Today was supposed to be awesome. My brother came down at the beginning of the month to stay with us through the holidays, and it had been a good three years since I saw him last. And since I saw him last, I had two more babies (I was pregnant with one of them the last time I saw him). I have always known that my brother wasn't a kid person, he does good with ages 5+, but not so much the younger...

So I remember on here a little while ago that someone had found a website where you can enter a sample of your writing and it tells you what reading level it is at. I need that website. I thought I saved it, I didn't. And I so badly need that.I've recently applied to SNHU online to get into their Bachelor's program for a degree in Creative Writing and English with a focus in Fiction writing.Their...

So after having my HP for five years, and drooling over my husbands new Lenovo, we went to Best Buy today and I got to pick out a new laptop.When we were finally approached by an employee (probably my age, around 25ish), he asked what I was looking for."I want to play Skyrim.""On your computer?""Yeah.""Anything else?""I just want to play Skyrim. And it has to be good.""Okay well we have some...

Privacy is extremely important to me. I have less than 100 friends on my Facebook list and all but a handful are family, and the ones who aren't family are people I consider very close friends, and a very few (maybe five) are people that I've met through someone else and have known for years.Even fewer people have my phone number. Heck, I hardly have anyone's phone numbers.But last night I got a...

When my mother in law tries to tell me that I should write children's books because they're easier than a young adult book. I'm sorry but you have to have an interest in it if you're going yo do it (or at least I do) and I have ZERO interest in Children's books. I don't even read my own children, children's books. Yes mother in law, I do in fact read to them but since when has Harry Potter and The...

I've been working on a new story called The Lost One, it's an original fiction and I'm looking for some feedback on it because I'm really serious about this one and working hard. I also know how hard it can be to get quality feedback and constructive criticism unless you actively ask for it because sometimes people are afraid of hurting the writer's feelings or they don't know what to say other...

So much stuff to blog this morning.First. Cats. Really guys? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO LOUD WHEN THE CHILDRENS ARE SLEEPING?! I have two kittens or cats, whatever you want to call them. They're at that weird in between stage where they haven't yet reached maturity and full on laziness, but they aren't super tiny and tripping over everything. They're at the annoying, WHY MUST YOU PLAY WITH THE...

Who writes scenes out of order? I DO!I have my timeline all fleshed out, and I still need to flesh out the characters which I'm kind of doing as I go along, but I am actually writing a scene for the middle of the book right now before I go back and write the first scene for the book... I can't help it. The idea hits me while I'm staring at my timeline and I just have to get it out before I forget...

That is the question I've been asking myself since I came up with this great idea for my book. On the one hand, I really would love to post it and get feedback on it before I ever go to a publisher with it, but on the other hand, I don't want it to get stolen, or if by some miracle I do get it published or even self publish it as an e-book, no one buys it because they find they can read it here...

As I said the other day, I planned on writing a book. Well, I've got the idea, in my head. Now I don't know what to do with it. I have NO idea on how to develop characters, or how to get my plot down in an organized manner and out of my head so it makes sense when I go back to it, I've certainly got no idea how to plan ahead so that I don't end up getting stuck and giving up... I just need some...

Hates me. I have so much JUNK on it that it takes it a good hour to wake up and start working like it should. I'm slowly cleaning it out, but it takes forever because uninstalling programs that I haven't used in years takes forever, so I haven't even made it to my documents. I'm thinking of convincing my boyfriend that I need an external hard drive and a new laptop... What I want to do is get a...

But... There's always that giant but there. But I have this and that to do. Unfortunately, I have a lot of but's. I really want to get back into writing. I put my book off for so long that I'm almost a year passed the deadline I had set myself, and I was so close to being done with it... Rather, I still am so close to being done with it. I even paid one of my friends who is a graphic designer to...

So its been quite awhile. I'm actually writing this from my phone because my laptop is being very temperamental these days. So I don't really remember the last time I was on this but I'm pretty sure it was before I had my baby. My last baby. The last firsts I'll ever have are with her because there will be NO more babies. I got a tubal done. No more babies! She actually pooped on my couch today......

Seriously... planning sucks.You know what really sucks to plan?A wedding. That's right. I've been planning my wedding for the longest time, considering my boyfriend and I have been together 7 years and haven't had the money (we did this backwards and have 3 kids) for a proper wedding.We'll have a fairly small budget when we do get married, but I'm not into the super fancy really expensive stuff...

We found out the sex of the baby!!!It's a girl!!!!!I'm so excited and I cried when we found out, lol.We're naming her Jade Alexxis, which is the name we've had picked out since we got pregnant the first time, four years ago, with our son Jeffrey.Our mom's are super excited too, but I had to remind them that they probably won't get much time with her for the first few weeks... or months lol. We've...

Only this time it's not me, so I'm going to be absent a bit longer.So if y'all remember, my oldest son threw his tantrum over a week ago, and then he was throwing up all the next day, which was followed by my absolutely terrible two-day migraine... well then on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, my oldest woke up from a nap with a fever... Thanksgiving afternoon showed us his rash, and by...

I haven't been active at all the past few days... But as most of my friends know here, I'm pregnant with my third kiddo (22 weeks) and I was just NOT made for pregnancy. Seriously. With my first son I ended up having an emergency c-section due to severe preeclampsia, which is life-threatening high blood pressure. My BP was something like 201/160... I had a severe migraine, the doctors had me...

Right so I'm in such a weird mood (I blame pregnancy) and I've come up with a rather short list of things I hate... right off the top of my head.My kittens thinking that they can crawl into my lap and eat my food. No. Go away. This is MY Teriyaki Beef Soup. GO AWAY.Being pregnant. Which like, you're all probably like... don't you have kids?? Yes. Yes I do. I have two of them and I am currently...

Seriously it's almost one in the morning here and I have to be up at 7 so I can drive two hours to my MIL's house to drop my oldest off for the week, and to pick up my mom's two new kittens.Normally I'd be asleep by now. But I'm sitting here, wide awake, because the jerks who live across the little ditch (we have a backyard that's separated from the neighbors on the back side by a large ditch...

So Christmas is coming early for my mom this year. Not for any other reason except that what I was getting her was a live animal and it just so happened to end up happening sooner that I expected.First off, my boyfriend is NOT a cat person at all but my mom and I LOVE cats. When my mom moved in with my uncle, she had to give away her two cats that she had had for years because he didn't want them...