Wow, what am I doing?

Just a couple of quick thoughts....I am reading a book on the death business for the novel "Death in the Life of Inez" and also a book called "Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds ; Mexican Immigration and the Furture of Race in America" which is for Inez' character development. Ironically, John said some smartass remark about that, like " Oh you wouldn't know anything about being hispanic, would you?" Oh ha ha ha.

The dog is coming along. She seems to be attaching to me quite well. I need to take her for a nice long walk at Lake Murray.

The kids began cursive practise. Still doing multiplication, division and fractions. I am looking into buying some math games. I am also hoping to get our curriculum pretty quick here, no telling when Mr. Grippo decides that he has had enough of so called "civilization", or San Diego...

1 Hr. a day is my goal for writing. I am also going to start having the kids journal.

took the kids to boogie board this afternoon, I think we will be doing more of that in the next couple weeks.

Oh and here I am with Leo in Mazatlan....good times!

Will we leave earlier than expected?

It would seem that Mr. Grippo will not be on this job much longer. We are now considering going to Abre Ojos at the end of August and then staying there for Sept. and Oct. and then leaving from there. I am going to have to get HS curriculum put together faster than I thought, and will have to be more on the ball for getting stuff done. I will need to be working on the novel, trying to find out how to sell a non-fiction book idea, blog regularly, and teach the kids how to journal. Oh yeah, and be working on my journal more regularly, too. It would seem that I need to do more stuff than I was originally planning on doing, but that is not true. I always planned on doing all of this, its just that now I have less time to get it done.
I am thinking that I will just take one science book, one math book, an English grammar book, and a beginning Spanish book. If I can get those together, we could just take some paper and pens and crayons and that should be the whole deal.
I am thinking that it would make more sense to be in the Yucatan in Dec. though, but it must be discussed more thoroughly than it has been. Lots of thoughts and they need to be organized.

Here she is with Leo

Well, I am excited to have learned how to put the images with the text. Yay! a new skill!

We have a new family member!

Wow, its been a few weeks....we adopted a dog last Sunday the 14th of July. She is a 3 yr. old female "Great Japanese" dog, a tri-color red and her name is Kit Kat. I am slowly trying to switch over to Kiki as Kit Kat seems like a wrong name for a dog like her. She was bred and born on a ranch north of Tehachapi and given up by her owner because she is sterile (although we will still need to spay her as she still goes into heat- who wants that mess or male dogs sniffing aroun?). She looks amazingly similar to Sequoia, our previous dog, but her personality is so different. She is sweet and very friendly, not at all aloof like Sequoia was. I am loving her so much. I really did miss having a dog. She will definitely be an asset to have with us while traveling in Central and South Americas.
She wouldn't eat much at all during the first week. Now she seems to have rediscovered her appetite. Hopefully we will have her with us as long as Sequoia was with us! Viva la canine!

To flashdrive or not to flashdrive, that is the Q

Well, now is the moment of truth. Do I start (or rather continue handwriting) this novel or do I buy a flashdrive and start typing away like a madwoman?
I am typing at a moderate pace right now. Some of the keys are sticking and not necessarily showing up when I want them to(have you ever tried typing an email with the letter "L", not easy, believe me!). I definitely need to buy some can of air to blast some of the dust out of the keyboard. And then I need to keep my paper with me for when I want to make notes when I am unable to get to the computer.
I am raring to go! I think it will be the computer and I will start to do it when I can.....good luck to me!

Help me clean my *&^%#$ house!

Quick! The kids are out of the house! I need a household fairy to run over here and clean my house! ack. I am doing laundry and am running back and forth from there. I think when I am waiting for the drying to be completed I will be writing. Then if I fold quick enough I will manage to come home and stare disgustedly at my poor, woebegotten carpet. Oh yeah, then I will vaccuum said poor and woebegotten dirty carpet.

help me, I've fallen down and I can't write!

The title is humourous to this post but honestly, I am taking my notebook with me everywhere and am still not actually writing beyond asking myself questions on paper about the plot and characters. Then I was not posting for a few days on here. hrrrrumph.
I talked to my friend, Gimi, today and got super excited about my story. While I was telling her, I was not thinking (for once!) is this stupid for a novel? I was thinking, yeah, I want to read that novel!
I guess for a while I was more interested in how a travel memoir might come out better than any novel I could write. I was talking to the librarians and one of them came up with "a travel memoir through family'e eyes". Perfect-O! I love, love, love it!
Need to teach the kiddoes.....