More schooling

Well, I've given some thought to going to college for English. Penn State has a $50 application fee, though.

Bored at work

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The time has come...

...for me to lose weight.  Chris and I were babysitting last night and he called me into the bathroom.

"Step on this," he said, pointing to a scale.
"Um, ok."  I step on it.  "Wow, it's reading, like, fourteen pounds heavier than it should."
"I'm sure." 

I'm getting dangerously close to the weight I never wanted to be at.  The weight where I would force myself to stop eating.  The time has come.  I need to start eating like I did when I was married to my first husband: never.  I wasn't allowed.  We ate when he wanted to eat and what he wanted to eat and if I wanted a Tasty Kake, he'd give me greif.  DARN YOU, CHRISTOPHER, FOR NOT BEING AN ASSHAT!

Just kidding.  I looked into Weight Watchers again; holy balls, is that expensive.  I glanced at the Nutrisystem website.  Even with $100 off it's $300 for a month's worth of food.  Sensa was something else that caught my eye, but their "free trial" doesn't sound so free; it's $80 for a 60 day supply after the "free" is done.

Suddenly, I can't stop thinking about the candy bars in my lunch box.  Well, I'm not going to waste them!

Maybe this will help me write more.  Do you think I can "write" the hunger away?  Me either.

My fairy name is Columbine Goblinglow
She brings riches and wealth.
She lives in mushroom fields and quiet meadows.
She is only seen in the light of a full moon.
She wears lilac and purple like columbine flowers and has gentle green wings like a butterfly.
Find out your fairy names with The Fairy Name Generator!

Name error of the day

I was searching blogs to find grammatical errors, but instead found a funny error at work.  Someone entered the patient "Debra" into the computer as "David."  I'm not sure how that happens; especially when they filled out that the patient was a female.  Oh well.

Grammatical Errors of the Day

"'The inspector noted that he was very impressed with the operations of the home and facility itself,' explains Cindy."

Does this bother anyone else?  How and/or why would the inspector note he was impressed?  Wouldn't he note the excellent operations, not his impression?  Anyway, it bothers me.

"The dishwasher will be ran every Tues. and Wed."

It should read, "will be run".  This is hanging up in the kitchen at work.

I am a tad clueless sometimes on verb conjugations (especially lay and lie), so I double checked the conjugation of run (on the interwebz, of course) and the sign is wrong.  Stay tuned for more!

Working again

At work again.  Bored.  Found out that they're going to pay us for the hours we missed yesterday so I won't have to make them up.  Mom will be happy; she wanted me to color her hair tomorrow.

I got in trouble today for wearing sneakers.  I was wondering when that would happen.  Now I have to convice Chris to let me buy new shoes to wear with my black pants.  If I can't wear my DCs, the only other shoes that go with black pants would be flats (my pants are too long for those) or high heels (those are just uncomfortable).  Apparently, someone complained about the sneakers, so I'll just use this as a good opportunity to go shopping...even if I don't have the money to do so.

First rejection letter!

I got my first rejection letter (well, email) the other day.  My book wasn't what they were looking for, it said.  I feel honored just to have someone email me back.  I mean, it looked like they actually read my query and typed the response themselves.  Pretty cool, I think.


We had a mini-earthquake today.  It felt like Chris was wrestling someone on the floor.  At first, I thought I was losing my mind.  I have vertigo, and thought it was just a bad episode.  But then I realized the curtains were moving, too, not just the floor, and I said to Chris, "What the hell is shaking the house?"  He was kinda clueless that anything was happening until I said something.  I honestly thought the foundation of our house was caving in.  That the landlord would be over at any minute (he lives diagonal from us) to get us out.  Or that a beam had fallen over in the basement.  I walked outside to see if maybe the neighbors who had just put in a pool were doing more yard work, possibly digging, near our house.  But there was nothing.  Chris wondered if it was an earthquake and I kinda thought that was out of the question.  Then a friend of ours who lives just down the way hopped onto Team Speak and asked if we felt our house shake.  He had felt it, too, and thought that a tree branch had hit his house.

Eventually, I saw on facebook that there was an earthquake in VA and it registered 3.5 or something like that up here.  I went to work an hour later and it was crazy in there.  Apparently, the owner decided to close down all the branches (there was supposed to be aftershocks or something) and they diverted their phones to us.  There was something up with the computer system, though, and referrals weren't printing out.  So we had phones ringing off the hook and piles of referrals that couldn't be processed.  Then, we got shut down at 4.  I worked one hour today....yeah.  I'm going to ask if I can work on Thurs. to make up the hours, but I doubt it.

Kayla's out there!

Guess what?  I've been busy sending queries!  I'm nervous!  Talking with Nora last night made me also think about sending my poetry to some places.  I wonder how many poems publishers want for a collection?  One in Writer's Market said they wanted at least 200!  I know I don't have that many.

Everyone at work is leaving me!  Diana transferred my second week here; Ashley starts her new position in September; now Joanne, the other secretary, accepted a new job.  Crystal has an interview sometime, though she's only a temp here right now.  Soon, I'll be the boss and I've only been here a month!  I jokingly told the ladies that I should demand a raise, but they said HNA doesn't respond to threats, lol.

Can't wait to go home and play WoW.  I did get my preist to 85, so now I'm working on gear.  Firelands dailies on most of my toons are keeping me busy.  Also, Chris is beta-testing the new Star Wars game and he lets me play every once in a while.  It's pretty awesome.

Finished editing...again!

So, I finally finished editing my book for probably the 100th time.  I took me two nights and a workday to read it, and I was pretty impressed with myself for that.  I thought it was on the short side, but I'm a pretty fast reader.  It's 69 thousand words (and some odd change) which, according to what I found on Google, makes it a "novella". 

I've been back and forth with the official name for it.  I've stuck with "Kayla's Second Chance" for a while.  I was thinking of making it "The Wish" and the sequels could be "The Wedding", "The Job", etc.  But there's already a book called "The Wish" (again, Google) and then I started thinking that "Kayla's Second Chance" would work with sequels like, "Kayla's (Second) Wedding," which I actually started writing tonight at work.  I'm so excited!

Working hard...or hardly working?

The title of this post is actually a line from my book, lulz.  Anyway, blogging at work.  This is the first weekend I've been scheduled.  I've been here two and half hours and I've already written on myself (on my Hello Kitty t-shirt, mind you!).  Got my first paycheck yesterday and it's already gone to bills, hooray.  I was hoping I could get a new tattoo.  =(

I might bring my laptop in tomorrow and work on my query letter or whatever it is that first publisher I'm working on wants.  Maybe edit some more.  Edit, edit, edit!