Hello, February!

    

 Today continues the trend of our winter feeling much more like spring, what with the rainy days and clear sunshine and 60 degree weather. We have not had any snow that actually stuck this year and last year we had it by Thanksgiving. In fact, yesterday was Groundhog's Day and I'm figuring that Punxsutawney Phil was feeling like, "Are you serious? You brought me out here for this?! It's already spring." As it turns out, he did see his shadow, but I'm beginning to think that we are reading into that wrong. I am starting off the month with some planning. I finally finished assembling my desk and chair so that should make all the planning that much easier.

     I am planning a budget... Hopefully a trip to Paris (hey, it could happen!), my course work for the next 4 weeks, my meals, my blogs, my novel re-writes, my Valentine card list, something for Mardi Gras, a love song playlist, and my book, music, movie must experience lists.

     I wish I was going to Gigantour but the closest show is in Chicago and I didn't have anyone rallying me into making the road-trip. I wish they were playing a show closer. I feel like Nashville's getting skipped by everyone so far this year. I need to move.

     If I were to move right now it would be to Las Vegas. I'm thinking about it...I really am. I'm sick of the cold, I'm sick of tornadoes, I'm sick of living someplace where self-proclaimed rednecks rule the world...but most of all, I'm sick of living in a music market that artists skip whenever they play a limited tour. I can't keep flying all over the country just to see bands play, I need them to come to me...at least within a four hour drive...anyway, I'm ready to take on a grown-up town, not nested under the wing of The Church a.k.a. The Christian Right. So, I'm planning and plotting about how to make the rest of this year amazing. I will try to keep this updated. Thanks for reading.
~Ciao, K

The Mighty Resolutions! Here's 12 for 2012!

Here is a list of Resolutions I saw online that I thought was pretty great. It sums it up for the most part, give or take a few. Below it are my actual specific goals for 2012!!

New Year's Resolutions

12 for 2012

 1. I resolve to nom nom on fruits or vegetables or both with every meal and snack.

 2. I resolve to escape to 50 new worlds this year. Follow my progress at Goodreads.com 

 3. I resolve to pound out 100 pages of cinematic genius in April during ScriptFrenzy!

 4. I resolve to start breathing in a group, while sweating profusely, on a yoga mat. Twice a week.

 5. I resolve to scribble something silly and nonsensical each week. Follow my blog Inkblot to see what I do.

 6. I resolve to share the products of my demented mind with the world via E-Pub.

 7. I resolve to smell the roses, maybe sketch them & then write poems about them...or make-out with them.

 8. I resolve to go watch the Predators annihilate the competition in Smashville...LIVE!!

 9. I resolve to get to know where I live...and love it (NowPlayingNashville)

10.I resolve to get up and sweat  to Ke$ha, Flo-Rida, & LMFAO unless I'm sick or we get snowed in.

11.I resolve to learn the lyrics to songs so that I can belt them out freely without mumbling over parts.

12.I resolve to travel (out west!) this year. A whole year land-locked in the middle is too long!

**BONUS #13 for LUCK & LOVE I will do something new. Something I have never done before...I don't know what it will be yet, but undoubtedly something outstanding!!

2012 Day #2: Reflecting on the new year...

I decided to do a retrospect of the new year so far...

     After the indulgence that was New Year's Eve 2011...I began the new year yesterday with a clean slate and full of great expectations & good intentions. I had a fairly indulgent breakfast with eggnog panettone french toast, bacon & eggs, however I did offset it with fresh fruit and a southern traditional new year's dish of black-eyed-peas and collard greens  and I went jogging out on my favorite trail. I did some cleaning/organizing, and I did some loafing around and goofing off. In other words, it was a well balanced day. I even blogged, did a writing exercise for fun, read, and had a day well spent.

   

The only down side is the cold I managed to pick up somewhere along the way. This morning, after a satisfying breakfast of baby quiches, fruit and a caramel macchiato, I began a downward spiral which started with sneezing, morphing quickly into a runny nose, which is causing a furious sore throat. Booo! Feeling under the weather has put a cramp in my plans to make today productive.
 
  Now I only managed to confirm my spring enrollment and finish some blogs...oh and begin watching the new BBC Sherlock...which is quite awesome, I must say, for bookish anglophiles like myself. It's a very modern adaptation, but the two leads are nerdishly charming in that British way. I'm going to have to get back to that now as I am losing the energy required to type or even sit in front of a computer screen.

 Happy New Year 2012!
Cheers (and sniffles)!

The Year Is 2012!!!!

