Now, Back to Life....
Mason and I will probably be hitting HalfPrice Books again today, since he's officially off from school now and I have in my possession three $3.00 off coupons. I'm going to be combing the bins for more JMS Spideys, believe you me!
But in other news, we picked up our CSA box yesterday evening, and I have to tell you it's like vegetible Christmas/Hannukha/Kwanzaa whenever we get one of those! This morning, even though it's not yet 10:00 am, my mind is already swimming with thoughts of lunch... should I try the roasted cauliflower recipie in the newsletter? The Ovens of Brittany cream of brocolli soup??? Find something involving Swiss chard?? The mind boggles.
I was smart last night, too. I knew that we'd be out kind of late picking up the box, so I planned ahead and whipped up some pizza dough to sit in the fridge so we wouldn't have to think about what's for dinner. By chance, the Driftless Organics newsletter suggested trying chopped up arugala as a pizza topper (post cooking). So I did! It was surprisingly awesome.
My copies of the German contract for Tate's novels arrived yesterday. I signed them this morning and FedEXed them off to Switzerland this morning (yeah, I know Switzerland isn't Germany, but apparently my agent's sub-agents for Germany are actually in Switzerland.) Now I just have to get to the post office at some point to send off other various bits that have collected over the week that need sending.
Mason and I were hoping to start our adventuring today. His big plan for summer vacation is to go on a series of adventure hikes around the Twin Cities. Unfortunately, he started getting some sniffles on Thursday, and has a full-blown cold today. I have done the bad parenting thing and given him a roll of toliet paper and plunked him down in front of the TV (at least he sits still there!) I'm sure I can coax him out to HPB to spend his coupons, but I'm not in a huge hurry. What are the chances someone's dumped more JMS so soon anyway?
I had a good writing day yesterday. As you know, Bob, I've been struggling a bit with restarting Tate's young adult project because I was feeling, well, whiney. I'm over it. I got a strong 2,000 words in yesterday and was so excited by them that I did that annoying writerly thing wherein I called my partner up on the phone and read them to her! And then, still not statisfied, I ended up putting in a call to my editor and telling her she was right and I was wrong (something a writer should tell their editor every now and again, IMHO.) And that I was excited about the new start. I'd had to leave a message, and she called me back as I was picking Mason up from his last day. We chatted about a bunch of things, and I realized that I am very fortunate in that I actually really LIKE my editor as a person. That's kind of cool, honestly.
Our big plans for this weekend? Nothing! And you know what? I'm really, really looking forward to doing a whole lot of nothing for once.
But in other news, we picked up our CSA box yesterday evening, and I have to tell you it's like vegetible Christmas/Hannukha/Kwanzaa whenever we get one of those! This morning, even though it's not yet 10:00 am, my mind is already swimming with thoughts of lunch... should I try the roasted cauliflower recipie in the newsletter? The Ovens of Brittany cream of brocolli soup??? Find something involving Swiss chard?? The mind boggles.
I was smart last night, too. I knew that we'd be out kind of late picking up the box, so I planned ahead and whipped up some pizza dough to sit in the fridge so we wouldn't have to think about what's for dinner. By chance, the Driftless Organics newsletter suggested trying chopped up arugala as a pizza topper (post cooking). So I did! It was surprisingly awesome.
My copies of the German contract for Tate's novels arrived yesterday. I signed them this morning and FedEXed them off to Switzerland this morning (yeah, I know Switzerland isn't Germany, but apparently my agent's sub-agents for Germany are actually in Switzerland.) Now I just have to get to the post office at some point to send off other various bits that have collected over the week that need sending.
Mason and I were hoping to start our adventuring today. His big plan for summer vacation is to go on a series of adventure hikes around the Twin Cities. Unfortunately, he started getting some sniffles on Thursday, and has a full-blown cold today. I have done the bad parenting thing and given him a roll of toliet paper and plunked him down in front of the TV (at least he sits still there!) I'm sure I can coax him out to HPB to spend his coupons, but I'm not in a huge hurry. What are the chances someone's dumped more JMS so soon anyway?
I had a good writing day yesterday. As you know, Bob, I've been struggling a bit with restarting Tate's young adult project because I was feeling, well, whiney. I'm over it. I got a strong 2,000 words in yesterday and was so excited by them that I did that annoying writerly thing wherein I called my partner up on the phone and read them to her! And then, still not statisfied, I ended up putting in a call to my editor and telling her she was right and I was wrong (something a writer should tell their editor every now and again, IMHO.) And that I was excited about the new start. I'd had to leave a message, and she called me back as I was picking Mason up from his last day. We chatted about a bunch of things, and I realized that I am very fortunate in that I actually really LIKE my editor as a person. That's kind of cool, honestly.
Our big plans for this weekend? Nothing! And you know what? I'm really, really looking forward to doing a whole lot of nothing for once.