DeeBeeCreative's Blog (10)

I started my binge of Stargate:SG1 yesterday; first the 'good' device wouldn't accept 1 dvd, so I switched to the older Player. Guess what: first disk was great, 2nd was 'glitchy'. So that went into the trash.  There were 214 episodes over the 10 yrs of the Stargate series, so even though I didn't keep 'all', just the ones I have is a big stack!!   Then, I realized....I still have my 17 in. laptop--wih the DVD record/player--so I can always switch to that & use an…

I don't go to the library now. It's difficult for me to get out.   But thankfully, our library system uses an app for eLibrary (digital).  So when it was time for my card to be renewed, I thought I might have to drop it. However, I called this morning & they were able to renew my card over the phone.

I had actually forgotten it was 'due' to renew. I had gotten an email telling me I had 2 books available…

I've been using Laptops for a long time now. And every single one gives me the same problem: when I try to type, the cursor will 'jump' backward & end in the middle of a previous word! Which is a royal pain!! So, even with a laptop, I've always used an external keyboard. 

I have no idea why this happens, but it's so very annoying.  So when my daughter decided I needed a desktop, I figured I won't have that problem anymore.    

     So I'm now using my new desktop, here on…

Right now, everything on TV is either reruns or ‘reality’, which I don’t like at all. So I decided to find something else to watch. That should be easy, since I have a huge library of tv shows and movies on DVD. I started out using VHS, then I copied my favorites onto DVDs.

I recently came across a music…

I love the movie Forbidden Planet! It's my all-time favorite SF movie. In the film, one of the main characters was named Altaira--after the planet, Altair 4. I couldn't get that name out of my head! So when I started writing, I decided to make that the name of the planet in my futuristic romance--but with my spelling: Altara.  That was around 1970.  Much later, when I discovered the internet, I decided that would be a good Username.  I used that before I was confident enough to use my actual…

I've been writing since I was a teenager in high school. It's just "me", who I am. After high school, I started at the local junior college, and if I hadn't dropped out after getting married, I would have been an English Major.  By then, I knew what I wanted to do with my life: have a family and keep writing.   I would normally write 20 pages per day after I was married--being a stay-at-home mom. I had put it aside when I had my first baby. Then I realized he slept a…

I've always loved chocolate. My favorite candy bars are: Milky Way, Hershey's plain or almond, and Nestle's Crunch. I guess it was maybe a year or two ago that I discovered Nutella. Basically, it's a Hazelnut & cocoa spread. 

  I recently stocked up on Nutella  (2 large jars) and a couple of boxes of graham crackers. I limit myself to either half a graham cracker or another 'extra' 1/4--3 pieces, in other…

   I love taking pictures. I guess it started when I was a child, even though I didn’t actually do it until much later.

    My first camera was a Brownie box. My grandma gave it to me. I was very young & don’t remember if I ever actually took any picures with it. I probably just ‘pretended’ to take…

I'm not one of those people who go 'hog wild' about finding my ancestors. I can't/won't pay for that. However, some years ago, I found a 'free' site where I could look for ancestors. I can't remember where or how I actually did it. But I do remember: I put in the name of a person (grandfather maybe) and then looked for 'his grandfather'--and so on. I found relatives back to the 1200's!  It turns out my ancestors came from England, Ireland, Scotland, the…

I am a music lover. However, I don't often 'listen' lately. I have 12 CD's full of my favorites--my own 'mix', plus at least a dozen 'bought' albums. And I have many music videos saved on my computer. In the past, I have shown many of them on one of my pages--using the YouTube codes.  

This morning I woke up after having a dream of sitting in the middle of large…