Random updates

Saturday, Apr. 26, 2008 ~ 10:51 a.m.

I'm only slightly angry because my media card reader is broken and things are difficult and slow without it. No snapshots for me until I buy a new one! And since I am poor and unemployed, I won't have money to buy a new one for some time to come.

I am about 15 chapters through my grand editing job. It's hard for me to make myself read my book over again, especially with a cricial eye, because I have been inside of it for so long. It's not too bad now because I am getting into things that were not written that long ago so I haven't had time to go over and over and over it. I am also having some people read, and one woman is going through it with a "critical" eye for me. I have my query letter more or less written, I have to print it off for Shay so she can "red pen" it and then I will send a copy to Holly for the grammatical side of things (if she still wants to do it without commenting on the storyline! LOL).

AND THEN IT MUST SELL.

I have been job hunting but I haven't sent out any resumes yet. I will have to get on that this week. Things still don't seem bad because Friday I got the rest of my pay from the old job. I also went out and blew a bunch of it eating at Boston Pizza and watching Shutter in the theatres with the girls, and since it was close to Shay's birthday (which is actually today), I had to pay for her because that's the kind of good big sister I am. Today I am surprising her when she gets home from school with a homemade ice cream cake and her favorite supper and a funny card because I am too poor to give her a real gift (wait, I did buy her chopsticks at the Dollar store!).

So this week, I am promising myself that I will have sent out at least 5 resumes and 5 query letters by Friday... hopefully.

Also, Bronwyn doesn't seem to want to stay in the pasture. How was I to know when I got her in July that she is mostly mountain goat disguised in a horse of Rohan's body?! I have watched her, this week, scale snowbanks 7' deep, wade through snow up to her chest, and get on our doorstep to come and see me. I used to think she was getting out to be naughty but when I went out to do chores last night and found her with her head sticking in our shed, I realized she's actually just looking for me. She is such an instigator. I heart her. :)