Very Early Saturday

Hello, well it's Saturday and on Friday night I spent tow hours on the phone with Melissa. She is doing good.....She hung up and is going to go watch Memoirs Of A Geisha.
We have decided instead of a reception for her and Travis we are doing a family barbeque on May 21st. Now to get through Easter and then this inbetween I have to finish the end of the book which today happened to be a good start and then I have to finish the rewrites of the book and FINALLY send it off....
She is coming in next weekend and we are deciding on where to send it offically so that should be fun.
April feels like a better month than March did and it' s barely April Fools Day!
Okay let's talk about my next friend: Eva--she is a school teacher at a Catholic School in San Antonio, Texas she is teaching Fourth Grade and she really can't stand a couple of the kid's parents.LOLOL.....
Eva is almost forty, married for the second time has two girls Allison and Reagan they are beautiful girls.....
Eva loves to read she started out reading romances but now has moved to cozy, and things like how to books, biographyies, she lvoes bubble baths, taking long walks, her students, and they are building a brand new home starting now it's going to Tuscany decorated and I think Hacienda Designed....she loves tea, some pops and water.....she goes to the movies by herself, gets her hair done and nails done, goes to church, loves to cook and bake....they are going to put in a swimming pool and the girls love horseback riding....
I am not sure what her husband does but it pay handsomely and she loves him dearly penny pincher and all.
She has a brother and sister-law in Florida and she will be an Aunt for the first time this summer.
Eva also loves history and travel...they usually vacation at the beach or in Maine.....that is where she is orginally from and she also quilts and sews when time permits.
Eva has many many friends and I admire her strength nothing gets in this woman's way when she wants something. She likes her soap operas and tapes them plus she loves some of the reality shows and home decorating shows.
Eva is a person who fills her life with beautiful things, people and food. She always looks her best, has the best, and wants the best for everyone. She seems to be one of my friends who is just plain and simple BLESSED.....
Okay that is it for now......Hugs, Pamela

Friday Afternoon

It's Friday and I couldn't be more pleased. Today is a wonderful sunny day with 76 degree temps and a nice beeze blowing through my lace curtains. This is a soul-wrming day the kind of day that makes you wish for many things and mostly makes you feel glad to be alive.
Today I started doing something that I think it will work for me.
Today I brought up my book and will write off and on all day long so far I have written one page and reworked a couple of other pages and so I will write a little then go do laundry or dishes maybe answer an email or two then back to writing. I will do this until this book is completed.
I feel sorry for my characters they are shut inside in a snow storm and I have this beautiful day but will days like this my imagination just floats on a cloud and along with the breeze. An idea flutters through the open wndow and gently kisses my mind with a thought that is like a seed buried in the ground and as I do laundry this thought blooms into a scene and springs forth like a honeysuckle giving a sweet smell of succcess that takes root in the story ending.
So today when the sunsets I will have worked in my story garden and it's one honeysuckle of a day.

