2009 Resolutions… And Other Things
I survived Christmas. More importantly, I survived Christmas Eve. My bass player slept through the service and didn’t show until the last 15 minutes, but we still survived — with a couple of minor, yet blatant screw ups, but who’s keeping track? (me. ugh.) At any rate, I’m thankful that it’s over.
Cookies were apparently a big hit with friends and family alike — or at least, that’s what everyone’s saying so as not to hurt my feelings. LOL The stress of trying to pick the perfect recipes all goes away when my friends say they liked what I made. Suddenly, it’s all worth it. I also got some fun joke-ish gifts for Christmas along with some serious ones. Oddly enough, I’m really looking forward to Caroline and Jeff’s book of 101 ways to cook grits. If anything, it will make for a very interesting segment on AwK. I also received three bags of Folger’s coffee from Ed… which is awesome because I needed fertilizer for my flower bed.
A few weeks ago I made a post declaring all of the things I would have accomplished by the end of December, namely my book and my kitchen.
Neither are done.
I am, however, done with school and am looking forward to finishing some things up and spending some needed me time. It’s selfish, I know, but nyah! I haven’t done much with the kitchen since I posted about it last but, in my defense, there’s not much left to do. I’m thinking about taking another half day in January to do it.
The book isn’t done either, but it’s really coming along. For Christmas, Tom bought me a program called Scrivener, which was designed for people working on really large writing projects. It’s so amazing, and exponentially better than putting each chapter into a separate file. Scrivener keeps them together, and I can do a ton of stuff with it. (It’s also for Apple computers, which brings me to my next Christmas acquisition — I have commandeered Tom’s apple laptop. This has become the running joke in our house: I now have 3 computers and Tom only has 1. Both laptops are now firmly in my possession. :P) But back to my book. I’m having a lot of fun and a lot of my focus has gone to this project.
It feels stupid to say I’m writing a book, hence why I don’t really tell a lot of people about it. For one thing, I don’t get paid to do this. I’ve never been published, and I don’t expect to be. It’s the dream, but highly unlikely. I’m an amateur who just really likes to write. And hey, if you don’t count all of the laptops I’ve been stealing from Tom, I would be able to say that doing it costs me absolutely $0, which makes it the perfect hobby during this trying economy.
It’s a story about Kari Eliana Hunter, a woman who becomes a necromancer — by accident. Necromancers, the most powerful spellcasters on the planet, fell out of vogue a couple thousand years ago when human sacrifice became antiquated. Our dashing, yet sarcastic heroine does not want to pursue the necromantic gifts in the traditional, stabby way, yet really likes dead things and has an amazing way with knives, unless you count her necromancer knives that are forced to sleep in her underwear drawer when they start acting up or tell fibs. For over twenty years, she’s managed to live completely unnoticed by most of the magic world, until she gets in the middle of a fight between a vampire and his self-centered voodoo ex-girlfriend. Now the voodoo community has found out about Kari — and if there’s anything the voodoo community likes, it’s killing necromancers and absorbing their innate powers. Kari’s arch nemesis is waiting for her at every turn, and sadly they’ve skipped the hair pulling part of girl fights and gone straight to hair cutting.
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