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I finished my novel. I don't feel as jubilant as I did after finishing my first novel - maybe because both books now require so much revisising and rewriting, that all I see is more work ahead of me. Still, it's good to be done. I'm ambivalent about how it turned out - my husband and sister both liked it a lot, but they aren't exactly the harshest critics. I should have more people read it, and stop avoiding the whole subimitting it to publisher's thing. It's just going to keep sitting on my computer if I don't do something about it. Sigh...

Father's day - it's always been a pleasant holiday for me, since I have a wonderful father and now also have a wonderful husband to be my son's father. My husband, on the other time, has long had a rough time with the day, because his own father didn't have a whole lot to do with him while he was growing up - a long, not-very-pretty story; at any rate, even though they're on much better terms now, there's still issues. But what my husband decided long ago was that his mother was fully entitled to be honored on Father's day, since she had to play that role in addition to mother. So every year he sends her both a Mother's day card and a Father's day card (he does send his father one on Father's day as well), and insists that when the little children in church are singing a song to their fathers, they're singing to her as well. I feel rather bad for never thinking of it before I knew my husband - that with all the fathers who are well deserving of being honored, there are mothers who are being reminded that their children have no father, and children who can't understand why they're fatherless. I'm not sure what to do. I'm not going to stop honoring fathers; the fact that dedicated fathers are scarce gives all the more reason to honor them. But for those whose fathers are absentee or worse, it's ugly. I wonder how many other holidays can be so unintentionally painful.

I took that long House-sorting quiz (stolen from fernwithy ) and came up with the largest score in Ravenclaw - 80%. Hufflepuff next at 76, then Gryffindor, 64, and Slytherin, a mere 33%. Interesting. I would have suspected Ravenclaw to be the highest, but Hufflepuff being so close behind was unexpected. I'm not a very gregarious person; I value solitude a lot. But on the other hand, I do think loyalty and trustworthiness is very important. Gryffindor...I like the House, but I can't imagine being in it - I'm just too darn cowardly. Slytherin's no surprise, of course, what with my prudish morality and all. :)

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Fogot to mention - I'll be off to Boston starting tomorrow, not to return till the next Monday at the earliest. So for all you non-existent readers, there may be a lull in my entries. Or not, if I can get to a computer. Whatever.

We're apartment-hunting, which I'm dreading because we absolutely must have a place decided on by the time we get back, and it's obscenely, painfully expensive up there - every Bostonian tells us that, and then offers no justification for why they put it up with it themselves. Ah, well - are we not going to put up with it as well? We have no other choice. Anyway, we're also going to my cousin's wedding, visiting my husband's family - including his brother, sister-in-law and niece and nephews who drove all the way from Utah and who we probably won't see for years after this - and going to my husband's old ward (church congregation)reunion. Whew! I should be glad to have a busy week - I've been bored to death for these past, I don't know, nine months or so. We'll see if I feel the same by next Monday.