Jolene in Real Life

...At the RWA 2012 Conference in Anaheim that is.  I have a half hour left on the hour of in-room wi-fi I purchased so I decided to use it for a new post.  I bought that single hour of wi-fi because after the orientation meeting tonight, I realized that I really should have brought business cards down with me.  I had intended to.  But I procrastinated and then the day before when I still hadn't gotten around to it I decided it wouldn't be that big of a deal.  Boy was I wrong.  I managed to come back to my room with three cards after a single one hour meeting, but I felt stupid handing out strips of paper with my info.  So I purchased that hour of internet so I could go online and order my very own cards.  Unfortunately I won't have them for tomorrow as they won't be ready until later in the day, but I will have them on hand for Friday and even more importantly, for Saturday when I have my agent and publisher appointments. Other than feeling like ...

Being an Agnostic household, we don't actually celebrate Easter.  Not in the traditional sense at least.  On occasion we have attended brunches when invited, we even did an Easter egg hunt last year as part of a family get together.  But we did it the weekend before since other family members had real Easter plans.  Friday night when I was putting my kids to bed, my older son, asked me how many days until Easter.  When I told him two, he squealed with glee.  I was a bit apprehensive only because I was worried he was expecting something from the Easter bunny.  But when I asked him why, it turned out he was excited for an egg hunt.  An egg hunt I could handle, in fact it would be good for the kids.  Anything to pull them away from the television, right? Since I had exhausted my supply of plastic eggs (translation: I had thrown them out) I needed to run down to Target on Saturday and buy some more.  But then after I got home fro...

Two parts to this post: First, what do I really expect to achieve with this blog?  I'm beginning to think it is another form of procrastination.  Think back to my last post about procastinating versus just being lazy.  If I'm blogging on here, then I'm doing something that involves writing.  But it gives me less time to do actual writing, as in the kind that might get me published.  I haven't written any more on my sci-fi short story since Monday, however I managed to watch the highlights of the People's Choice Awards.  Perhaps I feel that if people enjoy reading this, then they might enjoy other things that I have written.  Seeing as how nobody is reading this, that part isn't going top well for me just yet.  But I will continue to write on here because every writer has a blog, right?  I promise it won't be all about writing though, that would just get boring.  If I ever end up with any followers, I might actually...

I just recieved the email confirming my membership to Romance Writers of America and I'm so excited!  It's kind of sad that it has taken me this long to sign up, but, better late than never!  I wonder if that counts for my accomplishment for the week.  Sadly I haven't done any actual story writing since Monday.  This morning I came to the realization that laziness is not to be confused with procrastination, at least not in my case.  Being lazy would mean not doing much of anything.  But I find myself doing plenty, mostly as a way to put off what I really should be doing.  Even now, writing in this blog means I am too busy to tend to auction items I should be inputting.  And when I finish posting this, I plan to explore the RWA website a bit with my new access.  After that I might get some auction work done, if I have time before I have to pick up my son.  Busy, busy, busy!