etc) makes me pancakes, I have blueberry syrup on it. I can tolerate pancakes then...
So, today I am doing laundry, making a wonderful beef and broccoli with rice dinner and have to run out to buy - a chocolate cake with chocolate icing for my husband's (etc) birthday. I also have to finish the card I made on the cricut machine that I began. I also have to get a hold of the place to see if I really did get that job - I was told I am tentatively contingently employed. Cool way to say, almost... I am supposed to start in 7 days, I'd really like to know if I am. I have things to do, like buy new scrubs in a different kind of blue, dust off my stethoscope, get the puppies ready to miss me... You know, things.
I will also write like crazy on my latest book, I really need to get it done, because during orientation, I have to relearn to get up for the day shift, and then relearn to sleep in the day to work the night shift, change the way I will deal with four days of nights, three days of days... I will be able to do this easier, if I have a set schedule - if I know or have the same day off every week. IF I knew that I really am going to start next week. It would be nice, just saying...
D M Wiseman, missing my grand puppy, waiting for another phone call, published author...
We are all missing Leo. The dogs are resting, getting caught up on sleep - and I am missing my little puppy. He finally would go up the stairs yesterday - and then we had to take him back to his mommy and daddy. You see, S and V came home from Jamaica, happy, relaxed and tan. They had a grand time and it sounds like I need to talk somebody into an all inclusive trip!!! But, he'll never go to Mexico, or Jamaica but maybe one of the Bahama Islands... I'll work on him...
We are celebrating a birthday today - not mine, you will know when it is my birthday - it is my husband, my friend, my soul mate's birthday today. He has told no one at work and forbid me to call Dora, the department's secretary. I wonder if I should tell one of the fire fighters, who would tell everyone. Doesn't everyone like birthday cake? I love it. But not chocolate - just saying come October - I like white (the boring wonderful wedding cake kind!) with white icing...
I'm just saying what kind of cake, because for the first oh, maybe 20 years of my marriage, I was always given a chocolate cake with chocolate icing - because both St and S along with my husband (etc) love that kind of cake. They didn't know, or remember, until St was out of HS and bought me a cake and apologized because it was NOT chocolate - and I told/reminded him that I didn't like chocolate cake...
I really laugh, because all the days that kids make mommy breakfast in bed - you know Mother's Day, as well as birthdays, I always got woke up (wrong thing to do, if it is MY day! just saying and especially when I am an insomniac that works midnights - if I'm asleep, let me sleep!) with pancakes smothered in maple syrup - and if you knew me, I don't like maple syrup. I would eat it of course, it was made by the boys. So now, when my husband (etc) makes me pancakes, I have blueberry syrup on it. I can tolerate pancakes then...
So, today I am doing laundry, making a wonderful beef and broccoli with rice dinner and have to run out to buy - a chocolate cake with chocolate icing for my husband's (etc) birthday. I also have to finish the card I made on the cricut machine that I began. I also have to get a hold of the place to see if I really did get that job - I was told I am tentatively contingently employed. Cool way to say, almost... I am supposed to start in 7 days, I'd really like to know if I am. I have things to do, like buy new scrubs in a different kind of blue, dust off my stethoscope, get the puppies ready to miss me... You know, things.
I will also write like crazy on my latest book, I really need to get it done, because during orientation, I have to relearn to get up for the day shift, and then relearn to sleep in the day to work the night shift, change the way I will deal with four days of nights, three days of days... I will be able to do this easier, if I have a set schedule - if I know or have the same day off every week. IF I knew that I really am going to start next week. It would be nice, just saying...
D M Wiseman, missing my grand puppy, waiting for another phone call, published author...
Sunday, March 13, 2011
I was confused when I got up because I didn't remember if I was getting up at 830 or 730 because this is the weekend of 'Spring Ahead' when we changed the clocks one hour 'ahead'. It's to let us have more day light in the nice weather (debatable at this moment) and the kids don't get on the bus in the mornings in the dark in winter. Yeah, they still see darkness, but whatever. All I know is that I didn't know what actual time it was this morning...because normally we change the times before we go to bed, but half were changed, and half were not.
I do like that my phone and computer change the time - I have no idea how it happens, but it does. It's the little magic things in this world that makes me smile. I think its the fairy's - you see I believe in the little people, the fairy's - I'm Irish. You just have to, if you're Irish. And no - just for those of you who were asking, I'm NOT drunk. My father used to say little things about believing because it makes life more fun. It gives you a different way to look at the day. So, I just smile, and believe. Look at it like Santa. Doesn't it make Christmas with little kids so much more fun? And yes, I believe in Santa - you get more presents. So I'm materialistic, but hey, who isn't? I like presents...and I love the whole Christmas experience, family, the decorations, the presents. Oh, I said that already. But if you knew me - its the giving of the presents, that I like the best...
We, my husband, my friend, my soul mate and I are making the trip to the airport this afternoon with all of Leo's stuff, Leo and two vehicles. Because S and V are coming home from Jamaica today! Leo is excited to see his mommy and daddy. I told him this morning and he ran around like a maniac. Oh wait, he does that anyway. We found his collar that he lost in the backyard the first day he was here. He has learned to stop barking when I tell him, and yesterday we (meaning me) only needed one time out. It has been a good week. Gracie will probably sleep for the next week, she has played so much with Leo.
Boomer is sleeping right now next to me, and the wild dogs are running on the deck. I can hear them - they sound like elephants, running back and forth for I have no idea why. But, they sound like they are having a great time, and since they are going to be separated today, I'll let them play...
Now, I will go have our big Sunday breakfast, gather all of Leo's things together and get ready to make the trip to Metro. It's kind of sad really, to not have the grand puppy here anymore. I will miss him, he just has the best time just being alive. Makes my two run and play more...makes me want to get up and play, bark, and then sleep the day away...oh, I do that now, except for the barking part...maybe when I go back to work. I have been known to be a Bull Dog when I work. Hopefully, I don't bark...much.
I will write around the times I am letting the dogs In and Out, and driving to the airport. Last night, I was watching TV (the Star Trek Movie - the one with the young James Tiberius Kirk - love it!) with my husband (etc) and he asked me what I was doing! I was writing my book, of course, and he looked like he thought I was from space! Yes, every minute that I am awake, and not actually doing 'something' - then I am writing. He frowned at me. He frowned at me! I write, he knows that, but he didn't think I wrote all the time. WHAT? Did he think the computer on my lap was for fun? Anyway, I am an author...
D M Wiseman, last day as baby-puppy sitter for my grand puppy, AND yes writing! a published author...
I do like that my phone and computer change the time - I have no idea how it happens, but it does. It's the little magic things in this world that makes me smile. I think its the fairy's - you see I believe in the little people, the fairy's - I'm Irish. You just have to, if you're Irish. And no - just for those of you who were asking, I'm NOT drunk. My father used to say little things about believing because it makes life more fun. It gives you a different way to look at the day. So, I just smile, and believe. Look at it like Santa. Doesn't it make Christmas with little kids so much more fun? And yes, I believe in Santa - you get more presents. So I'm materialistic, but hey, who isn't? I like presents...and I love the whole Christmas experience, family, the decorations, the presents. Oh, I said that already. But if you knew me - its the giving of the presents, that I like the best...
We, my husband, my friend, my soul mate and I are making the trip to the airport this afternoon with all of Leo's stuff, Leo and two vehicles. Because S and V are coming home from Jamaica today! Leo is excited to see his mommy and daddy. I told him this morning and he ran around like a maniac. Oh wait, he does that anyway. We found his collar that he lost in the backyard the first day he was here. He has learned to stop barking when I tell him, and yesterday we (meaning me) only needed one time out. It has been a good week. Gracie will probably sleep for the next week, she has played so much with Leo.
Boomer is sleeping right now next to me, and the wild dogs are running on the deck. I can hear them - they sound like elephants, running back and forth for I have no idea why. But, they sound like they are having a great time, and since they are going to be separated today, I'll let them play...
Now, I will go have our big Sunday breakfast, gather all of Leo's things together and get ready to make the trip to Metro. It's kind of sad really, to not have the grand puppy here anymore. I will miss him, he just has the best time just being alive. Makes my two run and play more...makes me want to get up and play, bark, and then sleep the day away...oh, I do that now, except for the barking part...maybe when I go back to work. I have been known to be a Bull Dog when I work. Hopefully, I don't bark...much.
