So I just gave an update on the book under it's blog title my-friend-jacob.blogspot.com have a look if you are interested :0)
In the meantime, life has been pretty exciting.
I drowned my IPhone in coffee last week. I nearly had a heart attack when I realized I no longer had any calendar dates or to do lists or phone numbers for any business or friend and family contacts. What a horrible feeling!!! The apps are no problem, they will always be around and updated. I am grateful though, for one thing, that I had just saved my photos from my phone to the computer that morning!
So, Friday I still managed to do an epicure party for a friend. That was pleasant.
Sunday, I went to my nieces 2ND birthday. My brother and his wife sure go all out for that special girl! It was wonderful and colorful and social. I would say she is a true Princess the way her daddy, mommy, family and friends love on her. She is a very lucky little girl!
After the party I headed to Dewdney with my girlfriend and her two boys. We picked blackberries and during the picking I endured about 30 mosquito bites and bramble bush scratches covering my arms, legs and face. The next day we made blackberry jelly which made all the itching and scratching worth it. Mmm delicious!
I managed to visit some friends and and family and have a second epicure party all this week! It`s been nice.
I was going to head to the city last night but it got late and I fell asleep on the couch at some crazy hour, dreaming about living out someone elses life. I woke up to the t.v. and felt as though I was in another time zone. I love feeling like that, it`s as if though I were the character from a book. Things that matter in real life were unimportant there and things that don`t matter here, were awesome there! Anyway..
Today, here I am still feeling like my head is in a daze, which could explain the accidental deletion of my entire project this morning.
Maybe I should go for a walk and come back to it later....
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
WOW! It's finally in!
So for the written record of blogville: My book, My Friend Jacob, is finally being published! I have submitted the manuscript and every other blurb needed (other than my self-portrait) and it will be ready sooner than anticipated!!!! OMGoodness!!!
This is truly exciting and while I write Neil Young's Harvest Moon plays. This song reminds me of Bob. When I was 16 I remember sitting around with him and other friends listening to this CD. It was one of his favorites! It is sad thinking that he isn't here to see my first book being published but I haven't forgotten his name in the dedication. I am sorry to lose him to cancer, he was a wonderful friend.
I am not sorry for taking a moment to remember a friend, but I hope that I haven't damped your mood if you are excited for me. It really is a wonderful experience and thinking about someone important to me is also a part of this experience. He would be very proud, I think especially because it is a book that is politically correct. He was a man who wanted the world to see clearly the truth rather than candy coating things. He wanted people to be aware and to help where help was needed. So today, I feel that the progress of my book is in celebration of his life and what he represented to those around him.
Strange how today's blog took a turn.
I am a writer. When someone asks me what do I do, I will respond. I am a writer.
I write for a children's magazine, Zamoof Mag, but this is more personal, it feels more concrete! SO watch out world! Here I come!
:)
This is truly exciting and while I write Neil Young's Harvest Moon plays. This song reminds me of Bob. When I was 16 I remember sitting around with him and other friends listening to this CD. It was one of his favorites! It is sad thinking that he isn't here to see my first book being published but I haven't forgotten his name in the dedication. I am sorry to lose him to cancer, he was a wonderful friend.
I am not sorry for taking a moment to remember a friend, but I hope that I haven't damped your mood if you are excited for me. It really is a wonderful experience and thinking about someone important to me is also a part of this experience. He would be very proud, I think especially because it is a book that is politically correct. He was a man who wanted the world to see clearly the truth rather than candy coating things. He wanted people to be aware and to help where help was needed. So today, I feel that the progress of my book is in celebration of his life and what he represented to those around him.
Strange how today's blog took a turn.
I am a writer. When someone asks me what do I do, I will respond. I am a writer.
I write for a children's magazine, Zamoof Mag, but this is more personal, it feels more concrete! SO watch out world! Here I come!
:)
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Patience is a virtue...
So that fact that patience is a virtue would lead me to believe that I need to really just enjoy the ride that life is giving me. We must remember that if we have a plan to do or be someone or something in this lifetime,we must do the best that we can at whatever we are doing everyday and know that the universe (God) will put everything in place for us so that as we go along, the right people and the right things and experiences will reveal themselves as we need them to accomplish our ultimate goal.
I had a personal deadline for myself to have the artwork finished for my book by last Wednesday, but it is now nearly this Wednesday and it is still not complete!! It takes time to create beauty :) I realized that in order for me to do well, I need to enjoy the process and in order to enjoy the process, I need to take my time. In order for me to get things done by the deadline I planned I would have to speed up the process and and lack some detail. The fact is that I want the quality and I want to enjoy the process so it will have to take longer than anticipated.
Now, with all that being said, I also need to realize what I constantly tell everyone else, that everything happens exactly the way it's supposed to and in the timing that is supposed to, so just enjoy the process. I can not be anxious for tomorrow. I have an idea that I need my book to be done by a certain date and according to what the publisher said, I need to have everything submitted to them by last wed. Now if I just enjoy the process and hand in the work when it is finished (late or not) the universe will manipulate things around me so that my book will still be finished by the day that I need or He will change the circumstances so that the deadline will be extended and it will be OK because the surrounding circumstances will coincide!
