Tomorrow we close on our new house, the next in a series of crazy life changes we've gone through so far this year. Seems like stuff like this always happens all at once. I've got the new job (and we're launching our first release of our software next week), we're moving on Saturday to the new house, we close on the old house on the 30th, and Elizabeth starts her new weekend work schedule in April (no more babysitter for Drew!).

Oh, and I need to read and critique the opening 50 pages to 11 other novels, plus two complete (or close to complete) novels, by mid-May.

(Insert primal scream here.)

At some point in all of that I need to get this novel drafted. I really had wanted to finish it up by April Fool's, just because I liked the silliness of that, along with the synchronicity of it landing on the same day we learned about Drew's emergence into our world (um, via the pregnancy test, that is). But I'm going to cut myself some slack and give myself two more weeks to finish Sixteen Miles from Everywhere.

So now my deadline is one I'll share with millions of other Americans -- Tax Deadline Day!

Today was one of those really frustrating days, all because I was dog-tired. Couldn't focus on anything, and what I really needed to do was just go back to bed. I hate that feeling. I knew I'd hit the wall at some point, but I didn't think it would happen just yet -- I was hoping to make it another sleep-deprived week or two! Ah well.

I did finally get some writing done, plus some more reading for the workshop (which has been very enjoyable, don't get me wrong, and I'm happy as hell I'm going to this in May), and got caught up on my work stuff as well. And wrote a couple words here and there:

54,200 / 80,000 (67.8%)

Also, just found out today that Heart's Revenge has a product page on the Thomson Gale (Five Star) Web site! Nifty. It's all becoming more and more real now.

Now I'm off to watch an episode or two of "Lost" Season Two, hot off the iPod. Later!