I will write around the times I am letting the dogs In and Out, and driving to the airport. Last night, I was watching TV (the Star Trek Movie - the one with the young James Tiberius Kirk - love it!) with my husband (etc) and he asked me what I was doing! I was writing my book, of course, and he looked like he thought I was from space! Yes, every minute that I am awake, and not actually doing 'something' - then I am writing. He frowned at me. He frowned at me! I write, he knows that, but he didn't think I wrote all the time. WHAT? Did he think the computer on my lap was for fun? Anyway, I am an author...
D M Wiseman, last day as baby-puppy sitter for my grand puppy, AND yes writing! a published author...
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Last day to puppy sit...a secret and a bit sad really...and pathetic...kind of day
I woke up this morning to my Grand puppy Leo barking to Gracie (and me!) to go outside. They were waiting for me even though at 5am my husband, my friend, my soul mate had already gotten up, let them out, and calmed them all down again. So, I got up, let them out (meaning Leo and Gracie) and snuggled with the very sleepy Boomer, happily let him sleep on my lap as I began to watch 'Julie and Julia' - and I will tell the BIG secret. I began my blog because of this movie (and my publisher suggested it) but really because of Julie Powell.
The character Julie Powell was feeling lost, because she didn't feel like she was 'worth' anything and she was turning 30. She decided to start a blog about cooking all of Julia Child's recipes from her French Cook Book. This was like 500 plus recipes (524 to be exact!) she was going to make them all in one year - in 365 days. I really liked she just wrote what she was thinking, doing, and whatever, during the day that made her day - as well as the recipes that she made. The movie bounced back and forth between Julie writing and cooking about Julia, and Julia Child's actual life - it was really a great movie. It's now one of my favorites.
I write my blog like that, I think. Anyway, Julie wrote her blog about cooking, and how it changed her life. Then someone picked up the blog's rights and wrote a book that they made into the movie. It really could be like that. I write, and yet, I really don't actually know if anyone reads my blog. Julie felt like that too. But, readers began to send her things in the mail to help her cook, as well as companies put ad's on her blog, and paid her. I'm not saying that I want people to pay me for my blog - but I just want people to read my blog.
Funny, I know that one person does - they clicked on the 'friend' button and just like Julie in the movie - I was thrilled. It was my famous sister in law Holly - but I really felt validated. And then, funny enough, my son S told me that he reads my blog, to catch up on what I'm doing. Really? How cool! I didn't think he would care. Then I found out my sister Pat reads it, and now my sister Barb as well. How cool! But, I just what one person that I personally do not know - to read my blog. Just one. Someone out in cyberspace to read me...so someone please, click my button! Ha.
I re-wrote that chapter last night that I wrote in an Antivert haze and believe it or not, I took the characters in a different direction - and it was because of cyberspace - really! I got one of those emails, you know take a cruise, low rates, book now, and the discounts will be even greater. So, I took the characters on that cruise. Yep, used the google world to take my characters OUT of my safety zone. I'm just a wild woman...but I do know somethings about cruises as we, my husband (etc) and I have been on five so far. Five cruises, four to the Caribbean and one to Alaska. We are wild travelers...the two of us (not really, but we do have fun!). We took the boys with us on our second cruise. They had such a good time and so did we...
But, I digress...I will continue with that trail that my characters are following, because it is going along really well. It gets them to the spot they need to be. But right now, I have to get up from my spot, put Boomer on the floor and let those other two dogs IN again. It is almost time for my famous 'time outs' so that I can get one sentence written without getting up!
But, I really just want to validate myself through my writing. I know I have made a difference with my nursing - probably, but so does millions of other nurses - and way better than me. I can live with that. What I want, what I have always wanted was to be an author - have a book published that I thought up. Me. So now that I am a published author - of five books already and the sixth, I am in the middle of. But, only family have bought them. I selfishly, just want to know someone out in cyberspace knows I exist. How pathetic. Really, being a nurse is more important, makes more of an impact on people's lives...but I feel like there's got to be more. Yeah, pathetic.
So I am going to continue to write, blog, and be a nurse. I have no idea in what order I will do this in, but I assume each day will be a different order. I will still snuggle with my monster Boomer, love my Gracie and occasionally puppy sit my Grand Puppy Leo...
D M Wiseman, a pathetic, sad feeling sorry for myself, needing validation like Julie, published author...
The character Julie Powell was feeling lost, because she didn't feel like she was 'worth' anything and she was turning 30. She decided to start a blog about cooking all of Julia Child's recipes from her French Cook Book. This was like 500 plus recipes (524 to be exact!) she was going to make them all in one year - in 365 days. I really liked she just wrote what she was thinking, doing, and whatever, during the day that made her day - as well as the recipes that she made. The movie bounced back and forth between Julie writing and cooking about Julia, and Julia Child's actual life - it was really a great movie. It's now one of my favorites.
I write my blog like that, I think. Anyway, Julie wrote her blog about cooking, and how it changed her life. Then someone picked up the blog's rights and wrote a book that they made into the movie. It really could be like that. I write, and yet, I really don't actually know if anyone reads my blog. Julie felt like that too. But, readers began to send her things in the mail to help her cook, as well as companies put ad's on her blog, and paid her. I'm not saying that I want people to pay me for my blog - but I just want people to read my blog.
Funny, I know that one person does - they clicked on the 'friend' button and just like Julie in the movie - I was thrilled. It was my famous sister in law Holly - but I really felt validated. And then, funny enough, my son S told me that he reads my blog, to catch up on what I'm doing. Really? How cool! I didn't think he would care. Then I found out my sister Pat reads it, and now my sister Barb as well. How cool! But, I just what one person that I personally do not know - to read my blog. Just one. Someone out in cyberspace to read me...so someone please, click my button! Ha.
I re-wrote that chapter last night that I wrote in an Antivert haze and believe it or not, I took the characters in a different direction - and it was because of cyberspace - really! I got one of those emails, you know take a cruise, low rates, book now, and the discounts will be even greater. So, I took the characters on that cruise. Yep, used the google world to take my characters OUT of my safety zone. I'm just a wild woman...but I do know somethings about cruises as we, my husband (etc) and I have been on five so far. Five cruises, four to the Caribbean and one to Alaska. We are wild travelers...the two of us (not really, but we do have fun!). We took the boys with us on our second cruise. They had such a good time and so did we...
But, I digress...I will continue with that trail that my characters are following, because it is going along really well. It gets them to the spot they need to be. But right now, I have to get up from my spot, put Boomer on the floor and let those other two dogs IN again. It is almost time for my famous 'time outs' so that I can get one sentence written without getting up!
But, I really just want to validate myself through my writing. I know I have made a difference with my nursing - probably, but so does millions of other nurses - and way better than me. I can live with that. What I want, what I have always wanted was to be an author - have a book published that I thought up. Me. So now that I am a published author - of five books already and the sixth, I am in the middle of. But, only family have bought them. I selfishly, just want to know someone out in cyberspace knows I exist. How pathetic. Really, being a nurse is more important, makes more of an impact on people's lives...but I feel like there's got to be more. Yeah, pathetic.
So I am going to continue to write, blog, and be a nurse. I have no idea in what order I will do this in, but I assume each day will be a different order. I will still snuggle with my monster Boomer, love my Gracie and occasionally puppy sit my Grand Puppy Leo...
D M Wiseman, a pathetic, sad feeling sorry for myself, needing validation like Julie, published author...
Friday, March 11, 2011
My kind of snowstorm and a low key dizzy kind of Friday ...
Last night on the local, well Detroit Local News said we, in Michigan we were going to get another snow storm. They kept saying the 'East Side' and 'West Side' areas. I just wonder east and west of what? We live 'North' of Detroit, about an hour and a half north - so I have to take what any of the news casts with a grain of salt, and approximate where we live, triangulate Flint, Detroit, and Port Huron - then average out what our weather is going to be. Wow - I just realized that you do use math after high school! Don't tell my mother, I hate it when she's right...
