Today I spent over two hours at my friend Pam's house with our little writing group. Granted a large part of that was spent talking about non-writing things like the fact that Pam and I are both giddy about the fact that we're probably going to Salt Lake City's Comic Con and the strangeness of the fact that Die Hard is a Christmas movie...but we also solved a major writing problem I was having this week.
It was awesome - I had felt totally stuck earlier in the day and thought "Well, I'll run this by Pam and Jenny and see if they can help." In about five minutes we had it figured out to the point that I'm once again excited to work on it.
Some people say that writers shouldn't talk about their writing...and I get that. I wouldn't want to sit down and spin out the entire plot to someone, I can imagine that might suck some life out of it. However, talking about writing, especially with my writing buddies, has never been anything but encouraging and inspiring for me. And today was no exception.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Monday, July 7, 2014
Fourth of July and Random Geek Good News
I am a horrible, horrible blogger lately. And it isn't like there isn't good stuff to blog about. Tracy and I had an awesome Independence Day Weekend. It started with a really fun dinner with Tracy's family on Thursday night, Tricia came with Julia and we went out with Chris and Stacia and Talon. I got to see Chris and Stacia's new house, and it's really cute.
Friday I was in my pajamas until 1:00, which is always a good day. For dinner we went to our favorite local park and had a picnic, and the best part was that there was hardly anyone there. It was quiet and shady and fairly darn perfect.
Then we lit off our own little stash of fireworks (I bought aerials for the first time and they were all kinds of awesome) and did our usual tradition of watching A Capitol Fourth, which always reminds of us our favorite Fourth of July when we were in D.C.
There - YAY!! I blogged about something - there is hope.
On the geek front there were two really fun pieces of Arrow related news today - Brandon Routh who played Superman in Superman Returns just got cast as a recurring character who is also a superhero (one I've never heard of, but still, very cool) and they're adding my favorite character from the show, Felicity Smoak, to the new series of Green Arrow comic books. Fun.
Friday I was in my pajamas until 1:00, which is always a good day. For dinner we went to our favorite local park and had a picnic, and the best part was that there was hardly anyone there. It was quiet and shady and fairly darn perfect.
Then we lit off our own little stash of fireworks (I bought aerials for the first time and they were all kinds of awesome) and did our usual tradition of watching A Capitol Fourth, which always reminds of us our favorite Fourth of July when we were in D.C.
There - YAY!! I blogged about something - there is hope.
On the geek front there were two really fun pieces of Arrow related news today - Brandon Routh who played Superman in Superman Returns just got cast as a recurring character who is also a superhero (one I've never heard of, but still, very cool) and they're adding my favorite character from the show, Felicity Smoak, to the new series of Green Arrow comic books. Fun.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Funny Realization Moment of the Day
My friend Pam made me a gorgeous inspiration book/book art creation for my birthday, full of an amazing array of quotes and photos about books and writing. And - because it's my book - a random picture of Superman. Then this morning I had the thought "Well, Superman can be in there, he is a writer after all." Yes, Superman's day job is writing for the Daily Planet. That made me laugh - I'd never entirely put together the fact that maybe that's one reason the man is my favorite superhero - he's also a writer :-)
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Staying Put and Geeking Out
So many of you probably heard the rumor we might be moving to Montana...but turns out we're staying put in Utah. Tracy did get offered a promotion there - but the offer just wasn't enough to justify leaving, especially since I have a job I like at the Church History Library - at least for the moment. Though it's been a tough few months trying to manage three jobs I only have two more weeks of teaching and while I'll miss the interaction with students, especially the ones at Salt Lake Community College I'm looking forward to digging into some serious writing time.
Oh, and just so you don't think I'm losing my charming fangirl nature this video with the actor from Arrow had me geeking out...now if we could only convince Henry Cavill to develop X-Ray vision, we'd have it covered.
Stephen Amell Target Practice
Oh, and just so you don't think I'm losing my charming fangirl nature this video with the actor from Arrow had me geeking out...now if we could only convince Henry Cavill to develop X-Ray vision, we'd have it covered.
Stephen Amell Target Practice
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Oatmeal, Jeans, and Captain America
So I don't have it in me to actually post anything serious but here's some random stuff from this week:
-Bought ridiculously healthy/fancy instant oatmeal yesterday (organic with blueberries and flax seed) in the vain hope that I might actually eat it for breakfast - this morning I did, and it actually tasted pretty decent. Surprisingly the flax seed's crunch made me like the texture a lot better.
-Broke down and ordered some clothes online (after looking for jeans in three separate stores, seriously plus size skinny jeans - who thinks this is a good idea?) and I actually liked all three things I ordered when they got here. And the really good news, the jeans are a little big, I'll have to go down a size if I order them again.
