Woah! I didn't blog for three days, but I worked and slept!

It's Friday already - the week just flew by!  Although the nights certainly didn't.  I went to work Tuesday night, and all of a sudden it's Friday night.  I worked and slept the week away.  I usually work 10 hour shifts, and have more time to 'live' but I am on 12's which means I work and sleep - nothing in between - no time.  But with 10's I can - and even have dinner with my husband, my friend, my soul mate.

I saw him on Monday night, and besides the phone calls, didn't think I would see him until tonight - but he surprised me and came home before I left for work yesterday - it was our 27th year anniversary!   I got a great card, and a dozen pale pink roses.  They were beautiful and smelled wonderful.  I love them!  It was a nice thing for him to do, come home early and eat dinner with me.  We had a nicer dinner tonight - steaks on the grill etc.  Love that man!

Tomorrow I am doing a 12 hour shift - but cropping with my famous sister in law Holly at her place of joy and employment www.thescrapbookemporium.com in Shelby Township.  It is fun, we talk, crop, laugh, and genuinely have a good time.  I am ready - I have pictures to use, paper to use, and a plan this time.  I want to get 8 pages done for sure, but will go for 10.  I am not sure if I will, but it's a good plan. 

Next week, I work Sunday, Monday then Thursday, but Tuesday and Wednesday I will be in Mt. Pleasant, at the Soaring Eagle - at an ENA (Emergency Nurse's Association) conference.  Great to see friends and learn too.  I will spend some time writing, as I don't usually do the gambling thing there.  I never win, and its just like throwing money in the fire, but my husband (etc) won enough one year to buy a Jacuzzi - its on porch and is an awesome feeling to sit under the stars, soaking up the heat, with no one but the deer to see!  Yep, I love my hot tub!

I will try to write more this weekend, and up date on what I am writing on next...and what I am aiming for...

D M Wiseman, getting a lot done this weekend, and spending quality time with family as well, published author

A lazy, but productive Monday doing laundry...

I got up today, started laundry and had not planned to go out at all - just hang out with the puppies, do a little writing, make Indian food for my husband, my friend, my soul mate (I don't eat it - too spicy, I ate plain chicken) and then an unexpected journey out.  I found three fleas just walking around on Boomer's face - right between his eyes!

I immediately went out to the store to buy Dawn dish washing liquid - the plain blue kind - it kills the fleas, and then this stuff called Frontline that will keep the fleas from coming back.  Expensive, but worth it, as those fleas are horrid little things.  Put some on Gracie too.  Creepy things, those little blood sucking fleas.  They are next on the list after spiders...but I will not go over that business at this time...

I worked on the pages that I am making with my Cricut - I am making an album with pages about my novels that I have written.  I have the covers, the www.smashwords.com blurb as well as a CD of my books - saved for the world - in case.  They are also on a thumb drive, as well as on my computer.  I am nothing, if not thorough, to keep copies of them all safe.  I also have actual hard copies of three of the five, so far.  I just want to make sure, after all - these are my 'ideas'.  Gotta save them.

I start midnights tomorrow night so I will stay up late tonight, and get into the grove for the next three nights, then off for three.  The next week is going to be back and forth, nights then awake, so this week will help me get ready for that week...  Then I start my normal four nights in a row, three off... I can do it.  I know I can, I have done it plenty of times before.  And I will get in the grove to write, snuggle with the dogs, and sleep!

D M Wiseman,  feeling the need to finish the book! and publish already...

Happy Easter! And time with my oldest son St...

Happy Easter to all.  Spent time with S and V yesterday, and now with St today, having dinner at our house - the non-typical dinner of Bar B Q !  We are having Salmon with honey barbecue sauce and St is having chicken.  But I am doing all the vegetables on the grill too.  I like grilled veg's!  And even better, I don't do the grilling...

I am sitting here, after talking to my mom, my sister Pat (she is up at my mom's house inland from Tawas, little town called National City - no relation to the Bank) and then my sister Barb thinking I can't remember the last Easter we all were together.  When the boys were little, we would take them to North Myrtle Beach and stay at these great Condos called the Beach Cove.  It was right on the water, had a great beach, and a 'river' running under it that you could ride on inner tubes.  The Beach Cove was within walking distance to this pier that was my inspiration for the pier on the cover of my first book "Bryn's Family Plan" and my awesome cover artist got it perfectly...

I write about this because my sister Barb just read my book "The Usual Reasons" and wondered why all of it was in Michigan.  I live in Michigan.  But the other books, like the trilogy - were in Maine.  I had to research that area to write about it.  The one I am writing now, starts in North Carolina - on Oak Island (my mother in law used to live there) and then goes on to a Cruise Ship (been on five) and will end in Maine - eventually.  So, I write what I know.  And my next novel will be in Michigan once again.

