Happy New Year

So it’s a little late but Happy New Year. With so much happening over the holidays it’s been hard to get on-line to update anything. The baby’s home now. And she has a name. Kaelyn. She’s so adorable. And at two weeks old has a distinctive personality already. She always has to get one hand free from her receiving blanket.

Goals for 2008 are simple:

Write more
Read more
Spend less
Eat less
Exericise more
Spend more time with family.

Once we settle into a routine I will hopefully be able to blog more regularly too.

Until next time…

Cindy

It’s a girl!

The holidays have been hectic around here. I had wanted to post a Merry Christmas message but things happen. Christmas Eve day I got a call from my sister saying she was in the hospital. Her water broke. Two months early. I told my boss I was going to leave (the work I was trying to do was slow because the network was busy). She’d told me I could leave at 1:30 anyway and this was 1:15. So I went home and picked up a few things my sister needed. Her husband didn’t have any time to get anything. He’d just gotten home from work at 8:15 that morning and they were off to the hospital shortly after.

We waited a long time. I had to go home and pick up more things because it was decided they were doing the C-Section that day. By the time I got back to the hospital at 6:30 in the evening my niece had arrived!

My sister is doing great. The baby is improving. They have her off the respirator now. She’s still at the hospital and will be there for at least another week. But she’s gaining weight. I can’t wait for them to bring her home. Lots of changes going on here. I’ll have to clean out my office completely. Everything in storage. Good thing I have that laptop.

I’ll be back to post New Year’s Resolutions.

Until next time…

Cindy

You want to pay with what?

My sister and I went Christmas shopping last night. I still had a few things to get and she needed to buy presents for her husband. She works in an industry that receives tips so she was paying with cash. I had a budget so I was paying with cash. It’s so much easier to stick to a budget if you actually see yourself forking over money. We were checking out at one of the stores and I was paying first. The sales clerk rang up the sale. I started pulling twenty dollar bills out of my wallet. And he said, “You’re paying with cash?!” The way he said it almost made me laugh. Like people didn’t remember what cash even looked like anymore. And then my sister paid. With cash. He counted it wrong. Twice. So it seems since technology has taken over people can’t even count money anymore.

I still have a few more things to get but for the most part I’m done. And I haven’t gone that much over budget. Now I just have to wrap everything.

Until next time…

Cindy

The countdown has begun!

Okay, so for me the countdown to Christmas began November 1. As soon as Halloween is over we start thinking Christmas in my house. The bonus for having Thanksgiving in October:smile: Although, my friends in the U.S. get this really long celebration it seems, with everything happening so close together. Christine’s festivities sound like a lot of fun. Happy Thanksgiving to my readers from the U.S.!

Once my deadlines are done - I decided to enter the Golden Heart this year - I intend to bake, shop and decorate. Who knew rewriting my book would be so hard? I mean it was already complete. I was just adding a suspense plot to it. I’ve been doing nothing but rewriting and homework for the past few weeks. My screenwriting class started in October and it’s awesome. But hard when I’m concentrating on two things at once.

In more writing news, I finaled in the Chase the Dream Writers Contest. My Scottish time travel was picked as the week 9 finalist. If you have a minute please click here and vote.

Until next time…

Cindy

Martingrove Bears are everywhere

It’s rumoured that Kiefer Sutherland went to my high school. Rumoured because though I’ve had a number of people confirm the fact, I never saw him myself. The year I started at Martingrove he was gone. Rumour also has it that at the end of the previous school year he said that he was going to Hollywood to be a star. Whether that conversation actually happened I can’t confirm either. But people swear it happened in math class. Or was it science? Anyway, the reminiscing about high school started because I joined Facebook and started reconnecting with former classmates. And to my surprise I found out that Brian, the hottie from work who looked after my cats in the summer, went to Martingrove too. Small world. He was first year when I was fourth year. So our paths never would have crossed. Makes me wonder who else went to my school. I think I might have to find my old yearbooks and start looking through them to see who else I can find.

Until next time…

Cindy

The myth about pillow fights

Due to questions brought up at work from men and questions posed to Christine from a former school mate, also a man, I thought I would clear a few things up. Women, you already know this stuff so you can stop reading now if you want. Men, read on and learn the truth.

Sorry to burst your bubble guys but when women get together for pizza, movies and wine we actually do watch the movie, eat the pizza and drink the wine. There is not a pillow in sight. Unless we are using it for back support to get more comfortable on separate couches. There are no topless pillow fights. We don’t go skinny dipping with our girlfriends. We actually talk. And laugh. And listen. Like, oh, I don’t know, men. With all the chick flicks out there, with no pillow fights, I have to wonder why this myth is still be passed on from generation to generation.

I know it’s almost every guy’s fantasy. But guys, when the question is on the tip of your tongue when a woman says her friend is coming over, don’t ask - “Are you going to have a pillow fight?” The emphatic answer will be no. And they’ll spend the rest of the evening laughing at such a silly question while they watch the movie, eat the pizza and drink the wine.

Until next time…

Cindy