Important Warning for Drivers!!

Yeah, so I received this email from someone else in my area. I live in Indiana...but this still may pertain to any of you traveling the roads. Please beware. I don't want anything happening to all my new, great, entertaining friends.


Wayne County Sheriff's Department Alert - PLEASE READ AND FORWARD!!!

        On the way to Canton, driving on Michigan Avenue , on Thursday morning, I saw an infant car seat on the side of the road with a blanket draped over it  I did not stop, even though I had all kinds of thoughts running through my head.  But when I got to my
destination, I called the Canton PD and they  were going to check it out. This is what I was told...

        "Several things to be aware of  ... gangs and thieves, are now plotting different ways to get a person to "stop" their vehicle.

        "There is a gang initiation reported by the local police department that gangs are placing a car seat by the road...with a fake baby in it...waiting for a woman, of course, to stop and check on the baby. Note that the location of this car seat will usually be beside a wooded or grassy (field) area ...and the person - woman - will be dragged into the woods- beaten and raped- usually left for dead.  DO NOT STOP.  DIAL 9-1-1 AND REPORT WHAT YOU SAW!!!


        "IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT AND EGGS ARE THROWN AT YOUR WINDSHIELD.  DO NOT TURN ON YOUR WIPERS AND DO NOT SPRAY ANY WATER ON IT BECAUSE EGGS MIXED WITH WATER BECOMES MILKY AND YOU'LL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE!!!!  YOU ARE THEN FORCED TO STOP BESIDE THE ROAD AND BECOME A VICTIM OF THIEVES.  THIS IS A  NEW  TECHNIQUE USED BY GANGS.  PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS AND
RELATIVES.    THESE ARE DESPERATE TIMES AND THESE UNSAVORY INDIVIDUALS WILL TAKE DESPERATE MEASURES TO GET WHAT THEY WANT."

        Please talk to your loved ones about this.  This is a new tactic used and I would hate for anyone to fall victim to this kind of crime.

        Please BE SAFE AND NEVER STOP YOUR VEHICLE

Because want you all to be safe.

Deadly Sin # 2…Gluttony

Gluttony – meaning to gulp down or swallow, over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.  Can you think of anything that you have wasted? Have you been a glutton of some sort in some fashion?

I sometimes feel like I am a glutton of paper. I feel like I waste too much paper when I print things out that I don’t need to print or I print, read and then recycle. It is just a waste sometimes and I am trying to get better about it. Now I have been trying to train myself to copy and paste things into a document and save it to my thumb drive to read later on the computer.

I hoard information too. I guess that is not a waste though. Someday it will come in handy and I will be happy that I kept the information for all that time. Or I will wonder what I did it for.

Yep, tad bit off scope there. Ok, if there was a food that you would be a glutton for…what would it be?

Mine would be…I would have to say pizza or laffy taffy...grape. Totally can’t live without it.

Weekly Chapter Challenge Update # 3

Things seem to be moving along swiftly now. My story is flowing now with a little more fervor then it had in the past and I am grateful as ever for all of the input that my WCC partner Trisha Leaver gives me every week.

She has been ever so patient with me when life hits and if you have read here, you see it happens here often.  Life is my everlasting tornado sometimes leaving a path of destruction and sometimes bringing me beautiful things as well. I am patient and I am glad that there are others that work well with me.

I still struggle sometimes with shut down making it hard to focus on the task at hand which is the MS I am working on during the WCC, but I also have several WIPs and thoughts that plague my mind and lead me astray.

At least I can say that with the storylines that my mind creates, I will be able to be a part of the WCC for quite some time and will be able to recommend it to everyone that I know for many, many months to come. I am still enjoying the exchange and give props to my partner for such a wonderful MS she is creating and making my heart weep at times.

Being part of the group in WCC and in Writer’s Digest is like being part of a family. I like belonging to a family of people who thinks a lot like I do. I love all the criticism and support that comes with this family. So if you are not already a part of this family…my family, come join me.

Deadly Sin # 1…Lust

Reading about the 7 deadly sins had me curious to know what really makes people tick. I mean think about lust. It is thought of as excessive thoughts of desire of a sexual nature. When I think about that, is there someone that I have lust for? My husband, a movie hunk, an old flame…?

When you think about lust, what comes to mind? You don’t have to say it aloud. Write it down in an exercise or some kind. Use it in one of your WIPs or something. Everyone is intrigued about someone’s lust for someone or something. Ok, maybe not everyone, but I know that I am.

I think lust is an obsessive compulsive disorder for some people. You just can't control yourself. For a taste of man candy...go to Borrowing Heaven, Subletting Hell to enjoy some lustful images of midnight man candy and other fantastic literary input.

Admit it, there is something that always makes you think of sex…? I can hear you giggling about it. Just think about it and don't worry about being too sinful.

Small prayer

One of the hardest things that I had to do was yesterday.
My ex-husband had a mild stoke and I had to tell my son who had just spent an entire week at his house. Tanner had just came home from his dad's on Sunday and they had a great week together. The man is only 44 years old.

They got to him in time and he is making a phenomenal recovery which is fantastic. But even having to tell my son was so hard, because they are so close. That broke my heart watching his heart ache for his dad. I took him up to the hospital and we sat there with his step mom for several hours and his dad woke up and was able to speak, but had some difficulties because of some of the side effects with the right side of his face going slack.

Today all his tests came back normal and it looks like he was very lucky. While we there, we said a prayer with the hospital pastor that comes around room to room and I believe he had an effect on the recovery process. So thank you God for watching over him and my son. Bless you.

The voices inside my head are going crazy…

There are actually so many things going on that I don't know where to start. Have you ever been like that before? Of course you have, it is common. I'm not some freak…ok, ok. So maybe I am--a little. A muse as its called that leads you from project to project and keeps those creative juices flowing. WELL-- I have several. Some good and some evil. Muhhaahaaww.

 

Actually I am looking for a way to either get them to all quite speaking at one time or to quiet down just a squidge so that I can concentrate just enough to focus on some things. I admit, life is hectic enough without them all pulling me in ten different directions and about five different genres…no seriously. They don't concur on a genre, they all have a different preference too.

 

So this has been making it hard for me when doing some writing. I have like five WIPs out there because I listen to the voices and let them guide me for a bit and then another one grabs me and I take off skipping hand and hand with them down another path of sparkles and rainbows or dark shadows and cobwebs. I tell you, that I know I should just focus on one, but the truth is that I know that they all have something important to say and I am afraid that if I don't follow them all around that I may miss an opportunity not to catch their important story and that it may get backlogged in the lost forever files of the IGNORE BOX of suppressed ideas not realized.

 

Besides, I am powerless to them. I can't tell them to STFU. I like all of them unconditionally. No matter who or what they are.

 

I wish that I could say that I was organized and everything had a place and a plan and I wrote a chapter a day and that everything goes as planned, but the truth is…I am a windstorm throwing things down here and there and cleaning up the mess afterward but that's me. To be honest, I like me, I understand me. I just wish that I could calm me down a little. I feel like I get so overwhelmed with all of them (muses) that I mentally shut down sometimes and that is counterproductive.

 

Ok--So here goes. Who has some advice…ideas…words of wisdom…tell me to STFU…Just puttin it out there. LOL

Two Moons of August 27th 2010

I had a friend send this to me in an email.
Two Moons on August 27, 2010

27^th Aug the Whole World is waiting for............. 

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles off earth. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.

The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. 

Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.