Merry Christmas

Just a short note to say Merry Christmas everyone! Hope your day is happy, safe, and filled with wonderful things.

For your viewing enjoyment a little Christmas light show. You may have seen it before, but it's a favorite of mine.

Have a very merry one! 

Twas the Night Before Christmas...

And all through the house not a creature was stirring except two crazy kitties. One of whom, is currently sitting with me attacking the tie on my pants.

Merry Christmas Eve! I can't believe another Christmas is here already. I love the holiday season. The music, the lights, the cookies and most especially the getting together with families and friends. This year is especially cool, because we will in essence have a white Christmas (a great holiday movie, btw). We haven't had snow either in the sky or on the ground at Christmas in a long time. So even though the snow is residual it will still help the day be "merry and bright" to quote the song.

For me Christmas Eve was a fairly easy day. I had some last minutes shopping to do today. My trek to the mall wasn't as crazed as expected and I must admit I really enjoy the newly remodeled mall. It's all shiny and bright. LOL! Suffice it to say, I succesfuly accomplished my shopping mission and I hope the gift recipient will be quite happy with this item. The rest of my day was spent getting a little work done. I've designed and manage websites for a few friends. While I did that, I enjoyed the GhostHunters marathon. I just love that show, coupled with the fact that I love television marathons. I've discovered a number of shows that became favorites because of tv marathons. It was nice to have a day to just unwind and not run around crazed.

At any rate, I hope everyone gets some time amongst the bustle of visiting family, cooking, and cleaning to simply relax and enjoy the holiday. Travel safely to wherever the day will take you.

"...Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight."  

Random Disney Tip Wednesday

Did you know that Thanksgiving is one of the busiest weekends at Disney World? Shocked the heck out of me. I figured it would actually be a slower time a year with families getting together for a big turkey dinner. The more I thought about that though the more it made sense. Maybe you're really not into cooking for the clan. If you can get that turkey dinner catered as well as  enjoy a few days of fun in the sun, I say go for it. Not to mention that the magic of Disney makes the entire holiday season really special. I mean where else can you walk down main street, enjoy cookies and hot chocolate, get snowed on, and not even need a coat. There are so many wonderful things to do in Disney during the holiday season. The one I previously described is Mickey's Very Merry Christmas part. It's so much fun. They make it snow on Main Street Magic Kingdom, keep the most popular rides open for guest to enjoy. They do family photos, and  special holiday parade. It's a ticketed event so the crowd isn't outrageous. All in all, it's a good time.
Also, at EPCOT they have the candlelight processional in the American Pavilion. A change series of celebrity guests read the story of the nativity accompanied by a soundtrack chorus that performs a selection of seasonal music. Very pretty, very moving, again something worth checking out. When we went to see it last, Neil Patrick Harris was doing the reading. He did a wonderful job. Disney releases a schedule of which celebrities are narrating and when. I know some people that arrange their trip dates to coincide with the celebrity of their choosing. :)

If you're even remotely a Disney fan, you definitely need to get to the House of Mouse during the holiday season. The lights, the displays, the decorations, they all make the Happiest Place on Earth an even happier place to be.

Happy Thanksgiving All!

Merry Christmas to Me & Other Stuff

I'm an electronic junkie. I love gizmos and gadgets that are shiny and high tech. That being said, I went to Barnes and Noble last night because I wanted to see the Nook in person before I invested. Well long story short, I wound up pre-ordering one and I'm so excited to get it. As I said, Meery Christmas to me and I'm very much looking forward to my present. P.S. My mom got one too.  LOL!

Anyway, so what have I been doing in the last week or so? Well, that's a very easy answer. I've been procrastinating. I fully admit it. I've been doing a read through of my story before I send out to another house for consideration and for some reason it's taking me forever to get through the read. Read through's always seem to take forever. Creation is so much easier then editing. I know writers who prefer the editing process because at least the story is already on the page, but for me I prefer the freedom of letting my mind go where it will. At any rate, I'll get it in gear. I'm about a third of a way through so far, but I will get there within a week.

I will beat the procrastination bug. :)

Rejection Sucks, but...

I received a rejection today on a novella that I'd recently submitted for consideration. Needless to say getting rejected sucks large, but the rejection is just a small, dark spot in the midst of some many bright, positive things.  First and foremost, this story got me back into the game. With school and everything that's gone on I hadn't written much in a long time. This story was the first finished and submission ready piece that I'd created in ages. Second, just because it wasn't right for this particular project doesn't mean that it's not right for another house. I'll tweak it and send it back out again. On some weird level, I'm sort of looking forward to sending it out again. Finally, while this story was turned down, the door was still left open to me to submit other projects. It's nice to have the blow soften, by being invited to submit other projects directly to a specific editor for consideration. And again, that I'm totally stoked that I actually have another project that I can send it.

So as I said in the title of this post, rejection sucks, but ... when one door closes somewhere a window of opportunity opens.