More Waiting!

I went ahead and emailed the publisher on Monday. They are waiting on one more reader to provide comment. Let's hope they are good comments. Fingers crossed everyone!

Haven't heard back yet!

I haven't heard back from the publisher about my novel, Murder in the Old Courthouse. I am trying not to be too antsy, but they have had the full manuscript for four months, and they said they would get back to me in two. Do I email them? Would that be too pushy?

Bathroom Done!

My bathroom is finally textured and painted, as well as the upstairs hallway. I was productive for the first three days of my vacation, then totally loafed around the last two. The bathroom is a robin egg-blue, and the hallway is a taupe color. We have a pastel explosion going on upstairs at the moment. I have one more bedroom to paint, and am not sure what color that one will be.

On to the kitchen!

Vacation!

I am on vacation until April 6th!! I am not going anywhere, but plan to work around the house quite a bit. Maybe, just maybe, I'll get the bathroom upstairs done. I painted the big bedroom last weekend and it looks great (I think).

Lazy Weekend

Our home projects got a break this weekend. It was cold (40s) and raining all weekend, and neither Eric nor I had much motivation to do anything! We did move furniture in the big bedroom, wash the baseboards, and tape off the windows, etc. in preparation for painting. Gotta get back on it!

Wallpaper Hell

So, Eric and I are working on the upstairs of our house, repainting, etc. Our house was built in the early 1990's, and came complete with mauve carpeting throughout the house and gaudy green with pink rose wallpaper in the upstairs bathroom. I borrowed a friend's steamer and set to work on my now 6' x 6' room of hell.

The genius that owned the house before us wallpapered over wallpaper in the bathroom. Amazingly, the print they put on top was no better than the original print! Still green, but this time had little pink flowers and the original had big pink flowers.

Anywho, removing two layers is a pain in the rear. The top layer came down pretty easily. The bottom layer, not so much. I finally finished this weekend, ripping off large chunks of the drywall paper in the process.

Now, I am the spackling queen. My bathtub is full of wallpaper, but I'm getting there. We are also painting both bedrooms. The smaller bedroom should be interesting. The same genius that papered over paper in the bathroom painted OVER the wallpaper in the bedroom. More on that room later.

Slacker!

Whew! Sorry it has been awhile since my last post. Things have been nuts around here, both at work and at home. Our administrative person is leaving at work, and we've been busy hiring a new person and getting ready for "training" mode.

I am very excited to head to Wake Forest University at the end of the month for a research trip for my next book, Murder in Town Hall. I am still waiting to hear back from the publisher about the first in the series, but I figure it can't hurt to get rolling on the next. Carving out time to write is hard, but necessary for my sanity! I won't be writing on this trip, but gathering research. And my dad said a history degree wouldn't be useful...I am a great researcher!

The weight loss is very slow, but steady. I am just trying to be smart about what goes in, knowing it will all wind up on my hips somewhere.