New screen, will edit.....

So yesterday my hubby installed my new LED for my laptop. (THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!) I am proud to say that it is working and I am again on my lap top instead of my desk top. The problem with my desktop is that it's OS is Windows 98 se. It is SO SLOW and to use anything such as a USB storage unit you have to go on the slow internet and download the drivers. My new printer won't even load so I havn't been able to print anything for boot camp for the conference until tomorrow. I will be printing like crazy for a few days. After I have the materials for BC I will resume my interrupted work, my last edit on my book Dominion Day. I have revised the thing more than 6 times. After this I think I will be beating a dead horse. So as much as I promise to blog, my book has my attention as I try to polish it for submission. Wish me luck ehe?

My DD will kill me but i had to share.

I found this poem on the desk top I love it! I am so proud of her she is such an awesome writer.

The Rain Dance By laurel Jefferies

The clear droplets pour down around me
Steam rises as it hits the ground
A smell so profound
It washes the world clean
The cool rain falls around me
Wetting me to the core
I look up and move my arms
I spin then dip close to the ground
Water gathers around my feet
I leap and it splashes my face
The water falls back around me

I have Dropped the Ball

Totally and completely. I apologise to my readers I was on such a roll when I had that rollover accident. Since then there have been DR appointments phone calls with the insurance agency and car shopping. But that isn't all... I had started my intense read everything out loud final edit of my first book and things were going well. MY Dh came home Friday night and asked me for a phone #, he tossed me the phone and the phone bounced out of my hands and shattered the LED screen on my not even two month old lap top. I am so lost without my lap top and working on this desktop is really dificult. I know I am spoiled. I recieved the new LED today but DH is out of town untill friday. :( So until then I apologise, (I have a list of ideas to blog about).

Best Friends Forever

*Warning, I have been up since 3:44*

I saw a post on another blog and it ispired me. What blog? you ask... I don't remember.

Her blog was on best friends. I have had plenty of them in my lifetime and everyone of them still means a TON to me. But alas times change we move or they move or we change ourselves. At that time we move on with fond memories in our hearts. Then there are best friends forever or kindred spirits. Ones that twenty years after you first meet you still think about talk to and laugh and cry with.

I am very lucky, I have a kindred spirit, God sent her to me to assist me through the most dificult time I have ever experienced in my life. And for that,I am extreemely grateful. She is ten years younger than I and in some ways a polar opposite of me, but she is still my BFF.

Her name is Paulette and her blog is at,

http://700blankpages.blogspot.com

go see her say hi for me.... She is a writer as I am, and we met at church. I had a feeling that I should share the fact that I had finished another rough draft and was pretty proud of it. I said so in the "Good news minute". She approached me after church that day saying she was interested in writing and she'd love to come over and talk writing. I was of course excited, some one else that wrote wow! I thought.

So a few months later (we are both very shy) she finally comes over to my house and I show her my (horrible) first drafts (i am much better at writing now) and we talked writing. Now mind you she said she was interested in writing and she hadnt started anything but she was just thinking about it. Finally after a few months of getting to know her she admitted to me that she was allready writing and had written some 1,000 pages of a Trillogy. She LIED to me but I soon forgave her and it was the start of a beautifull friendship.

We now live in completely diferent places she in AZ me in central UT. But it hasnt changed our friendship. She is my best friend and adopted sister. I love her as if she was blood. We are true kindred spirits, Anne Shirely would be proud.

So... to my BFF LOVE YOU!!!!!

michelle

Word 2007

Okay I got my new laptop but it didn’t come with Microsoft Office. So I downloaded one of those free programs off the internet. I’m sorry to those of you that like it, my DH loves his, but I hated it. As a writer I use my word program all day every day. It didn’t work like I needed it to and every attachment I sent to someone they couldn’t open it. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was to deal with. So… Saturday we went car shopping in Provo, don’t ask, we still have only one car it was miserable but that is another story. And at the end of the day we stopped at Sam’s Club to grab some bulk food. And I talked my Dh into getting Office for me. I installed it last night and played around with it last night I am excited, it is so cool. Whoo hoo!!!!!!

I won an award.

Not just a blog award, (Sorry that sounds really bad.... I love blogger awards too BLUSH!!!!) but an actual story writing contest award. I took third place in the DragonCommet short story contest for the LTUE conference I missed. I am so psyched!!!!! I worked so hard on that story. Here is the official email.

DragonComet/Odyssey Winners:


Adult Story:
First Place: Suzanne Vincent, Reluctant Prophet
Second Place: Kenneth D. Lee, Afterlife
Third Place: C. Michelle Jefferies, Broken

9-12th Grade Student Story:
First Place: Ashley Nuccitelli,
Second Place: Lindsey Maxon, Miss Minerva Clark


5-8th Grade Student Story:
First Place: Laurel Jefferies, Storm Master
Second Place: Mariah Smith, Genie?
Third Place: Reece Paghe, Rownik and Dingo go to the Future
Honorable Mention: Michael Fisk, The Secret of Brighton Ski Resort
Honorable Mention: Olivia Hoddy, The Journey to the Castle

Yeah that is my daughter I am so proud of her! First place!!!!!!!!

little miracles

Today has been a day of reflection. While I have bemoaned a little the fact that I am not going to the confrence I have looked forward to for over a year. It is easily overwhelmed by the realization that there were some very obvious miracles in the hours surrounding the rollover.

First is the obvious fact that the three of us are alive. If you look at the picture below, you may notice that the roof of the truck colapsed within 2" of the tops of my kids car seats. The three windows around them burst and the two of them (my kids) only suffered minor cuts. Add to that the buckets in the seat next to them and the random bags and luggage flying through the air and out the broken window and I'm thinking miracle.

Just ten minutes before the accident I reminded my 4 yo to put his shoulder straps on and buckle the chest clip, he did so willinglly with no argument. My silver cell phone didnt fly out the window and get lost in all the white snow. The cell phone (with no bars) worked just long enough for me to call 911 and tell them what happened and where I was. My lap top which was thrown out the window still works. My digital camera still works too. The glass bottles of really expesive supplements in my suitcase which was thrown out the window were not broken. The full insurance coverage we meant to cancel since the truck was paid off was never cancled.

For someone who has struggled with my faith on and off, the few hours around the rollover has convinced me that there is some one up there looking out for me. That regardless of my thoughts for my future He has somethimg in His plans for me.