Wednesday, October 31, 2012
No Witty Title
Just counting the hours until the weekend. My chapter is having its annual retreat this weekend even though I won't be attending. Unfortunately, money just didn't allow for it. But I'm still planning on retreating from the family and spending the weekend writing/revising/brainstorming. Cross your fingers that I'm as productive as I can possibly be.
I have a list of things I want to work on and accomplish, so I have somewhat of a plan.
I'm still waiting to hear from Entangled Publishing to whom I submitted my first manuscript. The website says it takes approximately six weeks to get a response. Well, six weeks came and went, and I still waited. After another three weeks, I decided to touch base with the editor. She said she'd passed my manuscript on to another editor who was juggling fewer books, so I'm still waiting for notification, one way or the other.
Well, it's time to get to work...
Have a great day and I'll be here Friday!
Monday, October 29, 2012
TGI...Monday??
I can't believe I'm actually saying that. But it was a long hectic weekend and I'm glad it's Monday so I can just be still. Sure I've got work to do, but I sit to work and that suits me just fine right about now.
My weekend line up included: football game on Friday night, errands on Saturday morning, band fundraiser on Saturday afternoon, a trip to the symphony on Saturday night, and a Cowboy stadium event on Sunday.
Not much else to say at this point. I'm sleepy and I've got to get working.
So I'll sign off until Wednesday.
Have a great week.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Happy Birthday
DH celebrated his birthday yesterday. We had his favorite dinner, homemade tacos, and presents and then we went out to bowl. Unfortunately, all the regular bowling alleys were full with leagues, so we tried one of the large entertainment centers. We would have been okay, except a sorority from a local college had descended upon the place. Instead we played games in the arcade for a while and then returned home for root beer floats and a bit of TV to wind down. Everyone seemed to have fun. Here are a few pics.
In lieu of cake--since we had ice cream floats instead, we set the candles in DD's Dunkaroo dip.
The birthday card performed double duty as gift wrap.
A childhood holdover for DH is having "ee-yaw" fights with the empty wrapping paper rolls.
So our brown-eyed girl wrapped five of them as a gift and we had a little fun. :)
Sonshine took the brunt of the hits.
And underneath the birthday card/wrapping paper was a barbecue grill thingy. You know, where you can secure fish or jalapeno poppers or what-have-you that otherwise wouldn't survive the grill on their own.
Happy birthday, DH!
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The end is near...
Or is it?
Our golden retriever mix is 17 years old. We're amazed that she's still with us and, if you remember, about a month ago we'd taken her to the vet and considered putting her to sleep due to her advanced age and arthritis issues.
So now the bottom right flap of her jaw has sort of gown over her teeth & jaw. The vet said most likely it's mouth cancer, which is fairly common with dogs and can occur at any age. Of course, without proper diagnostics there's no way to know 100% and even then it's take a biopsy to truly know. So considering Honey's age and the fact that we're on quality of life maintenance as it is, we opted to not go with diagnostics or treatment.
It doesn't seem to be bothering her over much, and she's eating and drinking just fine still. She engages with the family, still wags her tail, and most of the time (except when the pain med dose is wearing off) still looks happy.
So we opted not to euthanize at this point either. We're going to watch and enjoy. However, as surprising as it is that's she's 17 and still going, however slowly, we joke that she's gonna be gimping around for quite some time. Sonshine will be 60 and still have this dog from his childhood.
How old is she again?
She's 63.
In dog years?
No. In people years.
Here she is (again):
Monday, October 22, 2012
A time for tardiness
It seems, for the past few weeks, I have been struggling to post at the normal time (somewhere between 7:30 and 8:30 am on MWF). Life has been restructured a bit and has definitely thrown my routine out of whack. Ugh. I really hate when that happens. I am very much a creature of habit and all this relative chaos does not make for a happy Jen.
Still no writing or revising although there should be. grrr... Lots of fanfic reading though. Some part of me needs a emotional/psychological vacation and that's how I do it. By reading fan fiction. Specifically, right now, Harry Potter fanfic featuring Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy.
Friday night was homecoming and we actually won for a change--even though we were visitors. I'm not sure who planned that.
Saturday was the big marching contest--the one thing the kids have been working towards since July. And they scored 3s. They are not 1 material because they don't work hard enough collectively for that, but they could have and according to the band director should have gotten at one or two 2s. Several other bands also received crazy scores--one band received two 1s (the best score) and a 4 (out of 5). What??? That's a pretty big discrepancy. *shakes head* We don't even know.
And here are a couple of pics from Saturday:
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