And where, you might ask, might I find such a person?

AND have him be handsome and smooth and intelligent and just Downright Awesome?

Why, right here, by golly, in the form of The Husband (westonochse).

And to celebrate the fact that The Husband is, and always will be, younger than me, I'm wishing him a very public Public PUBLIC...


Love,

The Wife

It's been a pretty good bunch of days. Saturday I had a milestone birthday (thanks to cardigirl  for a great birthday card!). Friday the 4th was our company picnic, which was originally scheduled for the 3rd. It was rescheduled by someone else so that kids could go; we had about 12 kids (most were still in school anyway) on Friday, and an ungodly TFW that made much of the experience pretty miserable. A couple of coworkers were sweet enough to bring me birthday gifts, including a skull martini glass and a mondo-cool Nightmare Before Christmas lunchbox (with thermos), and they even came up with a Finding Nemo birthday cake (although the fish toys turned up missing when the cake was packed up, oh well). A friend from Chicago sent me Fannie May candy. :)

I have to admit that the milestone birthday freaks me out more than a little. Lest I sound whiny, I won't go into that. The Husband has been, as always, hugely supportive and has plied me with lots of nice stuff, including white buffalo earrings and a stunning opal heart necklace. The bigger thing is he's taken steps to make the pool warmer, so that I can actually swim in it this year. Petite Desert Flower that I am, the water was only warm enough last summer for me to fully immerse twice.

As part of my freakyness over the Big Bad Birthday, The Husband and I discussed my writing as a priority, and we've reestablished that Grande Dame of Writing Hierarchdom: The Deadline. I now have one for completion of the first book, in draft (because I hope it will be a series and there will be more), of the Super Secret Project: October 1, 2007. He believes the problem is that I have no impetus to complete it, whereas in the past I have always had some kind of deadline, at least since I began selling. It's quote possible he's right. (Speak into the microphone, slowly please.)

As of right now:


And now, off to the day job. ::pfleeeeeet::