I'm still coughing, but feel much better today...

I am still coughing, but I feel better today - enough to go to work tonight.  I have a lot to do and really need to do my work on the schedule.  I need to get it done tonight, so cough or not - here I come.

I have also broken my 'writer's block' and am finishing the book that has been plaguing me.  It is nearly done, and then the editing time will be short, as I re-read editing at the same time.  I think the book will get me going towards the goal of a dozen books written.

Today, I contacted the little paper in our area, to see if an article on the November contest (it is coming up fast!) for writers www.NaNoWriMo.com and get some publicity for the cause.  And maybe my books, so I can get some more books sold... maybe give a discount if they mention reading about it in the little paper...

I also want to do a Barcamp - but I am wondering where to have it.  The biggest issue is not where to hold it, but who will come...what if no one comes?  How embarrassing would that be?  I think if my family comes, that will help (there's a lot of them) but I really need to have WRITERS come.  Writers in this area that are going to be writing for the contest.  I know I am!

Barcamp - I want it to be a success, but have no idea how to do it...I have researched how to and will use the www.NaNoWriMo.com site to network the people in my area.  There has to be people like me, that are writers, in their off times...

D M Wiseman, trying to organize a Barcamp, published author

I'm on the boat and it didn't rain...

Believe it or not, it didn't rain and we are on the boat. There was a lot of rocking - and not from that! I needed to cough every time I laid down, so nebulizer treatments twice in the night didn't help my boat sickness any. I just need to coat my throat with something and then drug myself to sleep. The puppies thought it was all in great fun, getting up and down all night!

A reader called with a suggestion on cough medicine. I think I might just give it a try. Thanks, Lisa!

Today though, spending a quiet day missing both my father as well as my husband, my friend, my soul mate's father. Both wonderful men in their own way. Miss them both. Should write a book of stories about them...would be a good sell and better read!!!

Going to write tonight on he story I finally can finish. And watch out - I am going to organize a Barcamp in the fall for area novelists or budding novelists that will gear us up for the NaNoWriMo contest in November that started this whole author thing!!!

For those of you who don't know what a Barcamp is - it is a 'non-conference'. Or a un-structured meeting. Look it up (I did) It's really cool sounding. Wonder if any one would come in my area? We'll see if I can pull it off. In the mean time, I have to get book number three finished so I can enter the contest in November clean! Give me strength because last time I was confined to a sitting position and wasn't working. This time, it's another story!

D M Wiseman, ready to finish the sixth in order to write the seventh, and still coughing - published author

Feeling better this am and smell better too...

I got up this morning feeling better, could breathe much better, but still with a funky voice. I fEel better and smell way better too. Then the doge came to me all droopy and wet from playing. I won't even be mad that they woke me up at 620am. Way too early but got up to keep the calm - and get them outside to play.

I spent the next few minutes in peace -with a nice cup of hot tea. Ahh the joys of normalcy. Then the dogs came in. Chaos ensued. Oh well, they are happy and good, so I can tolerate the chaos. Just like having kids.

Oh, and we are going to have another Grand Puppy - S and V are going to adopt another puppy that a friend of my husband, my friend, my soul mate rescued. She looks a little like Leo - reddish and has almaost the same ears. The family sure is growing. They will get her the first part of August - she's in heat right now and I am NOT going through that again!!!

So, my day will be normal, calm, and close to the bathroom, my breathing machine, and all my mess. God this is pathetic. I am baseing my day on my bronchitis and my machine. Oh well, better to get better Athens venture out. I'll get some writing done at least!

D M Wiseman, breathing better but still not perfect, writing for awhile, published author...

I am wearing Au De wet dog and am generally sick...

I am sick with bronchitis with a sore throat, post nasal drip, sore chest and fever on and off.  I saw the doctor then had to take my baby Boomer to the vets because he is sick again.  Throwing up everything and generally feeling poorly (that's an old fashion word for feeling 'punk') and not eating or drinking.  He was so pitiful at 2am when I had to clean up puke on the blanket in our room.

