A Life in the Day

My son David is a huge fan of Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie. When it's on, we watch it on TV even though we own the DVD and one year when he was 9 or 10, if I could've managed it, he would have gone as the Grinch for Halloween. Now, I'm just a fan of Christmas music. Most of my friends and colleagues shriek when they hear me playing Christmas music before Halloween but I just love the way the music makes me feel. I'm always smiling when listening to it and whether it's a Carol or a Song, it always makes brings me great joy. I'm about to dive into my query inbox and no... I'm not planning to reply in Grinch fashion but actually giggled when I came across the Grinch YouTube vids. I think authors sometimes see us as Grinch-like with our book of queries open saying, hate, hate, hate, double hate, loathe entirely! It's not always like that! ;)

Was having a pretty good day today despite the unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach that something bad was going to happen. I've been feeling "off" for a few days and today the feeling was a bit stronger. When I've had these feelings before, I've ended up in a car accident or with a family member in jail. I should've listened to my gut and stayed ho me. 14-year-old girl with autism. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Instead, I took the kids to Barnes & Noble at Waterford Lakes as we often do when we're bored and don't have much money to spend. We were there for less than an hour when David rushes to me to tell me they are kicking him out of the store. When I turn around, there's the manager of the store (must be a new one or a weekend one because I've not seen her before and I know most of the staff there, we've spent more time at that store than we have anywhere else in the city) telling me she's received complaints ...