Month: April 2014

  • ironical purging after a blood moon

    Finally worked up the nerve to open a PM I received in February. I'm not keen on private and especially personal socializing on the internet because I have so much experience with it going freakily out of control in the past. This one was a straight up marriage proposal. And so it begins. At least it wasn't a death threat.

    weddingcake

    Locked 5400+ words into final revision yesterday, started file merging, table of contents will be set up today, and I've been doing more word construction since 5ish this morning. My guesstimate to my submissions rep was 80,000 words, but I'm thinking it might actually be closer to 100,000 before I'm done. I'm working very hard on sifting the content down, but part of my soul whispers "Go for the 300,000 limit!", like it's a funny game or something. No one sees the million words I have in private blogs.

    catbook

    I moved a dentist appointment for today because I thought I might be getting slammed by now with a nasty bug Scott had this last weekend, but so far not much is happening. Got a little rubbery yesterday, might have pretended to flush for about 30 minutes. Oh, well. Maybe all that yogurt and the prebiotics in the protein powder that I spike my hot chocolate with is making things easier. Or, I could get slammed in the next day or two and hatch aliens out of my stomach. Anyway, today is now a work day, so BACK TO WORK. There is nothing more invigorating for deep, dark dreads than purging one's soul of the demons the world missed seeing. I'm surprised my dad hasn't called yet about this latest blood moon.

  • are you ready, boots?

    Always something, right? Changed passwords like crazy and logged off and back on sites and apps doing it, which is a real time hog, and still not done yet. I must have a hundred different accounts all over the place. If you haven't yet heard of the Heartbleed virus and are smack dab in the middle of building an evil empire like me, click this pic. It's not the best article I've seen, but it'll get you started. Don't whine to me that you need a better article with a more thorough list. Plug your own brain into the search bar while I get more coffee. Let's see *you* warn the world of imminent threat at 6 a.m. with no coffee. Riiiiiggght.

    heartbleed

    April is historically my worst month for an ambulance ride to the ER over allergies. So far so good this month, chunking chewable Waldryls like candy, entrenched in my house with no fresh air, pumping anything cloth through the wash cycle like a maniac. I enjoy spring vicariously through others, like these bunny butt cookies. I don't eat cookies much any more because they wreck my blood sugar, but it's still fun to see new things. Click for the recipe.

    bunnybutt

    Quick check of my xanga blogs to see how they're doing before I dive into the deep end of the publishing pool the rest of the month, pleased to see them picking up again on their own from search engine activity.

    Lexx blog

    fortunacountries1
    fortunacountries2

    Bluejacky blog

    bluejackycountries1
    bluejackycountries2

    In my dream last night, constructing this book morphed into constructing the ultimate sandwich, like you see in the contests on the Food Channel, and I had to choose music to go with it, like pairing food with an ale or wine or mixed beverage. Of course, now I can see that's what I do every day when I write with my headphones on, but in my dream I had the brilliant idea to make a crusty french bread sub with egg salad and bacon dipped in this awesome sorta sweet mustard, and I toasted the bread just right with a brush of butter, little bit of zip from some kind of preserved tomato, and I couldn't decide whether to pair my sandwich with a modern twist on a baroque classic or go with a basic Tchaikovsky classic, and in the end I chose the baroque twist and won the contest. THAT is what writing is to me. I know I am constructing a meal for other brains, and I think that's why it's taking so long. I could just throw it all out there like I do my blogs, but if my hard copy is going to sit around a waiting room in another country somewhere (my hospital has a book cart), I want it to be the one that doesn't get put back down, like, you all enjoy my burrito, as it were, click this for a nod to Jonah Ray.

    enjoyyourburrito

    Since I'm making up for 3 slacker days of daily planning fail, I may as well mention this. If you desperately need to dig up more on our twitter affair, these click to original sources to get you started on your Tony stalking.

    bb1
    bb3

    And now it's time to GET TO WORK >=l Turning twitter off through the week and maybe the rest of the month. Might pop on to say howdy this weekend.

  • and it's not carpal tunnel, so don't tell me that

    Second experiment with my new pain prescription went well last night. Did you know that increasing histamine levels in the body during peak allergy seasons can spike pain levels? Yesterday was a nerve day. If you have no idea what your nervous system ringing feels like, yay! All those branches you see in pictures- your body has 45 miles of nerves running through it. And then once that starts I get super klutzy and can barely hold onto anything or use my hands, and my left eyeball feels like an ice pick got jammed in it, etc. I've dropped my phone real hard nearly every day this month, not sure how it's still working.

