writerly ways

what can i say? I haven't exactly started the year off right but you've seen why not. It's rough. ah well. I'll do better.

I'm still considering my pen name so I can start up a twitter/FB/blog for my 'author's platform' (and will probably move this weekly post to that once I get it done).

Anyone know any good stock icon places to look at for writing related and/or pretty scenary icons?

I still need to start rocking the origfic_bingo cards since i now have Dec AND Jan's to complete

Here's a prompt from this prompt thing I wasted money on (and I do mean wasted since so many of them aren't that good butI thought I'd start sharing them with everyone.)

The prompt as written says Imagine you were born just a few hundred feet on the other side of the Mexico/US border. How different is your life because of this very slight change in the location of your birth

Frankly I'm not so freaking sure that this is going to help anyone write anything but let's broaden this. How would you/your character be different if you changed their birth location maybe exactly city life for country or vice versa. This sort of goes with the last fma_fic_contest prompt: growing up Resembol. How does where you grow up shape you?

And thanks to bob_fish for her input on yesterday's original fiction filter post

Total for 2010

125979 / 175000 words. 72% done!

yeah I failed.

so here's my new goal for 2011

3521 / 125000 words. 3% done!

First Weight Off Post

Well my request for companions on this journey to a healthier, slimmer us was well and truly met. I'm not going to list you all out here. Since no one had any dissenting ideas, I'm just going to do a post on sundays where we can announce our success/failure, whine and praise, share tips and recipes. It's all very informal. Come and go as you please. Play nice. I don't think I need to say that but it never hurts to remind us when we're dealing with a touchy topic to begin with.

I don't think we have to announce our weights unless we want to. Some of us are comfortable with that. Others aren't. Our goals might be nice to know. Ironically, today as I fixed up the nutrition lectures for my nurses, the new material included a BMI calculator. Yes, they're not 100% accurate but it's free and easy. If you want me to run it for you and see what it says you need to lose, ask (or PM if you don't want to put your height and weight out in the open.)

my goal is 75 pounds off. Yeah. I'm fat. I know this. But hell this time last year that number would have been 100 pounds so progress. I'm not bothering with my measurements. I don't know it. Round and lump, that's a measurement right?


My first tip: From Obesity magazine, drink 2 8 oz glasses of water before every meal. Well, we're supposed to drink 8 of those a day anyhow, this gets 6 of them out of the way. The idea here is that how hungry/sated we are is based mostly on stretch of the stomach. This stretches it out and says we're full so we eat less. Besides, again, you need that water any how.

First couple of recipes such as they are. Both are from the South Beach Diet book.

( recipes )

p.s. dont' read too much into the music select. That's just what came up on my 'spa shuffle'

How Ishte Ruined my cat's life

Just ASK him. As per her suggestions for ear mites, Soul got his first mineral oil in the ear drops today. He ran around, slammed into the table, slammed into the couch then rolled on the floor trying to get it out. I'm like dude, it was a DROP. You can relax now. He's having none of it. He's been glaring at me ever since.

of course enemytosleep is about to ruin my day when she announces that we should have X number of things accomplished on our fma big bangs. whimpers.

I did nothing but work on my lectures ALL DAY. But they're all updated. finally. I'm ready for tomorrow in theory. It'll be an adjustment. I haven't had to be at work at 8:30 since last April. shudders. I hate spring semester.

Oh I lied. I did something else. I wrote 300 words of original fiction. oh boy.

( Day 90, Soul in better days when he loved life )