A Girl's Best Friend

Best film since 'The Darjeeling Ltd'

This is about Mary who is relationship-phobic who suddenly gets the (unwanted) task of driving her mother's Jack Russell, Binky, through US. The trip is more than that of a courier but more of a journey of self-discovery, loosing Binky in the middle of it all and reshaping her thoughts of her relationship.

Extremely honest and heart-warming and if nothing else, she drives a PINK CADILLAC!

Intrested? Check more on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1086213/ and add it to your lovefilm/amazon-wishlist.

The Love of God

I have struggled to accept God's Love, or rather, to be convinced, that He really can and does love..me..So much to the point that I have been mean to myself, intermittendely. Varying from thoughts to action.

This morning I prayed to understand His love. I didn't have time to do my usual reading and praying in the morning so went straight to church instead.
I was very touched through what was said, many things as if He was speaking straight to me. I got home and decided to do the reading and came to John chapter 17 verses 1-26...afterwards I just cried, and understood His undying Love for us, both to those who follow Him and those who turn their back to Him...His undying Love...

If anyone knows about unrepricated love it's God, and Jesus death on the cross is His LoveLetter, BIG times, to us.

I've become a Pharmasist!

Did you know you can make penicillin out of coffee?..well, old coffee? :)! My kitchen is a living proof of it. I guess tomorrow will be a morning of disinfectation armed with economy-sized bottle of bleach hey?..
No marriage proposals from fellow-bloggers then?..

I'm having a break, well-deserved one after 3000 words in the last days plus working plus being the usual neurotic thinking far too much, I gave this up today. You know people give up drinking, give up smoking, give up chocolate..you know, they do less harm than neurotic thinking, because mind affects body more than anything. So I've given that up today and it feels funny being in a good mood and laughing, it's a challenge and am ready for it. So, am munching on risotto with mushrooms, zucchini (we Italians don't call them courgette:), olive oil, garlic and onions and I will mostly be watching a film later, my fingers undoubtedly wandering on my knees looking for the keyboard but they'll cope without it.
The film in question, first time my SKY-subscription will be worth something, is Gene Hackman 'The'......(goes and looks for most sold telly-mag in UK) 'The Conversation'.

Oh, here it is, bye for now. That's me and my platter of rise, zucchini and mushrooms (no I didn't grow them in my kitchen) off to the sofa.

p.s. I've done my 'short'-list: 12 UK publishers and 2 US publishers

p.s. did you know that many films start with an aereal-shot, it's a trick to make you think it's a big production:) clever hey?

No Counting Sheep

Ha-Ha! I'm back, only for 2 minutes, to say that I am still working hard, lots of writing, drowning in information from Atlases, history-books, Judaism-books and more. I'm doing the fun part now, writing the story and not editing old-english words, phew!, that bit is over and done with.

I'm kicking off again in a mo' but thought I had a tiny break first:) no wine, no choc-cookies, no Lavazza, no counting sheep:).

Hopefully I really get it out next Tuesday and then I will start biting my nails for the first time in my life:)

2 1/2 Bottles of Red Wine Later...

I'm three days late according to..my self-set schedule. Things took longer than expected and I have just about finished that which I hoped to do Thursday night. Oh well, at least it's done. The teasing out one story out of four (Gospels) exchanging all the 'thou's and 'hast's, updating the archaic words and so on for a more digestible English, reformatting it, making it more into a story and what is left is the fun part. Fatting it out, colouring it! And of course it's nine now..on a Sunday evening and I know that I should really prepare for my coming week, but I just want to finish off a few more bits and hopefully go to bed this side of midnight.

Today was the Global Day of Prayer, in memory of Pentecost, that which I spoke of a few days ago. It was amazing and the church was rocking!:) I was prayed over and fell!!! I had this warmth going through me, His power...amazing. A lady had a message for me "The good job He has started with you He will finish"..not only that..He is talking to me so much, particularly these last days, and whereas I would perhaps question my sanity, I'm getting more and more convinced that this, 'A Shared Moment of Destiny' is my calling..

Now then, here is Rossanna. Isn't she lovely!