Anyway, they told us that we were going to get 3 to 5 or 7 inches of snow. So I woke up and saw my driveway. Meaning - there was snow everywhere else, but not on the driveway. The best kind of snow storm ever! It did not fall on the driveway!!! So how cool is that? This one has to be the best storm, as the snow blower machine died while cleaning up the last storm. So hopefully this snow storm better be the last, really, let it be the last. It is March, the month that it turns spring - we are going to change the time, you know 'Spring Ahead' this weekend and I really hate that damn ground hog, just saying.
I have had a headache for two days now, and woke up with it again this morning so now three days. I attribute it to the cold type symptoms like sinus blockage you get with a cold that I have had since Monday. I also have an earache, it was worse yesterday, and seemed to dull my hearing, but that part is better today. But, now I am dizzy - so thinking that all this is related. I took my antivert, so now I am beyond tired, but still have to get through that chapter I am working on...Even Boomer is sleeping on the end of the couch and not me, he knows I don't feel good. Well, as soon as Gracie goes up stairs to nap, Leo stops the In and Out game, this is the last time for a while - they are making the room spin, me getting up and down so much. The time outs will begin. I really don't need to be dizzy today or any day.
I wanted to make a nice dinner for a Friday, usually I can't tell when my husband, my friend, my soul mate is coming home - its always a guessing game, so we don't make big dinners, in case it's a late day. So, I plan left overs, or a simple meal. He wants this chicken meal I make, so maybe I'll do it - if I can cook without spinning in the kitchen as I stand still...it is the oddest feeling. You need to hold on, to know that you are standing upright. Bizarre to say the least. The antivert helps, but makes me very tired. But the chicken cooks fast - butter, garlic, and wine over rice with stuffing. Sometimes I add broccoli but we'll see. I'm not sure how long I can stand yet...it's still early.
So, I'll try to write, try to get through the day, as I get that chapter written that I started last night. The antivert makes me tired, but takes away the dizziness, and so I wasn't sure what I really wrote. I hate having to back track and re-read, re-write, and then continue. At the same time, spinning and holding on, is hard to do when you are cooking. But, I do need to make dinner. I do so love that chicken meal.
D M Wiseman, a bit dizzy, a bit tired, and in time out land with my puppies, published author...
Anyway, they told us that we were going to get 3 to 5 or 7 inches of snow. So I woke up and saw my driveway. Meaning - there was snow everywhere else, but not on the driveway. The best kind of snow storm ever! It did not fall on the driveway!!! So how cool is that? This one has to be the best storm, as the snow blower machine died while cleaning up the last storm. So hopefully this snow storm better be the last, really, let it be the last. It is March, the month that it turns spring - we are going to change the time, you know 'Spring Ahead' this weekend and I really hate that damn ground hog, just saying.
I have had a headache for two days now, and woke up with it again this morning so now three days. I attribute it to the cold type symptoms like sinus blockage you get with a cold that I have had since Monday. I also have an earache, it was worse yesterday, and seemed to dull my hearing, but that part is better today. But, now I am dizzy - so thinking that all this is related. I took my antivert, so now I am beyond tired, but still have to get through that chapter I am working on...Even Boomer is sleeping on the end of the couch and not me, he knows I don't feel good. Well, as soon as Gracie goes up stairs to nap, Leo stops the In and Out game, this is the last time for a while - they are making the room spin, me getting up and down so much. The time outs will begin. I really don't need to be dizzy today or any day.
I wanted to make a nice dinner for a Friday, usually I can't tell when my husband, my friend, my soul mate is coming home - its always a guessing game, so we don't make big dinners, in case it's a late day. So, I plan left overs, or a simple meal. He wants this chicken meal I make, so maybe I'll do it - if I can cook without spinning in the kitchen as I stand still...it is the oddest feeling. You need to hold on, to know that you are standing upright. Bizarre to say the least. The antivert helps, but makes me very tired. But the chicken cooks fast - butter, garlic, and wine over rice with stuffing. Sometimes I add broccoli but we'll see. I'm not sure how long I can stand yet...it's still early.
So, I'll try to write, try to get through the day, as I get that chapter written that I started last night. The antivert makes me tired, but takes away the dizziness, and so I wasn't sure what I really wrote. I hate having to back track and re-read, re-write, and then continue. At the same time, spinning and holding on, is hard to do when you are cooking. But, I do need to make dinner. I do so love that chicken meal.
D M Wiseman, a bit dizzy, a bit tired, and in time out land with my puppies, published author...
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Foggy outside, and inside its a puppy time! kind of day...
It is so foggy outside that I can't see what is called the 'Christmas House' around our area because in the past, that house was always the best dressed house - everything decorated so wonderfully - and they even decorate the fence line down their really long drive! Any way, its just about 5 acres away, and I can't see it. I can barely see to the street. So, its one of those heated up day, that is making the world only be seen through a cloud.
Because of the fog, the satellite keeps going on and off, so I missed the best part of the movie 'Rudy' - the last play. I saw it being 'pixilated' - you know when you see the weird squares? Well, I heard it and I know the movie well. It's the only football I will watch! Ha. I am not a sports watcher on TV and will only go to a sporting event, if I know someone in the game. I will tell you my most political thing - I think sports games are just that - GAMES. I don't like that players, you know football, hockey, basketball, and baseball, along with those other ones - when the players get paid MILLIONS and then want more. Here's my political thing: When police, fire and nursing personnel along with other employees that you know, save lives - get paid what they should, maybe I'd pay attention to the sporting GAMES.
I really do believe that. Even before my husband, my friend, my soul mate became a firefighter, even before I became a nurse. I have felt that way for a long time. So, no care here for the sports guys that are crying in their champagne, when they want more money. I have a cool thing - I think that for example, a baseball player that gets paid million dollars a year to play a game, mind you - drops a ball - he should then have to pay a penalty amount back.
Ok, I am off the soap box, but seriously, the important jobs, police, fire, medical (besides the doctors that get paid a lot) personnel - they need to be paid better. Not just a sports guys...but we don't advertise beer or cars or big ticket items the hospitals, or have million dollar commercials that will pay all the bills like the super bowl thing.
So, I am writing away, trying to get back into my story, between letting the dogs In and Out as well as Out and In, and filling up water bowls - they play hard, and then drink out the entire bowl. I swear its true, but then they just need to go Out again. Sometimes I just let them stay out, because they just will want to go back out again... Right now, I separated Gracie from Leo - and all three fell asleep almost instantly! Leo behind the couch, Gracie at my feet, and Boomer next to her. They are all out, and snoring in their own way - Boomer the loudest, of course...
I will get some writing done now, so I can't get up, move from this spot, or it will wake all the dogs, and I will be back in the dog mode again. I just need to get Gillie to Maine... (the main character in the book I'm trying to get done before I start my new job...) then I can start dinner for my husband (etc) which I am surprising him with homemade lasagna, with salad and rolls. It will be great, and give me left overs for tomorrow as well, so I can write more and not have to interrupt my writing...
D M Wiseman, another dog gone day, trying to get another novel done, published author...
Because of the fog, the satellite keeps going on and off, so I missed the best part of the movie 'Rudy' - the last play. I saw it being 'pixilated' - you know when you see the weird squares? Well, I heard it and I know the movie well. It's the only football I will watch! Ha. I am not a sports watcher on TV and will only go to a sporting event, if I know someone in the game. I will tell you my most political thing - I think sports games are just that - GAMES. I don't like that players, you know football, hockey, basketball, and baseball, along with those other ones - when the players get paid MILLIONS and then want more. Here's my political thing: When police, fire and nursing personnel along with other employees that you know, save lives - get paid what they should, maybe I'd pay attention to the sporting GAMES.
I really do believe that. Even before my husband, my friend, my soul mate became a firefighter, even before I became a nurse. I have felt that way for a long time. So, no care here for the sports guys that are crying in their champagne, when they want more money. I have a cool thing - I think that for example, a baseball player that gets paid million dollars a year to play a game, mind you - drops a ball - he should then have to pay a penalty amount back.
Ok, I am off the soap box, but seriously, the important jobs, police, fire, medical (besides the doctors that get paid a lot) personnel - they need to be paid better. Not just a sports guys...but we don't advertise beer or cars or big ticket items the hospitals, or have million dollar commercials that will pay all the bills like the super bowl thing.
