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1.  It's The Day After Thanksgiving and I'm gearing up for Thanksgiving Two.   Years ago, when I was just a mere newlywed, hubby's side of the family moved their traditional meal to Saturday.  My in-laws wanted all five of their children, the spouses and grandchildren at their table every year.  I truly enjoy being able to see both sides of my family every year because it's what I'm most thankful for.  My thighs, however, are NOT thankful!  LOL

2.  Please check out  carriejones post for November 23rd. (I wanted to devote a whole blog to this myself, but Carrie says it so much better than I)  Ritchie Partington was fired from his library consultant's position with the Bellevue Union School District in Santa Rosa California a day after refusing to meet with a principal who had banned Rodman Philbrick's The Last Book in the Universe from his school's library without having read it.

3.  I received Light Speeder back and while it was rejected, I was given some wonderful notes/thoughts from the editor.  I'm letting it sit for a bit before I decide what to do.  Do I send it out one more time to see if the feedback matches?  Or do I put it away until I have time to ponder a rewrite?  Decisions, decisions . . .

4.  A's friends are all coming over to play Guitar Hero tonight.  You know who's most excited?  B.  We don't have playstation. B feels quite deprived, even though he has a computer alllll to himself.

5.  I'm so close to completing my JoNoWriMo goal!  If I try really, really hard, I think I can finish the first draft of
      George's Story by 12/1. 

6.  Hubby, A and I have been watching Hero's season one the last few days.  We'd snuggle up in the livingroom with the intention of watching two episodes, and the next thing we knew it was two in the morning!  Talk about teaser endings!  Holy, moly.  If anyone doesn't understand the concept of "leaving your readers hanging", study Heros.

My writing priorities have had a slight shift, so my jonowrimo goals have changed a bit. 

1st     Finish Light Speeder's revisions and send it out.  I have about 50 pages left, and then a final read through.

2nd    Finish a rough first draft of George's story.  I have approximately 5,000 words left on that one.  Then a read through. 


I reported those top two officially just a minute ago.  I think I'm going to personally shoot for one more although it's probably not very realistic:

3rd     Do a thorough revision on George's story and send it to my agent.


Now that those Red Sox have won the World Series, I should be able to find some extra writing time at night!  What a great game last night!  A real nail biter! 

Could someone check on me every now and again today and make sure I didn't fall asleep at my laptop?


OH!  and a big shout out to my little brother Robert! 

He's

40

today.

Happy Birthday Rob!  Love ya!