Yesterday I was soooo tired that I thought for sure I'd just pass out when I got home. But working the evening shift has a big drawback, and that is that around 9pm, I get totally wound up. Bran is winding down and I'm hanging from the ceiling fan. Weee! Anyway, about midnight or so, I was watching TV and then figured I'd go try to write. Well, my desktop is giving me fits lately. It shuts down or locks up for no reason. I obviously need a new one, this one is over 3 yrs old. But I can't afford a new one right now -- not with all the other bills hanging over my head. So, I'll put a little more duct tape on it and wrap some tinfoil around it and make sure the gums holds -- and pray. Meanwhile, I got up last nite to do some geneaology. No idea why -- other than I'd watched some fascinating stuff on the History Detectives on PBS about this gal who found out her ancestor had gone on the trail of tears because his Cherokee wife's family was on it. So he'd VOLUNTEERED to be with her. Isn't that romantic? I mean in a strange, sad, warped way. That whole trail of tears was such a tragedy. But that got me to thinking. I need to do some genealogy! Because I think on my paternal grandfather's side, we have some Native American in the bloodline... so I wanted to see.

Hmmm.. I got distracted. After all this, my computer shut down on me last nite, so I wasn't able to find anything. BUT -- here's the whole crux of the message -- I WROTE ON MY NEO!! Yes... no distractions (like online) when I use that little baby. And I find that if I can't see more than a paragraph of what I'm typing, then I don't edit it ;) YAY! Which always slowed me down before.

So... in a nutshell. I'm happy. I wrote 650 words last nite! YAHOO!! So I'm up to chapter 3 now! HAPPY DANCIN'!!