I give up.

I post, begging for comments, and no one leaves me anything. Sonja posts about random stuff and gets 11 comments. 11! I'm so jealous. And it's obvious who people are here to read. My words echo in the vast cavern of the internet.

Anywho, enough pity party. I was going to quit very dramatically and never write again, but that wouldn't be so 5 of me now, would it.

So you're stuck with me. Assuming i can find time in my busy schedule of school, homework, puppy, unpacking, and relationship to cobble together a few words that no one reads.

Boo hoo. I'm off to cry into my unpacked boxes.

The Big Move

Okay, so it's not quite as big a move as the last one, since it's not across country or anything, but it is a big deal in the sense that we're finally moving into our house! Hooray! Our moving date is 9/15, this coming Saturday. But between puppy and homework, we haven't even begun to start packing our things.

Does anyone have any tips for packing up their stuff? We should be experts by now, given this is our 5th move in less than 2 years, but for some reason, we're still not as efficient as we should be. We did a whole lot better when we didn't have jobs. Maybe that's the secret!

Anyone have any tips that aren't quitting? We didn't unpack a lot of boxes, which helps, but we still need to repack our kitchen and clothes and the like. Help me out! Better yet, come to Portland and help! :)

In the grand tradition of So 5, I'm posting for my partner while she is off gallivanting on vacation. Of course, usually it's me that gets to gallivant, so i'm a little jealous. But still, new puppy. Almost makes up for it.

So now that school has started and autumn is on its way, what is everyone up to? Come on people, I'm whoring myself out for comments here. I could post more pictures of Tifa, if that would help :)

On Chaos and Platitudes

I owe you some winnahs!

From Skye's post about rejection, the winner is Cherie J! Cherie, we love you, please have a book to ease the pain of getting fired on your birthday! How totally harsh! Email me at sonja@sonjafoust.com with your address and the book of your choice from my inventory at BookMooch and I'll send it to you.

From my post about my blue hair (which is still blue and getting bluer, by the way), the winner is Amy S.! Amy, email me at sonja@sonjafoust.com with your address and I will get The Shoe Queen by Anna Davis in the mail for you. Hopefully it will erase all bad memories of the Wal-Mart highlights.

My writing world has been suffering of late, mostly because the rest of my life is (or rather was) in a bit of an upheaval too. But this weekend I managed to clean my house which just makes life seem so much better. I also hopped on the bandwagon and joined FlyLady. I always kind of thought I didn't need platitudes to keep my house clean, but it turns out I sort of do. So, um, thanks FlyLady, even though I'm kind of embarrassed about signing up. But not as embarrassed as I was about my CHAOS: Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome. And now I'm FLYing: Finally Loving Yourself... uh... Myself... or something. (Do you see now what I mean about the platitudes? FlyLady is chock full of them, lucky for me.)

So anyway, now that my house is no longer a disaster, I can get down to the business (fun business) of writing! So here are my upcoming goals:

Numba One
Edit Lying Eyes
Submit
Deadline: August 15


Numba Two
Finish Courting the Preacher's Daughter
Figure out where to submit
Submit

Numba Three
Write a Regency (Skye even promised to critique it, even though she doesn't read Regencies.)

You all have my full permission to beat me with a wet noodle on August 15 if I cannot provide you with a touching tale of how I've edited at least the first three chapters of Lying Eyes and sent it off for Cerridwen to hold onto for like 90 days or something ridiculous like that.

So what about you? What are your upcoming goals, writing or otherwise? Are you going to finish that home improvement project? Read War and Peace? Join FlyLady with me? Spill.

Don't worry, I'm not pregnant

Sonja announced that i have big news that i'm hiding from the world and i immediately went "What news?" but, yes, it's true, i do have news. But it's not wild and crazy, nor is it writing related, so i can counteract my tragic 12 hour rejection, but it's still fun and cool and i'm happy.

Craig and I are buying a house! Yes, that's right, we're finally growing up. :) We're trying to be all mature about it, but mostly we get all freaked out about paying that much money that we don't have, but really, the house is so fabulous, it'll be worth it. Hooray!

Here's a pretty pretty picture of the outside.



And yes, it's brand spanking new and they're finishing up the construction this week and the escrow should close at the end of August and then we'll be official adults. Homeowners, anyway.

So worry not. I'm baby free :)