Happy New Year

It's January The First. It's the day that goals are set. Tomorrow is the day that they're promptly ignored.

So I'm starting a blog. Which I'll also likely promptly ignore tomorrow. But we'll see.

As you can see, my name is Goldie. Not my real name, but it was going to be. If my dad hadn't decided that it was too weird, I would have been Goldie. So I'm keeping it.

I'm also a wife, mother of two cats, a daughter, sister, daughter-in-law, and a friend (at least I like to think so) to a few people. Maybe more than I realize.

I'm also a practicing novelist. As the title of this blog says.

What am I going to do with a blog. I could do automatic writing, like I am now. But I think I'll do a little more.

My hobbies have been taking a backseat to Facebook lately. And while I still like feeding my people on Restaurant City, subsequently getting pissed off that they don't have anything I need for sale, then saving and closing. I like Farmville and Country.. something. A few Country Somethings, really. Castle Age, Fish Isle, and some other useless games... it's time to step back from it. Do something else.

Like reading.

I want to write out reviews for books I've read recently, am reading currently, or just discuss what I want to read. I also want to pick up my DS and play some farming sims on there! Hellooooo, Harvest Moon Sunshine Islands! I still need to open up Kingdom Hearts 365/2 days or whatever it is. Then I want to get Cooking Mama 3. And find my little game folio thing with the other cartridges in it. I just have a DSLite. HM: SI is in it right now with KH: Chain of Memories in the GBA slot. But I do have Pokemon. Several of them.

So I may share some fleeting glimpses into my actual novel ideas, but I'm really paranoid about them. I don't want them stolen or snagged before I can do anything with them. But we'll have to see. For now, I'm writing the ideas down in a leather journal I got at 50% off at Barnes & Noble where I work part-time. It has Grecian art on it. Fitting, really, for what's going inside of it. Only I guess not really fitting.

Well, with my cat slowly falling asleep at the foot of the bed, I'll send this off to join the other millions of blogs out there. If you've read it, thank you! If not, thanks for the hit anyway! And those that don't read it, don't look at it, don't even know it exists -- well, there's nothing really to say since you won't read it anyway.

But to everyone.. have a really Happy New Year. It'll be a year where lots of dreams will be realized and many more will actually come true.