SOB!

So, yesterday, after a fabulous dinner, while we were stuffed to the gills, and the girls were cleaning up, and I deboned the turkey, the pup asked if she could stay the night with Nana and Papa. I reminded her that Christmas Comes To Kenai starts today, with Santa arriving in the morning, and didn’t she want to see that? She paused, and then said “Nope. I wanna stay with Nana and Papa!”

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For 16 years now, every dayafterthanksgiving, I drag my weary behind out of bed early, bundle up the kids in snowpants and cold weather gear, then go stand in line to see Santa arrive on the FireTruck (back in MY day, it was a helicopter, but whatever.) SIXTEEN YEARS. The boy got ‘too old’ the girl decided sleep was better, and now… NOW…

I asked the pup if she were sure - and she said yup! She was too old for that anyway, but mostly because she wanted to stay with Nana and Papa.

WELL THEN.

Too old.
TOO OLD.

Harumph. At least I got to sleep in. That was nice. BUT STILL…

*sniffle*

Too old. My baby is ‘too old’ for Santa!

Sigh!

Happy Tryptophan day!

Happy Thanksgiving, ya’ll!

Things around here have been busy, as I try to keep up with 18 gazillion projects on a daily basis. Hee. The girl had her play, the teenagers are drama filled, the pup is back in the pool which means soon I’ll be poolside during her meets for the rest of the winter. She’s THRILLED to have swim team practices finally start, and it certainly makes her sleep well at night! She’s swimming four days a week for an hour after school, and comes home TIRED… and STARVING! It’s funny, she’ll stand there and tell me all about her practice, and I can HEAR her belly growl from like 5 feet away! So it’s good dinner, homework and off to bed, Monday - Thursday. She’s working hard, and we can’t wait to see how she does in the first meet, getting her very first official times so that we can gauge her successes for the rest of the season.

Anyway - hope you all are doing fabulously and enjoying a lovely food coma with your loved ones. We’ll be headed down to Nana’s later today to partake and share The Girl and Pup’s pumpkin pudding (Ala Rachael Ray) that they prepared last night. Then, tomorrow, it’s the biggest little celebration in town - Christmas Comes To Kenai. I may pop in and share some pictures of that for ya later this weekend too.

Psst. Is this thing on?

Why, hello there. Fancy meeting you here. you thought I forgot all about you, didn’t ya? I didn’t, of course, I’ve just been doing my best to stay afloat with my million other blogs I write for, as well as a new client that’s determined to drive me insane. In fact, since he didn’t call me two days ago like he was supposed too, I told him I wasn’t working weekends - and to call me Monday.

Heh.

I know. I’m a bad girl. Whatev.

I had intended to do NaNoWriMo this month, and I also had every intention of doing NaBloPoMo if I didn’t do the other, but as you can see, that is SO NOT HAPPENING. No blog post every day, no word count of astronomical proportions. Heh.

Novel wise - I do have someone who’s reading the first draft of AbO for me, but well, he adores me so I don’t see anything but glowing praise forthcoming. Not that I hate glowing praise! I just want it from an agent. Heh. I am still working on revisions to that one here and there, though. I also have another idea that I was going to use for Nano, but I sorta never got around to it, and how the hell is it halfway through November again anyway?! I swear, it’s mind boggling how fast this year has gone. Christmas commercials are on the boobtube for crissakes! Sigh.

Anyway - I added links to all the 451Press blogs I write for over there, so you have the actual sites linked as well as every entry in the top box. So see, I am writing… just not here. *L* I’ll try to do better. Promise.

(shut up. i know I say that all the time. *L*)