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| Thursday, February 5th, 2009 | | 1:27 pm |
On Sunday night, I started writing hardcore. It had been a while. And a novel about the Veluchi witches is just spewing out of me. Other than work, I haven't been able to do much of anything else. Everything is rough but I know that it is a compelling story and if I can just follow through, maybe something will become of it. And then all those years spent in VampChat, Tally and beyond will have at least had an ultimate purpose. I can say though that I don't regret it. | | Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 | | 10:55 am |
Another day, another opportunity to learn more Magic:the Gathering rulez. They need me to work Saturday, January 31st so I'm going to have to cancel D&D that day. And there's a temptation to just put Sat D&D on hiatus. Schedule would be messy for the next month with people having OSO play practice and my urge to be a GM off-duty is pretty diminished. I'm feeling the urge to be more physically active on Saturdays and talked a lot about it with all the Circle. The pain in the butt about this "one time" schedule change is it means working 4-midnight on Saturday and then getting up on Sunday and working 8 am-4. Blarg. On brighter news, I've had two really good writing sessions this week with the Serpent's Qabalah and gotten a lot accomplished. Meg invited me out to dinner after work tonight and who am I to turn down free food and companionship? LOL Started drawing a daily tarot card. Yesterday it was 5 of Wands, which didn't fit at all with the events going on then, but makes a lot more sense in the context with today and the conflicts and decisions I need to make. Today's card is XVIII The Moon. | | Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 | | 1:20 pm |
It has been a good couple of weeks. I've lost 5 lbs since the beginning of the year, and that including birthday debauchery and a struggle for a couple days after to get back off sugar. In general, I'm starting to feel flow and vibration going on, if you'll excuse a little bit of New Agey language for a moment. Work was busy yesterday and we went out to dinner and a movie (the Unborn) right after, so I didn't have a chance to watch Obama's acceptance speech until today. There has never been a political leader within my lifespan that inspires me as much as that man. Every time he talks, I feel like my own Better Half start rising to the occasion, to be more charitable, more proactive, more aware, more spiritual. He inspires me to be a person of greatness within a nation of greatness within a world of greatness. And then I watch news reports from around the globe and see thousands cheering and waving signs and I know I'm not alone. His message seems to resonate so loudly and I feel myself both filled with hope and fear. Fear that he'll fail us, fear that he's a well-packaged lie, that he and his administration really aren't after change and salvation, that there is a grassy noll in his future. Scary stuff, because it feels so fundamentally important to believe in him and his message and to participate in progressive social change and community. | | Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | | 11:15 am |
Post-Birthday Post
Yesterday was wonderful. Meg brought cheesecake, we had quite the open bar and Covaghin got all the Mel Brookes a girl could ever want. Marissa had really put time and money into seeing me have a birthday party and after the craziness that had been Thanksgiving -- when our sinks exploded and the plumbers had to be called and we had 20 people over -- this was exactly the right size and right pacing for me. I ended up going to bed at 1:30 am with Marcus and Ryan still playing magic and Marissa entertaining them about 30 minutes longer before they followed the rest and got the hell out. Heh. Today, I said goodbye to my WOW guild and put 1000 gold in their coffers and then cancelled my subscription and ripped WOW, Cabal Online, and Runes of Magic off my computer. I've decided to let Dave infect me with the wrongness that is his SIM's lesbian colony, but SIMs lacks the "danger zone" of an MMO or online chat game. Its not something I'll do 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. I've told Meg, Christian and Mery the plot for _As It Harms None_ and details are coming to me. But Mery summed it all up pretty well when she said "It sounds amazing: now write it." And so that's what happens now. I write it. | | Thursday, January 1st, 2009 | | 11:42 am |
| | Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | | 10:39 pm |
So... in the life and times...
