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<\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Orphans.<\/strong> Do you see these sweet children?<\/p>\n L-R: Brett<\/a> and Iris<\/a> Brett<\/a> still needs a mama. Iris<\/a> finally has a family committed to her and their dossier has been submitted to her country.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n NaNo<\/a> Update.<\/strong> So far, I’m a bit ahead in my “2000-words-a-day” plan and as I’m going to be with my family this weekend, it’s probably good to have that cushion though I’ll be focusing like mad tomorrow so that I don’t get too far behind. I’m also probably going to give up Facebook<\/a> this weekend with a few exceptions so I can spend my computer time writing my NaNo<\/a> piece. We’ll see.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Justice being served.<\/strong> Those of you who read my {Virtual} Coffee Date<\/a> for this week know that one of my college group leaders at the church I attended from 1998-2001 was murdered in his office and found on Saturday morning. On Wednesday, we got the news that they arrested two people suspected of killing him<\/a>. I’m not angry at his killers as much as I’m just sad.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Fundraiser for Brett.<\/strong> I’m willing to kill people off creatively for a donation to the adoption grant of the precious boy on my sidebar. $10 gets you killed off creatively with a couple caveats. If you give $25, I’ll send you the manuscript of my NaNo<\/a> piece. Just make the donation to Brett and email the receipt and how you’d like to die to jen @ grace-filled dot net.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Thankful.<\/strong> One of the people doing NaNo is a CSI and she offered to answer all of our questions. There are 8 pages of questions and her answers<\/a> in the NaNo<\/a> forums. I’m incredibly grateful that she offered this because it means that my novel went from “no chance” to theoretically possible.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Boundaries.<\/strong> My precious sweetling is testing the patience of his ABA tutors this week. He tried going up against his lead tutor and consultant today… and failed. Both of them have been doing this for a while and have absolutely *NO* problem saying the dreaded n-word (a.k.a. “no”). He has tried going to Jon or me when his tutors are refusing to back down and we just turn him around and send him right back to them. Oh well… it’s developmentally appropriate to test boundaries — just no fun for the parents.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n “Bones” moving to Fridays.<\/strong> I’ll have to start watching Bones<\/a> on Hulu or something because they’re moving it to Fridays… which is when I watch 3 hours of <\/a>CBS stuff. As much as I like Bones<\/a>, I like Hawaii Five-O<\/a> more.<\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — 1 — Orphans. Do you see these sweet children? L-R: Brett and Iris Brett still needs a mama. Iris finally has a family committed to her and their dossier has been submitted to her country. — 2 — NaNo … Continue reading
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