You're Amazing!

Me: I don't know what to blog about.
My Sister: Blog about me.
Me: What about you?
My Sister: How amazing I am.
Me: **choking on laughter*

The other night I watched Monsters vs. Aliens (**spoiler alert**) with our 4-year-old and there's a scene just after Susan (aka Ginormica) defeats the giant alien robot and proceeds to breakup with Derek (her weatherman fiance pre-ginormousness). It's a big turning point in the movie because it's when she discovers that she did that because she believed in herself to do it. And then she pointed out all the amazing things her monster cohorts have accomplished.

And after my conversation with my sister and her self-affirming amazing comment, I realized, guess what? I'm amazing too!

I've been going through a bit of a "phase," trying to figure things out when it comes to publishing, parenting and life in general. You know, when you don't know if anything's ever going to happen for you and you're not sure if you should do anything about anything. And you're trying to decide if there's any point to keep striving for a goal that, at times, seems unachievable. So today I've decided, it doesn't matter where everyone else is with their careers. It doesn't matter how long it takes.

I am having my Ginormica moment. And I'm sharing it with all of you. I am amazing.

And so are all of you! It doesn't matter if you're agented or not. It doesn't matter if you have kids or not. It doessn't matter if you root for the U or the -- er, sorry. Husband has advised this last one does matter, so I'll omit with a quick GO UTES! ...

Moving on. For everyone who is participating in NaNoWriMo - you're AMAZING! Just for wanting to put in the effort, commit yourself to the goal that we all know will only cause additional work, because we all know that whatever we come out with at the end of Novemer is not an agentable piece of work. It's going to require countless hours of rewriting, editing, revisions, crit groups, beta readers and so on. But you know what? It'll be worth every moment because:

You're amazing!

And sometimes, you just need someone to remind you! Thanks to Sister and Ginormica. Who would've thought you guys had so much in common!

Utes, Twittering and Germs

Yay 2009. Go Utes!

Since I went to a school with only intramural sports, we didn't really have a team to root for. And in this town, when it's Holy War time, you can't be Switzerland (or Westminster in my case). What it all comes down to in the end, is that the UTES ROCK!!!!

Moving on, I have made a new discovery, due to one of my favorite authors, and that is TWITTER! Now I'm one of those people who have everything and don't have the time to check it all all the time. I have the MySpace and the Facebook and the blog, and a couple different emails and its just a lot to maintain, but honestly, Twitter rocks. Not much thought involved, just a simple 160 character one liner answering the ever asked question "what are you doing?" And a few minutes ago . . . my answer was that I am going to go do some Twitter recruiting.

In other news, the kids are sick again. And I am feeling it with them this time. Doesn't really help the whole returning to work and hitting the ground running thing, but alas. I did make a stop in the office of one of the people I work with who currently doesn't have children just to let her know that Kids = Germs. Everywhere. All the time. Cute germs, but germs nonetheless. I just wanted to warn her, you know, in case she didn't know.