Harlequin Girl

Abby use to say that my cat Pickles looks like Adolph Hitler. So one day, after having too much coffee and finding myself awake when I should have been asleep I decided to photoshop my little kitty into a portrait of ol' Adolph. Not that I apprive of him, or anything he did in any way, shape or form. But, people got a kick out of it. I decided to post it today, since I deleted the little blog I had intended to do for it, but just never got around to.

I can't believe I've been so negligent with my blog. It's been over a month since my last post. Been busy with the holiday rush. Lots has happened, too much to really go into great detail but...

I spent the holiday with my parents and Unlce Jim. Jim took Ashes (parents cat) back to Ontario with him. They've left to work in Alberta for the next 4 months. It was hard to say goodbye to them since I got use to seeing them once a week.

Got into a bit of a car accident. Fenderbender really. An expensive bender. Next week is the appointment for the guy to get his car fixed then I can just put it behind me. Had to cash in a damn RRSP just to pay for it. Still irks me.

Had a date for New Years Eve and loved every second of it. He came over on the 1st (since I didn't work on the 2nd) and watched a few movies. Something happened though. Not sure what. I think sex had something to do with it. That wasn't his explanation, but after a week gone by with not even a hint of him online...I doubt his reasons.

I've been having fun playing WoW. I got invited to Terri's guild and the people there are so very nice. I'm half way to lvl 26. The guild is stressing over the server being split in two. We're on Whisperwind and it's one of the biggest servers out there. I'm not sure if we're going to move or not, but I wish we would talk about it more because no one wants to lose a guildie because no one knew what server to choose on their first logon. The expansion is out next Tuesday and I'm going to buy it, I think.

Workwise...I can't even get into exactly what happened but Steve is gone. Some changes are coming up on Monday that will make my life much much easier. Might be doing Curves as part of a work promotion.

Also, I've resolved to put some work into my book. I did a bit of research yesterday, because I let Marc read what I had so far. He claimed that I needed something big to happen right at the start for it to be any good. And claimed that my world sounded like that out of a Robert Jordan novel. I've never read Robert Jordan. Infact, I have limited knowledge of fantasy writers. I like Tolkien, Mercedes Lackey and Terry Pratchett. My problem with fantasy is the names. I get that they need cool names, but for instance...I picked up a book in my parents store one day where the warrior's surname was "Brightblade". Ugh.

I've picked up a drawing pad, some art pencils and am going to start to flesh out a map, the world...just get it all out in this giant pad and hopefully that will give me some inspiration to sit and write some more. I can't force it out of me, and it might take years to finish. But I have to ensure that I only put out what's decent.