I'm backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!

Did you miss me? Did you? Did you?! Did you?!? I hope so. ;-)

So what has my sexy self been up to? Not a damn thing. :-D Ok, so maybe not that. Let's see here. I went through my sad moment that kept me from feeling like blogging. Then I was dealing with some stuff with a friend who is trying to get away from her husband...still dealing with that and I am SO torn on what to do. Part of me wants to help her get away and the other part of me wants them to make up for the kids' sake. Its just so confusing with that, and I may post more about that in another post. Right now, this is all about moi. :-D

I've also been outlining for two novels I will be writing next month. So far its going ok, but time is running out and I still outlining novel one and the second one I am still trying to figure out. Ahhhh...I want to be ready to go by October 31st. *sigh* Anyone else joining me in this chaos? Please do, we can cheer each other on. :-)

What else? Oh, I've decided to donate some dolls to chartity. It seems there won't be enough toys to go around this year for the kids. So I am planning on cleaning up some of the dolls I have and sew them a little dress and baggie and send them on their way to the Salvation Army. I hope my little bit can help make a Happy Christmas for someone. But I need to get working on that now. This November is going to be crazy. I still need to find an easy pattern to sew. I want to make it so I can sell them also when I get back to my shop that I need to put on vacation mode for November. With my friend coming back to town, me trying to get back on track with life, writing two novel, doing dolls for chairity, Thanksgiving, my dad getting ready to retire and helping my mom get ready for that...well trying to run a shop just doesn't work for me right now. :-( I only have three things up right now, so that's ok, but I wish I could have sold something. Here is the link, I have put it in vaca mode, but you can see some of what I've been working on up in the banner. The Goodie Bag


I will put it back up after NaNoWriMo is over. Hope I can still get into some of the Christmas action. I would like to be up and open for Black Friday, that weekend, and then Black Monday with a sale on items. Will have to see how things turn out.



Ok, just curious, does anyone think this Hard Rock Cafe Barbie looks a bit like Amy Winehouse?



Ok, that was just nagging me, so I had to mention it. LOL! Ok, is there anything else? Oh, I am going up and down when it comes to my exercise and diet. I was doing good and got to 2 and half weeks of exercising every day, then one day it was cold and I didn't feel like doing it and BAM! no more exercise for 2 days. Need to do it today, but don't want to. Will do it around 10. I will stick to 15 miles a day instead of 15 miles twice a day. That just makes me not want to do it. But I can do 10 miles to quickly now. Ugh! And the diet has been crap lately. Ugh! Ok, enough about that. I need to call my friend in a few so I will close for now. Talk to you all tomorrow.

Loves ya,
Mouse

Happy Monday and Columbus Day

Hey guys. Yup, still up. I think I'm almost ready to go to sleep. Oh yeah, clicky-click on the picture below to learn more about Columbus Day if you are confused about it. :-)



So anyway, what does a gal do when she doesn't want to sleep. Well she watches movies online of course. What movies does she watch? Well two really bad but funny raunchy teen comedies...that will remain nameless, and of course, Barbie and the Three Musketeers. :-D



Ok, so this move was actually really cute. The only off putting thing to me is that the main character is not named Barbie. I don't know. Maybe this pulls into role playing perhaps. I know the name Barbie wasn't back in ye ole times, but still it just made me scratch my head and go "Hummmm...".

But other than that I really liked this movie. It had a strong underlying message of pursuing your dreams even when everyone says its not possible. This is one of the things I love about Barbie movies, they all have a moral to them. I must give it to Mattel. They work hard on their product and keep their market in mind and try to teach them good morals. Loves it.

I don't want to say much about the movie in case anyone wants to watch it. But its the same basic theme to most of Barbie movies, her and her friends join together to save the day. Its an uplifting story if you are having one of those bummer days. So if you or the little one are bummed one day, this movie is sure to please.

I think one of my favorite characters in the movie was the little kitten who so desperately wanted to be a Muscateer. LOL! Very cute.

I know I would have loved this movie as a child since Barbie was such a part of my life and I can imagine these movies put smiles on little girls' faces of today. Worth a watch if you have a little over an hour to spare. Clicky-click on the picture to be taken to the movie page and enjoy.

Ok, gonna read a bit and then think about getting some sleep. I may not blog again today, so I'll say now that I hope you have a lovely Monday and that something marvelous happens to you all today. Hugs and kisses to you all. Bye for now.

Loves ya,
Mouse (Future Mouseketeer)

Released today at midnight.

Michael Jackson's song "This Is It" can now be heard on his website. It was released at midnight today. Have a listen, its classic Michael. The album will be released later on this month. And it will also be put on vinyl which I thought was so cool.

This Is It

Enjoy.

Loves ya,
Mouse

I'll keep it simple and sweet today.

Ten years ago today I lost one of my best friends. My brother. He passed away due to a heart attack caused by a seizure he had in his sleep. I can't really talk much about that day, but I couldn't let it go by without saying something. I know the day has just started and I still have 23 hours and 30 minutes to deal with it. I doubt I will sleep tonight. And thoughts like "He was still alive right now." and "I wonder around what time he passed away?" and "I can't believe he's been gone ten years." keep running through my mind. Sorry if this is morbid for some of you. Its just what's going on in my head right now. Honestly I just want to cuddle in bed with my boyfriend and watch funny movies today to get my mind off of it, but he's over 700 miles away. :-( So I may just lay in bed and catch up on some soap operas, minus the hour for exercise. I'm sticking to it so far. I made it two weeks every day exercising. I want to make it a habit. So far, so good.