I will write a few chapters today, but after my husband, my friend, my soul mate does some financial stuff on my computer - it is faster and can get the work done faster.  I really think that I might get it done by Tuesday when I go to work.  Well, that is a goal, but the real one is the end of the week - the end of the month was my original goal.  I need to get it done.  I have too many in my head that need to get down on paper... and I was validated by my sister Pat that couldn't put "The Usual Reasons" down - even got up in the night with a special light that goes on her Nook - to read.  I was geeked!  She didn't have to lie - we're sisters.  Barb liked it too.  Yeah!

D M Wiseman,  validated by my sisters, that I am a great writer, and soon to be another published author...

Sun, and warmth, and another chapter written...

Woke up this morning to the sun shining- the actual sun!  It was out and it was in the 60's by mid afternoon which is amazing because I don't trust the weather lately.  But, I was not happy to see that tomorrow, it will be cold and rainy again (so much for Easter!).  I am not overly thrilled with the rain, but when it is cold and rainy, I do not like it at all.  But, the rain is not always so bad...

We, my husband, my friend, my soul mate met S and V, along with Barb and Ron - V's parents for a pre-wedding meeting at Applebee's mid way between our homes.  We had a great dinner, and talked of all kinds of things.  A get to know you better kind of meeting, along with going over the budget for the wedding and details of the day next June that will forever link our families.  I like them.  I have spent time with Barb before - at a Bride's Expo as well as the dress buying fun day we had a few weekends ago.  Ron, I met before too, when we painted S and V's apartment.  And, we had met them last year at a Regatta or two, but we were not in law's to be then.

I got a quick chapter written today, and hope to finish another before I sleep tonight, and more tomorrow because I will be doing laundry - while it rains.   I hate the rain, but I don't feel guilty staying in doors when it rains, and I know maybe in the future the weather will get nicer - it has to, right? and I won't want to stay in and write - but thank God for electricity and batteries! because I can go out on the veranda and write while the puppies play outside...

I have so much to do, so much to write, so little time - that I have to multi-task, and writing while watching the puppies play outside, well that is my way of multi-tasking.  Like writing while doing laundry, or talking to myself while driving - trying out new story lines (not necessarily means that I am nuts, just saying).  So, I am an amazing writer, for multi-tasking as writing.  I am not just being a slug, watching bad TV while writing...really, I am doing all kinds of things at the same time... OK, so sometimes I'm not really, just pretending to, but I mean well...

D M Wiseman,  another chapter written, just so much closer to being published again, author...

It's Good Friday, and it was snowing AGAIN this morning...

Honestly!  Aren't we ever going to see Spring?  It was raining, snowing, and sleeting all at once this morning, and it is Good Friday.  It is a week away from being May and Sunday is Easter.  There is no reason to worry, but I think the weather men on TV are doing something to the weather.  Any time there is an odd weather thing going on, we all watch the News to find out how bad the weather will be - and usually - they are wrong.

But, now, the weather is coming true.  It is the Snowmaggedon, the Snowpocalypse etc that happened a few months back, and now, it is still cold.  It is still snowing.  I think it is a conspiracy against all of us that really need Spring, and then Summer!  Really, it is about time, don't you think?  We need to put away our winter coats and boots.  We really need to wear short sleeves!  Please, can't we just see the sun once before fall?

Ok, that is all I will say about that, because I am almost done with the book!  Yeah, and when it is nicer weather, I won't get very much writing done at all, so I need to get it done.  I am at odds with my need to see the sun, and the need to not waste the nice weather.  So, I will finish then go out in the sun.  I will, really.  And then start the next one...too!

D M Wiseman,  a bit off today, and still writing away, published author...

Next week will be our anniversary and then May!

We have been married for 27 years - my husband, my friend, and my soul mate.  I have loved him for more than half my life!  He is truly my soul mate.  I really do love him.  For our 25th anniversary, we went on an Alaskan cruise.  It was really nice to get away, spend time with our friends Barry and Cathy, and see the sites in the Alaskan wilderness.

Cathy and I wanted to go to Hawaii but we were over ruled by the guys - they didn't want to fly for 9 hours to get there.  But, I will get there some day!  And to Ireland, and Australia, to maybe the Blue Hole - and to the Keys.  That one is very close in my sites - we, my husband (etc) are going to Miami - and so the Keys, this summer. 

Yes, I did say this summer.  We are going to Miami in August!  I will be plastered in SPF +100 so I will not be a Lobster Red color and then peel off in disgusting flakes - after I look ridiculous for days.  Miami in August!  Not my first pick, but definitely a nice trip, and I will love to go.  I want to see the road that connects the isles.  I want to walk out into the ocean and then turn around and walk the other side, into the Gulf.  I really want to do this.  It would be so wonderful, so nice to do that.

I am making that road, part of the next novel - so it would be best if I went to see it, to experience it for myself!  It would be a tax deduction, since it would be for my novels!  I really would like to use what I see, and intend to.  I really would love to see them, just the same.  But, I will write it into the story and the Keys have always been a place I have wanted to see.  And see them I will...

I go to the U tomorrow, and will get a bit of writing in, while I wait with my sister.  I will also read a lot.  It is always a long day - and hard on her.  We spend it laughing, swearing, as well as reading - me, I'll be reading an Alex Delaware novel.  Barb will be reading one of my books...I think.  I really do need to finish another...

