what now...?

It lived up to my expectations.

Blew them out of the water. Like I had a freak out so huge it was equivalent to Pompeii erupting, with of course the exception of all the dead people, but it was big.

So if you'll excuse me I'm off to plan my night for July 15th 2011.

What am I going to do once this is all over?

What am I going to do with my life? I'm not that interesting, I don't have any grand plans or anything. Truthfully my childhood consisted of living Harry Potter book to book, and oh how did I CRY, as in tears of blood I cried so hard, when I read the final book. So then it was movie to movie, that got me through.

WHAT am I going to do? College isn't going to be as life changing for me as Harry was. I grew up with them, laughed with them. They showed me how to truly love reading, and writing, I wouldn't be who I am without Harry Potter.

I'm going to hang in perpetual obscurity.

Well, not until July 15th 2011, at most likely 3am. Hopefully 4am because then the movie will be super long, and I'll have a little more time with my childhood loves.

I'm off to bed, to ponder my question...what now?

Good thing I don't need an answer for a couple months.

In Two Minutes

In two minutes it will be exactly 26 hours until I'm watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

To say I am pumped is an understatement. Also I got a Facebook, so if I haven't found you yet please feel free to track me down.

I've got to go prepare, I'm dressing up after all.

End of an era here I come.

Oh and there will be tears. Lots and LOTS of tears.

Go Look!!!!!!!

GO LOOK!! GO LOOK!!

So my friend K.M., just got herself a book deal with, now wait for it...

Simon and Schuster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I think you should..........


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CONGRATS KATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted over at Ink

So I'm trying to balance all this college stuff right now. It isn't working very well. But I'm trying.

All I wanted to say was that I did my post, as seen by my post on posting, I'm trying to post here on Tuesdays and over on my critique groups blog on Thursdays. I haven't been making the goal. But college apps will be done by November 15th. Then I'll be consumed by NaNoWriMo, but I should be able to post more often. Hopefully.

Okay *deep breaths* I've got to go work on my college essay again. Wish me luck.

Oh here's the critique group blog link.

My Blog is a Year Old!!

So a year ago today I did this little ole' post.

And I decided to give into this whole blogging shindig a chance. BTW I'm loving it and all the people I've met through it.

In the past month, I've been...well I haven't done one post in the month of September. I am sorry but my life is no longer in my control a little thing called college applications has taken over. But no worries, I'm applying early action to all my schools so, to put it lightly, all this shit will be out of the way as soon as possible!! Hopefully by November this will be out of the way and then, bring on the stress whilst waiting for reply's, and then of course the Christmas rush at my chocolate store, well not mine, but where I work. I am not prepared for that, maybe I'll have it figured out by then.

So there hasn't been much in way of informing you guys about any of the stuff I had planned for this little guys one year old birthday. Rest assured, I'm almost done writing the essay that is going to determine the rest of my life, and the common application as well. And once all that is done I'm going to have a giveaway contest thingy-ma-gig. So stay tuned. Now I'm off to be productive...or at least that is the intention.

On Posting

I originally wanted to title this post "Announcement!" but decided that was misleading and changed the title.

I just wanted to inform you that I will now be posting on a regular basis on two blogs, first on my Critique Group, the Ink Slingers on Thursdays, and then I've decided that my posting on here is a little all over the place so I will post every Tuesday and then occasionally post whenever--you know have a little spontaneity.

Other than that I've got to go to bed, work in the morning-woo feel the enthusiasm.

The Little Things

The. Little. Things.

As I’m entering my senior year high of school *gasp**runsawayandcriesfromfear*. And I’m trying to enjoy the little things, because not everyone is as blessed as I am. Not everyone gets to make it to seventeen, senior year or even high school. So, as the title says, I’m trying to enjoy the little things. For example, last week I was restocking the chocolates, (milk and dark chocolate caramel pecan turtles) and handled four pairs of conjoined twins! i.e. the turtles were conjoined by chocolate (not caramel that doesn’t count), and I thought it was cute, it made me smile and then think about the lucky customer who is going to get a surprise when they open up their package of treats.--Little things like that.

I haven’t been writing, sad but true. I’ve been swamped with the work, looking for a college and summer school work(I'm not n summer school just the work I have to do over the summer for school in the fall). In fact I haven’t been on the blogsphere at all. Except to post about a few contests and some awesome news involving my friends. On a side note/something that is actually very related--Weronika, whom I met at the Backspace Conference, became and agent and I should have devoted a full post to that but I didn’t. So here is the link to her blog, and to her announcement post {which details what queries she is accepting, where she is now employed (D4EO Literary Agency) etc}. Also she already has three clients! So here’s a big, very overdue, CONGRATULATIONS to Weronika!!!!!!!

On top of not-writing, I haven’t been working on the betas I agreed to do. So girls, you know who you are, I’m working on them each a little each night I’m trying and I’m so sorry that I haven’t been more efficient with all of this.

But, back to the reason I started this post, I wanted to do this post to remind people to enjoy the little things, like finding a stray piece of chocolate in your freezer that you didn’t remember was there, finding a book on store shelves days before it is supposed to be on them, accidentally bumping into someone who you rarely see but care about, putting conjoined caramel pecan turtles into a customers package, finding a hard cover first edition Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in pristine condition (yes that happened to me at a Salvation Army a few days ago, yes I bought it, and squeed/jumped up and down.), sitting down just writing and loving every word that ends up on the page, and sneaking a kiss in a school supply closet (no I do not know form experience, I’m just saying). So I’m off to bedazzle a baseball hat for my cousins fiancée who is having her bachelorette party (well not exactly a bachelorette party, it’s more of a Jack&Jill kinda thing), hosted by my family, this weekend. Another thing that will be taking up my time tonight. It's going to look SO good.

Oh and Frankie, I am going to do a post about my signed Linger copy, once I finish it and can completely squee and flail over it properly. Promises!!

Meanwhile I’m looking forwards to the party, after all you have to enjoy the little things.