A Life Lesson from my Husband

How to Listen to a Woman

1.     Ask her how her day was

2.     Tell her she dresses up nicely and smells good

3.     Tell her she was right (sometimes she’s wrong) tell her she is always right

4.     Respect her and she’ll respect you

5.     Never hit her because she can make your life a living hell

6.     If she has a bad day tell her its okay, hug her, and a smile will appear

7.     Show her you love all the time

8.     Spend time with her and she’ll be happy

9.     Tell her you love her

10.            If she’s got kids and you’re dating her, say I’ve got your back through the hard times and the easy times

Tons of Updates

            It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog! I was getting so good a making sure I had a blog every day or every week, too. I was so proud of myself. Don’t feel bad, though, readers. All of my blogs have suffered. There is so much going on.

            I completed Twelve Months and Weird. I also completed two new collection books: Egotistical Mama (poetry) and A Perfectly Secret Affair (short story). Things got a little difficult last year when I was competing in the National Novel Writing Month (November) with my other novels, but if you saw the list I had to begin with you’d realize that it wouldn’t have mattered. My goal is to complete every novel on the list before the end of the year. That’s a lot of books to finish writing. I think I can do it though. Look for the list later.

            Not only have things been happening with the magazine (see the blurb below), but things have been going on at work and at home.

            Things at work are constantly changing. New general manager, new supervisor, new people, and new rules; tons of craziness.

            At home things aren’t any better. Grandma has cancer.

Reviews

            Thinking back as to why I created this blog, I’m not sure that I should have. I don’t review books, movies, or TV shows as often as I would like. I’m going to try to be more diligent about it, but don’t be surprised if you only get a review of a season premiere or season finale of a TV show. Maybe a series premiere; stay tuned for my reviews of the final episodes of Fringe and Private Practice. I’ll be reviewing American Horror Story: Asylum as well. Plus a season long review of the former show as well and thoughts on the upcoming season of the same show.

            Also please don’t be surprised if you get a smattering of episode reviews throughout a season as well. These will be ones that just caught my attention and that I feel like reviewing. Keep you as updated as I possibly can.

Novels to be Completed

1. Life and Death
2. Suicide Killer
3. Dreamland Theater
4. Sai
5. Endless Soul

GZine

            A lot has been going on with GZine lately. We’re going on our fourth issue and we’ve even sold a copy of the 3^rd issue! It’s not much, but it’s a start.

            Issue Four will contain the contests from issues 5 and 6. The explanation is below.

            From now on GZine will be released every three months. That way there is more content and a better shot at making the magazine even better than it was before. There will be still be columns, recipes, reviews, questions, and more for you all to enjoy. As soon as I have the information, you will know more about it.

            Issue 4 of GZine will be released March 1. Be prepared.

Twelve Months

Twelve Months

            The idea for twelve months came pretty randomly. I had been looking at an Avon book and in the jewelry section I kept looking at the birthstone rings. An idea formed rather quickly. There are twelve months in a year, right? What if in 1980 twelve children had been born? Six girls, six boys. They were raised together and named for their birthstones. Easy right? Garnet (January), Amethyst (February), Aquamarine (March), Diamond (April), Emerald (May), Pearl (June), Ruby (July), Peridot (August), Sapphire (September), Zircon (October), Topaz (November), and Tanzanite (December). What if they dated? There was enough of them. Garnet (female) & Tanzanite (male), Amethyst (female) & Peridot (male), Aquamarine (male) & Pearl (female), Diamond (female) & Topaz (male), Emerald (female) & Zircon (male), and Ruby (male) & Sapphire (female).

            After that was decided there had to be something big going to happen. A wedding! That’s not the only thing. They’re all pregnant and going to have the babies around the same time. Then some really BIG has to happen. The end of the world, perhaps?

            Well there you have it. Twelve Months in a nutshell.

Tragedy Abounds, a poem

Tragedy Abounds

Today I went to school

It was like any other

Until

A man came

Looking for his mother

He came in

Saying she wasn’t any good

Then he started

Shooting us with his gun

So many of us gone

We were so young

We ranged in ages

From 5-10

Those were just the kids

He took 18 of us

Today with only

11 days until Christams

We won’t see another

We won’t be a mother

Nor will we be a father

We won’t live to see

Grandchildren

Great-grandchildren

And so on

This man killed us

Today on 12-14-12

The world mourned

The worst school shooting at

An elementary school in the country

They say

On this day

Let us not forget Columbine

And Thurston High School

On this great day of tragedy

Let us all be reminded of

Not only this day

But others as well

We won’t be the first

But we will be the youngest

Rest in Peace all you little angels

12-14-12

Work Stuff

          I’ve been rather absent for awhile now with the blogs. There hasn’t been much time. I took time off in November for National Novel Writing Month (I needed 17,000+ more words to complete the novel) and working on the magazine was put on hold as well. There will be a double issue coming up at the first of the year for that.

          The reason I’m decided to finally write something for the blog is that I’m frustrated with things at work at the moment. Now I know that I shouldn’t write things about work because it could cost me my job. As far as I know no one from work reads my blog or even knows I have one. If they do read it, well, I can’t help that. I can’t keep things inside.

          There have been a lot of changes at work and not all of them are good. The old General Manager was fired and the temporary isn’t very good. I’m hoping that a former employee gets the job because then one of my good friends won’t be leaving.

          People aren’t doing their work during the morning and swing shifts and its left to me to do them. They aren’t checking CLC (Corporate Lodging: It’s for drivers and certain business owners. They give us their card we swipe it and charge it like a credit card). They don’t make sure the card is current, don’t get a current one, and if they don’t have a current one they don’t call the tech support to get a fax authorization THEN they don’t put it with the registration card!

          They don’t make sure that the server is on or hasn’t frozen. I do my best to check it at least once or twice a shift because I can’t do my work if it’s not working. Things get lost or don’t get done properly if that isn’t working.

          I know that people aren’t happy with what’s going on around here and everyone is pretending that it is. It can’t keep going if the business is going to survive. I won’t leave, I can’t. I need the job and I like the people I work with. I just don’t understand a lot of what goes on around here. People who haven’t been here long get pushed ahead of people that have been here longer.

          More later.

Update

Seems like just about every amateur writer around is doing a novel for National Novel Writing Month and I’m no exception. Unfortunately I started four days late and I can only write five days out of seven. With all of this stacked against me, I’m going to do my best.

I know that I’ve been lax in blog entries for every blog I’m doing. I do apologize. This month isn’t going to be much better.

So that’s it for now. More later.

2030 Sneak Peek

I headed as fast as I could without getting stopped to the interstate. I had no trouble spotting a van, it was the only one there. I slowly approached the van and was ready for anything. I had disguised my car, myself, and Akania. No one would be able to tell that it was us.

          I looked for any sign of life from the van and saw Ella. I smiled. Thank God, I thought. Thank God.

          I slowly approached the van with my car and I hoped that Ella could see me. I made one of your hand signals that would let her know that I was me. I think I saw her nod.

          The back of the van opened, slowly. Three heads poked out. They were all safe. Three pairs of feet hit the ground, but Arthur had to carry James. They ran for all they were worth. I had the doors open and the engine revved and ready to go. “Get in! Get In!” I called.

          “Are you really her?” Ella asked.

          “At this moment, does it matter as long as you’re getting away from the people holding you captive?”

          “Good point. Move!”

          “Come on baby, let’s move!” Arthur said.

          I nodded and the doors closed. We raced off, hopefully before they realized what had happened.