To my readers: I apologize for missing last week's update of Staying together. Life has grabbed me by the hair and its been running me around at its own leisure. So far I've been able to juggle school, work, spending time at home with my family and writing, but the last two weeks have been out of control. On the days that I don't have to go to school, I have more work than I know what to do with. I'm on a serious paper chase right now, trying to keep what I have in savings in tact and still be able to afford to buy things that we want. My fiance and I are looking at buying a house in the near future, but I want to have a good enough down payment so that our payments aren't through the roof.

That said, I've been doing some extra work for my dad on the side. On September 11th, he talked me into driving to the DC area, Sterling, Va, to be exact, to tender a package for him at Dulles International. Driving to Northern Virginia is bad enough, but having to do it on the anniversary of 9/11 was outrageous. By the time we got out of the airport, it was 5pm and traffic on the beltway sucked. When I got home, I said only two words to my father; Never Again.

But, I did get a chapter off to Talonrider last night, and I have plans to take some time to write the next one soon. Sometimes, though, it's hard to focus on my writing when I have so many other things swirling through my mind.