Wow, I hope it made sense, because I wanted to share with you the way that I think so that when I don't panic or worry about these things, you are able to understand my reasoning, or if I do worry, then you can help to remind me of my own beliefs :)
Patience is a virtue and I love it when I have it. Life is so much more beautiful and joy filled! I hope you can share the same feelings about your life and enjoy the process in whatever it is that you are working on in your life, be it travel plans, a work project, spending more time with your children or an art project of your own!
Have a great week!
I had a personal deadline for myself to have the artwork finished for my book by last Wednesday, but it is now nearly this Wednesday and it is still not complete!! It takes time to create beauty :) I realized that in order for me to do well, I need to enjoy the process and in order to enjoy the process, I need to take my time. In order for me to get things done by the deadline I planned I would have to speed up the process and and lack some detail. The fact is that I want the quality and I want to enjoy the process so it will have to take longer than anticipated.
Now, with all that being said, I also need to realize what I constantly tell everyone else, that everything happens exactly the way it's supposed to and in the timing that is supposed to, so just enjoy the process. I can not be anxious for tomorrow. I have an idea that I need my book to be done by a certain date and according to what the publisher said, I need to have everything submitted to them by last wed. Now if I just enjoy the process and hand in the work when it is finished (late or not) the universe will manipulate things around me so that my book will still be finished by the day that I need or He will change the circumstances so that the deadline will be extended and it will be OK because the surrounding circumstances will coincide!
Wow, I hope it made sense, because I wanted to share with you the way that I think so that when I don't panic or worry about these things, you are able to understand my reasoning, or if I do worry, then you can help to remind me of my own beliefs :)
Patience is a virtue and I love it when I have it. Life is so much more beautiful and joy filled! I hope you can share the same feelings about your life and enjoy the process in whatever it is that you are working on in your life, be it travel plans, a work project, spending more time with your children or an art project of your own!
Have a great week!
Monday, August 2, 2010
A New Artist in me is born!
Well, it is rather interesting to me how life has, in a way, taken a bit of a circle back to the beginning.
What I mean is that, as a child, I wanted to grow up and be a writer, artist and an actress! (Although; when I was a child I wanted to be an actor since they were both the same back then)
I have since my childhood (during my teens) had the opportunity to experience all of the above. I was in photography, fine arts, acting (I participated in school plays), and I excelled in English.
In my late teens and early twenties, I was in a community play, as well as I wrote for a local magazine. I am currently writing for a children's magazine in small doses, but I went on to work hard at everything except what I truly desired to do because I thought I needed to make money in order to really enjoy the arts. I obviously had it backwards and wasted several years chasing an empty dream.
Around 10 years ago, as I mentioned in the previous blog, I wrote some children's story books, but I left them in a book in a box waiting patiently for me to wake up and realize the truth of my existence!!!
Now, not only have I started to prepare the words of my book for publication, but I have decided to go so far as to do my own artwork!!! My own illustrations!! This is wild and crazy and exciting all at once!
I have a pen name that I had always wanted to use for my writing, and yet, wanted my own name on the book as well, so Now I see that my pen name will be used for the illustrator!! How exciting!
The only thing left is the acting! So I guess I will be working on that next! In the meantime, it truly is a wonderful experience to follow my childhood dream! To take a risk, to pursue the happiness I always new would be there if I just reached out on a limb!
I am truly excited to have you join me on this journey, and I hope I am an inspiration for you to take a moment to remember what it is that you really desire to do, and to take that leap of faith to go for it!! We only have one life and one chance! Don't look back with regret on what could have been! Just go for it!
My mother is in her 50's and is finally pursuing her dream as an artist! She paints and she paints beautiful and meaning filled paintings! It is never too late to follow your heart!
What I mean is that, as a child, I wanted to grow up and be a writer, artist and an actress! (Although; when I was a child I wanted to be an actor since they were both the same back then)
I have since my childhood (during my teens) had the opportunity to experience all of the above. I was in photography, fine arts, acting (I participated in school plays), and I excelled in English.
In my late teens and early twenties, I was in a community play, as well as I wrote for a local magazine. I am currently writing for a children's magazine in small doses, but I went on to work hard at everything except what I truly desired to do because I thought I needed to make money in order to really enjoy the arts. I obviously had it backwards and wasted several years chasing an empty dream.
Around 10 years ago, as I mentioned in the previous blog, I wrote some children's story books, but I left them in a book in a box waiting patiently for me to wake up and realize the truth of my existence!!!
Now, not only have I started to prepare the words of my book for publication, but I have decided to go so far as to do my own artwork!!! My own illustrations!! This is wild and crazy and exciting all at once!
I have a pen name that I had always wanted to use for my writing, and yet, wanted my own name on the book as well, so Now I see that my pen name will be used for the illustrator!! How exciting!
The only thing left is the acting! So I guess I will be working on that next! In the meantime, it truly is a wonderful experience to follow my childhood dream! To take a risk, to pursue the happiness I always new would be there if I just reached out on a limb!
I am truly excited to have you join me on this journey, and I hope I am an inspiration for you to take a moment to remember what it is that you really desire to do, and to take that leap of faith to go for it!! We only have one life and one chance! Don't look back with regret on what could have been! Just go for it!
My mother is in her 50's and is finally pursuing her dream as an artist! She paints and she paints beautiful and meaning filled paintings! It is never too late to follow your heart!
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