Linda Nelson



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Today we gave the pups the last of the leftover turkey. Now we can begin planning for our next big holiday – Christmas.
There, I said it folks, and I’ll say it again – Christmas. I’m American and will be proud to call my holiday by the given name. I can’t be worried about whether or not I’m offending someone by calling the holiday by its actual name. It is what it is. If I were Jewish then, I’d be saying Happy Hanukkah. It is what it is, and I’d expect the same from you.
I recognize other people’s religions or beliefs. But just because I’m saying Merry Christmas, doesn’t mean I’m shoving my religion on to you. It’s just an expression. I leave the religious stuff for inside a church or where ever you go for your spiritual needs.
For me, Christmas is more than just about religion, it’s family time. We cherish the ones we love and gather together to celebrate the life of all. Yes, we exchange the gifts in that crazy American fashion. But, we are American, and have a tradition that only began to grow in popularity in the 1800’s.

ROW80 Check In:
Not much to report since the last check-in. I’m back in plotting mode, thinking more about the setting and world building of the current work in progress. Am I really procrastinating? I don’t believe. I like to refill my writing well and ponder over how to put the story together before forcing the story out. Sometimes all I need is to read something that sparks me. I have my ah ha moment – I have a lot of those – and then bam – I’m off writing like I was shot from a cannon.

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How’s your week going? Finish all your holiday shopping? I’m just about done with mine. Have you started thinking about New Year’s resolutions?

I’m so thankful that we were exempt from the Thanksgiving Snow Storm power outage of 2014. With the exception of a few power flickers, ours remained on the whole entire time. The only thing we lost was the internet and our phone. The cable was also out for a few hours on Thanksgiving Day, but I’m sure that was only so that they could repair the downed lines elsewhere.
Many people in NH didn’t get to eat their cooked Turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Some won’t be getting their power back on until Monday.
You never realize how dependent you become on the technology of our times. If it weren’t for cell phones, we wouldn’t have been able to call out for help had we needed to do so.
It was bad enough that we were lost without our internet. (Which should have been a blessing for me. It’s funny how I was able to avoid working on that work in progress. No matter what, we do learn to make excuses.)
Then when the TV went off, I should have dragged out a board game instead of leaning back on the sofa and taking that nap.
Keelaa, our new pup, who’s now almost 6 months old, didn’t enjoy the snow. She hated the fact that it was too hard for her to walk in and had to resort to hopping around when she occasionally would become stuck in the snow. Being able to eat the snow is the only benefit she found. Being like a little kid, she did take her sweater off after it filled up with snow.

Julie, on the other hand, our older dog, still loves the snow.

She would stay out for hours if we let her. I think it is funny how black dogs like to turn white by using the snow and white dogs find every muddy puddle available.
ROW80 Check In:
First off – I didn’t finish NaNo. I’m not surprised. I’ve never finished a NaNo project on time.
I did manage to clean off my desk that I’ve said I would do for the past 6 months.
I haven’t given up on Sleeping on the Beach. I did manage to give that file another 1k words.
Two weeks ago I began working on another title. It too will be published under my pseudonym of Lydia Clark. She writes my hot & sexy titles. I had so much fun writing that last one I had to come up with another one that is sort of like it. Visit Lydia Clark’s website for more information.

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Black Friday Shopping:
Most of my shopping is done – yea! I hate doing last minute shopping.
The first item I bought showed up the other day when Santa came early. It turned out to be an early present. We wasted no time hooking it up. An Amazon Fire TV with the game controller. Oh – My – God – The system is excellent. It’s nothing more than a little black box that does WiFi and plays games with outstanding graphics. It is neat as can be.
All I can do is rave about the thing. Needless to say – I did join Amazon Prime.

How did your turkey carving day go? Lots of leftovers? Did you lose your power? How did you fair?