D M Wiseman,  there will be a road in my life in the near future, published author...

I really need to get into the next book, but first this one needs finishing...

I was stuck in traffic, thinking about how to fix the book that I am almost done with, and got to thinking about the next book, and wanted to stop to write, but I wasn't home yet.  I really need to get this one done, so I get on to the next one.

So, coming home, I had to wait to use the computer, then decided to check my email first, and saw that I sold another book.  I only sold a few this month, so I get a little excited, and rightly so.  I get the chills every time!  I really like when I sell one, it makes me feel validated every time - I am an author.  I feel like Sally Field - they like me, they really like me - you know, when she won some award, she said that.  Not that I am even close to being as famous (oh, all right, I am not famous at all, but it was a good quote) but it gets the message across.  Maybe some day, I'll be a little famous.

I just need to sell more books.  I will write more books, and then make my dream come true, to have published a good dozen books, and then some in print.  I know it is in my future, as I still have things to write, characters to 'birth' and get my ideas down on 'cyber' paper for others to read.  Man, I sound like I should be selling some pyramid scheme juice...but of course, I am selling my ideas, not juice.

D M Wiseman,  soon to be publishing another book, with more to come, already published author...

One more day shift left, and I am going to nights...

Count down is here - one more shift - meaning one more 12 hour shift.  Only 12 hours of days left - if you don't count the meeting I agreed to be at on Thursday morning, that is.  I just know that 12 hours tomorrow will be fine.  I used to say 'they can only hurt me for xxx amount of hours' until I was off shift.  But, that isn't really always true.  It can be a hateful shift, so now I say 'I can do anything for just xxx hours' and I think that is a better truth.

I like to work, but I like to give myself a deadline, for my writing, and for other things in my life as well.  I used to give myself a deadline when I went to school - especially when I took courses on my own, and then just took the test.  I really did well, if I gave myself the end date - because I could be a slug, and really can procrastinate if I let myself.  So, count downs are a good thing for me.  I am counting down until I go to midnights, because it is almost here.

And then, I read an article in the Nursing magazine that I read about sleep deprivation and shift work.  Of course, I read it.  I shouldn't have because it made no sense, in the way that they only told two ways that shift workers get ready for their shifts - switch back and forth between days and nights on their days off.  It didn't show the way I do it, but then again, they didn't ask me.

I stay up really late on Sundays, and get up on Monday early.  That way I am really tired, and can nap in the afternoon - then get up and stay up all night.  I would then be fine all week, until Friday am when I was NOT going back to work.  That is the change up day for me - I would only sleep a few (three usually) hours and get up, spend the day tired, but be able to go to sleep on Friday night, and be on the day schedule until Sunday night again.  That is how I do it.  They didn't ask me, as they said the number one way to stay up all night was the first night was to be up 24 hours.  That is not the way to do it...

I have been on midnights for most of my career, and did this for my children, and now I do it because it works for me.  And the shift premium doesn't hurt.  But, I go off to work, as my husband, my friend, my soul mate, goes to bed.  I sleep when he is at work, and that works fine - for us.  It gives me flexibility in my shifts, and extra time off.  I like it.  I get enough sleep, time to snuggle with the puppies, and dinner every night with my husband (etc) where right now, I am not getting enough of any thing.  So, I like nights.

I will get enough time to write, as well, as when I snuggle with Boomer in the morning, I will write... and on my days off...and while I do laundry, and on weekends...  I will prevail!  Yeah.  12 more hours...and I don't count the Thursday meeting...it's only 2 hours, after all...

D M Wiseman,   countdown to a regular schedule and published author...

I have TWO day shifts left...and I can't wait to get into a regular schedule...

I read my blog title for yesterday, and thought I really didn't mean to say that I didn't have fun at dinner - I just meant that it wasn't just girls after that - S met us and we had to NOT talk about it - the 900lb Gorilla that we all wanted to talk about - the dress that V picked out.  I can't even think about talking about it here either, because S sometimes reads my blog... let me just say, she is going to be more beautiful than she is already - and that is saying a lot.  She just 'glowed' and sparkled.  She was stunning.  Can't say enough and can't say anymore... I was so thrilled to be part of her day.  It was memorable.  And she's gorgeous in that dress...

I had a really nice day a work today as well - I finally felt like I was in a groove with the computer, the patients, and tomorrow I will be in a pain lecture for half my day - and then follow a case manager around, until I HUC.  Yep, an odd day, but it will be all about learning... and then I will drive home with my own thoughts on how to make the end of the 'Then Again' work.  I am at a stand still.  It needs a twist at the end, then I will feel good about the way the characters interact.  I have to 'like' it myself, first and foremost.  I will take a day off, and get it done.

Thursday, besides having lunch with my wonderful K - I will work on the book.  Maybe she has an idea - she is the most wonderful Editor in Chief of the Oakland Post and a Journalism major at the University.  She is bound to have an idea, or tell me I am on the right road.  She is one smart cookie... so lunch with K and then maybe just meet my famous sister in law Holly for a bit.  Friday is for the U and my sister Barb, so my week is packed... the weekend is for holiday and reflection.

