Merry Christmas to me

Here it is two days before Christmas, and I’m breathing a big sigh of relieve. After many, many long days of staring at my Intrigue manuscript until my eyes crossed and wondering if I was making it better or turning it into a pile of horse poopy, I finally finished the requested revisions and sent the manuscript off to my agent for a read-through. You can’t imagine the sense of relief of being able to spend time with family for the holiday without the pressure of those revisions hanging over me. I might very well have more revisions once my agent reads it, but that’s okay. For now, I’m going to read guilt-free, clean my house, cook good food, and just have fun for a few days. I even watched a movie tonight, the feel-good Seabiscuit.

In recent years, Hubby and I have decided to limit our gift giving to each other and instead purchase items we need for the house, etc. This year’s purchase — a Rug Doctor carpet cleaner. We had a carpet shampooer, but it’s older and it’s nowhere near as good as the Rug Doctors I’d rented to clean the carpets. So, we bit the bullet and bought one of our own so I can shampoo anytime and not have to do the entire house in one day so I can get a rental unit back within 24 hours. Let me tell you, when you Rug Doctor an entire house in one day, you’re stiff as a board and sore the next day. Is it weird that I’m excited to have a Rug Doctor and that I’d rather have it than all the expensive jewelry they advertise on TV this time of year? Just makes more sense to me.

Another fabulous gift this year was a new Dell laptop. I’d kept telling myself that I’d wait to replace my old laptop until I sold a book, but I’d gotten to where it would be extremely handy to be able to connect to the Internet while on the road since I edit an online newsletter for RWA and the Wet Noodle Posse e-zine and the various deadlines would keep me chained to my home computer, preventing travel. So now I can still do the necessary editing and writing work while sitting in a hotel somewhere, like when I travel to San Antonio in February to attend a retreat for romantic suspense writers and hopefully do some freelance travel writing work along the way. The old laptop was still fine for writing, but too old for Internet use. So, this blog post is coming to you from my pretty new machine. Now I need to sell something to pay for her.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Good Kwanzaa and Happy New Year! I hope you get wonderful gifts, eat good food and enjoy fun times with family and friends.

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