What is she up to now???


Dale would refer to me as "The Human" (he pronounces it "you-mon") I prefer to think of me as an insane powerhouse muse, lighting everyone's fire and getting them excited about their lives. People who know me, however, would say I'm just a bawdy crazy goofball of energy. Whatever you prefer to call me (and believe me, I've been called it all), I am certainly up-front.

So, what am I up to lately? It's time for a status update:

Book-wise, I have two books on my plate right now (not literally, really? What do you think I eat?) I am working alongside Julie from Above-The-Norm on a book entitled "Abandoned Places: Abandoned Memories" in which we go to abandoned sites, Julie photographs them and I do psychic reads on the places. I write up a story describing a scene that occurred there and we incorporate the photos. This first edition is the desert edition and we hope to also do other subjects such as seaside, mountains, cornbelt and city. It is an amazingly wonderful book to put together because I've always wanted to be able to find a way to make my psychic reads become real for others so they can see what I see, know what I know. You look at an abandoned place and read the story and somehow its history has a life. It's like seeing an elderly person and then hearing of their antics when they were younger. You can almost envision them perky and triumphant and full of energy and excitement about life. Buildings are much the same. The contents are all still there, just housed in a different-looking shell.

The other book I'm working on is a workbook. It's called "Was That a Ghost?" It will help people through quizzes and narrowing down the field of possibilities, to find out if something that happened to them was paranormal or not. It's a question I get very often and I use the same logical process to help bring people to the conclusion and now folks will be able to do this on their own.

Yes, I do have a full-time job but am lucky to work from home which makes things a bit less stressful.

Many are curious about my personal life and the divorce goes through in about a month, I take back my wonderful and simple maiden name (have never had to spell it for anyone in my life). I am enjoying living on my own. I didn't think I would, but honestly I was alone the entire marriage, so it only means I don't have to cook for someone else any longer. So far as my wild and passionate single life-not happening. I admit that I have been without a man's attention for a very very long time, but I am putting some priorities first right now like learning to be on my own for the first time in my entire life and having a blast during the Halloween season, as well as getting myself published--finally and with MUCH determination. I am not worried about the man-thing. I truly believe the teacher will come when the pupil is ready (oh, I didn't just say that, it takes on a whole new meaning).

Yes, this October on the blog should be crazy. I will be doing more road trips and nutty things with Julie (she is so patient with me. You can't know half the things I put her through). We met a person who read my blog and contacted me. He lives about an hour and a half away from me. We hit the road on a crazy trip to meet another blog-related person and great new friend. When we arrive, I ask him to take my ghost hunting bag out of the trunk. Dale is lying in there looking up at him. Haha. Surprise #1. Later, when we're leaving his place and going to hit the road to find abandoned sites, I change into my sneakers at the trunk of my car. I peel off my shirt there on the road in front of his house and put on my grubby t-shirt. This guy has seriously been indoctrinated into my antics. Julie just shrugs at this point. She's seen it all (and she cannot be bought for her secrets, so don't try!) We plan to do some crazy Halloween event stuff with photos and video and a ghost hunt in a haunted hotel filmed on video as a pajama ghost hunt (a new feature on this blog).

Yeah, you don't know what to expect here next, but there will be more disturbing short stories, creepy Dale insanity as he descends into madness, and perhaps another doll character entering the picture on the blog... Oh, and more giveaways including a nice one tomorrow that will make you laugh.

So, that's just the basics of what's up with me. If I told you everything, I'd have to kill ya!

Comments

  1. Glad to here your doing OK! I've always wanted to right a book, but I think I'm more at ease righting short fiction. Oh, how's it coming on the Steampunk costume?