     Welcome to the year two thousand and twelve. It sounds like the future and yet, in terms of this century we are still taking baby steps. Travelling back in time, to the turn-of-the-last-century, in 1912, the first of the World Wars had not yet happened, America was still a bright young upstart, (not at all the fully realized superpower it was later to become, at best it was more like a social ingenue) the flappers, the bootleggers nor the Great Depression had happened, and only the very rich (and progressive) had electricity in their homes. I can hardly imagine what they would think of our modern day working poor all using smartphones.The defining event of 1912 was the sinking of the "unsinkable" mighty Titanic.


     It's hard to know where we are in on the timeline right now, and without a time machine (TARDIS or DeLorean) all we can do is work with the limited viewpoint we have. It's impossible to know if we have hit rock bottom, where the only place left to go is up; or if all of our troubles are only beginning and the worst is yet to come. I suppose the nation could be headed in one direction, but that doesn't mean that the individual could not go in the exact opposite.


     This year we have the added drama of the apocalyptic predictions for the end of the year. Since the Mayan calendar ends in December 2012, we may have reached the last epoch of our age. I can't pretend I have complete faith in scholars to read the calendars of dead civilizations perfectly so I must say, I expect it could end early...or possibly later than predicted. It's so hard to pinpoint the exact day or hour...I suppose Jesus did try to tell us that ("But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."), I mean, HE didn't even know. I know I think I'm pretty smart, but I don't think I'm smarter than Jesus and ALL the angels of heaven! So...yeah...just always be ready, I guess.


     For myself I am going to take this New Year's restart and begin with letting go of dramas and disappointments of the past year...or lifetime...and pick up with a brand new day. If you notice small children, they don't carry a lot over from day-to-day let alone year-to-year. Each day is brand new in and of itself, full of possibility and opportunity. They don't have a lot negativity or doubt, and they're pretty successful in everything they do...eventually. So I'm going to try that approach this year and focus on adding good things to my life instead of focusing on eliminating the bad. I just don't really want to give the bad things much attention or energy. I think adding all the good stuff in will leave very little room for any lingering negativity. I'm going to make some NY Resolutions and maybe do a Q & A as well this week.


Thanks for reading and Happy New Year 2012!

     Cheers!

The End Is Near...2011

There are less than 3 magical days of holiday wonder left of 2011 and I am definitely feeling the urge to tie off the loose ends of this year, banish those things that didn't really nurture my soul and begin the preparations for exciting fresh starts. Few things in the world make me as giddy as new beginnings, and that is probably why New Year's Day is one of my most treasured holidays. 


Whatever happens on New Year's Eve is irrelevant (unless I was seeing Guns n' Roses play at The Joint in Las Vegas), but as the glitter covered revelers count down the seconds, the reset-button of life gets a champagne soaked push at midnight, and once again the first day of the new year is that all-American open road I keep meaning to take (preferably in a vintage 1966 Mustang convertible) for an exhilarating drive across this sexy country. This year we turn 2012 and some say it may be our last year on this planet, at least on this realm anyway. I hope I live this year as though it were our last year our planet had left to live, taking the big risks like there's nothing to lose. 


My plan is to make this the most heavily documented year of my life so far. I plan on using blogs, social networks, photographs, sketches and songs to accompany the journey. I wish everyone love and luck in all of their endeavors this year!


Ciao, Rockers!
K.

National Novel Writing Month!

"Not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. Begin anywhere." ~Bruce Mau

It's here! The first day of NaNoWriMo and I couldn't be more excited about it. The idea is to finish writing a full length novel from start to finish in 30 days. People do it every year so it's proven possible. Just last year my sister completed her first novel ever and now she's shopping it to literary agents. This year I, too, shall join their ranks. I don't have a title or a plot for my novel yet but I have a willingness to attempt this and see it through. Wish me luck!

To follow along with me on my endeavor, here is my NaNo page:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/karisabee

About My Blog

I want this to be a place I can collect a variety of random things that catch my eye and/or inspire me. It can be photos, songs, poems, news articles or anything else that help me to evoke a mood, or refer to when I need a burst of creative inspiration.

It's pretty safe to assume that rock n' roll, California, hot guys, badass girls, books, movies, and music will be featured often. I'm going to try not to self-censor too much.

I encourage anyone reading my blog to play one of the music widgets while reading because it will definitely support the context to my writing. I almost always write with music playing unless it's a term paper for school.

January 2011

New Year's Resolutions finally made! I only made 3 this year but they're good.

• #1 Live in the moment
• #2 Don't procrastinate (just do it now)
• #3 Let go of anxiety-it's not productive (in other words- quit trippin')