Anthology reprint

One of my older stories, "Lovers' Quarrel," is being reprinted in an anthology that just went up on Amazon. (So far, this year has been off to a good start on the writing front. Now I need to actually get the last revisions on the latest novel and get that out into circulation...)

On birthday parties and fanfic

- Last week, we hosted ARR's 5th birthday. Firetruck cake was a fantastic success. It was a Rescue Bots theme - he'd spent the last two months planning games. Only half the games were particularly successful, but he seemed happy. In a feat of idiocy, I put noisemakers in the pinata. (I was trying to find something at the dollar store that wasn't JUST sugar. I am an idiot.) I gave the parents mimosas, so hopefully they forgave me?

- The next day was his best frenemy's birthday party. The kid's poor mom got the death slot - 2:30pm on Sunday. So. Much. Crying. ARR spent half the time hanging out with me in the other room from the other kids, or crying because someone kicked him in the shin, or sitting on my lap refusing to participate. He was not the only one. Birthday boy melted down spectacularly, first at pinata time, then continuing on into cake. I gave his mom a hug and told her it wasn't her fault. (It wasn't.)

- Thing they've invented! Pinatas that open when you pull one of twenty or so ribbons dangling from the bottom. NO STICKS. BRILLIANT.

- Meanwhile, Chuckro and I finished watched Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and it hit me in the id like nothing has in years. The amount of time I've wasted reading fanfic in the last week...I'm even contemplating writing fanfic, and I never write fanfic. I'm four books in and basically on the road to blowing a ridiculous amount of money on 27 volumes of manga on my Kindle. Oy. I can't even tell you why this one grabbed me so hard. But oh god, Hawkeye and Mustang and all the feels...