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New Year

Time for a new year’s post, I suppose. I’m back from vacation in Pennsylvania, which was nice, even if all of us got sick for most of the time we were gone. I came home yesterday to find a monster heating bill (heating oil=bad) and the dishwasher leaking. Not as bad as my sister, who came home to a flooded basement, but still–who said that one person’s troubles have to be compared to others’? It still was a not nice surprise. For my writing time recently I’ve been reading a book on characterization by Orson Scott Card, as well as […]

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Hiatus

It’s been an awfully long time since I last posted, I know. And I’m sure all of you out there have just been holding your breath, waiting–hoping–that I’d post again soon. Well, here you go. Merry Christmas. 🙂 So, what’s been happening here in Maine, you ask? For a while there, it seemed like we were just going to get snowstorm after snowstorm, with no end in sight. I had about two feet on my roof. Then, for Christmas, we got weather in the fifties. Go figure. Still have snow, but a lot of it’s melted and reformed into ice.

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Frustration

For every good day, there’s a bad. That just seems to be the way things are for me right now. Today was a bad day. It wasn’t bad in a horrific way or anything. Just in a everything-I-thought-I-had-fixed-broke way. The hot water works in the house. Everywhere but for the laundry machine. So no clean clothes until the plumber comes Wednesday. My computer was working fine. Then I tried to beta test Mythos, and it totally freaked out. Three hours later, I’m still working on fixing it. The car we bought? Working fine. But Maine has this thing they call

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New Car

That’s right. Rose is gone. Traded in. Hasta la vista. Tschuess. New (as yet unnamed) car is here to stay. The details? 2007 Honda Civic. Blue this time, so I’m no longer being untrue to my BYU roots. There was a crazy good deal at the Ford dealership when we brought our rental car in, and there was this little Civic, sitting there, just traded in as well. Only 4,600 miles on the poor thing, and looking lonely. I’m rather proud of the way I haggled this car down, finally getting them thousands of dollars below Kelley Blue Book. I

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It’s a . . . girl(?)

Actually, the doctors aren’t convinced we’re going to have a girl. Maybe it’s a boy. The ultrasound today came back normal and everything, but the baby’s breech right now, so it was hard to tell gender, apparently. (I’m hardly an expert on ultrasounds.) However, we were given a “tentative” answer of “girl.” So . . . not really sure what that does for us at this point. We’ll have another ultrasound in 10 weeks, and until then, we’ll just have to settle for being sort of kind of sure the baby might possibly be a girl. (And we pay doctors

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