Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo...
...and me. It's 9:30 on a lovely autumn morning (high predicted today is 90 degrees F) and I'm still in my jammies.
This is a big year for me. My dad died two months short of his 60th birthday, and I turn 59 today. Yeeks. I stand to have inherited either sparkling health and long life from my mother's side, or massive physical and mental ( Read more... )
This is a big year for me. My dad died two months short of his 60th birthday, and I turn 59 today. Yeeks. I stand to have inherited either sparkling health and long life from my mother's side, or massive physical and mental ( Read more... )
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happy birthday to you. :kiss:
*A novel, a full-length critique, and about 40000 words of fanfiction.
*Is impressed* What's the novel? I'm struggling with an original story, but work is so seriously taking over my life, that I'm lucky if I get a line written a month. :rolleyes:
Strider is looking very well, isn't he? :)
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My novel's an original, too, and has been taking up space on my desk (and in my brain) for far too long. It still has a few revisions remaining, but for the first time ever I feel as though it has a real shape as a work.
It is a struggle, isn't it? Work, family, routine take their own large and highly important shares of one's interest and energy. There's no real answer. Still, a line a month is better than no lines at all!
There's a lot more I could say about the entire subject of writing. I think I'll start sharing some of my thoughts and experiences--for what they are worth--here on my LJ; might as well use it for something! I'm always happy to give--and receive--an encouraging word.
My vet would agree with your trained eye, I am happy to say: she declared Strider to be in the pink of health at his last checkup. Oh, but he is my little lamb.
Great to see you!
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Happy Birthday!
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*promptly engulfs a slice of cheesecake*
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*hugs to LaPeach*
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Happiest of birthdays to you, dearie. I didn't realize you'd retired (or was it that the job sort of went away?) But I am SO JEALOUS!!!! I wait with baited breath for the day I can call myself a "retiree". NOT SOON ENOUGH!
Anyways, hope your day is wonderful, and fun and full of just everything you could wish for!
*hugs*
Hewene
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They did do away with my job. In the interests of keeping the position open, they set up a transfer, but they did not say what I would be doing, which was in violation of my contract. It most definitely was not to be what I was trained for and hired for. I miss the money (leaving really zonked my income), but the hell with them.
When I left it meant they lost the position, never to be restored until some mythical time of a once-again burgeoning budget. My heart bleeds. Not!!
*hugs you big-time*
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