Money writes our life stories.... sad.

Haven't felt much like musing about life lately, thus no posts until today. I'm unfortunately fighting again about money with a certain someone. On a more positive note, I have my first story ready for publishing from my writing class. For those who don't know, I would really like to be an author and have been taking a course through the Institute of Children's Literature. So after writing and editing and polishing and editing some more, finally something worth while has emerged. I will be finishing the final touches on it this week and submitting it to Cricket Magazine. I will post it here as soon as I do. Hoping it will also stir me to write some more as the last weeks has drained me emotionally a little bit.

It's funny how money seems to drive most of our decisions in this country. From the height of government, down to my piddly little maintenance payments to the ex, any time someone thinks about taking some money away, people suddenly lash out selfishly instead of accepting reality and adjusting. Yes, less money will change how I think and I accept that is the current situation. But fighting against something you have no control over is a waste of your time. So what you need to and get by, that's the secret to life for us non-millionaires.

The Steelers looked awful Sunday night. May be a long and stressful season there. Big Ben may not survive with that O-Line in front of him. Gives me something to yell out besides the kids anyway.... lol.

Going to try and get our little football team a win this weekend. Not sure what we need to do to get these kids excited about playing. 90% of them don't seem to want to play as hard as they need to. I think we got a team of pacifists....Not good on the football field. We'll see if they can pull it together by Saturday.

Well, 'nuff for this morning. Fell free to comment. Laters.

Welcome!

Well, I woke up this morning, jump started my brain with a brisk run and started churning on what lay ahead for the day. As work began to eat away at the important thoughts in my brain, I decided I needed somewhere to let them flow before life gobbled them up and crapped them out. So I figured I'd blog.... Like the rest of the semi-relevant world. I am inviting friends, family, enemies, casual acquaintances, aliens, lower life forms, voices in my head, bodiless spirits, talking animals, and the lint in my dryer to partake. As I am also doing some writing and have a lot of story ideas rattling around in my grey matter and would like to use this as a vehicle to run ideas past people, especially those of you with children. I may also start a weekly (possibly daily) running story blog, but we'll see. So feel free to follow along, enjoy, discuss, critique and respond. I'll do my best to make it worth your time.:-)