Thursday Throes

Oh God I will be sooo glad when this month is over and done. e had bad weather on Thursday well no big deal we live in Kansas and afterall it is Spring. Most people cannot wait for Spring but if you live in tornado alley you sometimes want to skip it....well Thursday afternoon Mishell came over and we talked and then she went home the next thing I know the weather channel last a red alert with all their bells and whistles that there is a tornado watch/warning but while it was partly for our area the fact that a tornado had been spotted in Thayer and ten miles out which covered Mishell's farm was leaving this mama in a panic........I called all the numbers for her NO ANSWER I was frantic as the winds picked up even worse here and I just knew she was in trouble this lasted all afternoon and I went to the freezer took out ice cream since I knew better than to get in the car and go looking on my own.....I ate ice cream....I waited....ate ice cream ....waited.....FINALLY at 5:00 or a little after she calls seems they had went to the children's school in Galesburg and they were all fine but their storage shed (this is a metal building) was blown away, so was their yardswing and bird bath along with other things but they were all safe.....I swear I need to quit worrying about these kids because they'll be the death of me.
She is also the daughter having surgery at 9:00 in the morning so after I found her safe and sound I decided to head back to the library book sale and bought her twelve more books to read while she is laid up. I also bought me a few but only one cozy however the one cozy is the one I have been looking for -forever it is ONE FOR THE MONEY by Jannet Evanovich.......
So at least that turned out lucky and while there I conversed with my friend Ellynne whom I used to work at the library with and who is now Children's Librarian at our local library and we made plans to walk together this spring. THIS IS A GOOD THING......we are both big women so we won't have run to catch up with the other. This also means at first I will not have to power walk....
Tonight I watched t.v. and chilled but then the ice cream I had went straight through me in a BIG D sorta way so I've been in the bathroom again.....and you thought a writer's life was easy??? Shoot......maybe if I lived on an island without family and cabana boys, endless writing supplies, a body like Sharon Stone and a mind like Oprah and endless supply of cozies and a bird who takes my manuscripts to the mainland, and brings back all the steak and baked potatoes I want or brings me tacos and cream puffs, and I can sip pina coladas or have international flavored coffees, and at night I can dance to the drums of natives and pretend I am Kathleen Turner in JEWEL OF THE NILE.....but with my luck I'd end up on an island the military is using for target practice and get my groove thing shot off....but then no good fantasy is real without a little reality.....
Now to my next friend I want to talk about......Carolyn her name is Carolyn and she is older than me as in 51 and she has been married five times.....see she is creative person she wants all types of weddings she doesn't however want to stay married.LOLOL Well she didn't now I think she would because now she is more stable and she is one of those women who got prettier with age....her figure got better with age and she is a lot more practical than she used to be. But she is also one of the biggest softies I ever saw if a person came to her and needed food she would give them food and the shirt off of her back even if what the told her was a bunch of bull. She would spend her last dime on her friends....and she wouldn't complain one bit about it. On the other hand she is lonely, bored and I am trying to get her to have adventures.....
Okay well enough blogging for one night but I wanted to get on here and blow off some steam....LOLOLOL.
Hugs, Pamela

Wednesday night

Hello, well tonight has been a great night in view of the passed several days. I went book shopping for my daughter Mishell. Her birthday was today she is 31 (needless to say she is my step-daughter) since I am only 48.LOLOL. I also stopped at the library for the library book sale. I got her four more books....
I had KFC for supper and talked to my daughter Amy who is now working two jobs and seven days a week.
Got an email from my daughter Amanda I am still too steamed to talk about that one. Except to say I am royally ticked off.
Tonight I am going to try my hand at writing and maybe do some stitching although my friend Kathleen and I are going to be stitching Fredrick The Literate starting on Saturday.
The weather says we are definitely in for storm most of them hit hard tomorrow afternoon.
What is everyone else up to---tonight?
I really wish someone would let me know if you read these blogs???
I decided when I make real money as an author I want an office like Sue Grafton's except I want all black and white movie posters in my office and my books covers adorning the walls as well. But I love the built in space she has and the fact she has room for a love seat at either end of her office. My office has color and is not nearly as big or organzied.
Sometimes I feel my world is too small.......
Hugs, Pamela

Wednesday Woes

Okay I give up I'm still tired and I've had more sleep since Saturday than I've had all month. Today seems to be a colon day so I know where I will be today.
But it's spring outside and for that I am kinda grateful. lately I am trying to be in bed by 2:00 in the morning so far as so good but last night I couldn't sleep, I took my bubbles, had a good enough book, but my nose kept smelling smoke. Frank was not amused but hey my nose never lies well it I guess it did this time.....
Anyway I'll be back on here later today or tonight weather permitting and colon......I'm watching another episode of MAD ABOUT YOU......
Hugs, Pamela

Monday Night--

Okay it's Monday and I think I am feeling better if I'm not please don't tell me.LOL. I kept another night of supper down although it was only cream of wheat and toast I still felt as though this was a good sign.
I watched a Perry Mason Movie tonight on the Hallmark Channel. I still don't feel like doing much but at least I am better.
I think I'll take my bubbles and read in the tub while sipping on something cool.
Hugs, Pamela

Monday Moans

I'm sick.....I have a stomach virus that hit be totally out of the blue Saturday night. Melissa & Travis walked in to me rally being sick (I was so embrassed) I had put Chase to bed early because Frank was called to Wichita on a wrecker run and so Melissa got Travis and Chase out of here they spent the night at Travis's Aunt Cindy's house then Melissa ran to the store for supplies for me and every time that night I lifted my head out of the toliet she was there showing me wedding pictures....this turned out to be pretty funny (at least later I thought so) she was sooo excited about her wedding and honeymoon and I was soooo sick....then she brought in a cactus she had bought one for me and one for her and said whoever's cactus does first owes the other one a shopping trip.....
She also brought me two coffee mugs from New Mexico....she brought Daddy a beautiful blanket and a T-Shirt from Mexico....
Today I am up way way early but maybe I am actually back on days now that I have slept for about 24 hours straight through. My head and stomach are still touchy and kinda strange but I do feel better than I did on Saturday night.
I house is trashed so I will slowly begin the process of getting it back to normal. I already washed some clothes this morning. I'm afraid my writing will suffer for another day or two then maybe I will be able to sit at the computer long enough to get those last chapters written.
It's one of those days where it's only 9:00 in the morning but feels like 3:00 in the afternoon.
Okay I am going to sign off now until later....Hugs, Pamela