Then all the puke before I could get him to the vets today.  He has just as much medicine to take as I do.  There doesn't seem to be anywhere he didn't puke.  I got him to the vets, a shot or two later and he feels better now.  Ate dinner, so far kept it down.  But that is not the best of the day...

Gracie, after playing so hard with our Grand Puppy Leo, was getting a drink out of our pool and fell in.  Not a big deal as Alpine Mastiff's can swim, but the pool has not been 'opened' yet and is filled with dirty yucky water and the cover with air things and frogs.  I was alone with the three dogs, she was the only one outside, and as I was trying the rescue thing. Leo and Boomer went through the screen door to assist me in the rescue.  Thus the Au De wet dog smell one me.  I dislike the smell, big time.

I will take my last meds, and tuck on down to sleep, hopefully for an all night rest - without puke and with me not coughing my head off...

D M Wiseman, sick, wet and coughing, published author

But I don't want to wait until November to write the new book...

I have a new idea for a book, and I don't want to wait until November and the contest - you know the contest that is put on every November by NaNoWriMo (www.NaNoWriMo.com), which stands for National Novel Writing Month - for budding novelists or seasoned writers - you write a novel (at least 50,000 words) in 30 days.  It takes over the entire month, your entire waking minute - and I have an idea that I could write in 2011's contest. 

But, I don't want to wait until November to write it, and I really should.  I need to finish the two I have started, but I'm at a wall, one of those 'writer's block' thing that happens.  I can think of a lot of things to write, but not the finish to the book that is almost done.  How do I know that it is almost done?  I don't know that either, but I feel that to finish it, I just need a few good chapters, and to get the mix done.  I can do it, I know I can, but I just need the boost, to get over this 'block' thing.

So, I am not writing today.  Maybe not even tomorrow.  I will wait until it hits me.  I will re-read the chapters that I wrote, and then I will be able to get back into the story - and be able to finish it.  get it published, get the sixth one published!  I really need to do this, to finish it.  I hate not finishing something that I have started.  It's like my baby - its mine and I want it out there in cyberspace, where it can be read by the one person that buys my books will read it.  Yep, I'm good with that.  So, I will be scrapbooking with my famous sister in law tomorrow, instead of writing.  I have things to do, and things to create, before I write...

D M Wiseman, procrastinating while still trying to write, published author...

Saturday and its still raining...with good news as well...

It's Saturday morning, and I woke to hear the sound of wheezing, coughing, and generalized breathing distress.  For a minute, I digressed to when the boys were little again.  S used to get bronchitis quite often, had croup on a regular basis, and these breathing noises brought it all back.  God I miss having babies.

Then, sanity came back.  I do not miss having BABIES.  My boys are men now, and probably in the next five years I will have grand babies.  But, just every once in a while, I get the pang.  My famous sister in law Holly understands this.  She gets what we call our 'baby fix' by seeing friends babies.  And now, yes I am going to say it aloud (actually in cyberspace) SHE is going to be a grandmother.  Her oldest daughter is pregnant, and it is even better - she is having twins.

Twins run in our husband's family and now twins are here again.  I will be able to get my baby fix quite often, as we will all have to pitch in and help.  We are already discussing cupcakes for the baby shower.  I think it will be pastels, animals, no - maybe primary colors, but still animals.  Any way, we have time.

I have a pang of envy - I would have loved to have the first grand babies in the family - but I can be the best Grand Aunt ever!  Besides, this is shell shocked talk, because there is no way my kids want kids right now.  And I know it.  They say they are not ready, and I agree with them.  I'm not old enough to be a Grandmother.  But, who is ready, really? 

Oh, and it was my husband, my friend, my soul mate that is sick - all congested, bronchitis and such.  I gave him a breathing treatment, breakfast and then off to the bath to steam his lungs open.  He is hacking up half his lungs, and it will be a weekend of listening to him hack and whine about being sick.  I hate being a nurse sometimes.  When I get paid, it is not too bad, but on my off time?  Ok, so it doesn't suck.  I just like NOT having to worry about stuff once in a while...