I will be more than happy to get my novel done.  It is almost at my goal time - the end of April, and then I need to get going on the next one.  I will make my goal of an even dozen books, as well as getting one of them published in print - to further validate myself as an author.  I am a published author, and now I have more goals to meet...

D M Wiseman,  new goals, old goals, and it's only Monday, published author working away...

I had a fun time yesterday with just the girls, until dinner...

I watched a girl try on dresses and become the most gorgeous of women - in the most perfect dress for her!  She is absolutely beautiful and looks beyond beautiful.  She is gorgeous!  And the shoes are perfect!  Makes me want to try high heels.  I would probably fall off the heels and kill myself, but they are too gorgeous.

I also found a dress that I like, it is dark purple, and S and V, and Barb and all the others at the dress trying on day - they loved it.  I just hope it fits, and I don't look like a big egg plant in it!  I love the front and the drape of the cowl, as well as the embroidery on the back... I really like that dress. 

I really need to reconnect with my friend Cindy - she was one of the first people to read my books.  That's not why I need to see her though.  She introduced me to my husband, my friend, my soul mate - and she was my maid of honor in our wedding.  I miss talking to her, but her job, my job, and our lives don't collide much, but we are going to make them collide.  I am going to stalk her this week... she has no way out of Thursday, or maybe even over the Easter weekend... she is going to have a meal with me!

I wrote my chapter out last night, and now I like it.  While doing the laundry today, I will continue to pound it out, and will get it done...  There is no doubt of that!  I can feel the end coming... and then to start the new one!  I really like this one, and I want to write the next one too... I realize now, that I could NOT have done the Screen Play month contest, because of all the stuff that is going on in my life.  I can't even breathe, get anything else in - I need time to sleep, eat, breathe, snuggle with puppies, and spend time with my husband (etc) - so, really, I couldn't have done it.  BUT next year, I will... and November - I am ready for...

D M Wiseman,  committed, before I am committed... published author...

Off to watch V try on wedding dresses! and quality time with friends...

Today, I am off to the E Lansing area to watch V try on wedding dresses with her sister, friend and V's Mom Barb - and spend quality time as well, dinner with son S.  I am excited, as I have no daughters and would not normally get to do this!  So, this is really nice - and I will have two soon!  I already went to a Bride's Expo thing with them, so it's exciting.  The mom of the groom usually doesn't get to do stuff like this...

I just found out yesterday that my oldest son St's wonderful K has been elected to her SECOND year as Editor in Chief of the Oakland Post - which is the official paper of Oakland University.  A very prestigious title indeed.  She is also just completing an internship at the Detroit Hour magazine as well.  Next she takes finals, then off for 10 weeks to the great State of Kentucky to do an internship at the Louisville's Courier Journal.  She is always busy and definitely does way more in one semester than I accomplish all year!  Well, yeah - that's true now.  But I did get my Bachelors and Masters Degrees while working full time with two little boys, so I haven't always been a slacker!  Ha.  I just slack sometimes, in PJ's while I write... is that slacking?

I am proud of both my boys - now men, and their choices of women.  I love them both!  All of them!  St and K as well as S and V.  I have lucked out tremendously because I truly like my kids, and the girls too.  They are fun to talk to, be with, and just spend time with.  Good job me!  My husband, my friend, my soul mate spent a lot of quality time with the boys - when I was working midnights, sleeping and studying to give them a great basis for family.  They turned out to be well adjusted and intelligent beings... as well as know how to have fun!  Love 'em! 

So, after I come back from E Lansing, I will write - actually re-write what I wrote yesterday.  I am not sure about that last chapter, but will read it again and see how to fix it.  Then, write some more... I need to get it done... and tomorrow, I will continue to write as I do the inevitable laundry...I work Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, have Thursday off - maybe a PJ day - then to U of M on Friday...  Then I start on my new schedule of midnights! 

Can't wait to get a set schedule to work and sleep - so that I can figure out how to work in my writing, as well as time to scrap with my sisters (April 30 is a twelve hour day - and I plan to make some wedding layouts, at least get the engagement page and proposal page done...).  I also need to get some quality time in with the pups and my husband (etc) as it is our 27th Wedding Anniversary on the 28th!  We plan on getting a good 50 years in... I love that man!  I base a few of my characters on him... don't tell!  But, I make them have guns, where he doesn't do guns...he could, but he is a 'politician' kind of guy...talks them down.  He is always calm and controlled.  Hmmm, I feel another character coming on...

D M Wiseman,  mother of the groom, and writer, as well as published author every day...

I had the most productive drive home...

I thought of another plot - story line - character interaction for my next novel on the way home from work today.  I have no idea where the story line hit me while I was driving, stuck in the 'rush hour' traffic that was going no where.  It just popped in, and I couldn't write it down!  I started to go over and over again, the start of the story, the way I think the story should go.  I really had a nice story going there, and then I had to give it up - to get home.

