...blog since it's been so long. For that I can only blame ALL OF YOU! KIDDING! Relax... I just meant that I've been spending SO much time in the last two weeks getting the last chapter of FBTE finished and then Part 3 of UTBOS done by the deadline for the anthology. It was down to the wire... literally! Like... type, type, type, send to Steve for html-ing (like my new verb?), shower, work, come home, name the thing, send it into CJ mere minutes before the deadline. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it when it comes out on the 15th, cause I worked my ass off to get it done in time in the midst of GREAT STRESS~! :wacko:

What GREAT STRESS you ask? Well, Rich had to go away for four days to Indiana for work, leaving me home with the kids by myself, which was fine. I took the four days off from work so I could be home with them. It was the first time EVER in the almost 15 years we've been together that we have been apart more than like... 36 hours? So it was weird... but the kids kept me company, cause the first morning I woke up with both of them in my bed with me. So, anyway, Rich asked if he could take my laptop with him and I was like :wacko: and he told me to quit being a baby, that he would take care of it, that it's not like he wants to have anything happen to it, that I could use his while he was away to write my story. So I left it with, "If you lose it, break it, change it, get it stolen... DEATH!!! ALL MY STUFF!!!!" Well first night he gets to the hotel and calls me up and says... "So, umm... something's wrong with your computer," and I was like... "You SO better be f**king with me right now!" and he's like "Uhhhh, wish I was?"

Needless to say, four days later I picked him up from the airport with my BROKEN laptop and ARGHHHHHHHHHHH! So now we're trying to figure out how to save ALL MY STUFF before taking it to get fixed under my warranty. UGH!

3 weeks to the big San Francisco Summit.

Hugs,

Viv

PS. Davey's home tomorrow! I need a dose of him.