Southern Fried Chicas

With New Years, along with resolutions lists made, comes bowl games and parades. And watching the Rose Bowl Parade, I thought, I wanna work on a Rose Bowl float. How cool would that be? I watched the beautiful, intricate floats go by while I thought of my resolutions list. But my secret desire to work on a float got me thinking of another list. My “wanna do” list.

There are so many things I wanna do. Sky diving, okay no that I will leave for someone else – I can live without ever having jumped out of a plane. But my list of “wanna do” is long.

How does this relate to writing you might ask…

In so very many ways. I believe all that we do can color, flavor, enrich our work. It lends to little nuances. No, I know you can write without having done “things”. If you have read Deadly Mistakes, you know there are several bodies adding up by the end of the book. I have no criminal history whatsoever. Nope, did not write from experience thankyouverymuch.

But to do other less felonious acts, I think it would be neat to actually get to complete my list of “wanna do”. And imagine how much it can add to my writing if I ever do.

My list
 

            * work on Rose Bowl Float                                    * Go to Ireland

            * work on Broadway production                            * Go on Archeology dig

            * Go back to Alaska                                              * Join USO

            * Red Cross worker                                               * run for city council

            * Scuba dive                                                          * Learn ballroom dance

            * work in a zoo                                                      * learn sign language

I am and have always been uber-curious (we all know this by now) – there are so many things I want to be when I grow up: an archeologist, forensic pathologist, writer (lookie, got one done), psychologist, singer (yeah that is soooo not gonna happen – trust me on this) nurse… oh and so many more. All of this I try to incorporate into my work. If I can’t do all by golly, one of my characters will!

So I was sitting here stalling…er thinking I’d like to get to know a little more about our blog readers. Are you creative?

I like doing graphics and designing webpages. Denise knits. Raine paints. Mik’s more of a creative computer geekette like myself and does our newsletter for our RWA Chapter.

Do you have creative tendancies and if so, how do you express yourself creatively?

In other news, I’d like to mention that I’m totally disgusted with Target for having VALENTINES cards out before NEW YEAR!

Sooo, here it is, barely a few days old.

The New Year.

Yup.  That’s what it is alright.  Okay.  Um-hmmm.  Here we are.  

The problem with finding ourselves in a “new place” is that we’re usually still carrying baggage from our previous journey.  Some of it is important, of course.  Lessons learned.  They keep us from making the same mistakes again and again (hopefully!).  

But how do we walk away with the lessons learned while leaving as much of the negative crap behind as possible?  How do we maintain the optimism and hope, despite past failures, disappointments—even fear?  Is it ever really possible to start fresh?

How do you plan to make your New Year really new?

It’s rainy and gross here this morning and I don’t have much to blog about regarding WIPs or writing or anything related to that. So. Instead, I thought we could all do something fun.

What are your simple pleasures? It could be just reading your favorite book or watching a movie. It doesn’t cost you a dime to make your happy. What makes you smile when you least expect it? Here’s a few of mine.

1. Listening to the rain in the middle of the night
2. Warm towels from the dryer
3. The scent of a man
4. My son’s laughter
5. Bubble baths

Get the idea?

So? What are your’s? Feel free to add to this all day.

Ok so it’s actually Tuesday afternoon, but I’ve written 8 pages and I need a break. My good friend and fellow writer, Madison Chase, interviewed me.

It’s up on her blog so go check it out!