My Degrees.

Just recently we had a break-in where the thief actually got away with more stuff of sentimental value than anything else and no one was hurt, considering that we were all sleeping and snoring as loudly as possible while it happened...but anyway....the thief left a pretty legible hand print of dust on the surface of the sofa.

When the police turned up and I showed the officer in uniform the hand print , which was relatively small btw, the officer leaned in close and to my utter astonishment, humor and a fair amount of disbelief he wanted to press his fingertips to the hand print to dust it ever so lightly just to 'see if it really was a fingerprint' :o and jussssst before he touched it, I was like, you would been so proud of me...I was like ' Oh, No! Mr. Officer you cannot do that. Uh Uhhhh! They might want to see if they can get a fingerprint off of that. I said to him, where he back-stepped and nodded very vaguely.

And in this incredulous situation I thought to myself. If I know a teensy little bit more about forensics and the such than Mr. Brawny Police Cop Officer over here, then maybe :) I should be hired as sort of a leading Investigator Detective Sargeant or something like that. Because what I figured out....is that although 'they' say that you can't really learn real life stuff from watching all these detective shows on T.V I say that you can! :D

And considering I just outwitted Mr Brawny Police Cop Officer I think I shall declare me qualified enough. What about these qualifications for size...

For watching Season 1-9 of NCIS I say a Masters Degree in Forensics specializing in Computer Forensics!

For watching Season 1-5 of NCIS: LA  A Bachelors Degree in Investigative Media Technology (that sounds so AWESOME they should actually make something like that!)

For watching CSI various seasons and various spins like NY, Miami, and the other one I forgot, a Higher Certificate should suffice, don't yet know in what....maybe in Fingerprinting!

And last of all for watching Law and Order from about 11 years old hat would make me have a PhD in Law.

I am soooooo in the loop! :)

NB: please not that the comments depicted above are no true reflection of the programs mentioned above and have simply served a purpose for this blogs purpose. :p

14th February (Valentine's Day)

This time every year happens to be a really important time to remember...so this time is actually frantic fanatic crazy-eyed shopping time. But! This year I thought to myself, '...stay calm, and shop sensibly. What does he need? What does he want? And before you buy it, think about the affordability of it all.'

For instance, he is really into photography, but a gorgeous camera I can't get right now. And next would be jewelry of some kind, also a no-no. So what are my options you ask?

Welllll....I went into the store with a really crazy-eyed look, I looked to the left, I looked to the right. I bee-lined frantically for the pajamas with all the little hearts all over them annnddddd.....bee-lined straight away from them! Can't be a fanatic and buy the same thing three years running, now can I?

What to do, what to DO?

...So I came home, sat down at the computer and called my old buddy, old pal. Mr. Google and typed 'Valentines Day gift ideas for men!'  so Original I am!

The Hunt Continues...

Job Hunting and the work you love.

The old saying 'get a job you like and you will never have to work a day in your life'!

There I was in perfect oblivion, studying the subject I love, English, so love the English. Trying a hand at writing books, articles, art, alot of web surfing, looking for outlets for this really big love for the written word and penmanship and all sorts of novel writing could vent out on.

And a thought hit me...sometimes what you love to do, might not always be the best way to get the rent paid, it's an uphill road and sometimes quite a lonely one.

But I have learned this in all this writing of book proposals and manuscripts and articles and C.V's and application letters that the only way to get there is to keep on trying. If you are sure of what you want, keep going. That might not mean not getting something to pay the rent and the bills while you try...but a dream is there for a reason.

Oh and before I forget...these are a few of my least favourite questions when trying to find a publisher or writing work...

1. What is your target audience? I am like....ummmm it's a children's story sooooo.....I know this one, I do!.... How about CHILDREN! Yes? Is that the right answer? By the way....I did not write all this down. 'Course not, I just thought it...what I wrote was a whole lot of words that basically meant CHILDREN.

2. What puts you apart from the others? What makes you noticeable? Why should we hire you? My answer...albeit I did not want to put any one else out of work, which that question clearly states I will do....ummm cos there is only one of me and maybe my view on things might be helpful to you. What I actually wrote was all of that just with really big words and lots of polite conversational phrases.

3. And lastly for now was the all important...how does your manuscript stand out from ALL THE OTHERS ON THE MARKET? Now I have read alot of children's books in my time, from the time I could read which was a good odd thirty years (wink, wink) ago until I obviously stopped reading children's stories and graduated to comic books, which I still read BTW, but anyway so recently reading bedtime stories and old kiddie classics are where I am right now. I did some web research on similar books as mine but obviously there was just too much info to actually compare eventually I just stuck to my guns and figured if my toddler awfully love it then there must be something appealing to the young mind in the story, but what I actually wrote was a whole lot of comparisons...!

Anyway. The dream is still alive will keep going til I get there and will blog about that too when it happens!

I just recently found a lovely website that offers a whole lot of journalist work so if you are a writer, editor, journalist or artist who also needs to pay the bills please see www.journalismjobs.com. Will post more should I find any worthwhile websites. :)

Thanks for reading keep on smiling. Only way to do it xoxo