December 27, 2012

Here we are, another post Christmas, pre New Year time. Christmas was fun. My friend Doug came to visit, bringing his guide dog, chumley. We had a restful visit. I worried that I didn’t get enough food, but he said it was okay. He’s vegetarian,a nd I am not, but after being friends for nearly 14 years, I’ve learned to cook for him in ways I can enjoy too.

He gave me for Christmas, a guitar, a new pair of comfy warm sweats and top in black and purple, a seater in deep rose, another sweater in burgundy and cream with a cream tank top for underneat-the sweater pattern has holes. music, he got me Sweet baby James by James Taylor of course, a double CD greatest hits of the Rolling Stones-funny, I didn’t like the Stones growing up, I mean seriously, Jagger can’t really sing, but as I’ve gotten older, I like them better. Also a CD with the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A minor which also has an oboe and bassoon concerto and the soundtrack for the Hobbit Unexpected Journey. And the 25th anniversary concert of Les Miserables. mmmm. how manby versions do I have of Les Mis now? Never enough, really.

The dogs all got along well. I got one of my bad stomach aches on Christmas so by the time we went to my friends house, I wasn’t feeling too good. Didn’t eat and couldn’t eat yesterday. Ugh. Feel much better today though.

Now Doug and Chumley left to return to their home in Washington State, and I miss the hell out of them. Maybe i should move back to WA someday. after all, working at the job I have, working from home, I can live anywhere, time zone doesn’t matter much.

So, now i have a few days before returning to work. Need to eat today, feeling shaky from not eating for two days. Need to do laundry, clean the kitchen. Need to get back to writing What the Heart Wants.

Speaking of writing, since I don’t think i’ve posted anything here for ages about that. I submitted Haven to the publisher on October 5, 2012. I have not received an answer yet. tomorrow will be 12 weeks, and they said I should have an answer in that time. But I know they closed for a couple weeks at the holidays, so maybe I’ll hear soon after new year. I feel like everything in life is holding its breath till I hear yea or nay on that one. I love Haven and missed the characters so much I wrote a Christmas short story for my group, those who were my support during the writing. if haven gets published, perhaps I’ll expand it and publish it next year at Christmas.

What the Heart wants is a sort of sequel to Haven, focusing on a secondary character from Haven, someone who became so special she needed her own story in order to find her happy ending. i haven’t written on that story since around Thanksgiving, too much burn out from working 50 hours a week at my regular job and not sleeping well. sigh.

Anyway, I guess that’s it for this time around. I have more to say, but there is much to do in recovering from company, so time to take the dogs out and come back to do a bit of laundry, a little kitchen cleaning and other such boring but necessary tasks.