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A Cold Before Christmas

Published on December 22, 2012, by in Uncategorized.

Man…I just bounced this month.

Blog…what blog?

Er…oops. This is the least I have checked in since the summer, for sure.

I have been working six days a week since October and I am spent. I come home and collapse I to a heap of exhaustion…and my days off have been uneventful at best and terrible at worst.

Today I woke up for work at 6am to find that my week of bad allergies turned into a full blown cold. I feel pretty bad. I’m trying to take it easy and relax, because I am back for another long day tomorrow.

In other news, Mark and I received a record number of Christmas cards this year, which has been way fun. I like mail.

Okay…time for soup and then I’ll try to pass out to Christmas movies in the bedroom.

3 more days till Dr. Who…I mean, Christmas. ;)

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A Broken Phone, a Birthday, Food and Roleplaying!

Published on September 25, 2012, by in food, gaming, life, My LA, television, TV.

I know I have had a bit of an extended absence, but I have been staying busy.

First: I somehow deleted the internet from my cell phone, which made pre-writing my posts difficult. I am not home much, and without the ability to write on my breaks, I had very little time to blog.

Second: My husband had a birthday! We spent most of Sunday at the local comic book shop, Meltdown Comics, playing D&D or creating new characters (a full post on that to follow)!

And Monday we had a  lazy day, having lunch at The Soup Plantation….Yum…

…before coming home to play some solo games, and group games of D&D. It was just the two of us, so we both played two characters and split Dungeon master responsibilities as a way to learn. It worked. We killed goblins. And Wolves. It was rad.

But Mark had started feeling not so great around 3:00pm, so being a good wife, I turned the roast chicken we were supposed to have for dinner into chicken soup.

He relaxed on the couch while eating soup, and we watched a few episodes of Doctor Who. Mark is up to season 3 now.

Well, that was my last few days in a nutshell.

I’ll be back with a proper post and a wedding page post very soon!

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In Bed with the TARDIS.

Published on August 27, 2012, by in 2012.

Much to my dismay, rather than playing Guild Wars 2 during every extra moment that I have had since the game began it’s head start late Friday night, I have spent my extra time in bed.

I hate being sick, but it seems to be pretty common in my life following high stress or very busy periods of time. I’m currently one of two managers at a store that should have at least 3 and I just got married, so I think it is safe to say that I have been stressed. I also probably never recovered from Vegas.

So, after getting in a quick game session in GW2, I am now laying in bed, watching a movie and sipping throat coat tea out of the TARDIS….

I suppose if you gotta be sick, be sick with the TARDIS.

Night.

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My Plan to Get The Best Of Sickness

Published on July 11, 2012, by in Everyday Life.

I am sort of notorious for over-extending myself. I have been doing it ever since I was a little girl, and the end result is always the same.

Illness.

I always get sick whenever I try to take on too much. And since I am currently planning two weddings, working two jobs, starting a new business, and writing two blogs, It stands to reason that I would get sick.

But since I am also looking forward to Comic-Con on Friday, I am seriously not thrilled about this newest onset of sickness.

I made a giant batch of crock pot chicken, onion, garlic and veggie soup last night. When I woke up this morning, all I had to do was throw it in some Tupperware and head out out the door for work.

I brought about 7 bags of hot tea with me, along with my mug and few packets of Vitamins. I just got home from work, threw on my jammies and am now crawling up onto the couch to watch a marathon of tivo-ed House Hunters International. Oh, and heating up more soup.

Sickness will not beat me!

How do you beat off sickness when you have to get well in a hurry?

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The Digital Nomad: A New Career

Published on June 9, 2012, by in The Digital Nomad, Work From Home.

I’m sick today…

Sort of. I made a mistake with my medication today and tasks like driving, or carrying heavy trays or spending any substantial time in a kitchen seemed scary.

It has been hours and I’m still actually pretty shaky and exhausted. But the kind of exhausted where you can’t sleep.

Yuck.

But there is good news (by the way, I just tried to spell news “Noose” and it took me a second to realize….wow…I really am sick)! So, good news…I think I figured out what I want to do with the rest of my life.

To be honest, I’m not really sure why it took me so long to realize it.

  • This is something I have ALWAYS loved doing.
  • It is something that I can do from anywhere.
  • I will be able to work from home most of the time.
  • I can do this while traveling.
  • Once I have children, I will be able to spend plenty of time at home raising them.
  • It is a profession that will always be needed, and by the way I choose to set my prices, I can get more work.

I want to be a photographer.

I LOVE taking photos and always have. This realization that it would be a great job for me sort of dawned on me slowly, and I think I have my upcoming wedding to thank for this.

While compiling lists of things to do when we go to Pennsylvania to plan the wedding (in like ten days) we started looking at photographers.

Holy cow are they expensive!

Too expensive and many of whom are not really that incredible. I have always been a bit of a photography snob…but I have seen high school students take better photos then some of the people out there doing this professionally.

So, I am going back to school this fall.

I am going to register to take classes at LACC. It is just down the street from my apartment and they have a good photography program. I am going to apply tomorrow and get my financial aid paperwork straightened out so I can start in August.

I am so excited about this choice. It has been a long time coming. And it is such an obvious choice.

When I was in high school, I placed in a state photo contest a few years in a row, and I have taken over 1000 photos on my phone since November. I take pictures everywhere I go.

This is how I see the world. Why not make this hobby my new career?

These are all just a few photos that I have taken with my cell phone.

Imagine what I can do with a good camera and an education.

So excited.

Now…back to the couch and the camomile tea I just made. Meh.

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Day 5 of #NaNoWriMo and I Just Keep Getting Sicker.

Published on November 5, 2011, by in Books, general, life, NaNoWriMo, Novel, samantha mason, Writing.

Bah. I hate my blog. My blog is lame and filled with useless ramblings about being too sick and pathetic to actually accomplish my NaNoWriMo goals. And this matters soooo much to me, too.

I have been looking forward to this for months, ever since my friend, Nicole at work told me about it back in…I wanna say August? Or was it July?

I am greatful for a wonderful support system, though. As I type this, I am sitting in my car in a bathrobe and jammies while my amazingly incredible hunk of a boyfriend is in the grocery store getting me juice and tea and tissues and canned chicken nood soup (because my throat is too sore to swallow the amazing homemade version I made earlier this week).

I wrote about 1700 words today. Enough to not fall too far behind, but not really enough for me to really get on a roll. I write best once I really get going and I fear that by being so sick all this week, the early chapters of my book are going to suffer.

I have been jumping around a bit in my writing, if something cool pops into my head even if I’m not quite to that part in the book yet. Today I did some tying together and connected the stuff that was sort of thrown in a bit early. It is starting to feel like a more cohesive work rather than just unconnected paragraphs, and I think in a few days I will be writing in a more linear fashion. That’s probably best for this project anyway.

I have not decided yet if I want to share any parts of it yet. It is a dream to publish someday and I’m not sure if posting to a blog with a datestamp is enough solid proof of my original work. I do think my story is very fresh and original as young adult fantasy novels go, and I would be heartbroken if my work got stolen.

What are your guys thoughts on the matter? Should I be worried about my ideas being stolen or am I just being paranoid.

I have decided that I am still too sick to go to my show ”Dungeonmaster” tomorrow (total bummer). Its wicked fun fantasy improv with audiance interaction and my favorite thing. But I’m starting two new jobs Monday and I know I need to take tomorrow off and rest. Daylight savings…so I get 25 hours to heal.

If I am still sick Monday I am going to get violent.

Well, I’m gonna lean back in the car now and wait for Mark to finish up.

Thanks for reading. It’s nice to know you guys are there.

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