Busy, Busy
This is my busiest time of the year.
Miss Rhylee’s brother Dallas turns 6 today. That makes both her brothers six years old for a month. Then Lane will turn 7.
Miss Rhylee, her brothers, her cousin Dalton and her parents went to the Medieval Fair today. www.medievalfair.org
I have a Norman Galaxy of Writers’ officers’ meeting to go to tomorrow. www.nonprofitpages.com/normangalaxy
Then the SoonerCon Staff is meeting at the Medieval Fair on Sunday. www.soonercon.com
The deadline for the current quarter of Writers of the Future contest is March 31, 2010. Then of course the next quarter starts April 1, 2010. www.writersofthefuture.com
I’m working on a story to send in for the current quarter and will start the next one as soon as this one gets mailed sometime in the next four days.
My conference season starts in April.
Starting with Conestoga 14 April 23-25 2010 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. www.sftulsa.org
Then Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Inc. Conference: April 29 – May 1, 2010 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. www.owfi.org
Followed by a Yard Dog Press Authors’ meeting May 7-9, 2010. www.yarddogpress.com
Then SoonerCon 2010 A Bubba Odyssey – June 4-6, 2010 – Oklahoma City www.soonercon.com
As of this moment I don’t have any conferences or conventions schedule for after SoonerCon. But that is always subject to change. It all depends on whether I get invited to speak somewhere after that.
I’m just a tad disappointed that I don’t have any weddings to perform in June. That’s always a busy month for weddings. So if you live in Oklahoma, and you’re planning to get married, and you need some one to perform the ceremony, I’m pretty much available after June 6th.
Of course I’m always available to perform weddings during any of the conventions or conferences I attend.
not an empty nest in sight
My baby boy just turned nineteen. It’s sad. Time disappeared so quickly. One day he was a cuddly little blond baby boy and the next day he’s a six-foot-four college sophomore still sleeping on my sofa.
He had a dorm room the first semester of his freshman year but wouldn’t stay there. I couldn’t understand why he wanted a dorm room considering we live on the same street as the college he attends. But it’s all part of the college experience. A part he didn’t really experience. So I refused to pay for a dorm room this year.
Don’t ask me why he isn’t sleeping in his own room. Maybe it’s because his TV is still in the garage. Maybe it’s because he can’t get into his room because of all the stuff piled inside his door. I’m not cleaning it.
Personally I don’t mind if he stays at home forever, but he does have a perfectly good room and a perfectly good bed so I’d like to at least move him back into it and get him off my couch.
I have five adults, three dogs, one ferret and one baby living in my house. Most of the time it’s okay. There’s not enough room to walk through the living room, much less sleep in there.
I’m thinking of redecorating. Maybe some really uncomfortable straight back chairs and fragile little love seats. Something pink, lacy and ruffled that a really big guy wouldn’t be caught sleeping on.
It could work.
The times they are a changing
| My son will graduate from high school this Friday. He doesn’t turn eighteen until Sept. But I figure once he’s a high school grad he’s pretty much grown. He’s always telling me I need to cut the umbilical cord.
Anyway, there is a part of me that is really excited about him growing up because once he is an adult I don’t have to be one anymore. I won’t be legally responsible for anyone but myself. It won’t be considered child abandonment if I just take off and stay gone for weeks at a time. I doubt I’ll have any more money but I won’t feel as guilty about spending my money on me, me, me, instead of the kids. I’m not too worried about the empty nest syndrome. My daughter lives less than a mile away and comes home nearly every day for something. Usually money. He is planning to go to college at (not OSU his dear ole mum’s Alma Marta) but that other Oklahoma university right down the street from my house. So he’ll be living at home at least his freshman year. They got rules. Still, I’ve been a mother -stop laughing Bill- most of my life. So it will be an adjustment. Of course I will still be their mother but there is a difference in being the mother of minors and adults. I’m accustomed to telling them what to do. Not that I actually expect them to do what I tell them. I will probably always put in my two cents worth. But how do I transition from the ‘because I’m your mother and I said so’, parent to the ‘may I offer my opinion’, parent? The Klingon in me says, “Just beat your opinion into them!” But the Klingon in me isn’t always reasonable. (Of course I would never tell her that) |