So, I am writing away, trying to get back into my story, between letting the dogs In and Out as well as Out and In, and filling up water bowls - they play hard, and then drink out the entire bowl. I swear its true, but then they just need to go Out again. Sometimes I just let them stay out, because they just will want to go back out again... Right now, I separated Gracie from Leo - and all three fell asleep almost instantly! Leo behind the couch, Gracie at my feet, and Boomer next to her. They are all out, and snoring in their own way - Boomer the loudest, of course...
I will get some writing done now, so I can't get up, move from this spot, or it will wake all the dogs, and I will be back in the dog mode again. I just need to get Gillie to Maine... (the main character in the book I'm trying to get done before I start my new job...) then I can start dinner for my husband (etc) which I am surprising him with homemade lasagna, with salad and rolls. It will be great, and give me left overs for tomorrow as well, so I can write more and not have to interrupt my writing...
D M Wiseman, another dog gone day, trying to get another novel done, published author...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Ice and sleet and snow Oh my! type weather happy to be inside day...
Woke up hearing something clicking on my window. Not a normal sound, as I sleep on the top floor, high on a hill. When I got up, I looked out the window and was greeted with ice and sleet and snow pelting my windows. It was here - that lovely ice storm that they warned me about last night. My husband, my friend, my soul mate made it to work, unlike last Friday when he did the psycho routine on me - still gives me a chill - you don't scare someone like that while they're in a shower - you just don't. He'll get his.
I got up, the puppies were excited to be awake, go outside and to just be alive. Of course, I have let two out of the three In and Out more than four times in just one short hour. It is ridiculous! They don't even care about the ice and sleet. They are just playing like maniacs! Still can't find the before mentioned collar, so I will have to make a trip in to the dog run that we never poop-er scoop - yeah, I don't want to do it. But, his name and vaccination stuff are on it - plus it is his and his mom and dad might want to have it back. I'll do it later, when it warms up. It's black so maybe I'll be able to spot it.
Really, they want to come in again? I just let them out... oh, well they will pass out in a little while, so there will be a rest period coming up - as I will institute one! It's easy. Boomer loves to sleep, and he is every time Gracie and Leo go out. When Gracie goes upstairs - Leo won't go up the wooden stairs to the third floor - where Gracie's favorite sleeping spot is. Its an antique sleeping couch. Our Bull Mastiff was addicted to that couch as well. It must be comfortable for dogs... Any way, Leo won't go up those wooden steps without a lot of fussing. It's odd - he won't go up those, but he will go up the outside open wooden stairs, and he will go DOWN the four steps to the dog run, but he won't come UP those four stairs. Leo has his quirks, but don't we all...gotta love the personalities of dogs. They are all different...and cool.
Wondering how my last part of the hiring process is going...but don't want to push. There is still 12 days left until I am supposed to start, so I can wait...but I need to buy new scrubs, get a new book, and of course, change my whole life around, make sure the dogs can deal until I am off days (please God make it only two weeks!!) and on nights where we deal very well. I come home, do the snuggle thing with Boomer, rub Gracie until she is in Heaven, and then off to bed. I get up a dinner time and eat, let them out, play a bit, shower, play a bit, and then my husband (etc) will come home, and I will leave.
It works for us, me working midnights, while my husband (etc) works days. When St and S were little, it worked really well. We hardly ever had to have babysitters - but it was usually family, or family friends. My husband (etc) was the basic care giver of the kids. It worked. The boys went camping, boating, did all kinds of cool kids with dads things, while I slept. But, we had alot of time off together, and the boys knew it was either mom or dad with them. I felt a little guilty once in a while, but mostly not - because they were cared for by us. Good kids, both of them - oh, I stand corrected, adults now. They are still my boys though...
I will have one of our PJ days, and write the day away, as soon as I let the dogs out AGAIN ! Seriously, it has been two seconds since I let then in...it might be time for a 'Time Out' which will give me a few quiet minutes...to write.
D M Wiseman, the dog's private doorman, in this ice-y day, writing another book, published author...
I got up, the puppies were excited to be awake, go outside and to just be alive. Of course, I have let two out of the three In and Out more than four times in just one short hour. It is ridiculous! They don't even care about the ice and sleet. They are just playing like maniacs! Still can't find the before mentioned collar, so I will have to make a trip in to the dog run that we never poop-er scoop - yeah, I don't want to do it. But, his name and vaccination stuff are on it - plus it is his and his mom and dad might want to have it back. I'll do it later, when it warms up. It's black so maybe I'll be able to spot it.
Really, they want to come in again? I just let them out... oh, well they will pass out in a little while, so there will be a rest period coming up - as I will institute one! It's easy. Boomer loves to sleep, and he is every time Gracie and Leo go out. When Gracie goes upstairs - Leo won't go up the wooden stairs to the third floor - where Gracie's favorite sleeping spot is. Its an antique sleeping couch. Our Bull Mastiff was addicted to that couch as well. It must be comfortable for dogs... Any way, Leo won't go up those wooden steps without a lot of fussing. It's odd - he won't go up those, but he will go up the outside open wooden stairs, and he will go DOWN the four steps to the dog run, but he won't come UP those four stairs. Leo has his quirks, but don't we all...gotta love the personalities of dogs. They are all different...and cool.
Wondering how my last part of the hiring process is going...but don't want to push. There is still 12 days left until I am supposed to start, so I can wait...but I need to buy new scrubs, get a new book, and of course, change my whole life around, make sure the dogs can deal until I am off days (please God make it only two weeks!!) and on nights where we deal very well. I come home, do the snuggle thing with Boomer, rub Gracie until she is in Heaven, and then off to bed. I get up a dinner time and eat, let them out, play a bit, shower, play a bit, and then my husband (etc) will come home, and I will leave.
It works for us, me working midnights, while my husband (etc) works days. When St and S were little, it worked really well. We hardly ever had to have babysitters - but it was usually family, or family friends. My husband (etc) was the basic care giver of the kids. It worked. The boys went camping, boating, did all kinds of cool kids with dads things, while I slept. But, we had alot of time off together, and the boys knew it was either mom or dad with them. I felt a little guilty once in a while, but mostly not - because they were cared for by us. Good kids, both of them - oh, I stand corrected, adults now. They are still my boys though...
I will have one of our PJ days, and write the day away, as soon as I let the dogs out AGAIN ! Seriously, it has been two seconds since I let then in...it might be time for a 'Time Out' which will give me a few quiet minutes...to write.
D M Wiseman, the dog's private doorman, in this ice-y day, writing another book, published author...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Long day spent at U of M and yet, nothing done...damn machine kind of day
Don't you hate it when the 'machines are acting up' ? Today, I took my sister Barb to her first radiation treatment at the U of M hospital. We were called and told that they were running behind, and that the machine was not working like it should - so to come in at 12n instead of 1120am. We did, and Barb went in and I set up my computer to work. Half hour later, Barb comes back out saying we were being sent to have lunch 'on them' until they could re-calibrate the machine - it was not quite working like they wanted it too. So, an hour and a half later - we were buzzed (one of those buzzers like at Red Lobster - your table is ready - kind of buzzer) and she went back in to undress once again.
I set up to work, and another half hour and out comes Barb again, dressed - and we were told that the machine is not working at all- so we needed to be rescheduled. So after we were there for over three hours, nothing was done. The treatment was tacked on the end of the already scheduled dates. It makes the last radiation treatment scheduled for the day before she starts chemo - she will be tired. I worry.
So, we did what anyone would do in this situation - we went shopping after the non-treatment, and that was nice. In a way, it de-stressed the whole day, and we thought that it was kind of funny, after all, the machines rule. I felt like Linda Hamilton in the Terminator role of Sara Conner - don't trust the machines, they are evil, etc. Then thought maybe I should be the Terminator - let the machine kill her cancer. Keep going until its dead. Hopefully, this will be it - three times is enough. I have odd thoughts sometimes, but it made sense when I was driving home. Chalk it up to - it was a long day.
Earlier, I told Barb she should give up cancer for Lent - it starts tomorrow as you know, because we ate Paczki's - Bavarian Creme! So, that was a good thing for today as well. If you can't make jokes at the worse time in your life, and laugh at the situation - then you just cry. And we all have cried enough. Funny too, that our sister Pat knew instantly, that when we didn't have the treatment, that we went shopping. Retail therapy really helps. And sisters, like the three of us - we know each other really well. We compliment each other, our personalities mesh, you know? And retail therapy, we all do in our own way. I bought a present for my husband, my friend, my soul mate's birthday - it's coming up next week. I bought a bottle, with a message in it. I'm not telling what the message says. I also bought a fry pan. To each their own.
