Death in the Family

My mother-in-law just emailed, and Grandma has decided against doing anymore blood transfusions.  The doctors give her two weeks, maybe more.  The DH grandma has been more of a grandmother to me than my own. 

My paternal grandmother died when I was 9 and my maternal grandmother is still alive and kicking.  She's one of those people who should have maybe considered not having kids.  She seems to thrive on the chaos and guilt she creates.  I love her but sometimes...

Anyways, my hubby's grandmother is the type that always remembers to send a card and she tucks a little cash inside.  The card is what matters though, I have every card she's sent me.  She makes an effort for her family and we're all going to miss her terribly.  She's a real sweetheart.  I just hate the thought that Grandma isn't going to make it to Christmas. Maybe she will but I hate to wish for it if it will cause her anymore pain (cervical cancer). I don't want her to suffer.


We lost my great uncle this past week.  He just missed his 100th birthday, he really wanted to hit the 100 but the mind was strong and the body was weak.  Now I'm just waiting for the vultures to land,  they've been circling for a while.  He had no children of his own so it's going to be a fight between the nieces and nephews.  My parents are going to steer clear of the whole thing.  My dad will attend the funeral tomorrow.

Well, I think that's all I'm going to write.  I don't want to blather and drag it out.  Death is a fact of life, and both Grandma and great uncle have lived theirs to the fullest. 
I should do the same.

Old Movies

I recorded some old movies from TCM the other night.  Don Knotts movies-Herbie goes to Monte Carlo and The Incredible Mr. Limpett- the kids love them.  They laughed and laughed when Herbie did his classic car-catwalk, as my daughter called it.  I'm going to look for some more classic Disney movies for them.
I have a huge collection of Katherine Hepburn movies and my sister has Marilyn Monroe.  We grew to love the classics when we were kids and didn't have access to TV because we didn't have an antenna.  But we did have a VCR, eventually.  At first we rented a VCR and movies for a treat but after a while when the price came down we bought one.  But our parent's were very picky about what we watched, our selection usually being what we could get at the church library, hence classics with any bad language bleeped out.   That was all we needed to develop a love of classics.  My favorite actors being Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant, and James Stewart.  Also, Gracie Burns was absolutely hilarious.

Getting Ready

Today I polished up my story.  I also had a gal from my writer's club do a quick critique on it. 
Now I have my address, easy enough to find on page 3.  I don't get it when I hear all these people saying they can't find an address for them.  They don't have a strong web presence but they aren't a web magazine so there you go.
  All I need is a proper envelope and it's off.  That will be the start for my rejection letters.
  I think I'm a good writer but I know that rejection is part of the process and I think I've accepted that. 
So Woman's World here I come.

Book update

I am writing chapter 9 of my book this month.  I'm really fighting the urge to go back and start editing but I must finish it first.


My writing group has issued a challenge for this month; to get something sent out.  So I've wrote a short story and I'm getting it ready to send out.  This post will serve as a reminder for when I sent it out.

Time is cruising by

I sometimes feel like time is passing me by.
I don't feel like I've done the things I should have with my life.
Not that I'm depressed or unhappy quite the contrary.  I like my life the way it is.  Except I have these thoughts that if I look back in ten or twenty years I'll have regrets that I didn't work harder to get published or have some sort of career.
But I don't want to work just to be working.  I want to do something I love because why spend your whole life doing something you don't enjoy.  
My DD#1 turned 5 on Wednesday and I was looking at her baby pictures feeling a little melancholy for lack of a better word.   She's such a big girl now and I really am glad that baby stage is over.  But it makes me sad to think that in 5 years she'll need me less and then in ten years she'll be a temperamental teenager and then she'll will leave me.  I read somewhere once that kids get so they annoy the heck out of you so that when it is time for them to spread their wings and fly you're more than ready to give them the boot out of the nest.  Because if you had to let them go as babies or small children it would rip your heart out. 
So the progression of time has a purpose.