Saturday Part Two

Okay I've done some laundry, napped and watched a movie and still they are not back from Mishell's house. I'm leaving the dishes for him.
Okay the next friend I want to blog about is named : Glenda, Glenda I have known for over twenty years and while we have been to writer's meetings together, spent time (at mostly her house) but spent time at eachother's house, given birthday, Christmas Presents, watched kids and seen both of our families grow up together and lived through many many crisis together it seems that we never really knew eachother until lately.
For instance she never knew I was born in Chicago. And the list goes on both ways....so in many ways I feel Glenda and I are a mystery to one another. For one I can't understand her always obsessing over her weight....
I think part of it is people change over the years. Life and circumstances change us all we are continually discovering things about ourselves. For instance I have discovered that people who nitpick DRIVE ME CRAZY, I just want life to be sane again. You ladies over 35 will understand. Back when Mayberry wasn't classic t.v. watching but you actually lived it.
Back when THAT GIRL didn't meant THAT KIND OF GIRL....LOLOL.....
I am very liberal but even I crave some of the old ways like Sunday Dinner being homemade.
Well Glenda is the friend who used to be Christmas Lights she could glow in the dark....now she's like a box of chocolates "You never know what you're gonna get"
Which can obsess, be nit picky, loads of fun, brooding, zaney and go deep this sometimes can be in a matter of hours.LOLOL
You need a lot of energy for Glenda's kind've pace....yet she is methodical and over thinks things so now she is a pretty package wrapped and put under the tree and when you unwrap it- it really is a surprise. It facsinating to watch, hard to believe and dowright unerving to deal with. LOLOL.
She has come out of her box but she's still wearing the bow.LOLOL. Gotta love a person who can still look good wearing any mood. I do hope she gets in the writing mood soon....she has many books inside her probably one for each mood it's getting her to write consistantly and getting her mood to stay consistantly so she can accomplish her REAL CAREER without getting sidetracked that has me saying..."What do you do with a SMART COOKIE who crumbles all the way to GRANDMOTHER'S and then beats the hell out of the BIG BAD WOLF stops off and threatens GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS..follows bread crumbs stead of her COOKIE TRAIL home and then says "I didn't get much accomplished today"
I even gave her a shovel to bury the bodies and she still strays from the plot.LOLOLOL.
She's sorta a control freak but hey we all have our faults maybe I'm being too nitpicky.....Heehee
so that is Glenda in a nutshell....a beautiful well built nutshell I suppose I should be happy I am just a graham cracker and not a pecan.

Saturday Silence

Hello, well it's peaceful "Silence Really Is Golden" Frank and Chase went to Mishell's home in the country so Chase could play with his cousins. PEACE..........
I am sitting here with my cup of coffee (French Vanilla) looking out my dirty office window into the sunshine the birds singing and longing for it to be warm enough to use my yard swing. My daughter and her new husband should be here later and I mean a lot later tonight.....
I have a sore throat today and I don't care, I have pms and I don't care! LOLOLOL
I think today I'll fill you in on some of my friends....I have a friend Terri whom I adore...she has wit my kind've humor, she is so much fun and I live vicariously through her, she is thoughtful, kind and is so independent (that she could have been one of my daughters if she wasn't already close to my age in fact I think I often think of her like a sister instead of a friend. She is just sooo good to me and a person everyone should have their life because she is loyal and true to herself. I like that in people and rarely these days do you see many people who can be true to themselves in all situations but she can and she leads a very interesting life. If it is not concerts then it's new and strange foods (sometimes I think this part is icky) but shussshhh don't tell her that, if not that then she doing home inprovements, buying furniture or books shopping, she loves various things that I have never tried and sometimes never ever thought of trying. (I've just lived in Parsons too long) she has the wisdom of an old soul and is still young at heart and daring enough to love life.....she is what I call a real person. She actually loves her job and by the rest of her lifestyle her job is kinda boring but the fact that she's good at it and loves it is what makes her sooo Terri. She is someone I would love to meet for supper and travel with and have adventures with because she would make traveling fun....
She will be going to Malice Domestic this year since it's close to where she lives and I am sooo jealous as I have always wanted to go and never had the money to go so once again I will live vicariosly through her. Okay I think the one thing I truly love about Terri is ............she does everything with her heart......oh and another thing I love about Terri is that she doesn't cave to the popular vote and has a really good bullshit detector.LOL. She just is the true meaning of friendship and being true to yourself.
Okay next time I will write about another friend....
Hugs,Pamela

