Author: Sarra Cannon

My cousin is leaving today to go to Iraq. I am not sure how long he’ll be there, but I think most of these types of deployments are a year, right? That sucks. Sometimes I still can’t believe we have so many soldiers in the Middle East 6 years after we started this ‘war’. More than six years even… My cousin Kevin is leaving behind a young son and his wife, and I know they are so sad to lose him when he’s overseas. I am really proud of him for enlisting in the Army and serving our country, but…

Tonight, I went to my second official NaNo write-in at the local Borders Bookstore. It was awesome. I met some great local writers and got over 2000 words written. I definitely recommend going. Even though I consider myself to be pretty outgoing, it makes me nervous to go to a coffee shop alone, not sure if I’ll meet up with people and get along with them. But, I am so happy that I got over those silly fears and just went out. It was a great experience, and I had a lot of fun. Oh, and another bonus to going…

Next on my wedding to-do list was a pair of comfortable, yet cute shoes that I could wear while walking around Vegas after the wedding. I don’t want to wear high heels because I don’t want to look too much taller than G in the pictures, so I was really looking for a pair of tennis shoes. But not clunky ones. Something pretty. Impossible, right? Well, I remembered that my friend B bought some very cute tennis shoes that were sort of shaped like ballet slippers and might have been Sketchers. I started poking around on the internet and found…

12,631 words so far! Yay for NaNo! It’s amazing how much you can do when you give yourself permission to suck! This month, I am not allowed to do my neurotic, change my plot a thousand times thing or rewrite the first chapter six times and then throw it all out and start over. No, this month, I have to keep on trucking, whether I like what I’m writing or not. I have to keep writing until the word count says 65,000. Yes, I know that NaNo is all about the 50,000 words in a month, but call me crazy,…

Basically, I just wrote a long post about how I’ve felt yucky all week. It’s no secret. Cramps, fever, yucky. But seriously, who wants to read about that? So I deleted the post and instead, I’m leaving you with this. It always makes me feel better to hear this song. It’s not the words, really. It’s the beat. Awesome song.

Last night while I watched the Biggest Loser, I finally sat down and finished putting together our wedding invitations. That basically involved attaching the vellum overlay to the floral-printed cardstock with a ribbon, then adding a little touch of sparkle in the form of a red rhinestone, and finally putting it all (along with a little card that has info about the website) in an already addressed envelope, sealing it up, and adhering a flower seal on the back. It took me almost the full 2 hours to get all sixty invitations done, but I am happy with the final…