As well as a crappy day - we are expecting another ice storm come morning, to just ease us into the mid week. Its funny, just today someone told me that after today, the initials of the week goes W T F - and we are going to get beat up again by old man winter - and I for one, want to speak to that damn groundhog that saw his shadow or didn't see his shadow, what ever! But, we are supposed to have an early spring...he lies.
I will do some writing tomorrow, as I will be waiting for a delivery for my husband (etc) that has to be signed for. Hopefully the Fed Ex truck will come in the bad weather. I will play the In and Out game with the puppies - speaking of which, sometime between the time I came home (530pm) and when my husband came home (620pm) Leo lost his necklace - you know, his collar - out in our dog run - nearly an acre of hill that is covered in snow (and three dog's poop). It was already dark, and I didn't see it with a flashlight. So, I will have to look for it tomorrow. In the ice storm. Maybe it would be easier to just buy a new one - retail therapy! Maybe take Boomer, he needs a car ride...
D M Wiseman, not happy with the weather man, or that damn groundhog, or machines, published author...
I set up to work, and another half hour and out comes Barb again, dressed - and we were told that the machine is not working at all- so we needed to be rescheduled. So after we were there for over three hours, nothing was done. The treatment was tacked on the end of the already scheduled dates. It makes the last radiation treatment scheduled for the day before she starts chemo - she will be tired. I worry.
So, we did what anyone would do in this situation - we went shopping after the non-treatment, and that was nice. In a way, it de-stressed the whole day, and we thought that it was kind of funny, after all, the machines rule. I felt like Linda Hamilton in the Terminator role of Sara Conner - don't trust the machines, they are evil, etc. Then thought maybe I should be the Terminator - let the machine kill her cancer. Keep going until its dead. Hopefully, this will be it - three times is enough. I have odd thoughts sometimes, but it made sense when I was driving home. Chalk it up to - it was a long day.
Earlier, I told Barb she should give up cancer for Lent - it starts tomorrow as you know, because we ate Paczki's - Bavarian Creme! So, that was a good thing for today as well. If you can't make jokes at the worse time in your life, and laugh at the situation - then you just cry. And we all have cried enough. Funny too, that our sister Pat knew instantly, that when we didn't have the treatment, that we went shopping. Retail therapy really helps. And sisters, like the three of us - we know each other really well. We compliment each other, our personalities mesh, you know? And retail therapy, we all do in our own way. I bought a present for my husband, my friend, my soul mate's birthday - it's coming up next week. I bought a bottle, with a message in it. I'm not telling what the message says. I also bought a fry pan. To each their own.
As well as a crappy day - we are expecting another ice storm come morning, to just ease us into the mid week. Its funny, just today someone told me that after today, the initials of the week goes W T F - and we are going to get beat up again by old man winter - and I for one, want to speak to that damn groundhog that saw his shadow or didn't see his shadow, what ever! But, we are supposed to have an early spring...he lies.
I will do some writing tomorrow, as I will be waiting for a delivery for my husband (etc) that has to be signed for. Hopefully the Fed Ex truck will come in the bad weather. I will play the In and Out game with the puppies - speaking of which, sometime between the time I came home (530pm) and when my husband came home (620pm) Leo lost his necklace - you know, his collar - out in our dog run - nearly an acre of hill that is covered in snow (and three dog's poop). It was already dark, and I didn't see it with a flashlight. So, I will have to look for it tomorrow. In the ice storm. Maybe it would be easier to just buy a new one - retail therapy! Maybe take Boomer, he needs a car ride...
D M Wiseman, not happy with the weather man, or that damn groundhog, or machines, published author...
Monday, March 7, 2011
Been up since 330 in the morning and so it begins... week...
Got up - yes got up - at 330 in the morning to drive S and V to Metro Airport - the Detroit Airport that's not in Detroit. The Detroit Airport is called City Airport and not much flies out of there any more. But, Metro is in Romulus, which is a good drive from our rural home in Michigan. During any traffic time, it can take 2 hours but this morning - and I use that lightly, since it did not even get light out until I was back home! It only took just under an hour and a half. I dropped them off, and so their wonderful vacation begins. They are off to Jamaica and we are puppy sitting my Grand Puppy Leo.
The dogs are in Heaven! Gracie and Leo are being maniacs, going wild, doing the In and Out game, as well as the It's Mine game. They are having a blast. Boomer is completely confused, staying up too late, getting up with me at 330 and now with the wildness going on - and is trying to sleep. He currently is snoring away, the other two are outside playing. By mid week, we will be more in a routine, but today is a wild day. I am amazed that the dogs play so well, like they haven't see each other in years, but after only a month. But, they have a good time together. The night time will be the test. Boomer and Gracie sleep in our room, on the floor - and when Leo is here, he sleeps in our room. They all can't sleep in our room. Or they can, and I will sleep in the other room.
I love the time with my puppies, with Leo. Yesterday we had a great day. St and V were here for dinner, and dessert. I didn't grill the steaks, I made Beef Stroganoff instead, with salad and garlic bread. St brought the bread from Papa's - a high end grocery that has the most wonderful bread - honey wheat. I put a garlic butter with Parmesan mixed in it. Yum. Then K and I had Key Lime Pie, while St had Oreo and my husband, my friend, my soul mate had Turtle Pie. I love when we can all have our favorites, thanks to the slices you can buy. If I had the whole pie - I'd eat it all. As it is, that last piece of Key Lime is calling me.
S and V got here with Leo later, and got to see St and K so for a little while, I had everyone home! It was really nice. That was a great way to start my week. Today, is another story. I am planning to go to my God Daughter Meghan's birthday dinner - she turns 21 today. It is a wonderful day! I was there at her birth - right there. And now, as she turns 21, I will be there too. I was at my famous sister in law Holly's other two daughters births as well (Jordan and Sarah), but not at John's who is also having a birthday this month.
I will be able to write more today, before the dinner, and after - if I am able to be fully awake enough to write with clarity. I will rewrite tomorrow, when I take my sister Barb to her first rad treatment. I am happy to say, she is going to go through with both chemo and radiation. My sister Pat is going to have her hands full the first time when Barb does chemo. I thank God for her - she will take a lot of stress off of me, and have give Barb another anchor as well. Between Pat and I, we will prevail, along with the U of M staff - and get the cancer this time. We have faith.
In the mean time, I have to let the dogs out AGAIN, and have my second cup of tea, snuggle with Boomer who is still confused, and then give everyone a time out - so I can breathe. Gotta love how long they can play without stopping. I don't think I ever had that much energy - ever!
D M Wiseman, tired, smiling, and playing the In and Out game all day long, published author...
The dogs are in Heaven! Gracie and Leo are being maniacs, going wild, doing the In and Out game, as well as the It's Mine game. They are having a blast. Boomer is completely confused, staying up too late, getting up with me at 330 and now with the wildness going on - and is trying to sleep. He currently is snoring away, the other two are outside playing. By mid week, we will be more in a routine, but today is a wild day. I am amazed that the dogs play so well, like they haven't see each other in years, but after only a month. But, they have a good time together. The night time will be the test. Boomer and Gracie sleep in our room, on the floor - and when Leo is here, he sleeps in our room. They all can't sleep in our room. Or they can, and I will sleep in the other room.
I love the time with my puppies, with Leo. Yesterday we had a great day. St and V were here for dinner, and dessert. I didn't grill the steaks, I made Beef Stroganoff instead, with salad and garlic bread. St brought the bread from Papa's - a high end grocery that has the most wonderful bread - honey wheat. I put a garlic butter with Parmesan mixed in it. Yum. Then K and I had Key Lime Pie, while St had Oreo and my husband, my friend, my soul mate had Turtle Pie. I love when we can all have our favorites, thanks to the slices you can buy. If I had the whole pie - I'd eat it all. As it is, that last piece of Key Lime is calling me.
S and V got here with Leo later, and got to see St and K so for a little while, I had everyone home! It was really nice. That was a great way to start my week. Today, is another story. I am planning to go to my God Daughter Meghan's birthday dinner - she turns 21 today. It is a wonderful day! I was there at her birth - right there. And now, as she turns 21, I will be there too. I was at my famous sister in law Holly's other two daughters births as well (Jordan and Sarah), but not at John's who is also having a birthday this month.