D M Wiseman, new to the idea of being a Grand Aunt - my word!, and still published author...

Rain rain go away. I'm not complaining but...

Why is it that the week is gorgeous, hot and sunny - and the weekend comes, and it rains?  We are not going to the boat today (after my time with my sister at the U getting the chemo she calls rat poison!).  No, it is raining and the wind is horrible which causes me to spin on the boat.  It is not pretty, so staying home tonight is the plan. 

We are going tomorrow, regardless of the rain - there are meds for the spinning, so I can function, but tonight, I am not pushing it.  The dogs are laying at my feet (new couch and the Boomer can't get on it - his little legs can't get him up!) and my husband, my friend, my soul mate is sitting on the chair playing with his new toy - an iPad.  He loves it.  I do too, but I already have an iPhone - and I can live without it.  What I want is one of those notebooks... the smaller laptop that I can drag around, and still download to the main computer at home, burn to a CD or keep my book on the thumb drive.  I really want one.  If I don't just buy one, I will drop LOUD hints about my birthday coming up...

This week, I worked four straight nights.  That is a horrible thing to do, but it gives me three off with the husband (etc).  We went to look at houses with S and V - they are going to live less than a mile from St -and the house they were looking at, is very similar to St's.  It is cute, has a lot of personality, along with landscaping - even has one of those Koi ponds in the fenced back yard!  Important word fenced - Leo, my grand puppy needs his own yard.  And the best part of this is that now my two dogs can go to their house when we go to Miami in August! (a whole nother story why we are going to Miami in August!  Hot, yep but I can't wait!). 

So I am one happy mom - both boys will be living within a mile of each other and not too far from us!  I love my son's spouses to be, and its summer.  It is raining, but I am not complaining!

D M Wiseman, happily writing in the rain, published author...

What a week, what a night, what kind of life is this?

I am getting too old for this, I have decided.  Not the blog, not the writing, not the published author bit.  But, I am too old for working midnights and not getting any sleep.  I have decided that I need sleep.  If I don't get enough, I am crabby, I am slow and I find myself obsessing about how much I am going to get - you know, if I go to sleep now, I'll only get X hours of sleep.  I then amend every time the time changes.

So, I find myself obsessing about the bed.  About the covers, about the air conditioning, about which dog is snoring, and virtually everything that can screw up my naps!  I take the phone to the side of the bed with me, and then curse it when it rings and I wake up to answer it.  Why don't I just NOT answer, and turn off the ringer?  Because I feel the need to answer it.  I have children, I have a fire fighter for a husband.  I have to answer the phone.  Actually, I don't, right?  Tell that to me over and over again, and I might turn the damn thing off.

I also get up and let the dogs out, if they need to go out.  They can go 12 hours at night, 12 hours if we leave them and go out without them, 12 hours if it is raining.  So, why can't they wait a few hours why I sleep?  I don't know. 

I also need to get up and occasionally pee.  Yep, I'll say it.  I can't NOT pee in the day sleep time.  I can go all night (when it is night - ha!) without getting up, but when I sleep in the day, I can't NOT get up.  Why is that?  Oh, because I drink tea all night when I work...that's why I have to get up all day when I sleep... but seriously, I get up way too many times. 

I get up way too many times...and it's all at my own fault.  Yep, I am to blame, but anyway, is this any way to live?  I eat, sleep, and obsess about both.  I have lost 25 pounds since I started my wedding diet (the one where I need to lose 50 pounds and my muffin tops in order to look great in the dress I am wearing to S and V's wedding in June of 2012), and watch everything I eat balancing it on my 2 5 10 diet that is working amazingly well...but I digress...

I will not obsess about my sleep, I will continue to work, and eat a well balanced 2 5 10 diet meals.  Then, I will sleep when I am tired, and when I am not tired, I will write until I am.  This is my new goal.  It's a good goal, but not going to work today, as I got up twice to pee, once to let Boomer outside, and the phone rang twice.  Oh well.  There is always tomorrow...

D M Wiseman, with an empty bladder, bags under my eyes, and yawning, but writing away, published author...