Last year started with me getting friend request on MySpace from someone using my Mother’s prom picture. I thought getting a friend request from my mother, 19 years after she died, was weird, but whew 2009 is trying to top that.
There’s Rot, and I’ve edited two books so far this year (one from first draft to final, that I just finished about an hour ago.) Plus there’s been Plague Lives, which stalled. The good news is I know what’s wrong with it. The bad news, it’s the time line, which means I’ll be gutting, rearranging and rewriting probably all of the second section.
There have been a ton of really personal things going on, which I’m not talking about here, not to mention my son switching classes at school (which took a bunch of meetings to get done), and being up for his three year evaluations from the autism specialist and the optomitrist. My daughter is going to school in the fall, which means she needs a round of exams and forms to be filled out, plus the enrollment forms. I have had at least three meetings a month with a doctor, teacher or social worker, and I’ve got six this month.
Plus the there’s the storm damage that we’ve claimed, gotten a check for and will hopefully start repairing next week. Yes, it’s wonderful, and it’ll be nice–when it’s all done.
This week I’ve been trying to get back on track between losing my place in Plague Lives and being sick last week, so I’ve jumped back into getting Wolf Heart out there (because I think it will sell and I need it to be at least circulating instead of sitting here looking at me) and back to my exercise routine. Plus then there is the spring gardening. I’ve done a lot of work there, that like the writing, you don’t ever see until a while after the work has been done.
Did mention we got a new car? Well, a new used, because my wonderful husband (and his boyfriend) spend a day tuning up our van–and it ran worse afterwards. So completely fed up with this string of auction and used-used-used cars (last year we bought a ’93, and that was the newest vehicle we ever owned) he just went to Kia store and got us a warranty-covered barely used Rio. Yes, it’s tiny. Yes, we probably could have gotten something cheaper. But buying something cheaper has consistantly left us with cars that work for 2 week to 8 months then break down in a major, just-buy-a-new-one way. After ten years of this do you have any idea how wonderful it is to have a car that is (1)street legal, (2)very gas efficient, (3)completely functioning, (4)under warranty, (5)fully covered…(6)which means that I can finally get my permit and work toward getting a license! I never got my license before I moved out on my own because no one would ever take me driving. Then we didn’t have a car, then we had cars that always had something wrong, like cracked windshields or missing rearviews (or no seatbelts) and we didn’t have the money for both of us to be insured drivers anyway. But now we have a car(!) that works(!) and is fully insured(!) and I can drive!
So forgive me for being alternately not here and crazy excitable. We have a lot going on, and admittedly it’s rather stressful, but in the end, it should all work out okay. I hope.
