Been a while....
Apr. 18th, 2007 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrilNot much to say, just checking in since it's been a little while since I've posted. I do intend to finish posting my ROTS parody - there's some good parts coming up thanks to my sick sense of humor, but other parts are rather weak and I'm wondering if I should junk them and try to write something better. Eh, it doesn't make that much difference.
Let's see....some very good friends of ours were finally able to finalize their daughter's adoption last week. She's already over a year and a half old, but they had some issues with her birth father - he contested the adoption but refused to go through any of the proper channels, i.e., the agencies, the appointed advocates, etc. So our friends finally pushed the issue - even if it meant losing their daughter, at least things wouldn't go on hanging for years - and when he didn't even show up to the first hearing, the court went ahead and allowed them to finalize. As you can imagine, it's been quite a roller coaster, and we've been quite anxious for things to turn out well. Their older daughter would have been just brokenhearted to lose her sister. But now it's final and irrevocable - hooray! They're such a sweet family.
Luke has the entire week off of school. I've been letting him run wild, I'm afraid. We put together a little book with various icons that attach to it with velcro - a picture for "hungry," for "sleep," for "dinner" and so on. We want him to be able to use it to communicate with us better, but it will take time for him to understand what we want, even though he has something similar at school. These things just don't come naturally to him. And I have a lot of trouble finding the patience. Emma picks up new words every day, and I think I'm starting to get spoiled, supposing that Luke's language ought to come just as quickly. *sigh...*
My brother turned 21 on Monday. My baby brother. Good grief. If he's 21, I must be getting really old. :P Eh, I'll be 26 this year. Rather young, actually, to already have two children. But age is starting to become a little less important now. Even years that were supposed to be milestones weren't particular significant for me, since I never have and never will drink liver poisoner, voluntarily inhale toxic fumes, or squander away money in casinos, whether it's legal for me to do so or not. (Always seemed rather silly to me..."You are now officially old enough to do stupid things that will waste your money and possibly kill you.") I suppose when I hit 30, that'll be a milestone. But that's a few years off still.
I haven't been writing much lately. I'm a few chapters into the final book of my original series, and at times I just want to junk the whole thing and start over. I should probably just focus on trying to get the first book published, since it's pretty much the best of them, and then I can worry about whether or not the other books even matter. As far as fan fiction, I've had a few plot bunnies - I even wrote something a week or so ago - but they just don't seem to amount to anything decent. I feel like I'm re-hashing too much. I did get the idea for something from a completely different character's viewpoint, in an unusual format....I should probably fiddle around with that.
Let's see....some very good friends of ours were finally able to finalize their daughter's adoption last week. She's already over a year and a half old, but they had some issues with her birth father - he contested the adoption but refused to go through any of the proper channels, i.e., the agencies, the appointed advocates, etc. So our friends finally pushed the issue - even if it meant losing their daughter, at least things wouldn't go on hanging for years - and when he didn't even show up to the first hearing, the court went ahead and allowed them to finalize. As you can imagine, it's been quite a roller coaster, and we've been quite anxious for things to turn out well. Their older daughter would have been just brokenhearted to lose her sister. But now it's final and irrevocable - hooray! They're such a sweet family.
Luke has the entire week off of school. I've been letting him run wild, I'm afraid. We put together a little book with various icons that attach to it with velcro - a picture for "hungry," for "sleep," for "dinner" and so on. We want him to be able to use it to communicate with us better, but it will take time for him to understand what we want, even though he has something similar at school. These things just don't come naturally to him. And I have a lot of trouble finding the patience. Emma picks up new words every day, and I think I'm starting to get spoiled, supposing that Luke's language ought to come just as quickly. *sigh...*
My brother turned 21 on Monday. My baby brother. Good grief. If he's 21, I must be getting really old. :P Eh, I'll be 26 this year. Rather young, actually, to already have two children. But age is starting to become a little less important now. Even years that were supposed to be milestones weren't particular significant for me, since I never have and never will drink liver poisoner, voluntarily inhale toxic fumes, or squander away money in casinos, whether it's legal for me to do so or not. (Always seemed rather silly to me..."You are now officially old enough to do stupid things that will waste your money and possibly kill you.") I suppose when I hit 30, that'll be a milestone. But that's a few years off still.
I haven't been writing much lately. I'm a few chapters into the final book of my original series, and at times I just want to junk the whole thing and start over. I should probably just focus on trying to get the first book published, since it's pretty much the best of them, and then I can worry about whether or not the other books even matter. As far as fan fiction, I've had a few plot bunnies - I even wrote something a week or so ago - but they just don't seem to amount to anything decent. I feel like I'm re-hashing too much. I did get the idea for something from a completely different character's viewpoint, in an unusual format....I should probably fiddle around with that.
