Christmas is coming!

Well, tomorrow is the first of December, and that means it's almost time to start counting down for Christmas! I remember when I was a kid, and I would have those chocolate advent calenders... I used to love those. When I took German in high school my German teacher showed us a few advent candles... Ones with 25 marks on them and you burn down to the next mark each day. Those were pretty cool too. There was a few years that my mom made an advent calender for us. We each had a santa with 24 pockets, and then Mom would fill the pockets with different stuff; pencils, an ornament, chocolate, stuff like that. Those were cool too.

Duncan and I bought our Christmas tree last night, and a whole bunch of lights and ornaments. We got it all at Walmart. The trees not the nicest tree in the world, but it's nice, and it wasn't $200 like the ones we looked at at Sears or the Bay. The decorations are nice though, and so are the lights. We're gonna put it up tonight. We decided to go with just a few colors for the tree, so most of the ornaments we got are blue, red, and gold, with a few white ones tossed in. I think it'll look really nice, and I'm really excited about putting it up.

Duncan's staff Christmas party is this Saturday. We need to go shopping for a few things to give as gifts... We each have to take a new gift and a regift. I don't know what to give as a regift. I think we might still have one of the regifts that we got last year, but I have to find it... It was the UGLIEST Santa-shaped pump bottle for liquid soap. The UGLIEST. I know I've seen it since we moved in, but I don't know where we put it.

3 weeks until we leave for Saskatchewan. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. I mean, I'm excited to be part of Duncan's family's Christmas traditions, but I really will miss my own family. I'm sure things will all turn out okay, though.

Home sick and can't sleep!

I'm home sick from work today... And feeling absolutely miserable. My throat hurts, my chest is tight, and I feel like I'm having problems breathing. I slept on the couch for a while, and then tried to go back to bed, but I couldn't sleep cause I kept hearing noises. You know, bumps and creaks and stuff; all the noises that make you wonder if someone else is in your house, even when you know no one is.

So I'm up and on my computer on the couch.

Hopefully, if I can't get back to sleep, I'll get some writing done. I've got a great idea I've been working on, and it would be nice to get some more done on it. It's just a short story for now, but it has great potential to turn into a novel one day.

See, it's about this girl who has never fit into her town. The townsfolk and the nobility that live near by are all very set in reality, and have no use for anything different or mysterious or fantastical. They're all very superstitious, and won't let moonlight touch them, and they won't go into, or even talk about, the forest on the very edge of town. This girl is different, even though she tries to hide it. She prefers moonlight to sunshine, and likes to walk along the edge of the forest. One day the village witch (cause every village, no matter how superstitious, has to have an old crazy woman who's actually a witch), explains to this girl that she's really not like the others, that she was found as a baby on the edge of the forest. She's different because she's fairy-touched, and she has magic and mystery and the forest in her blood.

That's about as far as I've gotten so far. I have ideas for where it's going to go from here, but I have to figure out just how to get the first stuff down on paper first. Maybe I'll do some of that today if I can't sleep.

Wish me luck, and hope that I get better soon. I can't really afford to be off work... It's too busy!

Some days...

I wanted to write something today, but now I'm just not too sure about what to write. It's been one of those days where I just feel totally floored.
This morning I got some really shocking news that I wasn't really prepared to deal with. Nothing about my dad or anything else really close like that, but something that I really feel shook me. I feel... I don't know how I feel.

This is always kind of the mood that I've written best in. Maybe I'll get something done on that tonight... I almost feel bad for saying that, but it's the truth.

I think that Duncan and I might get our Christmas tree and decorations sometime this weekend, and we'll more than likely spend most of Saturday working on getting our Christmas lists together. Everybody has been asking for Christmas lists.
I don't think they'll be too complicated. Books and movies, mostly. Maybe some more of the towels off our registry lists, I'd like some new sweaters...
Something I'd really like is a digital camera, but I'm sure that won't happen. Digital cameras are just too expensive. Maybe we'll get lucky and get a VCR though. Those aren't that expensive now, and Grandma Taylor knows we want one.
*shrug*
I guess it doesn't matter too much.

Anyways, best to all. First advent coming up... A month to Christmas!

Not too bad so far!

Well, what do you know!
Second day, second post!
It's Wednesday, so I'm home from work for the afternoon. Gotta love time off! I've got big plans for this afternoon! I'm gonna have a bath, work on either writing or thank you notes from the wedding, and get dinner started! Hopefully, I might get even more than that done, but I'm not making any promises.

I get my stitches out tomorrow! For those of you I haven't told yet, I cut my hand last Thursday while I ws cutting apples to go with our pork roast for dinner. The knife slipped and I got 3 stitches in the palm of my left hand. Nice neat ones. The doctor who did them would be more than willing to do any mending I might have! *laugh* Thankfully they come out tomorrow, and I can go back to a regular life of washing dishes and taking showers once I don't have to worry so much about keeping it dry. Believe it or not, I'm really looking forward to being able to wash dishes again!

As for my writing, that's something I'm really trying to challenge myself to do more. There's so many ideas in my head though, and sometimes I have a hard time keeping them seperate from one another. That's where I've had problems before with stories... I'd just keep adding ideas as I got them until the story got so big that it either a) didn't make sense any more, or b) got so huge that it died a painful death suffocating under its own weight.
Hopefully now that I'm a little older I'll be more disciplined about that, but there's still the whole matter of actually writing. I've got a great idea right now though, and it's started, I just have to finish a draft and then round it out. It's not a novel by any means, at least not right now, but it has potential for growing into one eventually. I just have to keep at it, and not let it get too far ahead of me.

Oh well, best be off or none of this stuff is going to get done!

First time for everything...

Okay, so here we go! I've never done this before, but I'm going to give it a shot!
I plan on using this as a place to vent a little, think a little, brainstorm a little, and be myself a little.
I should warn you that I've never been very good at journalling, but since I spend time on my computer almost everyday anyways, hopefully I'll get better!
Feel free to leave comments, and I'll try and e-mail everyone more often!
Thanks and WISH ME LUCK!