Amy Ruttan

How was everyone’s Halloween? We didn’t have as many kids as we usually do. I usually buy about 150 mini chocolate bars and am able to give them all away. The street is humming with kids, I live on a crescent with a school so there is no shortage of trick 0′ treaters. This year not so much. By the end of the night I was giving the few kids coming to my door handfuls, and I still didn’t get rid of all my candy. I bought double because Halloween was on a Saturday and I was expecting a lot more.

I was talking to my neighbors and other mothers at the school and we think it was the Swine Flu which kept them away.

If I didn’t have the kids innoculated I might have reconsidered too. James is just too young to get the H1N1 shot; but Thursday I lined up 1.5 hours before the clinic in my area opened and our entire family got innoculated. My DH and the kidlets hung out in the van watching a DVD while I froze. LOL! It was also important because my parents came down with H1N1 and it hit them fast and HARD! My mother is an asthmatic with COPD, she’s still suffering. My Dad is a diabetic, he’s on the mend, but my mother told me it was the worse flu she has ever had. She’s been an asthmatic her entire life.

I’ve also been locked in my writing cave since NaNo started. I started NaNo with roughly 23k in my Urban Fantasy. I’m now sitting at 31k. I’ve written (since the start of NaNo) 8007k on my WIP. Not bad. I just got to keep my momentum up. I want to get my UF to 80k by the end of the month so I can start pitching it and sending it out. After the read throughs from my CPs of course. I have to say I’m loving this WIP. It does have romantic elements, but I’m loving not having to write all the hot sex all the time. In fact 31k in my hero and heroine haven’t done it. It’s a great mental break.

I’ve also been preparing my blog posts for The Raven Happy Hour. Yep, starting November 16th and then every 3rd Monday of the month I’ll be posting about Canadian Hauntings and Ghostly tales. I’ve been prepping my posts; but I thought for my inaugural post I would do a post on a ghost I have spotted before, and a ghost close to my hometown. I’m doing the mysterious headless biker ghost from Scugog Island in Port Perry Ontario.

I’m not just doing Ontario ghosts either. I have some great Maritime hauntings, some freezing hauntings from the artic, and I’ve lassooed in some hauntings from out west as well.

So how have you all been?

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