Friday Follies

It's Friday...YIPPEE....well it's sunny and 50 which means Chase could go outside and play. He has had sooo much fun today.
His parents phoned they are on their way home from Vegas. They gambled earlier today and she won fifteen dollars and lost eighty.LOLOL. Travis decided they should come home now.
My friend Terri sent me a cozy book titled THE COMATOSE CAT...boy am I happy to get it I am low on cozies.
I had a heart to heart with a writer friend of mine and I think I got her back on the writing track today which feels good.
Now I will be back on my own writing track after everyone leaves on Sunday and then it's time to give the house a facelift.
I now have my hair washed and my face on. I am feeling human.
It's tacos for supper and then it's mystery night around here plus I can soak in a bubble bath....read and relax.
Hugs, Pamela

Evening

Okay I got a nap in shussshhhh...Chase went to play with his cousin Joey this afternoon and grandma curled up on the couch and slept like a baby. I am still behind but I got a nap in......YIPPEEE............
I am still doing laundry but I got a nap in. Now I can have the energy to deal with round two.
Tomorrow is Friday and YIPPEE because we are going into the weekend and I can start to see the end of the road. I love my grandson but I am an honest person this one almost got the best of me....But he didn't get the best of me afterall...See just see what a nap does for me!!! LOLOL
See in my mind I'm a 25 year old and have all of this energy but in practice I have 60 but in age I am actually 48 so you see
how this all evens out!!!! A nap shaves years off of my age.
Hugs, Pamela

Thursday Afternoon

Hello everyone,
Okay Chase got me up early this morning.....in a not so good way...but we won't go there. Anyway along about 11:00 I got creative (maybe also in a not so good way) but I decided to have Chase & I make a "Sprin Bug Cake"
It's easy you take a yellow or white Cake Mix and follow the directions. I make two round cakes then you let the cakes cool and you turn one out on the cake platter or cake plate and you spread peabut butter (of your choice I use smooth) and then add either grape, strawberry or apple jelly we used apple then you place the second layer on top with more peanut butter an jelly then place gummie or gummy bugs such as worms etc...arcoss the top in the jelly. I do not put anything on the sides you could if you wanted to but I think NOT....
Kids love this cake and it's called a Spring Bug Cake....
He is big on peanut butter and jelly so this was my own creation.....You can also use jam but I was out of jam so it was jelly.
I am making it giving him a piece and sending him to Aunt Cindy's for the afternoon.LOLOLOLOL
I am then going to do laundry,dishes, clean and bake a chicken for supper.

Thursday Evening

Hello everyone, Well today has been okay but I will be glad when the whole next week is behind me. I did write into the wee morning hours so that is still going pretty well and I am thankful for the fact that I worked my way into a twist ending.
Now for the time to continue to write over the next week with a five year old grandson here and five days out of seven of rain predictions.
Meliss & Travis are either getting married at a state park or are getting married in Vegas depending on how much trouble they have with the state park. They shouldn't have any but Plan B is always lurking if they do.
I ran errands today to the post office and all around so now maybe I won't have to get out for a day or two, also did laundry and still am doing laundry, plus tonight I made chicken & Stuffing, green beans and pears with biscuits for our evening meal.
In the house cleaning department, I changed sheets, fed cats, picked up the living room, bagged trash did laundry, still have bathrooms and floors then I am pretty okay.
Need to work on the office some more but I can do that later or tomorrow before Melissa & Chase arrive.
I got a secret sister package in the mail today and it was filled with cross stitch projects. Hugs, Pamela

