If I could be anywhere in the world right at this very exact moment, i would like to be in Bali. I don't know if it's day or night there right now, but I do know that whichever it is, I'd love to be laying in the warm soft sand. Languishing in the warm gentle breezes. Sipping on coconut milk. Smiling from ear to ear.

Today marked the beginning of my earnest job hunt. I updated my resume, applied online at a local temp firm, and updated my resume and job search agents at monster.com. Tomorrow morning I would like to get myself to apply to 5 jobs, first thing. I heard this great metaphor, eating the frog. Job hunting is me eating the frog. Apparently (according to a post on FM) someone somewhere says that if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, you're gaurantee'd that it's the worst thing you'll do all day. After that, it's cake. So...yeah. That's that.

We are in the middle of a bonafide winter storm here in northern virginia. It started sunday night with 6-8 " of snow. Then the next day we had flurries all day. And today we had ice storms. A fine mist of rain fell all day, and froze immediately upon contact. The trees look like ice sculptures. The snow is burried under a layer of ice. Hell, everything's burried. It's quite beautiful actually. I busted out the video camera and caught it on film.

As far as my writing goes, I'm trudging along on Savage Eden. I'm participating in this months writing dare. I need to complete 4 chapters of 1K each by the end of february. Not hard really, I'm just very scatter brained lately. We're in week 4 of Zette's novel writing course, and I'm as stoked as ever. I love the story idea, and it's still in it's infantile stages. But I've had some really fantastic ideas pop into my head. Speaking of head, I'm getting these terrible headaches on a regular basis. Every day. They're borderline migraines. They're killing me. Too bad I can't take aspirin. The stuff makes me sick. Pretty ironic, actually. :( I hope they go away. *Fingers Crossed*

Other than that, I've started reading the 'Outlander' series by Diana Gabaldon. Talk about good books! Diana, as a writer and a reader, I take my hat off to you and bow low. Once I pick one up I can't put it back down. Which is rough considering they're over 700+ pages each. Maybe that's why I have headaches! ;-) Kidding. The characters, the world, the premise...kudos to the author. I can only strive to be that good.

I'm also reading the 3rd book in Neal Donald Walshes (sp?) 'Conversations With God' series. I love these books. They're so inspiring to me. I know there's a lot of people who would read something like that and think it's a farse, or they might not be able to swallow a lot of the ideas. What can I say to that? Don't knock the books...you might want to look at your own self for fault. Stretch your minds, consider the possibilities, and lighten up. People are so quick to go fanatic for their beleifs. Who are they to tell anyone else what is and isn't "correct." If you're not God, I don't want to hear it. Capeesh? ;-)

On that merry note, I'm going to try to go back to bed. I've been tossing and turning for hours. It's not working. Maybe I'll read some more. Broaden my horizons. Give myself some more hope. Good health and high spirits to all!