Getting Settled Back In

Today's been a day of playing catch-up...settling back in to normal life. I think I've about caught up on everyone's blogs. If I haven't, I'm getting there, I promise. Lord, you people write too much! :)

Lets see. I've gotten most of my thank you notes done today and mailed off which feels good. I hate that feeling of things left unfinished. Vice-versa, I love the feeling of checking things off of a list, so...check!

Had to go to the post office to get some stamps and while I was there I got a sheet of the oh-so-cool Star Wars stamps. I'm in love! If you haven't bought a sheet yet, I highly recommend that you go get some while they're available. They're every geek's dream.

While at the coffee shop writing thank you notes, I also decided to start on my Tiny Story for Carl's contest. This is going to be fun, but much more challenging than I thought. I have the idea. I've got the first line and the last line written and just those two lines constitute 20 words of the 100 word story. I'm in trouble. I would love to share it with everyone when I'm done, but I realized that I can't because one of the judges is Colleen Gleason and she occasionally stops by over here. Oh well..when the contest is over!

Speaking of Colleen, just a reminder to everyone that the new book, Rises the Night, comes out on June 5th! Very soon. I'm so excited about that one and it looks like there's going to be yet another "bonus read" added to the Once Upon a Time Challenge. I really need to start plowing through A Game of Thrones. I've barely read any of it. Maybe 130 pages on the plane. I got no reading done at all during vacation. At this rate I'll never finish the challenge. I'm loving what I've read of it so far though. Favorite character so far is Jon. We'll see if he remains a favorite. I'm enjoying Martin's writing a lot more than I thought I would.

One last thing. Nattie is a blogger who is hosting the Newberry Challenge. She's such a sweet person and before I went on vacation she was complaining of feeling bad. When I got back I was catching up on her blog and saw that she was diagnosed with cancer and is now undergoing chemotherapy. Please keep her in your thoughts. She's an amazingly strong person with an awe inspiring attitude and I wish her all the best.