I’m not looking forward to working today. Yesterday I left my house almost two hours early to be at work by four. I arrived only 20 minutes early, and there were no accidents to blame the delay on. Though there was a terrible accident on the opposite side of the street half way to work that had me paranoid for the rest of the trip. There were already two cops on the scene and about six more roared past as I got further down the road. From what I could see, and I’m no rubbernecker like the people in front of me apparently were, it looked like half a car had been demolished. I will be so happy when this “holiday” is over and done with and people go back to their regular scary driving instead of their super scary driving.
Despite the fact that it will mean less money in my pocket, I am looking forward to the end of the holiday season and the “extra hours” that come with it. Not that we had an excessive amount of extra hours to begin with (as I mentioned yesterday). Also, my hours aren’t really affected too heavily as merch supervisor because they have to give me the time to get everything put in place as corporate wishes or they’re SOL. Sometimes I do think about how easy it was before I took the promotion…. sigh
Still, I’m looking forward to more free time so that I can devote myself more fully to writing. I’ve been trying to write everyday, not just here but on my webnovel to get ahead of the game so I can have more time to write other stories as well. I’ve been looking for places to submit stories or novels. I have several Google Alerts set up for my gmail account to get notification when publishers publicize new anthologies or contests. Usually my stories don’t apply since I write too darn much for their limited word counts, but I am looking. I have found some places that I’d like to try submitting to this year.
I am also still playing the lottery. $1 a week… the Powerball is up to $70 million. If I won that, forget submitting. I’d open my own publishing house, my own bookstore, start my own charity…..
December 27th
The birth of Freya, Norse goddess of love, was celebrated today. She is usually depicted astride a large cat and presides over the warriors slain in battle.
This is the birthday of Gerina Dunwich.
Comments (4)
Yeah for devoting yourself to more writing!
Maybe I should start playing the lottery. Mama needs to get her student loans paid off.
Yeah for the lottery! I miss being able to play Powerball. Here we have Mega Millions and it doesn’t get as high as Powerball does.
One dollar a week for hope is a good price to pay.
i’m looking forward to less stress. less hours would be ok too. although i didn’t get any extra this year. just 15 minutes here or there. it just isn’t worth it for my sanity to work late and it’s not a requirement.