Return to Reality

Although I keep returning to the NaNo site in the hopes that it will be reset for 2011, it is time to get back to work on the project that got tabled earlier.  This project I will get paid for, so I need to concentrate on it.  I already have a rough outline, but I will flesh that out some more today and do some more research.  I think this is going to be great.  I just hope I can move it along at a respectable clip.  I'm excited to see how it will shape up.

NaNoWriMo is Returning

On November 1, 2011, all the novelist hopefuls who have signed up for this awesome adventure will be hitting their laptops with abandon.  Many will be returning winners, like myself.  I have returned ever year for the past three years and now I'll be at it again.  Each year marks a return to a state of frantic creativity.  Trying to find that one great idea that is book material.  50,000 words is no easy task if you don't have the right premise.  I think I've got one that will fly.  I still have to work out some details in my mind.  I hate outlines.  Wish me luck.  Here's one of the goodies I got for "winning" last year.

Return to Solvency - I Hope

Well, it's September 3rd already!  I've been so caught up in my shrunken budget that I didn't realize I should "return" to my blog. Ha, Ha.

The most important return for this month, however, is the return of my most recent writing job.  It sort of fizzled out last month, along with the income it would have generated.  Now it's back, and I'm thrilled.  In fact, I should be working right now.  I'll return tomorrow and tell you how it's going.  :)  Thank's for reading and have a safe Labor Day weekend.

Maybe - What a Wonderful Word

Perhaps it will lead me to do even better than last month where I made it half of the days with the word "sprout". 

I like "maybe".  It has so much potential - it is potential.   "Maybe" just hangs on the air waiting to happen.  I think we can have a lot of fun with "maybe".

Sprouting Bunny Ears

All morning I've been working on Easter baskets.  I'm doing one for my daughter and her boyfriend, his little boy,  my son, and my best friend.  I bought some plastic Easter eggs to go in them yesterday and, of course, I had to wash them out before I could put anything in them.  I'm debating whether or not to wrap my best friend's in one of those basket bags - I have so many.  I know I will do the boyfriend's that way - his basket is very plain.  The little boy is getting a giant plastic egg with eggs in it and age appropriate goodies, including a chubby book.

I do love doing stuff like this.  I just wish it didn't add up so fast.

On another note, my replacement computer is on its way, so I will soon be back to business as usual - as soon as my computer guy transfers my info over, that is.  Wish me luck.

Angry Sprouts

Have you ever noticed that when you are angry with someone, even yelling at them, that your anger isn't sustained?  It comes out in spurts, like it's sprouting from your mind and heart.  Thankfully, these sprouts die back quickly, or at least we hope they do.

The Easter Bunny Tradition also Sprouts from Pagan Soil

The bunny, or rabbit, is one of the most fertile and prolific of creatures and served as a pre-Christian symbol of new life in Springtime.

It appears that the Germans may have been the ones to introduce the bunny as an Easter symbol.  There is evidence in writings in the 1500s to that effect.  It wasn't until the 1800s that the first edible bunnies were made, again by the Germans.  These were not chocolate, but pastries. 

Apparently, the Germans brought the concept of the Easter bunny to America in 1700s when they traveled here with the Pensylvania Dutch.

Please see http://www.easterbunnys.net/easterbunnyhistory.htm  for more information.

Interestingly, it seems that the goddess Eastre, or Eostre, had a consort.  That consort was a Hare, similar to a rabbit, but even larger.  The egg, like the hare, was also a symbol of fertility.  It was believed that the goddess gave the hare the power to lay eggs, but only once each year.

When the Germans came to America, the concept of the Easter Bunny,or Oschter Haws,  came with them.  The children would make nests out of their bonnets and caps, then hide them, hoping the Oschter Haws would leave them colored eggs.

Please see
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/19144/the_origin_and_history_of_the_easter.html?cat=7  For more detailed information.