Thursday, March 26, 2009

Parenting your spouse?? WTF....

To understand what my ranting is about, please click on the title to read the article on CNN.com by Fernanda Moore.

Now that you've read it....take a deep breath. I know you are upset. I felt the same way. I have to start this with saying that the woman who wrote this article does not in any, way, shape or form represent women in general, or hell - any woman I've ever met. Not every woman, stay-at-home mother or not, treats her husband with this much disrespect and contempt.

I honestly cannot believe the audacity of this woman. I understand that this article came out quite a few days ago, but I just recently heard about it. It was painful to read through (or listen to as I was Episode 398 of http://www.nobodylikesonions.com/) How can she expect her husband to respect her when she insists on treating him like a child? Does she not believe in the equality of her spouse? Instead of barking at him like she was a dog (and I imagine something small and that yaps like a squeeky toy) "Baby Gate" "Install", she should try saying "Hon, do you mind putting up the baby gate when you get home from work?" Or, for once, thank her husband for putting in long hours in an economy where he's lucky to have a job at all! I work full time, am a full time mother (because that is a job you cannot just 'clock out' of, unless you are Casey Anthony), and if I even tried using the same tone with my husband, I would no longer have a home. Her 'profession', and I use this lightly, is to use write words for people to read. She can't spare some for her family in a positive tone? I can only imagine how bad it stung for the husband to have to read her words on the Internet.

Please, Mrs. Moore, open the cookie jar and give your husband his balls back.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Why I write

I've frequently pondered as to why I always feel this itch, this urge, this need, to write. Writing words on a page, or typing them here is a comfort to me. It is as if I am pulling a warm blanket over my body in the middle of a cold December night. The words are my hot cocoa and steal away from me some of my nervous energy or frustrations, leaving me feeling serene once they have flowed away from me.

As to what I'm writing, or the stories I'm willing to draw out from my hyper-active imagination, that remains to be seen, now does it?

I grew up reading mostly horror, fantasy, science fiction and even when the mood struck, romance*. Most of my writing has fallen into the horror/fantasty genres, thou there have been times when I'm suffering a block and switched to more adult writing. Technically, those writings also fall under those same genres. I'm too much of a cynic to successfully write a happy-ending cheesy romance, but still enough of a dreamer to understand the attraction.

Now I'm off to update the WIP on the Kindle and take care of some research.

*I can't help it - I'm a big fan of J.D. Robb, one pseudonym of Nora Roberts.
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Let The Music Move Ya

I usually wake up in a certain mood, looking for certain inspiration or a certain song. Nine times out of ten I can find it on Pandora, but adding the song to my playlist doesn't guarantee that I'll hear it within the next 5 minutes, half hour, or hell - that day.

After 'following' the talented Mr. Warren Ellis, he 'tweeted' something regarding the below site and after being bored enough to clicky-click, came across this beautiful gem. Its still in beta and there aren't a lot of songs available, but its a little more of what I'm looking for.

You can find my Blip Station here:

http://blip.fm/AlienFreak

No, there is no organization to it. And yes, the genre varies. Just be assured there will be no country-fing of that station.

Happy Listening!
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Do Your Part For HomeLand Security!

Tired of illegals clogging the roads, taking your jobs, and sucking all the tax money through welfare?

Do your part for Homeland Security!

If you click the link in the title, it takes you to a CNN report regarding a $2 million dollar program, in Texas, funded by Texas, designed to keep a sharp eye on our southern borders.

From the Internet. Because America obviously has nothing to do with their free time and we all want to make a difference, yes?
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

A new WIP

After the last year of this story bouncing around in my head, I'm finally getting it down in a paper plot (dear pen, how I've missed ye).

So yes, I have a new work in progress!

Details to come.
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