Novels, Careers, & Wedding Bells

I have two books I'm working on right now. I have the first book to my vampire series, which was formerly known as "Blood Red Sin" named after the vampire club involved but since the book is more about my main character, Sinthea, then it is about the club, I'm working on a new title. I also started another series that involves astrology and magic. This one is really just a side project, my main focus is the vampire series. Life's been busy and I feel bad because I haven't been writing much this last month with work, graduation parties, preparing for the Great Lakes Medieval Faire, and wedding planning, (I'll touch down on these in a bit). So it's time to get my ass in gear. Start tonight I'm doing a daily requirement of how many pages I write. I'm starting with two a day at the least and this will most likely increase later down the road.

I'm also job hunting after Faire season, (which ends mid-August), because of two things. One is our pay. We get paid minium wage which is $7.30 an hour when we only get about 40 hours on each bi-weekly paycheck and have cell phone and electric bills on top of a $625 a month rent, (electric runs from $50- $180 depending on the season). Randy has applied for a factory my step-mom works at, Dillon's and I hope he gets it because that'll help GREATLY on bills plus hopefully I find a better job to help. Reason two is some of the people I work for. I know you get douche bags in the majority of work places, but KFC has some professionals. I love our general manager, but certain regular managers, (who would normally be called shift supervisors), don't know what they're doing and blame their faults on everyone else. Also our store owners are completely heartless about their employees and pull dick moves like cutting our hours with warning when we already barely make enough to live on. The one tried telling Randy if he had the money to buy cigarettes then he has the money to live off of, when Randy bums a lot of smokes off people and the only reason he has problems quitting is because this job is made more stressful then normal because they let people who suck at their jobs become managers, but he won't let you get a word in to tell him that. So we both need out of here, but can't afford to quit without new jobs.

By the way, congratulations to my senior friends! Way to go class of 2009! Dixie, Dustin, Marissa, and Chad! Glad you guys all survived!

Medieval Faire starts July 11th and run every weekend until August 16th, 10am to 7pm. I'm trying to go July 11th and 12th. After that I don't know which other weekends I'm doing. Randy's going as a pirate and I'm a gypsy again, but I added more to my costume. www.medievalfaire.com

Another reason I hope we get better jobs is because of Randy and I are engaged. Well we are "pre-engaged" which we both have rings for, because we're planning it but he has a date picked out special for when he wanted to propose. So we have our pre-engaged/promise rings and eventually we'll be officially engaged. I'm very excited for it and to find out why he picked the date he has planned. We don't have an officially have a date set for the wedding but would like to have it by 2012. I already have a theme and my mothers, (so far my biological, God mother and Tammy who claim me as her daughter), are helping me plan it and/or are helping me put it together. From what I found, an average wedding runs $9,000 or more. We obviously don't have that money but I know a lot of short cuts to lower how much it'll be, (thanks to my crafty family members and those with connections to photographers and DJs). I'm guessing it'll run $5,000 but we're slowly getting things for it now so we have time for all of this. The only thing that bugs me is my theme might cause some people not to come, (the overly religious people invited). I would hope not, but you never know. I don't want to give the theme out on here because it feels like every time I picked a theme, someone uses it or plans on it, but if you want to know, e-mail me (scarebear146@yahoo.com), MySpace/Facebook message me, or text me. I'll most likely tell good friends.