Happy New Year, everyone! I may do a resolutions entry at some point, but they really don't change too much (write more, be healthier) and we started the main one (go to the gym regular-like) back in December, so we already have a good start on that!

So, this news is a week old or so, but my name appears twice on this page of books recommended by Endicott Studios, once for Nine Muses and once for Polyphony. That made me very cheery, as I know my name doesn't always make the cut when pulling out example names of authors; on that page, it's the first name in both lists! Hooray!

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So, my sister and I went to Target on New Year's Day. Aleister, who is still being potty trained, came along with us. Holly found him a spider-man toilet seat and convinced him potty time would be fun if he could sit on Spider Man's head while doing it! (This despite the fact that she thinks she'll never get a second date after guys see her bathroom; she obviously doesn't date the kind of guys I'm attracted to.)

Well, we hadn't checked out yet but were going to use the bathroom, when Aleister threw a perfect 3-year-old fit because there was NO WAY he was going to use that bathroom unless Holly installed his new Spider Man toilet seat first. D'oh! Backfired before poop one!

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Speaking of my nephew, I put up a set of photos from Aleister's 3rd birthday. There *is* a photo of me with reindeer antlers, but it's *not* the cute pair that Tim likes. We'll do that one soon, I promise.