Happy New Year. Hello 2009. Its been probably two years since the last time I posted to my livejournal. One of my (many) New Year resolutions is to start using it again and catch up with all the folks I've misplaced. You deserve a better friend than me. So, how the hell is Laurel? Shockingly.... good. Last August, I went to work for Wizards of the Coast, getting paid for the kind of work I was doing for White Wolf for free. I work from home, I get pay checks and I can honestly say I love my job, love my co-workers, love spending my days with a focus on Magic:the Gathering and D&D 4e. That was a *big* goal in 2008: to get a good job. I'd been struggling for a long time after Secure Computing closed the Seattle office on Feb 08 2007. Struggling means playing too much WOW and other forms of online gaming. But now, I'm really dedicated to four tangible writing projects: 1) The Serpent's Kabbalah (non-fiction), As It Harms None (gay supernatural romance novel), first novel in the Total Eclipse series (the Storm/Ben/Damiana/fill in blank mythos), and a traditional fantasy novel. Beyond that, I've gotten my weight down from 368 lbs to 335 and I have a goal for 2009 to finally let go of the last of the self-sabotaging garbage that has held me back all my life and to commit to the day-to-day battle to lose the weight and emerge at least 120 lbs lighter before December 31, 2009. Marissa is still my beloved roomate. Ghost is still our pain-in-the-ass white cat. I turn 40 years old on January 3rd. I'm struggling a lot with that and a sense my life is beyond half over with so little to show for it. I'm determined to bite down and taste and embrace every single day of the next 25 freaking years. Current Mood:  satisfied | | Thursday, March 15th, 2007 | | 9:52 am |
Its one of those days that I think I'm going to step away from the computer. I'm really cranky about what is going on with WBS. I don't care what people think/feel about Cliff as a person. No one should be DOSing WBS to death. It affects more than just him. I worked on my resume today before I found out WBS was down. And I need to desperately find some missing Unemployment paperwork so my mood was crappy before I even got to LJ or WBS. Now, its so bad I need to just get the hell offline and watch movies and write with pencil and paper and try to push a serious funk away. | | Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 | | 10:15 am |
Nothing new and exciting to report. | | Monday, March 12th, 2007 | | 8:23 am |
Long happy weekend
Draggy arrived Friday night. Saturday we shopped all morning, watched Pan's Labyrinth at home (thank you Christian) and then went to see 300 with Dave. Sunday we met Candice and Ian at Pike Place Market and spent the afternoon with them. Then Marissa was off to work symposium, Draggy and I ate leftovers, and spent the night geeking. Today we're just hanging out for a couple of hours and then I take Draggy to the train station. Tomorrow, I'm locking the door and going into nonstop writing mode until about Friday. | | Thursday, March 1st, 2007 | | 8:46 am |
So Covaghin introduced me the big wide and profitable world of the "paranormal romance" genre. Considering that's what I'd been basically doing since 1996 in various online chat rooms, it won't be hard to get the grove going. I'm working very, very hard on creating a witchcraft-centric supernatural-embracing universe that on the surface isn't that different from the world of Anita Blake. Rather than being 101 types of supernatural creatures though its really pretty much all witchcraft of one flavor or another and borrows heavily from both european and native american mythology. This has been something on the back burner for a while but now I'm serious about it. I've made an "Infinity Bound" account. I'll be using a PR there to do a lot of my brainstorming and playing characters off one another as well as have avatars to look at for my characters while I'm writing. I have too many WBS handles and I don't want to confuse a shared world experience for actually writing on/brainstorming for something I intend to publish. I want to see how things go and determine if that's a helpful or not helpful way to write. I won't be getting involved in any new RP rooms though. Not until I have things in my life way more productive and financially secure. And who knows, if I can actually follow my dreams and ambitions through and become a financially comfortable and successful writer, than I can have someone start public RP room based on my own mythos and if someone says "you're playing that cannon character wrong" to me, I can sit there and laugh my ass off. | | Monday, February 26th, 2007 | | 7:19 am |
So now that I'm not working for Secure Computing...
