Thursday, January 18, 2007

First test blog post

Yes, I've finally done it.

Now, I will probably forget to ever update it.

I'm in my mid to late 30's, I have a husband, DH, and 2 kids, hereafter known as DS1 and DS2, because I'll think of funny names for them later, probably. My family is great. My DH and I have our quarrels, but we're both fairly non-confrontational, at least until I get PMS-y and explode. My kids are bundles of energy and smart and sweet, when they're not trying to break each others' head with whatever is handiest. They're 4 1/2 and 7 right now. Sweet boys.

I work part time in a fabric store. I have a lot of fabric. I sew a little bit, quilt a little bit but am no genius at it, besides which my machines always seem to break down. Yes, I now have 3 machines, but one hasn't worked or even been used since last summer, the newest one's timing is off, so any zig-zag is a b*tch, and the 3rd one works perfectly... for a Sew Mini Janome. It goes straight, it zig-zags, it is infinitely slow, infinitely weak, politely dependable.

I read a lot of books. My all time favorite is Pride and Prejudice, but my favorite modern author is Jennifer Crusie. Her first books are romance with great characters, her latest have a lot more suspense and action, but are still romance and still have great characters. Favs are Faking It, Don't Look Down (written with Bob Meyer, who writes books with lots of guns), and Bet Me (which doesn't have a mystery plot, and which is gloriously written). I didn't "discover" her until last summer, when I picked up Don't Look Down off the new release shelf at the library, in the middle of my reading spree while I "discovered" romance novels. Yeah, I hadn't read many before, but had been depressed for a while and happy endings are great. There are a lot of schlocky ones, a lot of porn-with-a-happy-ending, a lot of more-or-less historical, and quite a few gems. Like Crusie, who really can write.

I want to learn to write better. If I can sustain a story for more than 20 pages, I know my writing is better than some of the stuff I have read. Even if my plot is weak, it's better than some of the plots I've read. So I'm not the most self-assured person in the world, but hey, I've never written a whole book before. I'm working on one now, but it's very early on and it might stink.

Please excuse typos. I can spell, I just can't type. I'll run spellcheck, I promise, but DS2 was just on my lap pulling my turtleneck up over my eyes, so there might be some interesting stuff that I haven't fixed. My fault for wearing an ancient cowl-neck sweater that I knitted in the late 80's (but I haven't knit anything since DS1 was born, though I have accumulated some really nice yarn in the last couple of years).

Um, I'll have to use another computer to post pictures, because this one is incapable of downloading from our digital camera.

I guess that's it. My little piece of Internet history.

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