But yeah, I just wanted to pop on and blog a tiny bit since I haven't in a few days. Just all of a sudden I changed and got depressed and just didn't want to blog. I'll be back to daily blogging soon and respond to comments. After today it will get easier. Ok, I'm off. Gonna putz around the pc for a couple of hours and then try to get some sleep in the morning. So tired now, but I don't think I could sleep now. I wish A was here. :-( I really need him now.

Loves ya,
Mouse

I want to be a naughty librarian.

I love this costume. I would love to own it. The skirt is was makes it for me. Oh, I have a librarian in one of my stories. Its a magic related story and I think this skirt would be a perfect inspiration for her outfit. Very cute.

Oh and I was on a roll today. I just finished a short-short story about a mailman. This I may just post online since I don't plan to try to get it published anywhere. Still want to tweak it some, but will hold off on that for a week or so to get a fresh mind about it. Its kind of told in an Edgar Allen Poe voice. Ok, off to exercise now so I can create later. :-)

Loves ya,
Mouse

I finished my novel...

And I feel kind of "blah" about it. I thought I would feel so much more. I mean yesterday I could feel it was coming to an end. And a lot of the things I saw happening in the end didn't for some reason. And I ended it on a cliffhanger, which is about the only thing I knew would happen. I mean I guess its because I know that there is SO much left to do on the story now that the actual plot is coming to me now that I finished it. I know, I know...how can I write a story with no plot? Well it has a plot, but the plot thickened as I neared the end. So now I have to go back in fill it in. Which, what I recently learned, is what all writers have to do. So maybe on my revisions I will get that happy giggly feeling that my story is done. But for now, its about a year's hard work put to temporary rest. I will put it away for a couple of months then come back to it with a fresh mind and attitude. But yeah, that about it. Humm...wait a minute...change everything I just said.

I JUST FINISHED MY NOVEL!!! WOOT!!! WOOT!!! WOOT!!! WOOT!!! *Does Snoopy Dance.*

*Catches breath.* Ok, like literally I just got all excited. Maybe it was a delayed reaction. LOL! I finished it! I'm ready to move on to the next novel. And just, wow. :-D I know there's a lot more to fill in on that story, but for now the bulk of it is out. I've got my notes for when I return to it. And I am ready to move on. Nano, here I come!!!

Loves ya,
Mouse

Its 6:24 am...

And I'm up. But this time I just woke up about 12 minutes ago. Yep, trying to change my pattern. We'll see how well it goes. I am tired, but I usually am at this time no matter if I slept or not. But at least I can stay up all day and not continue to get more tired. :-)

So I plan on writing for a couple of hours, exercise, then craft, then update shop, then work on forum, then hummm...not sure.

The only sucky thing is is that I had to go to bed without speaking to my boyfriend first on the phone. I called him when I crawled into bed and got to speak to him for like 30 seconds because he had a patient on the table but I would have liked to have talked to him more. I hope I will get to today before he takes off for work...when I am usually asleep. LOL!

Ok, going to write now for a while. Hope you all have a great day.

Loves ya,
Mouse

Happy Wednesday and Forum is coming along nicely.

Was thinking of going with a theme for Halloween but decided best to just pick a theme that we will stick with. I found one that I think we will like. I have the chatroom set up, and I am setting up the sections now. I have several already, just trying to think what all I would like to see in a doll forum. If you have any suggestions please feel free to live them in the comments. Oh I decided to make the forum a doll and toy forum. There are two separate sections for both. I don't expect the toy section to be to active but I know people have toys they buy that they'd like to share that don't rank in the doll category and I wanted to make that a small part of our forum.

Gonna work on the market place later. Trying to decide if we should have requirements before you sell on there. I think people should be on the forum a month before sales can be done, but then the marketplace will be empty. Maybe do a thing where the first 20-50 people who register and have good feedback else where can sell to kind of get the part of the forum going and then close it off to other members being able to sell then until they make 50 posts and are on the forums for a month. Choices choices.

But once again I have not slept. I figured out what my problem with that is. Its October. I always have a hard time sleeping in October. Once November hits it should get better. But I think I will try to get some sleep now so I can exercise later. Will keep you up to date on how the forum is going. :-)

Happy Tuesday guys.

Happy Tuesday you lovely lovely people. I hope today reached you well. My day was mostly spent sleeping and exercising. A little bit of eating mixed in. Oh and unraveling a scarf I knitted a long time ago. Man that was hard! The yarn liked to catch on itself and make it almost impossible to unravel, but I managed it. I am going to attempt to make it into a different kind of scarf. Hope to work on it tomorrow.

So nothing much else going on today. Just tired mostly. I want to go exercise some more and I want to write some too. Also I want to work on the doll forum. I guess I could do it all tonight but I am really tired. Upped my exercise to 20 miles today. It felt good but it wears me out. Oh, I also promised my sister I'd play Kingdom Hearts with her on DS. Hum. Guess I will do that. Kind of feeling blah right now. Ok guys, I hope I have more interesting stuff for you tomorrow. Sleep tight or have a nice day...depending on where you are right now. :-)

Loves ya,
Mouse

Can't sleep.

Its almost 7:30 in the morning and I can't sleep. I feel sick and just can't drift off. Its a rainy day and I love the sound of rain as I try to drift off to sleep. Thought I would get on to write a bit and then try to drift off again. Stomach acid was so bad that I panicked a bit over the pain. Sitting up makes it feel better. I want sleep. :-( Gonna try again in a bit. Just want to sit up a while and see if my stomach feels better.

Loves ya,
Mouse

Happy Monday!

Have a good one! :-D

Loves ya,
Mouse