-Tracy and I went and saw the new Captain America movie on Friday night and I LOVED it. I sort of feel like Captain America and Superman have a similar vibe, so this is not surprising. There were so many things I liked - but especially the fact that they actually had a female character in a superhero movie who didn't have to be "the girl." Black Widow is kind of awesome.
-Oh, and HAPPY EASTER everybody!
-Bought ridiculously healthy/fancy instant oatmeal yesterday (organic with blueberries and flax seed) in the vain hope that I might actually eat it for breakfast - this morning I did, and it actually tasted pretty decent. Surprisingly the flax seed's crunch made me like the texture a lot better.
-Broke down and ordered some clothes online (after looking for jeans in three separate stores, seriously plus size skinny jeans - who thinks this is a good idea?) and I actually liked all three things I ordered when they got here. And the really good news, the jeans are a little big, I'll have to go down a size if I order them again.
-Tracy and I went and saw the new Captain America movie on Friday night and I LOVED it. I sort of feel like Captain America and Superman have a similar vibe, so this is not surprising. There were so many things I liked - but especially the fact that they actually had a female character in a superhero movie who didn't have to be "the girl." Black Widow is kind of awesome.
-Oh, and HAPPY EASTER everybody!
Sunday, March 16, 2014
New Car - Fun Husband
We bought a new car Saturday and Tracy put a really cute and funny post about it on his blog here.
http://potrazeebee.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-new-car.html
He even included a TARDIS (Doctor Who) reference for me, and in keeping with that the trunk is in fact much bigger on the inside :-)
I'm just feeling really grateful that we can both drive to work on the same day without one of us having to be nervous that the truck was going to strand us somewhere. Honestly, though we weren't sorry to get rid of the truck, it did last a miraculously (and I don't use that word lightly here) long time for us.
I'm going to drive the new car to work tomorrow just because I can :-)
http://potrazeebee.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-new-car.html
He even included a TARDIS (Doctor Who) reference for me, and in keeping with that the trunk is in fact much bigger on the inside :-)
I'm just feeling really grateful that we can both drive to work on the same day without one of us having to be nervous that the truck was going to strand us somewhere. Honestly, though we weren't sorry to get rid of the truck, it did last a miraculously (and I don't use that word lightly here) long time for us.
I'm going to drive the new car to work tomorrow just because I can :-)
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Good Day at Work
Sorry this is a little late, I've been enjoying my Spring Break and the chance to feel a little lazy.
Last Friday I got paid as part of my internship to go to the Church History Symposium sponsored by BYU and the Church History Department. It was one of those days that made me feel lucky for the education I'd been able to get and the job I now have.
The highlight of my day was listening to President Uchtdorf talk while sitting in the fourth row. It was so amazing. My intern buddy Tarienne from North Carolina was sitting next to me and it was the first time she'd ever been in the same room with one of the Quorum of the Twelve or the First Presidency, so it was great to be with someone else who was geeking out over the experience. He talked about a lot of great things, some of my favorites were him talking about the The Hobbit as an example of exploring and getting out of your comfort zone, and when he talked about his own doubts when he was younger about their ever being a temple in East Germany.
The entire talk is here if anyone's interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rc5GyF5i3Y&app=desktop
The theme of the conference was the Global Church, and one of my favorite presentations talked about how to create Church history papers and exhibits that are more international member focused and less western missionary/leader focused. The exhibit he used as an example tells a seriously heart wrenching but amazing story about early Saints in Armenia. If you haven't seen it before I think it's pretty amazing from both a historian and a gospel standpoint. You can check it out here:
http://history.lds.org/exhibit/1921-lds-armenian-exodus?lang=eng
Last Friday I got paid as part of my internship to go to the Church History Symposium sponsored by BYU and the Church History Department. It was one of those days that made me feel lucky for the education I'd been able to get and the job I now have.
The highlight of my day was listening to President Uchtdorf talk while sitting in the fourth row. It was so amazing. My intern buddy Tarienne from North Carolina was sitting next to me and it was the first time she'd ever been in the same room with one of the Quorum of the Twelve or the First Presidency, so it was great to be with someone else who was geeking out over the experience. He talked about a lot of great things, some of my favorites were him talking about the The Hobbit as an example of exploring and getting out of your comfort zone, and when he talked about his own doubts when he was younger about their ever being a temple in East Germany.
The entire talk is here if anyone's interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rc5GyF5i3Y&app=desktop
The theme of the conference was the Global Church, and one of my favorite presentations talked about how to create Church history papers and exhibits that are more international member focused and less western missionary/leader focused. The exhibit he used as an example tells a seriously heart wrenching but amazing story about early Saints in Armenia. If you haven't seen it before I think it's pretty amazing from both a historian and a gospel standpoint. You can check it out here:
http://history.lds.org/exhibit/1921-lds-armenian-exodus?lang=eng
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