Rudolph almost bit it

After arriving home yesterday from visiting relatives out of state for Christmas, I scooted over to the neighborhood Target to check out the after-Christmas sale bargains. When I left, I headed for our favorite pizza place to pick up dinner. En route, a dear jumped out in front of me and proceeded to do his version of a newbie ice skater on the street in the path of my car. There wasn’t any ice, but deer hooves weren’t exactly made to go running across asphalt. I locked up the brakes, hit the horn and hoped that 1) I didn’t hit the deer because in a Nissan Sentra versus white-tail deer battle, deer wins and 2) the car in my rearview mirror didn’t rearend me. Luckily, the deer and my car made it through the encounter without a scratch, but I can imagine how far my mouth was hanging open. I mean, I wasn’t in the boonies. I was driving down a major four-lane road in a city.

After sending off my Intrigue revisions to my agent last Friday, I’m enjoying a bit of catching up with house cleaning, yard work since it was like 60 degrees today, and miscellaneous record-keeping and paperwork. I’ll continue in this vein until Jan. 5, when I’m supposed to get another request for revisions, this time on my newest young adult manuscript. Looks like I’ll be starting off the year in revision mode.

I see where my friend Mary tagged me with another of those list things, but I’ll save that until tomorrow.

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