Philosophical Monday: Finishing up, Thank You, and Happy Valentine’s Day
First, I’m finishing up the last big draft of THE AWESOME GIRL’S GUIDE TO DATING EXTRAORDINARY MEN, and I’ll have to to hunker down if I want to get it off to the copy editor on time. This is the rather interesting part of the process, where you’re both satisfied with and sick of your novel. It’s kind of like flipping a house. You’ve put all this work into it, now it’s time to sell this place and move onto another tear-down fixer upper. Of course your realtor (agent) and buyer (editor) will do their own inspections and negotiate more changes, but for now the big remodel is done, and all I have to do is bring in a cleaning crew (copy editor) to make the house sparkle.
Second, I want to say thank you for all of the comments and private messages that you’ve sent. Last week was hard, not just emotionally, but also work-wise, because I was both recovering and catching up. You made it easier. Thank you especially to all of the women who shared their miscarriage stories with me. At my lowest, I took so much solace in the fact that I was not alone, and I cannot thank you enough for that.
Third, Happy Valentine’s Day! CH and I actually celebrated yesterday, because of his weird work hours, but then cut the evening short because he had a chest cold. I don’t have any problems with or high expectations for Valentine’s Day, but I think I might be from the Black-History-Month school of thought on this. Why not celebrate black history every month? Why not celebrate your love every day? Anyway, I’m wondering how many other people celebrated yesterday as opposed to today and what your plans are. Sound off in the comments!
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Happy VD! (wait…that doesn’t sound good outside of my head…) Seen and I did the “celebrating” yesterday too with a jaunt to Balboa Island. We wandered the docks, bought a SoCal hiking/kayaking guide at a cute local bookstore that offered us chardonay as we browsed, lunched on Chinese food and infused more $$ into the local economy at the downtown taffy store. Work threatened to overwhelm our vacay time, but we put our time together as a priority and it was a lovely, meandering day off.
This sounds like a fantastic day. We were just saying how next year, we might need to take the whole day off, and you know do something other than dinner. But then again we need to stack up some brownie points since our five-year anniversary is coming up next year…
No romantic celebration yesterday or today — never do.
Dressed the twins up yesterday AND today!
Bought a heart-shaped cookie for myself but let the twins have some too.