Well - I've had a decent year for my writing overall - not counting the fact that I got next to nothing actually written in the last half... I guess the first half made up for that.
I finished the next draft of Strange Angels - though I am working steadily through the rewrite as I get the chance....
I sent submissions to 92 publications.
I Recieved 8 acceptance letters, 61 rejection notes, I still have work to 23 publications...
I got two phone calls from editors and one direct line email addy for further submissions.
I had over 700 hits to my website and my poor Imaginary Word has taken a back seat to my life...
So - I have 4 short stories out. 4 pieces of nonfiction. 37 poems.
Not too bad a year considering I had a baby... ;)
Here's looking at a much more productive 2007
Sarah Wagner
Had our party at the inlaws tonight... the gift exchange my generation did was pretty good all in all - my hubby and his two brothers, my soon to be sis inlaw and me... I had a blast putting together mine... I got my soontobesisinlaw... she's a coffee drinker. I have an obsession with the Cheshire cat... so, I did a themed basket - The Mad Hatter's UnTea Party... it was a lot of fun and hit the budget right on the line too.... The brother inlaw that drew my name - he may be the only person who realizes what a complete geek I am deep down... He got me a book on the worlds of StarTrek (and I swear I've never even threatened to wear Vulcan ears around him...). and then, to tease my sci-fi junkie side and my affinity for broadshouldered bald men and antiheros --- the chronicles of riddick trilogy.... yummy. Surprises me too as most times I think he's probably the person who knows me the least where really - he knows me much better than most... funny how that works out.
We go to my grandmother's house tomorrow - should be fun. I'm really looking forward to seeing my kidbrother. I don't get to see enough of him. I really don't. I find I miss him a lot - especially around the holidays when I get a bit more - mom-memory-heavy... Our mom was really big into christmas. Really big. the untea party would have been her idea if she were still around. Anyway - I'm really looking forward to it.
My dad and his wife are coming in on the 28th and I'm really looking forward to seeing them too. They came in for Wolverine's birth but I've really gotten used to having them here for New Years.
Hopefully sometime in the next few days I get back here to post... maybe tomorrow night seeing as how Hubby will still be working the midnight shift and wolverine seems to be really worn out by all this christmas stuff.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. ;)
~S
I'm probably not going to be online much over the next few days - so I figured I'd say it now ;)
Also: Discovered that I am allergic to our christmas tree... so we had to take it down. We had a beautiful 8 foot blue spruce, big and fluffy - if a tree can be called fluffy - and now, we have our old artificial tree that just looks so danged scrawny by comparison... I've never quite had a reaction like this one - I can't step near the tree without erupting in hives. I figure that the tree farm where we got the tree sprays their trees with something. Otherwise - I'd react like this all the time! and I don't. Anyway - I'm feeling really guilty about that - we had the perfect tree and I had to take it down - actually hubby did because I had to leave the house so I didn't die.
CrazyHorse doesn't seem to mind - he got to decorate the tree twice and Wolverine, he's too young to care just yet... Next year, we'll get a prettier artificial I guess.
~S
I am allergic to something in my house... it started yesterday - I go into my living room and suddenly I'm covered in red itchy spots. Unfortunately, the ONLY thing I can think of that it could be is the Christmas Tree.... this means of course that I'm just going to have to suffer. It's our first live tree in 5 years and the boys love it. Ok - CrazyHorse loves it and Wolverine isn't scared of it. I'm only just slightly miserable but I'll just have to *deal*. Maybe we'll figure out some other cause for it but I can't think what it would be...
Oh well
~S
Day two of rice cereal and so far - no reaction. Finally something that is working the way it supposed to. This way, we can be certain he's getting enough to eat - he's just my big boy. He started out that way and it looks like he's going to stay that way...
Now - if we can only get CrazyHorse to even out.
~S
It never fails...
We’re headed back to the pediatrician’s office today... they’re going to get really sick of me - I seem to be seeing them several times a month now - CrazyHorse just can’t seem to get well and stay well and Wolverine is nearly as bad. This time, me and wolverine are coming out of the cycle just as CrazyHorse is going in - we’re a mess. Fortunately, Husband doesn’t seem to be catching any of this... thank goodness for small favors...
Me - I’m just hoping for a break from all the illness around christmas....
~S
Just as I get one settled down, the other starts up... the next few years are looking like they might be quite interesting....
CrazyHorse had pneumonia. The moment he got over it, Wolverine started spitting up like crazy again - volume like you wouldn't think he could hold - and coughing... got him to the doctor's and he's fine - steam, humidifier, and a new dosage of his zantac - and now - CrazyHorse has a temp of 103. I just can't win!! I've got everyone quiet on couches and in swings watching the Wiggles (fortunately CH doesn't quite think he's too big for them yet - but he will before too long I'm sure...)
Hubby is working... I think I need a code name for him too but I just can't think of one yet... It'll come to me someday. But anyway - he's working afternoons this week so he can't help a whole lot but more than he can when he's on midnights. I'll take what I can get I guess...
Well, I've got to run again - can't leave the wiggles to do my watching for too long ;)
~S