NOOO!!

NOOO! *sniffle* My baby just left! I won't see him again for like...well, a whole day!

Lists

I love lists and it i s time for me to write my favorite one - 25 things for me to do in the year 2010. So far I've come up with eight things.

1. Graduate
2. Score higher on the ACT
3. Learn to drive
4. Finish the Promise Trilogy/Tetralogy
5. Pass Chemistry
6. Read the entire bible
7. Write 200k during NaNo
8. Be nicer to my siblings

I should probably add 'watch fewer movies' to the list but...*sigh* maybe next year.

Shhh...

EJ came home today! It feels so natural to have a baby in the house again. We got the little sign from the hospital to put in the front yard and everything. It's so much fun! I love that baby! Now if only we can convince the little kids that they need to be quiet when EJ's asleep.

Just call me Aunt Gabrielle ^_^

My nephew was born at 11:01 AM today!!!!! I could probably make this entire post just exclamation points, I am that excited!! He is the cutest little baby boy in the world; my world, anyway. He has big brown eyes and curly brown hair and he's really quiet but really alert. He likes sticking his tongue out for some reason, and it's so adorable ^_^

I barely want to let him out of my sight, but Ne-Ce made me go home *sigh*. So I have to settle for the next best thing, and stare at the pictures I took of him until I can go back to the hospital tomorrow!

I am so grateful that everything went well (even though the doctor barely showed up and the really nice nurse did all the work). I was praying so hard because when EJ was born he was so pale and so quiet, it scared me. But everything was and, God willing, will continue to be just perfect!

Now I'm going back to staring at EJ's pictures :)

Just a random thank you

Y'know, today I was printing another chapter of my book so I could edit it. And I realized how much I love printers. They're so amazing. And I love ink and white paper covered in words.

Ahem. Anyway. My point being, I have been printing my stories since I was nine years old. And my mother never complains about how much of her ink and her paper I consume. In fact, she even gave me my own computer, so I could write more words that I would inevitably want to print. So thank you, Mom. I love you. And your printer :)

Me and my conscience have a conversation

Conscience: You should edit a few pages today, at least

Me: Hm, nah

Conscience: You haven't edited a thing in thirteen days

Me: Whose counting?

Conscience: I am

Me: But why? The story sucks

Conscience: That's why we edit

Me: Easy for you to say, you don't have to do the work

Conscience: Just do one page

Me: Why?

Conscience: Because I said so

Me: Now you sound like me

Conscience: I am you, genius

Me: Sheesh, don't have to be mean about it

Conscience: Open your laptop

Me: It is open

Conscience: Close your chat windows

Me: B-b-but

Conscience: NOW!

Me: Fine. I'm going to work now. So leave me alone.

Conscience: Once you get past your first three urges to stop and get a snack, then I'll leave

Me: Fine

Conscience: Fine

Me: If Ne-Ce calls and says EJ's about to be born, I'm outta here

Conscience: Just edit, Gabrielle

Me: Fine. Right after I -

Conscience: NOW

Me: (closes chat windows and mournfully opens Word document)

Here's my cousin and best friend, Mikey, playing "Croatian Rhapsody." It's the same song I'm learning (hopefully) before the new year. It is massively long, although you can't tell, because the video cuts off. My camera batteries died.



I have performance evaluations and a recital next Monday! Wish me luck!