I will be able to write more today, before the dinner, and after - if I am able to be fully awake enough to write with clarity. I will rewrite tomorrow, when I take my sister Barb to her first rad treatment. I am happy to say, she is going to go through with both chemo and radiation. My sister Pat is going to have her hands full the first time when Barb does chemo. I thank God for her - she will take a lot of stress off of me, and have give Barb another anchor as well. Between Pat and I, we will prevail, along with the U of M staff - and get the cancer this time. We have faith.
In the mean time, I have to let the dogs out AGAIN, and have my second cup of tea, snuggle with Boomer who is still confused, and then give everyone a time out - so I can breathe. Gotta love how long they can play without stopping. I don't think I ever had that much energy - ever!
D M Wiseman, tired, smiling, and playing the In and Out game all day long, published author...
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Both boys coming home today with their girls, and Leo - best Sunday in a long time...
I am excited, and even though I went to bed late last night, I was up early with the puppies - we are excited to have both St and K coming for dinner along with S and V, bringing Leo as well. It will be a really nice dinner - and I planned on doing steaks out on the grill (that means not me, someone else doing the actual grilling!) and oven fried red potatoes. Salad and dessert as well - I have it all planned out, and I am ready. I didn't plan on the 4 inches of snow that fell after the rain yesterday, but the grilling must go on.
We, my husband, my friend, my soul mate, had a really nice time at the retirement dinner last night. We got home late, and I let my husband (etc) sleep in because he never gets to. So, I sat with my tea, my puppies in the relative quiet - because it will be a wild week. I am excited to have all my kids here for the day! Yeah, and I feel way too excited about it. It's not that I never see them. I saw S last Sunday (he and I tag teamed my niece home from GR) and I saw St when we took him to the airport for his Florida trip. So, it's not like I never see them. But, it seems different today! A holiday - that's what it feels like, a holiday!
I will write in between getting the dinner ready, as it's not that hard to make salad, cutting up the potatoes, getting the garlic bread ready as someone else does the cold weather grilling... in between the In and Out game that some how my two puppies are already playing... Since I've been up, Gracie has been out three times! And so it starts...
D M Wiseman, a very excited mother and grand mother of a puppy, published author
We, my husband, my friend, my soul mate, had a really nice time at the retirement dinner last night. We got home late, and I let my husband (etc) sleep in because he never gets to. So, I sat with my tea, my puppies in the relative quiet - because it will be a wild week. I am excited to have all my kids here for the day! Yeah, and I feel way too excited about it. It's not that I never see them. I saw S last Sunday (he and I tag teamed my niece home from GR) and I saw St when we took him to the airport for his Florida trip. So, it's not like I never see them. But, it seems different today! A holiday - that's what it feels like, a holiday!
I will write in between getting the dinner ready, as it's not that hard to make salad, cutting up the potatoes, getting the garlic bread ready as someone else does the cold weather grilling... in between the In and Out game that some how my two puppies are already playing... Since I've been up, Gracie has been out three times! And so it starts...
D M Wiseman, a very excited mother and grand mother of a puppy, published author
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Icy rainy and low keyed Saturday until we go out into the night...
I am cuddling with Gracie - meaning she is at my feet and I am rubbing her, while Boomer is still upstairs sleeping. Don't know why, maybe he wants a lazy Saturday? I was watching one of my favorite Zombie Movies - "Sean of the Dead" and just loving it. My husband, my friend, and soul mate promptly tried to turn it off to watch "Beowolf" because he likes the parts with Angelina Jolie... But, since I wasn't really watching, just listening, it didn't really upset me - he so rarely wants to watch TV - so we are watching a really odd animation of real people and I am laughing at the story line. The one guy just said 'my mighty lust limb' to describe his, um appendage. Please! And why don't they blink? Never mind, I really don't care....I am just laughing at it as I write.
Today is going to be a lazy one, until 5pm when we are going out to White Lake, to a retirement party - a celebration of so many years in the fire service for two men I have known their entire careers. It will be nice to get out since the next week will be crazy busy. Besides taking my sister three times to the U, I will be babysitting my grand puppy Leo! Yeah! He comes to stay tomorrow.
Gracie has been counting the days, literally - my husband (etc) told her that Leo was coming on Wednesday and she has been running around looking everywhere for Leo. Honestly! So, tomorrow when Leo comes, Gracie will be in heaven...Boomer will be happy as well, but in a smaller way than Gracie. The house will be in total disarray, because of all of the rain, the mess will be unreal, each time the In and Out game is played... But we are looking forward to having the puppy here - as S and V are going to Jamaica for a week. They will have a great time - they deserve a nice vacation. When is mine???
I am happy to know that my fifth book has been published, and so now, I must finish the sixth by the time I start my new job, as the two hours that my sister is at radiation, I can write there, I'll take my computer, and not my Nook - so I will have to write. I really need to finish the last one, because when I work, I need to sleep...it's really important to me...
D M Wiseman, going to have a celebration tonight, and then babysit tomorrow, five time published author...
Today is going to be a lazy one, until 5pm when we are going out to White Lake, to a retirement party - a celebration of so many years in the fire service for two men I have known their entire careers. It will be nice to get out since the next week will be crazy busy. Besides taking my sister three times to the U, I will be babysitting my grand puppy Leo! Yeah! He comes to stay tomorrow.
Gracie has been counting the days, literally - my husband (etc) told her that Leo was coming on Wednesday and she has been running around looking everywhere for Leo. Honestly! So, tomorrow when Leo comes, Gracie will be in heaven...Boomer will be happy as well, but in a smaller way than Gracie. The house will be in total disarray, because of all of the rain, the mess will be unreal, each time the In and Out game is played... But we are looking forward to having the puppy here - as S and V are going to Jamaica for a week. They will have a great time - they deserve a nice vacation. When is mine???
I am happy to know that my fifth book has been published, and so now, I must finish the sixth by the time I start my new job, as the two hours that my sister is at radiation, I can write there, I'll take my computer, and not my Nook - so I will have to write. I really need to finish the last one, because when I work, I need to sleep...it's really important to me...
D M Wiseman, going to have a celebration tonight, and then babysit tomorrow, five time published author...
Friday, March 4, 2011
I published the fifth book! and its an icy Friday in rural Michigan...
I finished editing for the final time, "Merry's Plan" and put it up for publishing. It is now also published on ebooks site http://www.smashwords.com/ and I am so excited! This book is the final chapter in the Pretty Marsh Trilogy, based in - Pretty Marsh, Maine and links three women, their men and their lives. I really like these books and now with this new novel I am writing - "Then Again" I even linked one of the guys, Marcus from the second of the trilogy, making him a cousin to one of the main character.
My brain really likes the Maine area, and keeps pulling my characters back into that whole area. I did a lot of research, and even visited the Bar Harbour area, camping out and walking the coast line. It is a beautiful place, and I want to go back - soon. There is a pull there for me.
The book is now published, and being put through the 'meatgrinder' to ready it for the 'Premium Catalog' and thus be put up on sites such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Diesel, etc and easier to get onto your ereader - any ereader. Right now, the books are all available for downloading, then you just drag to your reader's site on your computer. But, once it is in the 'Premium Catalog' - you can download straight from your reader's book list. I personally have a Nook, and use the BandN site, but I can buy from Amazon for example, if I want.
My sister Pat just bought a Nook, and she bought our sister Barb a Nook as well, so she can read books where ever she is, while going through the chemo treatments from hell. I will be reading (or if I take my computer with me) or writing while she is in her radiation treatments. We will read the ebook way. The new and technological way to read books, papers, and magazines.
I now have 5 books published. I have two in the premium catalog, and three more waiting to be put up for the supreme privilege of having my books out there everywhere for anyone to be able to enjoy (and purchase) my imagination's babies...my books. It's really thrilling and beyond exciting to know that I - me, got published! I really am thrilled, if you couldn't tell.
Today, the ice storm that happened to areas around us, and caused my husband, my friend, my soul mate to leave for work at 630 and then back at home at 800 not having gotten to pavement. We live rural, on about 5 miles of dirt roads, until real pavement, and with hills - the ice is an interesting thing. He couldn't get to 32 mile Road without sliding sideways, and by the elementary school - a bus and 15 separate vehicles were in ditches, off the road, and going no where.
