2013

I am behind in blog posts. And I looked up my blog today and saw I had 10 comments on my last post. I thought, "wow! What happened?" What happened was it was spammed 10 times with the same nonsense message. Oh well. In all the years I have had my blog, that has never happened.

I have spent the past few months battling migraines constantly and they are getting worse. I haven't been able to take all my supplements, go to the chiropractor or see the massage therapist that helps me out so much. I also think that change is coming and my hormones are a big part of my problem. So hopefully this next month I can try and tackle that again and get it under control. It is frustrating losing so much of each day battling my headaches until I can function. They get so bad so fast that I get pretty sick to my stomach. Driving Hannah to school in the morning is a test of endurance when I have one. I hate it.

I am trying to do the things that I can. Progress is slow. But I have been writing. I did so much that I completely fatigued my brain and had to take a break.

The beginning of January I worked on a really short story. It was 500 words and submitted it to a contest to win itunes giftcards. I won! But I don't how many stories I was up against. It may not have been very many. But still I won the giftcard was $20.00 and I could submit the story elsewhere to try and publish it. So I did. I can't post it here because of that. I worked on another short story for an anthology. It was a ghost story. I don't read that sort of thing and when I was writing it, I got really jumpy and it's probably really dumb. But it was good practice. I have no idea how long it will be before I hear back on that but hey, I have started and I am building my novel at the same time and have more ideas of things to do. Now if I could get the headaches under control, I might be able to accomplish so much more.

I have learned that I hate commas. I missed so much school in 4th grade and 7-9 grade that I can see where I am lacking in my grammar education and it is frustrating while I try to remember how to use something that seems so easy. It's not. I am trying. So don't judge me. ;)

All the kids activities have settled down some. It is quite nice. Down time is a good thing for them to have after school.

We are COLD!! I don't remember a winter that has been this cold for so long. I am tired of it. I am sure I was complaining about how hot is was for so long this summer. It is just crazy. Over 100 in the summer and below 0 in the summer. The snow has been here for weeks. The Christmas lights will have to stay up until spring I am sure.

It's late and I am going to go write something else now.