So I had a super exciting day. We were on the way to St. Louis today, and were listening to our favorite radio station, which holds a contest every morning at 8:30 called audio daily double. They play a clip from a movie and a sped up song clip and you have to get them both correct to win. We listen to this every morning on our way to take the kids to school, and often times I type the number in my phone just in case, but I rarely know both the song and movie. Well today was my day, and I won!!! I was on the radio and refrained from making a complete idiot of myself while talking to Mo and Liz, the d.j.’s that host the show. It was totally awesome and I am a big dork, but hey, it’s the little things that make me happy!!

One has to wonder how bad for the environment this is. If all that toxic waste/fuel, whatever it is renenters the earths atmosphere, how good can that be for us. And quite frankly, what was it doing up there to begin with? This is one of those things, that while I am glad I know, I almost don’t want to know. I really don’t watch the news at all, any news I do get, comes from the internet mostly. I have my homepage set up with Google, and it has all the different news sites with the top stories, and today was the first I’d read about it. One would think that it would be a more talked about story. Then again, I guess you don’t want to cause mass hysteria in the world.

So we got a Wii today! It was one of those things, Andrew was returning a movie to Blockbuster and they had one, so he bought it. We have been talking about getting one since Christmas, but could never find one and suddenly today there it was. I think I was probably more excited than the kids. I have decided I won’t have to work out now, becausing playing the Wii is most definetely a work out for me.

On another note, we have this wierd rash going through our house. Not sure if they are related, I had it on Sunday, but it looked different then what Maddison or Ben has, but they both have a rash. Maddison’s was just on her legs and arms, Ben’s is on his cheeks, you can’t really see it in the pic, but I tried. Mine, was just all over. I am beginning to think that we are allergic to our house and just need to move.

My blog house, that is. I have been slaving over my new masthead all morning, and it’s still not perfect, but oh well. There are some things in Photoshop that I am just not good at, making new mastheads are one of them. I tried to do something a lot different, ended up doing something just a little different. I also changed the music, which I know is annoying, and I will be soon changing it again as well. On a different note, my husband and his man friends are cutting down trees in our yard that were damaged by the ice storm. He rented a big bucket thingy and is hundreds of feet in the air as we speak, cutting and topping trees. I know your thinking, it’s quite windy to be doing that today isn’t? Well he is swaying around, with chainsaw in hand, bravely confronting the elements, in order to save $2500 bucks, which is what it was going to cost to have it done professionally. I’m sure I’ll have pics for you later, although, I’m not sure, it’s really cold out there.

And I mean really old school. I found Tiffany’s I Think Were Alone Now on my music player and thought I’d toss it up for a while, oh yeah, and when I’m tired of her I’m putting Debbie Gibson up!! Brings back memories of Jr. High dances, spinning in that same circle with the boy you wouldn’t even talk to during the day, but it’s dark and it’s your first dance, and it’s Tiffany, so you give in and dance with him. Isn’t it crazy, feels like just yesterday, and now I have a middle schooler going to dances, and lock ins at the church and it’s just crazy how fast time flies. Sometimes you just want to make time stop, you know savor the moment. It’s funny how in the moment you don’t realize your making memories and then all the sudden it’s gone, not to be thought about again for 20 years.

So I don’t know if you’ve looked at my 101 things list, but if you have you’ll notice that the number one thing is to get something published. Well quite frankly, almost three years is too much time in my opinion. I’d prefer to get it done sooner than later, so I have taken on writing as my so-called job. A fellow English major was telling me that if I truely wanted to be a writer, I should treat it like a job and set aside a certain amount of time a day to “work” on it like it were my paying job. So that’s what I’ve been doing, setting aside time every day to do this. Whether it’s here, or in my journal, or poetry, something to keep the juices flowing. What I have found, though, is I don’t think I have a voice. How does one know, and if in fact I don’t have a voice, how do I find it. I personally kind of see myself as Carrie on Sex in the City, where there’s just a constant narrative in my head. However, I don’t think that shows up in my writing very often. So how did you discover your voice, what do you do to find your nitch in the writing world?