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  2. Glad you asked, HalloweeNut! The skirt totally sucked. I tea stained it and it made it too brown for the ivory/yellowish top, so I ended up ordering some little saloon girl bloomers with lots of lace that will go good with the top. Got the chains to come off the brooch and wrap around my waist. Got the lace fingerless gloves. Still need to wait until the hat arrives in the mail. It might be too white and I might have to see if I can stain it (biting nails). Got the goggles to attach to the hat. Need sexy lace cream hose and super sexy cream stilletos and it should come together nicely. I also have a set of skeleton keys I was thinking of putting on a metal loop and hanging off the costume somewhere with a chain as if I use them to unlock doors... Did your mask come in the mail yet? I hope it comes in time!

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  3. Nah, the mask isn't here yet. I hate to admit it, but I STILL have to order it. Bad HalloweeNut, BAD!

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  4. Someone's gotta spank you! Yeah, order it, buddy! I just ordered something that will take control of Dale and keep him in order. It will also terrify him more than anything in the world. Can't wait to film it and show everyone on the blog this month. I might have found a way to control that crazy ventriloquist doll, but it might be at my own expense because this thing terrifies me too! (shivers)

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  5. Wow!!!! You have got it together, girl.

    I will look forward to the book. I have had feelings in old buildings and surprised one caretaker by telling him which wall was original. Maybe I have a pinch of the sensitive about me.

    I envy your gift. Congratulations on new beginnings.

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  6. Gail;
    I'll tell you, psychics know other psychics immediately. People come onto my blog all the time, but there's certain ones that for some reason, I set aside in my mind because I know they're sensitives, others I know will be dear friends or a great mentor and it's only just seeing their name and profile pic, even if it's just an anonymous photo of a dog or something. I always knew you were one of the sensitives. I think in your case, you need to be alone to do it. I suspect the skills are held dormant when you are around family and if you are alone in a place, you will see, hear, and simply "know" things that you could not have focused on with people you care about in the same room because they take priority. Next time you go through an historic building, be sure to break away from the group and be alone in a room, you will find you receive much more info than if you had someone you're with nearby.

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  7. I don't know what I would be doing if you didn't have me come along on your trips and taking photos. Probably would be still lost. I never would have thought of doing a book or at least being a part of one. This book has been fun and a joy watching you doing the readings at the various abandoned sites. It is too bad that Florence didn't have more and the adobe house was fenced in but I still think that it was another successful trip. BTW, if the price is right, I just might talk, lol!

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  8. Julie;
    Oh, I do give you stories to laugh about when you become an old lady in 50 years. You will sit back and chuckle about the situations I've put you in and the insane ideas I had in my Lucille Ball-like crazy brain, but you keep coming back for more, so that says something about you, my sassy sis!

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  9. Guess I stumbled across your blog at a perfect time. Love the update and intro of sorts. I find your blog quite enchanting. Following from a distance.

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  10. Hey Coloradoasters;
    It's a mixed bag of nuts on here. It's about ghost hunting theories, but also includes a creepy ventriloquist doll mascot who hates humans named "Dale the Doll." There's short stories, reviews, lots of stimulating conversations, theories, and plenty of ridiculousness. If you like to laugh, I suggest you go to the right hand side of the screen and read those "LAUGH" episodes I wrote. That'll pretty much tell you all you need to know.

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  11. I've been meaning to email you big-sis; I LOVE that picture! Super Sexy! I am so happy for you and how well you are doing and how happy you are and the books, etc., etc., etc! I am in the thought process of what to do with my blog. I want to make it more interesting in addition to improving my photography skills - which will just take time, trial and error! Any suggestions would be appreciated! I am so very glad we have become friends! Now if I could only harness some of my supposed abilities, I'd be golden! LOL