So my husband (after making sure no one was injured!) went another two miles around to bypass that area, and come back home. He did one of those unforgivable things - pulling open the shower curtain when I was showering with no one home. I think I lost a year of my life, he scared me to death. It was not funny. But, he was not happy to be not at work. He had a meeting, an important meeting, so he handled it from home, and then by 1030, when it was now all slush and 35 degrees out, he left for the rest of the day's work.
I am going to try to get to my famous sister in law Holly's house - I have a cartridge for the Cricut Imagine's machine that we were playing with yesterday, so I have to get it to her - she needs to use it for a class she's teaching on Sunday. So, I will venture out in this weather, get this cartridge to her, and then do the grocery shopping. Yeah, a fun Friday, but I will do the next few chapters on my next new novel...
D M Wiseman, newly published fifth time! yeah, and venturing on to the icy rural Michigan roads, author...
My brain really likes the Maine area, and keeps pulling my characters back into that whole area. I did a lot of research, and even visited the Bar Harbour area, camping out and walking the coast line. It is a beautiful place, and I want to go back - soon. There is a pull there for me.
The book is now published, and being put through the 'meatgrinder' to ready it for the 'Premium Catalog' and thus be put up on sites such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Diesel, etc and easier to get onto your ereader - any ereader. Right now, the books are all available for downloading, then you just drag to your reader's site on your computer. But, once it is in the 'Premium Catalog' - you can download straight from your reader's book list. I personally have a Nook, and use the BandN site, but I can buy from Amazon for example, if I want.
My sister Pat just bought a Nook, and she bought our sister Barb a Nook as well, so she can read books where ever she is, while going through the chemo treatments from hell. I will be reading (or if I take my computer with me) or writing while she is in her radiation treatments. We will read the ebook way. The new and technological way to read books, papers, and magazines.
I now have 5 books published. I have two in the premium catalog, and three more waiting to be put up for the supreme privilege of having my books out there everywhere for anyone to be able to enjoy (and purchase) my imagination's babies...my books. It's really thrilling and beyond exciting to know that I - me, got published! I really am thrilled, if you couldn't tell.
Today, the ice storm that happened to areas around us, and caused my husband, my friend, my soul mate to leave for work at 630 and then back at home at 800 not having gotten to pavement. We live rural, on about 5 miles of dirt roads, until real pavement, and with hills - the ice is an interesting thing. He couldn't get to 32 mile Road without sliding sideways, and by the elementary school - a bus and 15 separate vehicles were in ditches, off the road, and going no where.
So my husband (after making sure no one was injured!) went another two miles around to bypass that area, and come back home. He did one of those unforgivable things - pulling open the shower curtain when I was showering with no one home. I think I lost a year of my life, he scared me to death. It was not funny. But, he was not happy to be not at work. He had a meeting, an important meeting, so he handled it from home, and then by 1030, when it was now all slush and 35 degrees out, he left for the rest of the day's work.
I am going to try to get to my famous sister in law Holly's house - I have a cartridge for the Cricut Imagine's machine that we were playing with yesterday, so I have to get it to her - she needs to use it for a class she's teaching on Sunday. So, I will venture out in this weather, get this cartridge to her, and then do the grocery shopping. Yeah, a fun Friday, but I will do the next few chapters on my next new novel...
D M Wiseman, newly published fifth time! yeah, and venturing on to the icy rural Michigan roads, author...
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Thursday is for interventions and no editing until later tonight...
I am trying to get some work done today, while still snuggling with my puppies, writing my blog - and still go to my famous sister in law Holly's house by lunch to check out the new scrapbook wonder - the Cricut Imagine machine. Holly's work place, where she teaches the cricut classes, and how to do pages etc - the now famous http://www.thescrapbookemporium.com/ called her, told her a woman just bought the Imagine and didn't know how to work it, could someone learn and the teach her? Holly now has that awesome machine and is having a blast.
All day yesterday, she would update me with little texts, and pictures of what she did. They were awesome! I couldn't believe it, and so easy to do... so today, I am going over to check it out, learn how to play too. My husband, my friend, my soul mate told me that it's just another form of scrap booking crack! He thinks it's all funny. Holly posted, as a joke (as she loves her children above all) that she needed to sell her kids, so she could buy one of these machines. I told them I would go over an do an intervention - take the machine from her, so she could come back to reality! To stop the INSANITY ! Of, course after I learn how to use it from her first...
I finished about 3/4 of the editing of the final, final editing of "Merry's Plan" last night until I could barely keep my eyes open. So, I will finish tonight - that is my goal. I need to publish that book, as people want the last in the Pretty Marsh Ttrilogy - so I have to get it done. I also need to finish the next one that I'm writing called "Then Again" although I am not all together certain that I like that title. I also don't see the cover in my head yet... Maybe handcuffs, and a safe... not sure yet. I haven't even given my thoughts to Rita, my awesome and terrific (did I say awesome?) cover artist so she can make the book's cover portray what my head thinks about the story. Cuffs, definitely cuffs. Hm mm, I'll think on it.
But I need to get it done, as that phone call that didn't come Monday, finally came last night at 530pm ! Seriously, that late! I will be starting a new job on March 21st, so I only have a few weeks before most of my waking hours will be in orientation, or taking care of my sister Barb, or getting much needed sleep - I work midnights - and never get enough sleep. If you ever have worked midnights, you know your every waking moment, is wondering or figuring out how much, or trying to get, enough sleep. I love working nights, don't get me wrong, but sleep is nice too...
So, I am off to the intervention of the scrapbook-aholic famous sister in law Holly's house and to play with a new toy. I don't even have the latest toy, I have two toys behind, but man - what a want! I might be able to do my own covers - could that be a good enough reason to get one? No, I remember a sign in a craft store once - "I know you could, but would you?" in regards to making something. No, I can't. Rita is my only blessing... Hey, isn't my anniversary coming up? Mother's day? My birthday? Christmas? Ok, back to my own reality...
D M Wiseman, almost done editing what I promised yesterday, off to intervene, published author...
All day yesterday, she would update me with little texts, and pictures of what she did. They were awesome! I couldn't believe it, and so easy to do... so today, I am going over to check it out, learn how to play too. My husband, my friend, my soul mate told me that it's just another form of scrap booking crack! He thinks it's all funny. Holly posted, as a joke (as she loves her children above all) that she needed to sell her kids, so she could buy one of these machines. I told them I would go over an do an intervention - take the machine from her, so she could come back to reality! To stop the INSANITY ! Of, course after I learn how to use it from her first...
I finished about 3/4 of the editing of the final, final editing of "Merry's Plan" last night until I could barely keep my eyes open. So, I will finish tonight - that is my goal. I need to publish that book, as people want the last in the Pretty Marsh Ttrilogy - so I have to get it done. I also need to finish the next one that I'm writing called "Then Again" although I am not all together certain that I like that title. I also don't see the cover in my head yet... Maybe handcuffs, and a safe... not sure yet. I haven't even given my thoughts to Rita, my awesome and terrific (did I say awesome?) cover artist so she can make the book's cover portray what my head thinks about the story. Cuffs, definitely cuffs. Hm mm, I'll think on it.
But I need to get it done, as that phone call that didn't come Monday, finally came last night at 530pm ! Seriously, that late! I will be starting a new job on March 21st, so I only have a few weeks before most of my waking hours will be in orientation, or taking care of my sister Barb, or getting much needed sleep - I work midnights - and never get enough sleep. If you ever have worked midnights, you know your every waking moment, is wondering or figuring out how much, or trying to get, enough sleep. I love working nights, don't get me wrong, but sleep is nice too...
So, I am off to the intervention of the scrapbook-aholic famous sister in law Holly's house and to play with a new toy. I don't even have the latest toy, I have two toys behind, but man - what a want! I might be able to do my own covers - could that be a good enough reason to get one? No, I remember a sign in a craft store once - "I know you could, but would you?" in regards to making something. No, I can't. Rita is my only blessing... Hey, isn't my anniversary coming up? Mother's day? My birthday? Christmas? Ok, back to my own reality...
D M Wiseman, almost done editing what I promised yesterday, off to intervene, published author...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Better Wednesday and editing all day long PJ day...
