Various stuff

[matril]

Some jerk stole our credit card number, so we have to cancel the card and all that hassle. Thank goodness the company noticed something was off and alerted us to it. I'm very peeved about it though. The main purchase was something on an online RX store...seems to be a prescription drugs addict. That's just so, so sad.

Luke's birthday is coming up this week! We've bought some clothes for him, but we figured in terms of toys he doesn't really need too many presents - he just got a big pile for Christmas, and he's not anticipating anything at all. So we were looking to get him one big present - one of those little trampolines with the handle, the kind for little kids. He's already been using all the beds and sofa as trampolines, so we might as well get him a real one, right? The trouble is, we can't find any at the toy stores, and now thanks to Mr. Credit-Card-Stealing-Druggie we can't really buy anything online in time for it to arrive by his birthday. Oh, well. Maybe next time.

I finished an edit of my first novel - just small tweaks here and there, but after 300+ pages (530 in Courier font) it was starting to get a little tedious. Now I'm hoping to get my husband to give it one more read-through, and then maybe, just maybe....I'll submit to someone. Maybe. Ulp...

Things are pretty sparse on the job front for my husband. His current position finishes at the end of the month when the teacher returns from maternity leave. Not too many schools are hiring for the beginning of February. However, there's a few options that might get us through the end of the school year, if one of them works out...and then comes the search for a 2007-2008 position. There will be more things available then, I'm sure, but on the other hand there will be a lot more teachers applying. It's going to be another nerve-wracking summer....

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[sonetka.livejournal.com]

Ha! Courier font is a hoot - I got inoculated against using it in college when professors would specifically warn us against using it because it would inflate our page count, and then got onto the story-submitting carousel where it was the only font acceptable, but thanks to collegiate indoctrination I still feel vaguely sleazy using it :). ("Dear Editor, This isn't REALLY twenty pages long, you know, more like fourteen, but please consider the story anyway. Word count is 3,000.") The trampoline idea sounds great - I would have loved a trampoline when I was his age (I certainly jumped on my parents' bed enough!). Maybe later?

Good luck to your husband's job search - those are so drawn-out and awful. At least this time around he has some of that Experience people are always looking for :).

[matril.livejournal.com]

Hee, it really was rather a shock to switch from Times New Roman to Courier and see my novel balloon by 200-some pages. Now I understand why they're insistent on word count rather than page count.

No luck on the trampoline this time, but we got Luke one of those bouncy balls with the handle - hopefully he'll enjoy that. Now I have to start thinking about baking a cake and stuff. His birthday is this week; how did it come so fast?!