I walked out of Secure with about $10,000 in compensation for them closing the Seattle office. I've applied for unemployment and this week, I get to start doing what people on unemployment do. Whee! However, what I've decided to do with my life... is write fulltime. I finally have the opportunity. Marissa is making the leap of faith with me and being supportive. I've been a little too busy being hostess and today I made the final transition from being on "vacation" following losing my job to become a free-lance writer and novelist. Writing fulltime is something I've always wanted to do. I have a lot to get back, in terms of actually quality, after spending too many years of online roleplaying and trying to write quickly rather than artfully. But spending 8-12 hours a day doing nothing but writing is sure to cure that problem. | | Saturday, February 24th, 2007 | | 8:13 am |
So... that thing called life
Somewhere around Thanksgiving last year, the universe played slam dunk with my life. I haven't been in one of those destructive "talk to no one sit on computer 24-7" funks of mine. But I abruptly and without a lot of warning quit World of Warcraft after too many days of not feeling well at all physically combined with getting online or vent and having too many people dump on me about things completely outside my control. Mostly, the big complaint was lack of RP. About that same time, I was starting to play daily in a WBS private room with Draggy and Jen. Then it was Meg, Marc, Candice, Marissa, Dave and me playing in the room... and I had more personal roleplay than I knew what to do with. And I loved it. Logging into WoW just... I couldn't do it. It no longer offered any satisfaction. There were also a --LOT-- of real life issues going on. I felt like people were dying of cancer all around me, Marissa was in the worst depression I'd seen since she came to live with me, and the month of January just plain sucked other than roleplaying in that hybrid room and the stories emerging from me got me writing and really, seriously, starting to work on a novel. And then, abruptly.... life changed. On Tuesday, February 6th at 9 am I found out that Secure Computing was closing the Seattle office. My last day of work was February 9th, that Friday. I've been jobless for two weeks. During all of this, Colleen asked Dave to move out and I felt like both our lives were being cast into the winds of fate. The first week was nothing. The second week, Draggy and Corey and Meg were here (Meg for the whole week) and Marissa was on vacation and I got nothing important accomplished. But everyone left late last night and I'm suddenly alone in a way I haven't been and it has me ooky but determined. I cleaned out my email box for the first time in weeks. I'm going to write tomorrow about some personal stuff and try to explain something to my beloved friends but right now, this is feeling like a long enough post as-is. | | Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 | | 8:46 am |
A week into the new year...
So far, so good. I stepped down as GM of for a whole lot of reasons related to health and well-being. I'm LOA from WOW. Its even worse for me than online RPing in WBS.
Speaking of WBS, I'm going to give Annerire/Crimson Veil a chance. Those who don't know what WBS is or where to find it should try here . Annerire seems like the best place of the two to do some world building and character development for my novel. I'll usually be there Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings from 8am-noon. This is while I'm at work.
Last night, Marissa and I went grocery shopping after work, made a healthy dinner and watched.. God help us.
"I LOVE NEW YORK"
Of course we're hooked. *face palm* | | Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 | | 9:31 am |
Happy Birthday to Meee!
I spent a lot of money over Christmas and I'm not doing anything extravagant for myself today. Mery is getting me either my very first Ipod or a bookshelf for the werewolf books for the living room and I'd be in love with either, seriously. I'm 38 years old and I've reached that point in my life where I say "So what do I have to show for it?" The biggest answer of course is Mariah and however she impacts the world, the choices she makes and the children, if any, that she herself has. I'd make a kickass grandma some day. She doesn't have to rush it though. I plan to be around another 30 years. | | Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 | | 9:34 am |
2006 was Teh Year O' Suck. I'm not even going to describe why I'm happy its over. It just is. And now I'm ready to move on. 2007 is the year I get my weight down to 250 lbs. 2007 is the year I write a novel, beginning to end 2007 is the year that I don't spend 12+ hours a day, every day, in front of the computer 2007 is the year that I keep in consistent monthly contact with friends and family 2007 is MY year. | | Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | | 10:53 am |
Jubilation
Its feeling like a good day to be an American again. I'm glued to news sites, watching results for Oregon and Virginia. | | Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 | | 2:24 pm |
3 Weeks and Counting
The turned 3 weeks old today! WoW is 2 years old as a published game. -Marissa- is playing with Dave & I practically every night on Blackwater Raiders and I have never enjoyed the game more. There's just not really anything except work, WtA and WoW going on in my life these days. We went to Olympia on Saturday and it was one of the best Savage Garden games ever. I let Marissa convince me to go to Grudge2 and it was okay. I actually liked The Marine (Dave's choice) better.
But sadly, my WoW addiction made me completely lose track of some people coming through town this month. Grrr. I go see my family in Nebraska at a reunion in 3 weeks and I'm actually quite nervous. Its been a very, very long time. | | Monday, October 23rd, 2006 | | 1:15 pm |
I am having so much FREAKING FUN being the GM of my own guild on Blacksail Raiders. The is a nice big friendly guild and not only is Dave, Dave's mom, Russ, Dusty, Marissa and Meg all part of it but I'm really liking the folks who've simply joined along the way. I've played way too my Wow and done far too little of everything else for the past couple of weeks and I'm working at changing that a bit. | | Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 | | 6:39 pm |
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