Carey Burns

I missed WIP Wednesday because I'm feeling worn out. Our black and white cat, Zoey, is in very failing health and I spent Tuesday tending to her so yesterday I worked my butt off at work to catch up. Today, I'm working my butt off to get ahead at work because I'm off tomorrow and I feel like I'm just slowly slipping under the dark waters...hoping to come back up for a breath. I've been having some weird heart palpitations and the results of my heart monitor device came back that my issues are stress-related. Hmmm...how does one fix that? Selling off everything and living out of a camper wouldn't do it, but it sure sounds appealing. Where would I keep my craft supplies? If I can hold out until October, I'll have a lovely weekend away to recharge my soul and be filled with the wonder of Halloween. Speaking of, I've been crafting some seriously creepy decorations for my house. I'll be having another Haunted Open House for my jewelry/crafts and th...

Howdy! If you're a regular reader, you'll notice I totally scummed you on WIP Wednesday. Sorry about that, I had a family emergency crop up on Monday. You probably won't get a Free Fiction Friday this week either, so be prepared. I'm hoping to maybe have posts for next week, but you never know what life will throw your way, am I right? In lieu of actual content, I'd like to pose a question to you. If, like me, you were a vegetarian (eggs and dairy allowed) and saw a vegetable egg roll on the menu of a hospital cafeteria, would you expect it to have pork in it? I'd like to say I'm "asking for a friend" but it was me. I trusted it to be just vegetables and took a bite because egg roll goodness and swallowed it. The taste let me know that there was some surprise ingredient and when I dissected the remaining egg roll, it realized it should really have been listed as a pork egg roll . My guts weren't pleased, I can tell you that.  All in all,...

Why hello there, been a while, hasn't it?  So much is going on right now and I finally have a blessed moment of peace before it starts swirling around me again.  Let's see.... ...I've completed my Haiku Horror Stories book and it is in the hands of the beta readers right now.  I've been experimenting with a back cover and think I've discovered something dreadfully fun.  ...the Slimming continues and I've lost 11 pounds so far with quite a few more to go.  I jogged recently.  Properly jogged (nobody saw me, I made sure of that!) and wheezed and sweated.  It felt pretty nice.  I haven't really jogged since I was 14.  Wow.  Don't I feel old now? ...I believe I've got an A so far in my online class and have learned that I do not want to leave anywhere near a volcano or earthquake zone.  No thanks. ...tomorrow night I teach a jewelry class with the loveliest of Swarovski crystal combinations.  Here it is:   ...