Whoo wee… I imagine a few people didn’t think I’d ever be back to update this journal again, eh?

I considered dropping it, but... *shrugs*  What the hell...

So, rewind back seven months or so and ya’ll know my family and I moved.  We got settled into our new home, got the kids enrolled into their new school and our new life began.

It's been going well.  I certainly love being closer to my mom now.  Our house is certainly smaller than the one we left behind, but I don't mind.  It was a little tough downsizing, but we are managing.  At least the kids have their own rooms now, which they didn't before.

Here is our house...

And, as you can see, our house backs up to the hills.  As you can see from the next picture, I have great inspiration for writing about Medjai warriors on watch, looking over my home and keeping us safe. 

Now, can't you just picture in your mind, a long line of horses with black robed warriors sitting along the crest of that hill?  *sigh*

Summers are incredibly hot here.  I think we topped 114 degrees a couple of times in July.  Winters are cold, but not too bad.  We don't get much snow were we are, but enough to keep the kids happy.  LOL!

The kids are finally settling in.  They have made some friends, for which I am very happy.  It was a little rough going there for a while, especially with my daughter who I think ended up taking the move a bit harder than we thought she would.  She really missed her old girlfriend.  We have unlimited long distance, so throughout the summer I allowed her to call her friend as often as she wanted, which helped some.

She is much happier now that school has started up again and she is able to be around other kids her age.  Unfortunately we don't have a lot of young kids their age in our neighborhood.  It's mostly older folks, or what kids are around are teenager age range.

Also, since school started back up, my mom and I have been getting the kids rooms decorated a little.  My daughter wanted horse wallpaper border, so I found some online and we put it up, along with some cute, pink girly curtains.  She loves it! 

My son loves Transformers, so I found some Transformer wallpaper border for his room.  No curtains as of yet, but we'll get some.  Probably some dark blue ones.

Tomorrow, my mom is going to help me put up some wallpaper border in my kitchen.  It's a sunflower pattern.  I seem to have developed a fondness for sunflower decor.  I'm also getting some fall decorations up and the sunflowers really look pretty.

My website is going fine now.  We haven't had any problems what-so-ever since we made that last move.  I'm so happy and so relieved.

My writing time hasn't improved much.  Partly because of time constraints and partly because of the muse not being cooperative.  I did manage to get part of a new Medjai Chronicle story started and I also got a few pages written on the next chapter of The Hitman, but I seem to have stalled again.  I am hoping after my mom leaves tomorrow that I can get the muse to do something.  Perhaps if I dangle a handsome, sexy warrior in front of her, she'll be inspired to pounce... erm, well, perhaps thats not such a good idea after all! 

There have been other things happening, but I won't get into them.  I don't believe in airing other people's dirty laundry out for public viewing just so I can state my opinion on a subject.  I only hope that those directly involved can move on and find peace and that others, who aren't involved, can mind their own damn business.

So, I suppose that is all this time around.  Shall we make a wager on how long it will take me to update this stoopid thing again? 

Peace ya'll...