I know why I let the story run amok during my drives, but normally, I think of the one that I am working on.  This one, it just came to me.  I wrote a few of the thoughts, the names I thought would work, and the way that I think the story should go.  I wrote the ideas down, and now need to get the story in place, to get the ball running.  But, I need to finish "Then Again" the story I was writing that needs to come to a conclusion.  Maybe this weekend.  I think so, but not completely sure yet.  I know how I want it to end, but I need to get from A to B first...

I am drinking Green Tea, typing and snuggling with Boomer - feeling the puppy breathing snoring and happy to have me home.  I am now off until Monday.  Only three days next week to work days, and then the next - back on nights.  Then I will have a normal schedule, one that I can write around - be able to spend so much time per day, extra on my days off - writing.  I will just be upside down - I will be writing then sleeping in the day, and working all night.  The dogs will adapt - Boomer was used to it, Gracie will adapt.  I love nights, the opposite of the world - but it works for me - for our family.

My husband, my friend, my soul mate made me dinner again tonight, grilled Turkey breast meat - it was melt in the mouth good!  I am now 24 hours into my "17 Day Diet" - the way to eat differently, but healthy.  I miss the Dew, but am not dying - YET!  I really do miss my Dew.  Green Tea isn't so bad, but I need the caffeine that the Dew gives me.  I will get used to it, but I don't have to like it!  Soon I will be used to it, and the headache will be gone... I feel like I lost weight, but we'll see.

D M Wiseman,   spending a long drive making up a new story line, and finishing up the old, published author

Started a new 'eating regimen' as I finish up this novel...

I heard about this new 'eating regimen' (in real words a diet - but just say diet and it's a negative thing...just saying) called "The 17 Day Diet" and I read it last night - well just the first 17 day part and decided to start it today.  I will have to really work at it because it goes against my very soul to give up my diet Mountain Dew.  The author actually called it NEGATIVE WATER - well yeah!  That's why I drink it.  But I will have to add all kinds of plain water!  Plain water?  I shudder to think...

I will also have to give up my Black Irish Breakfast Tea and drink something called Green Tea - yeah, I heard of it before, but really, green tea?  Green?  So, I will drink it, if it means that I will lose 9 to 12 pounds of water type fat in the 17 days.  Hmmm.  Where have I heard this before?  Oh, in every other 'diet' written.  But, after reading the first 17 day's menus - I can do it.  I can eat salads, green beans, tomatoes, and chicken or fish.  I have a grill, so I can add the low fat low sugar low taste sauce to the meat, with spices.  I can eat beans every day - I love green beans.  And tomatoes, and red grapes.  I can do this.  I will do this.  It's only 17 days, I can do anything for only 17 days... April 30 the same deadline for my novel...

I told my husband, my friend, my soul mate about the 'eating regimen' and he said 'sure' he would give it a try.  I said 'there is no try, only do' in my best Yoda voice - and I will use the force - my need to get rid of the muffin tops because ... have you seen the dresses that are out there for Mother of the Groom's ?  I will not look like my mother at the two weddings in my immediate family next summer.  My God Daughter is also getting married next summer.  AND S, K, and St along with a niece Sarah (one of Holly's daughters) and a nephew Brandon are graduating from college!  Well, Sarah from High School, but you get the drift.  A lot of things that I will be photographed in.  I will look better.  I will.

I need to not be over my BMI limit. Did you know the BMI chart calls me OBESE?  For my height, I should weigh 120 - that's pounds.  I will look ridiculous at 120, but I will take something in the 130's even if it is 139.  I will aim for the 140's, just in case.  I don't want to look too good.  It isn't MY day, but I don't want the photographer to have to use a wide angle lens either.  In reality, I'm not that bad, but I do have muffin tops that I could lose.  I would be healthier as well.  Yeah, that's the reason.  Ha.

I read somewhere - I read a lot - that for every pound you lose, you take 4 pounds off your joints - like my poor knees that ache when I come home from work.  I'm for that!  And the muffin tops...they need to go.  I asked my husband (etc) to get the tread mill out of the storage room, and put it in the living room - I can walk as I edit my books, or re-read the 'eating regimen' book, when I have to re-learn what NOT to eat, and what TO eat...  I will do it.  Maybe I will write something into my novel about 'eating regimens' and how they need to be re-named that!  Like bringing back 'groovy', I will do this...and eat my green beans.

D M Wiseman,  drinking my last Black Irish Breakfast Tea, writing my novel, published author...

What kind of cover to put on my newest novel...typing away...

Got up so refreshed that I felt kind of guilty that I slept in and my husband, my friend, my soul mate had to get up and go to work.  For a minute I felt guilty - I have been getting up hours before him for three weeks.  I will make him an awesome dinner tomorrow night (tonight he stays for a board meeting - I offered to meet him for dinner, but he told me to go ahead with my PJ day! Gotta love that man!) - because he has been making dinner for the last few weeks...its my turn now.

