However, I am happy to report that I battle the dragons of stress and pull myself back together in what I consider, little time. I have so many little projects going on in my life that I really don't know when to do what. For one part, Ive been working on my novel for about 10 months and its nowhere near finished. My characters seem to be floating around in a nebulous road of self discovery but not one step closer to doing exactly what they have to do so the story can progress. Needless to say, I've punished them all by neglecting to work on it for a couple of months. But it is always on the back of my mind. I can hear my heroine going at me in her incredibly temperate voice: "Seriously, Isabel this is enough! As you MADE me do in chapter 3, stop wallowing in your self pity: 'Oh! I don't know where this story is going! Poor me!!.' Well, stop playing with those markers and stand up (or in this case, sit down) and find out where the heck its going! Make a choice and live with it. You can always make a sequel." Okay, fine maybe she's not that temperate, but whatever.
Then there's this whole artistic facet of me that I didn't know existed. Its been unraveling itself to me, right here. When I began blogging, I wrote about how my sister was the artistic one in the family. Turns out, I'm not that bad. I'm drawing some cartoon characters that I've been making up and I've been stitching some cards, which Ill post on a later date.
I've also been trying to talk my mom into buying me a sewing machine. Ive always been very good at hand sewing and I'm ready to tackle the big leagues and by big leagues I mean the occasional weekend project.
Then there's the blog. I love the whole idea of blogging. Its a bit like journaling, but with an audience. I really am enjoying it. It makes me think about things to write about, makes me sit down and actually practice my writing when I'm not working on my stories.
Parallel to my literary and artistic aspirations, is my actual life. There's work and college and family and friends, all of which and whom, require and demand bits and pieces of my attention. Oh! and my Blackberry. Yep, that demands quite a bit of attention. I don't think Ive reached the point of being a Crackberry, though, which is good.
All in all, its seems like there's so much going on right now and I love it. I love every minute of it. Although, please don't ask me to admit it when I go to bed at 12:00 am studying to wake up at six to go to work and go to bed at the same time the next day.
On another note, today was mother's day in the Dominican Republic. We celebrate it on the last Sunday of May. My family had a brunch, which turned out to be a lunch. We dominicans don't put too much stock on being early. We jokingly call it "dominican time". You invite someone at 6 and you expect them at 7. That's more or less how it works. Here are a few pictures of our delicious food. It's not really "dominican" food. Well, maybe the "pastelitos", but other than that its pretty much latin in general. We had rice casserole, quiche, spanish tortilla, pastelitos (sort of the same thing as empanadas but round and filled with chicken or cheese), quipes (no idea what it's called in english. It's an arab finger food consisting of ground beef and wheat, seasoned and fried.) and croquetas (it's made out of chicken and flour and then fried but I don't know the specifics.) It was a great day spent with a wonderful family celebrating the incredible women who have raised us.
The round yellow circles are pastelitos, the big brown thingys are quipes and the thinner ones croquetas. Yum.
Some quiche...
And of course... PRESENTS!!I've been working on some articles to post. Hopefully, I'll be able to put them up sometime between tonight and tomorrow. Have a good day!
Love out,
Isabel Cristina
P.S. The internet connection here at school is atrocious, so I'll post the pics later.
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