    I had to learn all this stuff in anatomy & fizz. (physiology)

    humannervoussystem

    I am still loathe to take a pill every single day. The problem with pillz is yeah, they help me do stuff the pain level was keeping me from doing, but then I wind up overdoing because I feel like superwoman, and after the pill wears off I'm in more pain than I was to begin with. I've been on this roller coaster ride before, it's an illusion, and sure enough, this morning my wrist is a little puffy from overworking last night when I should have been in bed. BAD! I will have to walk away from the tech today if I want to be able to hold onto a fork while I'm eating later, or hold onto a pen while I address an Easter card. It's all about balance, and pills tip the balance too much. And in case anyone says this is what happens when you get older, I've been doing this particular balancing act since my 20's. I wasn't kidding when I said in other places they were scanning my brain for multiple sclerosis and checking me for ravaging arthritis when I was still just a young thang. I've been faking my way through a severe muscle condition/pain syndrome for a couple of decades, I don't feel at all cool saying this, but it's the truth and today I live with a whole lot of truth in my face. It'll be a good day to get some other stuff done.

    This vid is from facebook, thanx to Holly for finding it. If I'd had access to any kind of tech when I was younger I probably would have been all over it. One of my fave film heroes is Sam Raimi. I used to dig up all the old stuff he made before he hit big time. But back to this. I would have loooooooved pulling this on my dad....

    Been spacing out and coasting with this song in my head. It's almost that magical time of year when I was on vacation and met Dan Theologian in Dallas and then started hooking up with the Snarkalecs online while I was in Houston (proof 1, proof 2) where I saw Star Trek Into Darkness and wrote my STID movie review for syfydesigns, which has over 4200 views now. Those two weeks were the most pivotal I've ever felt in my life, and sometimes I think it feels like I've been floating ever since.

  • gameboard

    Seven months. Still straining inexorably toward my goals.

    pullinghard

    Every step has been hard, but not every step has been miserable. There are plenty of joyful steps to look back on, and looking back is always surprising and beautiful.

    6mountainside

    Still, turning forward again to take another step takes every bit as much grit as the very first step I took, and every step in between. This month is as excruciating as any other month, but this is the month where I hope to finally crawl over the lip of that distant high plateau, scraped up and pissy and out of breath. The question that keeps popping into my head this morning is HOW BADLY DO I WANT IT? Because I know arriving will be the first step to the next part, and I can already see it might be even harder. But.

    I want this. Even if it gets harder.

  • backwards day

    That's what I get for watching Ancient Aliens the other day and Beyond the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman and Close Encounters (the series on the Science channel) back to back yesterday. Just woke up from a dream where mystified aliens were trying to graft new animals, so they chopped the feet off of a deer and planted the deer into the ground up to its hocks so the poor thing couldn't even lay down, and it stood there in agony bleeding to death into the earth. I don't know why my brain cells do these things to me.

    I think I hit publish already instead of preview. I'm confused. Must get coffee... I'll be back.

    Ok, I'm ready for my day now.

Pinky is mobile! Click this pic for mobile viewing.

 photo pinkybloggerbar.jpg

pinkymobilescan

You Are Here

shopify analytics ecommerce tracking

Site Meter

Subscribe in a reader

Subscribe to Pinky Guerrero by Email

This is my personal daily blog. I used to make these private. We'll see what happens.

Disclaimer- I receive no compensation for linking and sharing.

What else am I doing?

my dotcom  photo dotcomlogojb.jpg

Yablo, my main blog  photo archheretic.jpg

my Lexx blog  photo lexxheader.jpg

Lexxperience  photo lexxperienceheader2.jpg

Lexx hangout on G+  photo Lexxhangoutpage.jpg

aspie blog  photo bluenebulabluejackyea.jpg

personal blog  photo pinkyblog.jpg

chicken blog  photo ducklordslogo.jpg

photoshop blog

spoonie blog  photo spazz.jpg

Google+

View Janika Banks's profile on LinkedIn

 photo tumblr_button.jpg

Follow Me on Pinterest

Pinky Guerrero

I keep forgetting I have a myspace account

You may be an aspie if  photo bluejacky.jpg

surveypalooza  photo surveybutton.jpg

MerLexxian- because no one else is doing it  photo zcolinxeniawholescreen.jpg

Pinky Stuff at syfydesigns

Pinky's Blog at syfydesigns


HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere are
1
or fewer people named Janika Banks in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

What are my friends doing?

Eric's blog  photo keepingconscious5.jpg

Dawn's blog  photo dawnsnip3.jpg

Vicki's blog  photo tryingnottowobble.jpg

Anonymous Aspie  photo aspieland.jpg

Fae & Friends  photo faeampfriends2.jpg

myke's place  photo syfydesignslogo.jpg

Nerd Movie  photo nerdmovie.jpg

Front and Center Promotions  photo frontandcenterlogo.jpg

Kirill Yarovoy  photo revivalcomingsoon.jpg

Little Lexx forum  photo lexxboredbutton.jpg

Lexxzone on Tumblr  photo lexxzonelogo.jpg

Everything I have in this blog

April 2014
M T W T F S S
« Mar   May »
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930