I put the puppies out to play, they were running around the yard, happy to play - found a few disgusting bones that are NOT coming in my house.  They found a few bones, a rope (don't want to even have that outside) and the collar that Leo lost a month ago.  It was a productive few minutes for them.  They are happily playing with the inside bones and I am on the computer already.  It is going to be a good day.

I spent a few hours going over the amount that I have already written, and now am ready to continue.  I will get this one done!  I know it now, I am in the zone, hopefully I will get a lot done today, as I do have to get dressed tomorrow - it's my psych day - going to ACT 2 - for my nails.  I love to go there, I really feel better after I go.  Holly (not my famous sister in law) but still the best - I'm making her famous and Jessica, who does my hair - they are the best.  Not only as cosmo's but as friends.  Jessica has the cutest little baby girl named Sofia and Holly has a little boy (well he's in the 4th grade I think) named K - he is so smart!

Holly's K is fun to talk to, I see him every once in a while when Holly brings him to work.  Forgot how into things little boys are - oh wait, my oldest, St is still into things to the point of knowing everything - he knows everything about singers, movies, TV shows, and well, the entertainment stuff - he knows it.  I can text him, ask him anything about who so and so is or was in what - he knows... it's fun to know he knows.  It's like my own personal People magazine.  He is smart... and he gave his K a ring Monday night!  Yeah, its official.  Both my boys are getting married...  I love both the girls - and I will have daughters!  I am happy!

D M Wiseman,  happily going to have daughters, happily writing the next best novel, already published author

I started my PJ day in advance when I came home from work tonight...

Got home a whole hour earlier than normal, and thrilled!  Got out of my scrubs and into jeans and a thermal t-shirt to start my PJ day in advance - even though I am not wearing PJ's in reality, I am in my mind.  I am chilling on the couch, puppies at my feet, TV on and happy to be here.

My husband, my friend, my soul mate made me dinner, but burned it.  So, while I was on the way home, he made something else.  He is so wonderful to cook for me when I am on these long shifts.  As soon as I flip to midnight, I will do the cooking again...and see him more.  I get home, barely eat, then fall asleep - but I am so into NOT getting up tomorrow, that I am wide awake.  I am going to do a few chapters and then go to sleep - and get a lot of writing done tomorrow - in my jammies!

I think the puppies know its a jammie day too.  They have been all wild since I got home today.  And when I stopped to fire up the computer, Boomer grabbed my foot!  I gave him the evil eye and I swear he laughed at me!  Then he did it again when I stopped tossing his baby to check my email.  I know he is laughing at me, and he is spoiled, but seriously - he can't bite my toes just because he wants to play!  So, of course I played with him...  Ok, I spoil him.  I spoil Gracie too.  I am a spoiler of puppies - I admit it.

Tomorrow I will write, will play with the puppies, I will NOT get dressed, and I will have PBJ for dinner!  I am happy to have a day to write all day, and seriously get a lot of the novel done.  I only have 18 days to finish it, and I am ready to start tonight...I got the itch...

D M Wiseman,  serious spoiler of puppies, happy to write, and published author, next one nearly done...

The usual Monday stuff on no sleep, no food, and in the rain...

I got up and it was pouring rain, saw lightening while I was showering, and drove to work in the dark, rainy morning, and got caught by the train on Woodward for eight minutes.  Thank God (and my fear of being late) that I leave enough time to:  deal with the rain, walk in the dark, and wait for the train that was going very slow across the highway.  This is only the third time I have been caught by the train and I don't like it.  It was making me nuts, even though I knew I was early, I like to get a jump up on my shift. 

So, I left work 40 minutes late, and yep - you guessed it - I got caught by the train coming home too!  It has to be a conspiracy!  It wasn't an exact amount of time later - it was 625am and 804pm so I don't get it.  Also, it didn't happen the last three weeks going home, so what's the deal?  I just wanted to go home, take my shoes off, and eat something before I fell into my bed to sleep and do it all again tomorrow.  Is that too much to ask?  It seems not, not to me anyway...

I will NOT have to do it on Wednesday, or Thursday though, so I guess I can do it tomorrow.  When you know it's just for one more day, you can do anything.  And I know I can do it.  The PJ day is calling me!  Wednesday I don't intend to even get dressed!  I may make dinner for myself, but probably just make it a PBJ for dinner, and have an apple to balance it out.  I love having PBJ's for dinner - just don't tell my husband, my friend, and my soul mate - he doesn't like to even have breakfast for dinner! 

I wrote little thoughts on pieces of paper and stuck them into my pocket all day as I read the million or so policies that I had to get through, and while I was finishing up the schedules.  So, I will spend part of Wednesday putting those thoughts into my novel, or getting them ready for the next best novel... while I eat my PBJ!  I have thought up the way to get Leah and Mac off the boat and onto an island...

D M Wiseman,   one more day to go and PJ day and PBJ's here I come, published author

Morning like it used to be! and feeling good about the day...