Friday Follies

Hello everyone, well now the plans have changed again, my daughter will be coming here tonight and we will go to Joplin to shop for her wedding dress. This better for me right now but I am also worried about grandchildren, as Amanda left a message today that Bailey Anne and Karley were both going to the hospital Karley for a breaking out in a rash and a high fever, and Bailey for dehydration so here I sit waiting for word on what all is going on with my grandaughters.
I have hardly written this last few days but I am trying to get passed all the family drama and the words won't come yet but they will probably after the weekend.
My daughter will inspire me to write or something will happen. Hugs, Pamela

Tuesday Troubles

Hello, well we are going to be blowing in thunderstorm and possibly tornadoes in Kansas this week starting tonight so you may not hear from me due to weather conditions and possibly Mother Nature's Wrath. I take it seriously because in 2000 Frank and I lost our home to a tornado here in Kansas. I think at that time it was the first one in 52 years. But you know we live in tornado alley so we'll see how this week goes. The tornado season has started a month early which does not make me feel warm and cozy.
I wrote early this morning but only a couple of three pages as I hit another blind spot. Now the thunderstorms will hit so I hope that I can do a writing marathon before we leave for Kansas City Friday night to help Melissa pick out her wedding dress.
Okay later....Hugs, Pamela

Monday Musings...........

Well today I did some things around the house after getting up and starting my day. Mostly cleaned up my emails and such things as that then Frank and I went to Wal-Mart for a while. Then took a very short drive (do we know how to live or what?) Came home and the youngest Melissa phoned she is getting married at the end of the month so she requested I make a jaunt up there to Kansas City this coming weekend to help her pick out a wedding dress. Frank and I will go and I'll be helping her pick out her wedding dress. The following weekend she will be coming and dropping Chase off and then the following weekend she will be picking him up.
During all of this of course I am still expected to finish the book. I am sure some magical fairies from the writing world will come into my office some night and sprinkle magic fairy dust so that the book will be finished on time. Then again I still believe in Santa Claus. I've had to take two days off in a row due to a sick husband and the fact he's given me his crud of a cold. This morning I hope the muse is good to me because I need it to be VERY GOOD TO ME.....LOLOL.
I can the future "I see blank pages waiting for perls of action, mystery, humor to drop on the page while I wipe the sweat from my brow, drip panic in my veins and have visions of rewrites which are more haunting than any mystery"
There that is my prediction. I know kinda how some of the next few pages should go but when I had it in my head just the way I wanted it two days ago my printer decided to snag, websites decided to not be attainable and husband was sick so in the aftermath of the emotional hurricane of my office here I sit pondering why I didn't pick up the legal pad and jot down exactly what I was thinking.....BECAUSE I wasn't thinking it came to me and now I am sitting here thinking that IF ONLY I'd been THINKING this could have been avoided. I guess it's time to multi-task the crisis, headaches and then I can not be blindsided my life.
Hugs, Pamela

Saturday Sisters

Hello everyone, well today I want to say that over on cozyarmchairgroup@yahoogorups.com
We are honoring JANET ELAINE SMITH mystery author for the month. So if anyone wants to joing a great mystery writing and reading group this is the one for you as we have several published mystery authors on our list. Myself included. They are all my sisters in writing and reading over there and I own the group. Today it's rainy and cool in Parsons with storms due to blow in later tonight. Iv'e had printer problems for the passed two days.
Hugs, Pamela In Kansas

Early Thursday Morning

Well it's time to write but thought I would check in before writing. The more I write the more nervous I get about this book. It's almost completed and I am shaking and sweating. It's been four years since I've been published. Merry handled a lot of the PR before at least with the publisher etc....so I am about to embark on a new advernture. Not to mention I am entering this realm alone as before I have had a coauthor but now it's all on me good or bad it's all on me. I am giving birth and no one but me can do this and I am afraid of what lies ahead, reflective on what was....and definitely scared of what is....yet as a writer/author, I venture forth and hope against hope that all was not in vain. This is probably one of the worst times for me to have written a book we've had some family angst, we've had crisis and a huge birthday run on top of the Christmas run. If you've read my other blogs you already know about births and marriages so now with a little luck I will make my debut hopefully by late summer or fall.
There is still some rewriting and then money to make POD happen and also the time frame to which it will be released. Then of course there is the BIG PROMO....book signings and much more. Bu through it all I have faith that if my late mentor Monette were standing over my shoulder she would say.....ARE YOU CRAZY??? Did I teach you nothing? I would say "I AM WHAT I AM" then she would laugh and tell me to get back to work.