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  12. Tara;
    You have one of my favorite themed blogs, so you can go to town with that. List your top favorite cemeteries and why. Tell things we didn't know about how people are buried, like the eastern facing, headstone/footstone, symbols. When you're sick of educating us, just have fun. When you went scrambling down the hillside to that extreme cemetery, I couldn't help thinking of Julie and I and the antics we get into. Go with it--take photos along the way of your journey when you go to obscure places like that. I want to go along with you. Show us where you parked, the view of what you had to hike, take us right up to a headstone to see it up close. Now, surprise us, spread out a blanket and have a picnic and get a shot of it. Toast a drink to those buried there. Leave some wildflowers on the graves, clean up the cemetery with trash bags and tote it away. I want more journalling of your explorations and new ways to consider cemeteries as places of inspiration and peace and beauty and happy not sad places. Then, sometimes give us a scary one at twilight. Bring a flashlight and plant it in the ground behind a headstone and get a shot or a few flashlights behind graves. Think of taking a shot from the view lying atop the grave, the headstone meeting the cloudy sky above you. Sit and listen to the cemetery and watch it as it gets dark. Tell us what you see, take pictures in the direction where you think you saw something. I often times read the names out loud and talk to them about who I am and ask who they are and what they did... Invite it in. :-)

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  13. Thanks hon! I've never been real good with writing, but I CAN do it. I just have a hard time getting thoughts organized at times!I have serious attention problems! LOL Those are some great ideas! I just don't want things to get dull and boring. There are so many cemeteries that I haven't featured on here and others that I haven't been able to take pictures of yet. I also have been seriously thinking of getting a flipcam. Took a gander at them the other night and bookmarked one I want! Come on school money! LOL Thanks again for your input. I hold a lot of self-doubt; but some how I think you knew that. ;)

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  14. Tara;
    I got mine on New Egg--they always have great prices and lots of variety. I never ever read the instruction booklet. You pop out the plug on the side and it plugs into your computer USB and it loads the software each time you use it. So freaking easy. You click that you want to make a movie and you drag all the scenes you've filmed in whatever order you want, give it a title, add music if you want, make a movie--takes a couple minutes. Then, you can email it, send it to YouTube or Facebook and even do still shots. It's so cool. I love mine so much and put it through so much abuse (you can't imagine the places and conditions I've taken it to). You can avoid doing a lot of writing, just keep photographing. You can give a simple goofy intro about what you went through to find the place, then let the pics talk for you. Sometimes, just putting that one weird shot up there makes people want to comment on it. Your signature thing could be leaving a flower on each grave or planting tiny flags on veteran's day or having a picnic and toasting everyone. With Halloween coming, you might even try your hand at making a fake headstone with styrofoam. I think your personality is ideal for video. You're a bundle of fun and energy. I shake my head at you having lack of confidence. The truth? I think you had to hide your light for a long time and now that you're feeling your power you're afraid to put people off with it--some people are bigger inside than the confines of their body so they're like a sunburst. Let yourself glow. You are very magnetic and you drew us in with one look at your blog and one word from your sweet heart. :-)

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  15. You're the best yo! ;) Thanks...from my heart...truly. Thank you!

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  16. Woman? You have it going on! Congrats on new beginnings! We'll all be looking forward to your books; as well as more zaniness on the road!

    You're right about psychics recognizing each other. Everyone tells me it's my eyes. Loving the pic of you, by the way.

    Now, I need to go stalk Tara. I used to picnic in the graveyard across from my house... and sneak out for sleepovers there!

    Hope Dale (and you!) like his creepy potential companion! :-)

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  17. Brenda;
    Thanks. A lady who picnics in the graveyard-yahoo! I do the same thing on road trips. Spread the blanket out and have a meal with them. It's peaceful and sometimes event eventful.
    :-)

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  18. Quite an impressive agenda you have there little missy. Good to see that you are putting yourself first. We seem to find out later in life than necessary the importance of fulfilling our own lives as opposed to living for someone else. Happy October.

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  19. MM;
    Don't you know, buddy! I think I mourned the entire marriage all the things I would never do, never have (not material things, but experiences and freedoms, being myself, picking where I live, spontaneously laughing and being silly, going on adventures, making memories for old age). It was like a very long funeral for my unlived life while I was still living. Now, if I dream it, I can do it. If I succeed, I get credit. If I fail, I get blame. I'm cool with that.

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  20. Good stuff. I had to follow the blog feed. Your right it is a mix bag of nuts, but it all has merit.

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