I got up with the puppies and let them out, watching as they ran out into the fog - like a bad horror movie.  I made tea and waited for them to come back to the door, with a weird feeling in my stomach.  I really hate the fog, it's not a normal thing, and when I'm driving, it's really creepy - like scary and time changes when there's fog.  It's like the clouds fell or something.  But I digress...

The puppies came back and we went down to the family room, fired up the fireplace and snuggled with the puppy Boomer, with Gracie at my feet.  It was like all those other days:  wake early, snuggle with the pups, and write my novel.  I think this is a good day... if the fog would go away.  Maybe I should write a book with the fog being a part of the mystery.  A gorgeous man walks out of the fog, and ...

Well, first I have to finish the promised April novel, then the other three that I am thinking of.  Maybe one of those can have fog in them.... but I think that what ever pulls me to write, will be the next, after this one, novel.  I just need to write.  My personal goal is 12 novels, but I am not giving an end date for the 12.  I will do a book at a time goal.  If I could just get a set schedule at work, get a schedule to go to the boat, then I will be able to put myself on a realistic goal.  I want to be realistic - in my imagination - writing is totally imagination, when it's fiction.  So, get me through the orientation, and I will be more productive...

In the mean time, I will write some today, as my husband, my friend, my soul mate is going over to the boat to check it, but I think I will stay home.  I really need to finish a few cards - I only made one 'cap' for the graduation cards.  I did organize the room, though.  I should get points for that!  And while I was doing this, I thought of how to get my character off the boat, and into the chase...so it wasn't such a waste of time...

D M Wiseman,  productive, imaginative, and goal driven from this day on, published author

Got home so late last night, fell asleep without doing anything!...

I didn't get home until almost 11pm and fell asleep.  I took my computer to the U of M, but no wireless that I could use -so no blogging yesterday, and couldn't even answer my email - except on my iPhone.  And, in my haste to pack for the 'journey' I forgot to pick up my thumb drive with my latest novel on it.  I never said I was organized when I'm tired and in a hurry.  I usually make a list, so I don't forget things...I am turning into my mother in that regards.  Help me!

But, I did write a few ideas down, and made a plan for the next one after the second next novel that I will write.  I have three ideas, so not sure which one I will tackle after the one I have to (self imposed deadline) write by the end of April.  I also have to finish:  Easter Cards, Mother's Day Cards, Graduation Cards, and the pages for V's present for her graduation present.  I also need to make a few pages of her Crew days - she was a coxswain for the MSU Crew - where she met S - he was on the team, then an assistant coach.

I have a lot to do, and no time to do it, except at night or on weekends.  AND I have to finish the book.  I am not motivated right now to write, so I am off to the room upstairs that used to be St's bedroom that we made into a den that I took over after he moved out.  He used it for all his radio and computer stuff.  Now all my crack - I mean craft stuff is in there - and I can work on stuff, have stuff drying, and leave it out, without any one bothering it.  My husband, my friend, my soul mate calls it 'crack' and that my famous sister in law Holly is my 'crack dealer' because every time I go there, I buy more stuff.  It's addicting.  But, it makes great gifts... and I am making him an album for all his fire things.  So, its worth it.  And it keeps me off the streets!  Ha!

I have Wednesday and Thursday off, so all day Wednesday will be a PJ writing day, as the husband, etc has a late meeting and won't be home until 10pm.  Too bad the Chinese place in town doesn't deliver this far... then it would be a perfect day!  I could go to town, and buy it, but I might be too lazy.  We'll see.  Right now, I'm off to finish the cards that I need to get down, maybe... or start something new...I just may putter, so to speak, and arrange the room, or I don't know...but have fun in the mean time...while I do over a weeks worth of laundry!  Yikes, that's a whole day of work in it's self...

D M Wiseman,  craft crack playing all day, with a little bit of cleaning, laundry and maybe writing later, author

Two days of writing pushed into one kind of a day...

I was tired yesterday, and after going over what I wrote the night before, tweaking it a bit to a more acceptable angle on the path that I want my characters to go down, I went to bed without writing here, on my blog.  I guess it really doesn't matter, because I wrote on my novel.  I got home tonight after stopping to buy dog food, and I actually made dinner before my husband, my friend, my soul mate got home from his work.  It's been a long week, and it's not over yet.

I plan on sleeping in tomorrow - atleast two hours, maybe two and a half!  Then go and take my sister to the U for doc check up and chemo.  I plan on taking my lap top there, to get some writing done while we are at the hospital.  I take it with me, and sometimes, I even write!  Sometimes, I just edit, but most of the time I edit, or do re-writes.  I can't always concentrate with all the people around.  I call my sister Pat, I call my famous sister in law Holly - and probably will tomorrow, since she came home from California today.

I want to see how much I can write by the beginning of next week, so that I can really determine how much I will need to get done on Wednesday and Thursday - my only two days off next week.  I really need to keep to my plan to get this novel done by the end of April.  I'm not sure if I can do it - I am not hardly sleeping now.  BUT, I did the http://www.nanowrimo.com/ contest last November, and won, so I know I CAN do it.  I jsut need to give myself a daily deadline, and then stick to it, like I did before.

