He's going home and I got new books :D

Woke up this morning sick as a dog. The only thing I could think of was "great now I'm losing baby time". But he'll be heading home tomorrow with his mommy and daddy so that makes me happy. 

On another good note I'm on a webstie called Listia. It's essentially ebay without the money. You use credits to bid on items and most of the time you can get those items shipped to you for free. This afternoon I won an auction for a lot of 6 horror books. Older ones. In this set is a book called Cursed be the Child by Mort Castle. One of my favorites. I used to have it but due to a leak from my mother-in-law's hot water heater it's now too damaged to read.

Now all I have to do is wait and see if this person really will ship 6 paperback books for free. All's going well here. Now to get over this cold...

)o( Jena

Officially an Auntie

So, I've been an "aunt" before. My "sister" has a baby boy and is pregnant with her second. My husband's friend has 4 girls and he considers them his "nieces" making them mine by default. But now it's official. My sister gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy at 12:34PM today. 6lb. 15oz. 20 in. long.

Seeing my father's face as he held his first grandson was just wonderful. 3 years before I was born he and my mother had a baby boy Robert. He passed away 2 days later due to many different organ failures. Then they had me (1990), my kid sister (1991), and my baby sister (1994). He's the last. The only boy in a family of 5 children. He has no namesake. I knew that this bothered him. But I think today, upon seeing his first (of hopefully many) grandchildren, he's moved past that. Hoping to just help raise this and any future grandchildren as best he can.

All this has given me an idea for a story. Not sure how well it will work out but I'll put pen to paper and see what comes out. Wish me luck!

)o( Jena

So I'm gonna be an aunt :D

This past Christmas my sister told all of us (that being the family of course) that her and her husband were expecting their first (and most likely only) child. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. She's scheduled for a c-section tomorrow morning at noon. And after that my little nephew Robert will be born. I can't wait to see him, and hold him, and (eventually) spoil the ever-livin-crap outta him and send him on his way to his mother (mwahahaha!).

But seriously now, the reason I say only child is because her husband has 4 daughters from a previous marriage. Four beautiful girls. So when she found out that her little bun in the oven was a boy she was, to say the least, ecstatic. As was he. Now she knows that he's done. He doesn't really want any more children. He has his son. A boy to carry on his family name. She knows that she'll probably change her mind later about more children but as of right now she's happy.

And this got me thinking. She's happy with her children (though she doesn't raise the 4 girls, that would be her husbands ex-wife's job). And my baby sister has already stated that she wants 2. That's all. Me? Completely different story. I want a big family. I always have. If I can I want 6! Yes, I will push out all 6 of them myself (if I'm able). My husband isn't quite happy with that as he's an only child and he only wants 2 as well.

When I thought about how many children I want I started thinking about my family. My great-grandmother had 10 children. Her oldest, my grandmother, had 8 children. Her oldest, my mother, had 4. They all had the most children out of all their siblings. And here I am wanting 6. I think this is a thing...I may be wrong but it's quite a coincidence so yeah...

)o( Jena

Writing is an escape...

I like to call myself an unpublished writer. I write anything and everything that pops into my head: poetry, fan fiction, short stories, even (unfinished) novels. Though I haven't been published before, it is one of my dreams to publish a novel or a collection of short stories. Now if I could just finish one...

I lose motivation in my books quite easily. I'll be writing and it'll be coming along nicely until one day I'll set it down when I'm done and I won't pick it back up for months at a time and by the time I do pick it back up I've forgotten where I was going with it and why it interested me in the first place. This is where the blog comes into play. Maybe if I post enough about what I'm writing and what's going on with me in my day-to-day life I'll actually keep interest long enough to finish something I've started.

I used to have a blog on Myspace (Gasp! Did she just say Myspace!) that I would write in as often as I could. It was easy because I checked Myspace everyday so my blog was only one click away. But when Facebook came around I left Myspace. Facebook doesn't have a blogging section. Well they have a "notes" section but I don't think I'd want to use that for a blog... I tried going back to Myspace strictly for my blog. But now they've updated and there is no blog section (that I can find).

I tried other blogging sites. Wordpress, Livejournal, Tumblr (though my dashboard is mainly pictures of cats and stuff...), even Xanga. But I would forget about them and they'd lie for months before I found them again and I'd ultimately shut it down or just let it die. This will be different. Why? Because I say so. I got a new computer for Christmas last year and all it's been used for up to this point is Facebook, PC games, and browsing around. In fact I think this is the most I've typed on this keyboard in one sitting since I got it.

So here starts my new blogging journey. One that I hope will be kept up with. One that I hope will be read by others. One that I hope will keep me on track. Here's to writing!

)o( Jena