I am in a better state of mind today. The U of M visit went better then I thought, different treatment plan explained and now have my faith and hope renewed. Sister Barb agreed to treatment, and other sister Pat was there to help me help Barb. Make sense? Yeah, family dynamics are complicated to say the least. But, now we know the plan and how we are going to deal with it...
So, today, I am more relaxed, more myself. I have help now with my family issues, but still haven't heard from that party I needed to hear from. I have not gotten that phone call that was supposed to come on Monday morning...and it's Wednesday - still no phone call. I left messages, but don't want to bug. I'm trying to be positive, but it's hard...
I am doing the final, final editing of "Merry's Plan" the third novel in the Pretty Marsh Trilogy - and believe it or not, needed some cop family member, so Marcus from "Brie's Business Plan" (second in the trilogy) is the cousin of my main character in the novel that took over my fingers called "Then Again" or something like that. I can't seem to get those characters out of my brain, my fingers, or my novels. But, when they are good characters, it works.
JD Robb's Eve Dallas is in like 30+ novels, Janet Evonivich's Stephanie Plum has 19 main novels, and a few others, and there are the whole Alex Delaware, Alex Cross, Stone Barrington novels are hits and sell. So, if it works for those awesome authors - who am I to doubt my characters. Ha, and I just realized I am comparing myself to my favorite authors - not meaning to, of course, but those are the kind of novels I read, and the authors that I would buy any books they write. I have an obsession with reading, and now writing...
I hopefully will finish the last editing of "Merry's Plan" and then put it up for publishing. I really am back in my grove, hopefully. The puppies are doing their normal thing, except Boomer is trying to steal the bone that Gracie has, when he is usually sleeping and snoring ON my right arm, so I can edit a bit better and with both hands, today in my PJ's...
D M Wiseman, revitalized, renewed, and hopeful - published author...
So, today, I am more relaxed, more myself. I have help now with my family issues, but still haven't heard from that party I needed to hear from. I have not gotten that phone call that was supposed to come on Monday morning...and it's Wednesday - still no phone call. I left messages, but don't want to bug. I'm trying to be positive, but it's hard...
I am doing the final, final editing of "Merry's Plan" the third novel in the Pretty Marsh Trilogy - and believe it or not, needed some cop family member, so Marcus from "Brie's Business Plan" (second in the trilogy) is the cousin of my main character in the novel that took over my fingers called "Then Again" or something like that. I can't seem to get those characters out of my brain, my fingers, or my novels. But, when they are good characters, it works.
JD Robb's Eve Dallas is in like 30+ novels, Janet Evonivich's Stephanie Plum has 19 main novels, and a few others, and there are the whole Alex Delaware, Alex Cross, Stone Barrington novels are hits and sell. So, if it works for those awesome authors - who am I to doubt my characters. Ha, and I just realized I am comparing myself to my favorite authors - not meaning to, of course, but those are the kind of novels I read, and the authors that I would buy any books they write. I have an obsession with reading, and now writing...
I hopefully will finish the last editing of "Merry's Plan" and then put it up for publishing. I really am back in my grove, hopefully. The puppies are doing their normal thing, except Boomer is trying to steal the bone that Gracie has, when he is usually sleeping and snoring ON my right arm, so I can edit a bit better and with both hands, today in my PJ's...
D M Wiseman, revitalized, renewed, and hopeful - published author...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
A very stressful Tuesday and it's only just begun...
This is a stressful day that I can't get a hold of. I need to calm down, stop obsessing over the little things like the phone call that DID NOT come yesterday. I waited all day, hurried to town to pay the taxes. No phone call, no email, nothing. I am going to shower, get dressed and then drive that long drive to Brighton, and take my sister to the U of M Cancer Center to meet the new doctor. Maybe this time it will be the time that kills that damn cancer forever. I need to stop obsessing over that as well.
So, I have a lot of stress: the stress of that no phone call, the cancer treatments coming again just as I will start a new job, starting a new job and the every day stress of life - I need to stop the worrying, that's what my husband, my friend, my soul mate says - let it be. It is what it is. I need to let someone else help with the doctor visits, the driving back and forth, the remembering phone calls to take the pills, the fifteen times a day calls to make sure everything is all right - that's what my son S says. St says let the other sister do it, or her sons - they need to help some. But, I still feel responsible, I am the responsible one...
How do you stop being the 'caregiver', the responsible one, the nurse, the one that does it? I can't just cut it off, and when no one is there to step up to do it, I can't let her be on her own, so how do I do this? I can't let her be on her own. She is my sister. If I did let her be totally dependent on me, that's on me. But, she got through the first horrible year of radiation treatments (chemo not so bad). She got through last years horrible chemo treatments (radiation not so bad). Now, she is looking at both again, and she doesn't want to. Literally is deciding whether she is going to do it again. Like maybe she won't do it.
I'm a nurse. I'm her sister. I promised to help her, to be there, to get her through this, and more important - to tell her if and when to stop. Now is not the time. And she is deciding whether to stop on her own. I know what will happen, not right away, but it will. I don't want that to happen, I can't do that. I feel guilty and I know it is not MY fault, my decision, not my decision - but I hate it. I still feel guilty, feel responsible, and don't want it to happen. They say denial, then blame, then promising to..., then acceptance - but she did the two years of denial, and this year, she went straight into blame - blaming the doctors for doing it wrong. Giving her the wrong treatments, that's why the cancer is back. And me, for telling her to do the treatments in the first place. See the guilt? It's the truth. I did tell her to do the treatments. And it did come back. But, she doesn't hear the part that Cancer doesn't read or pay attention to the rules...
So, this morning, I am snuggling my puppy Boomer, rubbing my Gracie with my feet and watching Criminal Minds - maybe I can get some reasoning, some thoughts, some strength to get through the other part of the day. I will listen, I will not tell my sister what to think, do, or decide. I will let her decide and accept what ever she decides - and then I will cry all the way home...
I do not want to do any of this today, but I will. For my sister...
D M Wiseman, a sister, a nurse, and an author, not necessarily in that order today...
So, I have a lot of stress: the stress of that no phone call, the cancer treatments coming again just as I will start a new job, starting a new job and the every day stress of life - I need to stop the worrying, that's what my husband, my friend, my soul mate says - let it be. It is what it is. I need to let someone else help with the doctor visits, the driving back and forth, the remembering phone calls to take the pills, the fifteen times a day calls to make sure everything is all right - that's what my son S says. St says let the other sister do it, or her sons - they need to help some. But, I still feel responsible, I am the responsible one...
How do you stop being the 'caregiver', the responsible one, the nurse, the one that does it? I can't just cut it off, and when no one is there to step up to do it, I can't let her be on her own, so how do I do this? I can't let her be on her own. She is my sister. If I did let her be totally dependent on me, that's on me. But, she got through the first horrible year of radiation treatments (chemo not so bad). She got through last years horrible chemo treatments (radiation not so bad). Now, she is looking at both again, and she doesn't want to. Literally is deciding whether she is going to do it again. Like maybe she won't do it.
I'm a nurse. I'm her sister. I promised to help her, to be there, to get her through this, and more important - to tell her if and when to stop. Now is not the time. And she is deciding whether to stop on her own. I know what will happen, not right away, but it will. I don't want that to happen, I can't do that. I feel guilty and I know it is not MY fault, my decision, not my decision - but I hate it. I still feel guilty, feel responsible, and don't want it to happen. They say denial, then blame, then promising to..., then acceptance - but she did the two years of denial, and this year, she went straight into blame - blaming the doctors for doing it wrong. Giving her the wrong treatments, that's why the cancer is back. And me, for telling her to do the treatments in the first place. See the guilt? It's the truth. I did tell her to do the treatments. And it did come back. But, she doesn't hear the part that Cancer doesn't read or pay attention to the rules...
So, this morning, I am snuggling my puppy Boomer, rubbing my Gracie with my feet and watching Criminal Minds - maybe I can get some reasoning, some thoughts, some strength to get through the other part of the day. I will listen, I will not tell my sister what to think, do, or decide. I will let her decide and accept what ever she decides - and then I will cry all the way home...
I do not want to do any of this today, but I will. For my sister...
D M Wiseman, a sister, a nurse, and an author, not necessarily in that order today...
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