What I don't have is the daily, weekly, and sporatic uplifting and encouraging emails from the Light - as well as the daily word updates.  I can send them to myself, but it won't be quite the same, I think anyway.  I guess if I have a good enough imagination to write the novels, I should be able to pretend to myself and trick my mind into thinking or believing that I sent them to myself.  I can do that - hey I pretend that my novels are the next best thing to sliced bread, just wish they would generate some bread! Ha.

D M Wiseman,   not quite as psychotic as I pretend to be, but nuts just the same, published author...

I think that Michigan has finally done it now...

After the sunshine, rain, hail, sleet, thunder and lightening, not to mention the snow, I went to bed all snuggled in with my husband, my friend, my soul mate only to wake up this morning to find that it was 50 degrees outside.  In less than 12 hours, I experienced all four seasons.  Good God!  Even the most jaded Michigander has to complain about this!  The thunder and lightening was ridiculous, and a bit scary.  A lot scary, to be exact.  I was driving during the first of the storm, and then woke up around 3am by the storm in the night...

The puppies were NOT happy with either of the storms.  I know because they let us know their displeasure both times.  So, I am tired today, having my little sleep, disrupted.  V said that the puppies did not sleep hardly at all on Friday night, playing most of the night, needed outside at 3am and then again at 630am.  She was not happy, and I don't blame her.  I told her I was sorry, but inside, I laughed a bit - when we watch Leo, the three dogs wake ME up nearly every night, or early morning.  It happens but I get up early anyway... I didn't really care before, but now that I am working - I want my sleep...

I wrote some on my novel, but not enough and am falling further behind.  I am not happy, but don't know how to catch up.  I am dead tired after working, and yet, I can't turn my head off at night when I lay down to sleep... I want to write, I want to get this last one published, and yet, I am tired.  I would rather write than work, but so far I am not making enough to NOT work.  Crap.  I really would rather write...

D M Wiseman,   working, needing sleep, and really wanting to finish my novel, published author...

Holy Cow! What a weekend...getting caught up on my blog kind of night...

I got up on Friday, said good bye to my puppies, and went off to a crazy day at work.  I was attempting to learn to chart in a new computer system, without access to the system, with my only issue being I needed to eat.  By end of shift, I was hungry, needed to pee, and was on my way to the scrap thing - called a Weekend Crop - with my sister Pat, sister in law Carol, and our niece Cherie.  It was down in Woodhaven - I 75 and West Road - a million miles from home...but really only a bit over an hour...

I was not really thinking that I would have a nice time, because I really wasn't sure what I was going to do - if I was going to be bored? You know, have enough to do?  Not know what to do or want to leave early.  Well...I was really pleasantly surprised!  I had a blast!  It was fun, a great time to talk and get caught up on sister stuff, niece stuff, family issues (and there were many) and make knew friends. 

We ate, drank (only a little bit of liquor - wine coolers as a matter of fact - one each, each night...OK, I did finish my sister's but I couldn't let it go to waste), snacked, worked, shopped, and talked - a lot!  We were in raffles - I won twice!  I won a "Page Kit" which is really cool (and a lot of work!) as well as the coolest thing yet - I won a digital personalized photo album for what ever I want!  I can see a wedding album in the future!

I made a bunch of cards, as well as 9 "pages" and set up the 10th, which is a lot for me...I am slow, and don't really know what I am doing yet...I'm a 'newbie' is what they tell me.  I personally think the reason I didn't get a lot done (some women did a lot more than I did - like my sister Pat who did 40 pages!  40!  She is an over achiever and give the rest of us a bad rep!  Her pages were gorgeous!  I'll never be that good...) - anyway, the reason I didn't get a lot done is that we were an accordion divider away from the bar that apparently is the only entertainment in the Woodhaven area. 

The bar was packed, full of drunk participants in a very bad country karaoke competition that goes on every Friday and Saturday night.  Friday was bad enough, but Saturday was worse.  Now, I like Country Music, but I can only take so much off tune bad singing, and then I snap!  A new friend, a Music Teacher named Anne wanted to knife herself it was that bad.  I do give the people credit for getting up there, but don't they realize that no amount of alcohol will make them sing any better than before the alcohol.  In fact, maybe less alcohol would help their reading - learn the words, man!  Any way, I digress...

I had a good time this weekend, and will definitely go back.  In fact, we had such a good time - that Cherie and I were the last two to leave the crop at 3am late Saturday night, early Sunday morning - and were up to go again by breakfast Sunday.  But, we are both paying for it now...she is falling asleep next to me on the couch (long story short - it is April in Michigan - rain, thunderstorm, lightening, sleet, snow and she is staying over night because it is too bad of weather for her to drive back to CMU tonight), and I am yawning.  It's off to bed early for us both...  I have to work tomorrow, but only an eight hour shift.  Boo.  I will be home and really intend to write tomorrow night, to attempt to get caught up - but may not get totally up to the spot I wanted, but I will try...

D M Wiseman,  newly realized avid 'cropper' and as always, published author