A cause for celebration!!!

What are we celebrating???

ME reaching 50 Followers and getting my second blogger award!

I AM SO EXCITED! I'm so very thankful for everyone who stops by and says hello, you honestly make my day!

I have to give a BIG shout-out to Jayne from a Novice Novelist for becoming my 50th follower! I just really thank-you all for thinking what I've got to say is somewhat interesting, for giving me your valuable time and opinions and putting a smile on my face!

The lovely blog award is just that- VERY LOVELY! It is see- look how pretty!

I'm going to pass this onto just three bloggers. Also, I want to give them to those I didn't give one to last time. (This is the part of awards I'm not quite fond of as I don't want to forget anyone whose blog I REALLY DO LIKE!!!!)  Grrrrr honestly I want to give it to everyone!

I think everyone's blogs have their merits, they are ALL very unique and special, offering advice, information, INSPIRATION, support, ideas, lots of hearts and laughs, but mostly, every blogger is putting a piece of themselves on show, and that honesty and openness of a part of oneself is, in itself deserving of an award! 

The part I do like is knowing I'm hopefully going to pass on a piece of my happiness with this award too :)

Vicki at Rambles and Randomness

Jackee at Winded Words

Lindsay (aka Isabella) at Adventures in Writing

Thank-you for all being such LOVELY BLOGGERS!

Also, as I mentioned a day or two ago, I will be doing a post for the 'I live here' projects; a grass-roots organisation that some very good friends of mine are involved in and I'd just like to shout-out about.

And just for something a little different, I thought I might post a little section from my work in progress, just for fun.

The working title is 'Finding Heaven' and my MC is having a bit of a moment during this piece. It doesn't really give much away, which is probably good for now. If you caught my last post, I'm hoping you will be able to see a link between the imagery and the words, which is where the head-space for this part of the novel is at. Anyways  here goes...

I feel it deep inside, whenever I think of you. It starts as a dull ache in the middle of my chest. The very heart of me. My soul. A dull ache. It spreads down to the pit of my stomach, a throbbing, pulsing, living pain. It spreads up to my throat, choking my voice, into my mind bringing tightness into my skull. Not again. The vast emptiness engulfs me once more. I am consumed. Will time extinguish the fire in my heart? Or will I feel it always. The hate and devastation, the dirty guilt, and the undying question: why? It seeks me out, grips my heart in its fierce claws and squeezes until I fold and scream. Every breath is a retching sob, every moment lacks life, it is a deep void. I’m overwhelmed and alone.



Do you ever think of me? Do you ever wish you could hold me to your heart and tell me everything will be okay? Do thoughts of my face, my laugh, and my hands on your skin ever catch you off guard and consume you? Do you ever think of the life you left behind?


Why haven’t you found me yet? I’m here! I’m here! Please...


I have to forget you. I’m sorry. I need to start again. You’re haunting me. I can’t think of you anymore. Please stop it.