It's from the May Bank-holiday (and I promise I will blog properly about it soon).
I took this picture with an old SRL camera, was trying it out. It has substituted my older camera I started off with in the early 90s.
Looking at the photos it has made I feel that nothing beats film as opposed to digital. Yes, digital is very practical and if any of you have an old one lying around that you don't need, please send me it to support a poor unpublished writer:)

Film has more of a soft edge to it.

And here's a picture of my dad's hometown, in fact, he was born in one of these houses.



And finally, the wedding-pix I took after a few hours sleep on Friday and dito sheep-counting, went fine:)

Saviour of Few, Fall of Many

Aaah!! Lavazza, Coffee, Yes
But......it has only taken effect now (02.15...am!!) ...not 2 hours ago when I was struggling to finish off a massive chunk of my draft-novel which is going to various publishers next week.

Having said that, it shouldn't take long til I fall asleep of boredom having counted sheep 300 times and I don't have to get up at the crack of dawn as usual. No, the undersigned is taking wedding-pictures at 11.00:) haven't done that for ages. ...
I used to work as a photographer part-time. So we shall see, if the pictures are all fussy it's beacuse i'm still speeding on Lavazza:)

These next few days are so exciting, tomorrow I shall edit what I've written tonight, read up more on Judaism and the culture etc. at Jesus' times, fat up this bit of the draft, finish off marking publishers in the directory.

Saturday, print out the whole thing edit and fat out.
Sunbathe on my terrace believe it or not!
Make a list of the publishers

Sunday, church really exciting because it's Pentecost, the day when, after Jesus' resurrection, the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples forthe first time and they started to speak in tongues (The Spiritual language) and also in foreign languages so that everyone could understand them (I've got stories to tell about that, how for example people who don't speak Russian suddenly started to do so to Russian people etc etc.) but it' sa great day for the power of healing and many many things so Sunday at church will be extra special, also the day of global prayer, when all believers around the world arejoined the whole day praying together, amazing. Prayer breaks the prison-wall of the Matrix we live in. Anyway, re-read and if necessary edit for the last time, print off together with nice presentation, cv, etc. blah blah:) pack into little packages and

Monday morrow, off to the post office!

Then...wait..wait..and wait:) And get a result!!!! Or even two where they fight over who will have it:)

I will keep you updated:)

Today I had the great pleasure of speaking with old friends overseas, yes, I was 'supposed to' do other things but I just had to escape it all and it was great: Luciana who I went with to Italy (Milan) 18 years ago..for 6 months which became 3 1/2 years for me and for her, well she's still there, married, 7-year old and one other on the way in July.
Then there's Mimmi:) in Gothenburg who's a chapter on her own, great friend since we were 16 (22 years ago!! oh mine, no wonder I'm looking at L'oreal's revita-lift ads on telly) inventing a code by knocking so we could 'talk' with each other in the night through the wall (no I haven't done time:)
And finally Tomi, in Gothenburg too, who was a head shorter than me 21 years ago but soon became a tree:) who too is expecting a 2nd one in June! All these babies! So, great!

I will see next week, when I take a break from novel-writing, if I can do some blogging and add some fun pictures from then.

Til then off to sheep-land.

33

I can't believe it! I'm done! I've finished the Prologue to the Novel! Well, the draft thereof. 13 pages in the last 4 hours, all I need now is to finetune it. But I will have to walk away from it now for a while, I'm still too emotional about it, about The Fall that took place in Eden. I cried but hammered on on the keyboard. I will go back to it in a few days. Tie it up with the rest of the Novel and send it off to selected Publishers and then wait and wait and wait. A Joy! At least it's done. No I am not blowing my own trumpet, I'm just overjoyed that I have met my deadline, by one hour:)

Father thank you for giving me this.

And the most exhilirating of all was when I looked down at the total page-count of the Prologue....33, just like the amount of years he was with us..on Earth.

Bye for now. In to kitcken for some well-deserved food. I'm depressed and will have to occupie my mind with something else, but I'm sure it's normal when writing.

To all of you who are supporting me in this sometimes lonely adventure, THANK YOU, I love you to bits