First off, my pal Mary’s book Hot Shot is out from Samhain Publishing today! In celebration, she’s guesting with us over at the Romance Bandits blog. Swing by if you have the chance.
In my writing news, I’m working on my AAs (author alterations) on my first book, A Firefighter in the Family. This is the last time I’ll get to look at it before it goes to press (squee!) and thankfully I’m not finding many edits. I think that’ll make my editor happy. And I like to keep my editor happy. 
I’m also working on ideas for my option book (what will hopefully be the first book of the next contract). I want to get that partial written before I head off to the Romantic Times conference later in the month.
For some reason, our Internet service has been intermittently wonky lately. I REALLY don’t want to change service providers because I’ve got screaming-fast cable Internet, so I hope the wonkiness doesn’t continue. For when it goes on the wonk, I’m glad there’s a Panera Bread with WiFi nearby. I spent 3 hours there yesterday! And since the hubby was out of town, I grabbed my dinner from there on the way out. According to him and his brother, Panera is “chick food.” 
The big upheaval of the last week, however, has been a surprise room re-do. We have a large-ish house, especially for two people, so in the winter we close off the back part so we don’t go broke with heating bills. Natural gas = not cheap. So we don’t go back there much in the winter and keep the temperature at about 55 so the pipes don’t bust. But the other day when hubby came home from a business trip, he zipped in the back door to use the back bathroom. This bathroom happens to be where the hot water heater resides. You see where this is going, don’t you?
Imagine the hubby’s surprise when he opens the door to find the room soaking wet and, I kid you not, mold growing up the walls. He says, “What happened back here?” I, clueless, wander back to see what he’s talking about. My mouth falls open. The water heater evidently had a leak but not so much that we didn’t still have hot water. The room was dripping from the ceiling, the border was peeling off, the mirror had come loose from the water, fallen and broken all over the sink and floor. The sink cabinet was ruined. In a word, it was DIS-GUST-ING!
The next day, I called contractors and got bids. Thankfully, one was able to start work last Friday. Since the room had to be gutted anyway, we decided to convert it to a laundry room. Looks like it’ll be done today, so tomorrow I’ll post some before and after shots for your viewing pleasure.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Thanks for the update, Trish! I’m SO sorry to hear about the water disaster–YUCK! We’ve had several water-related incidents at our house before, so I completely sympathize. (Our water heater completely rusted out one night, flooding the basement, which we didn’t discover until the next morning as my husband was showering in cold water. And then a different pipe decided to give up later that year, partly flooding a different part of the basement. And some other stuff… we don’t seem to have good water karma ;))
Anyway, hope it all gets fixed up right quick and yay on your final edits!!
April 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Add me to the empathizers. We’ve had our boiler flood my office twice. A freeze break in a pipe flooded my office the first time, and the fourth time was due to overwhelming rains and less-than-clean gutters. One time, I had contest entries for FF&P stacked all over the floor, and one was ruined beyond reading.
But GAH, it sounds like you have the worst mess! So sorry!
April 1st, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Ooh, firefighters. I can’t wait for it.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Oh my goodness Trish - that’s too bad about the water damage.