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Today was a busy and productive feeling day. I wrote a couple of pages in my story. I'm not at the end of the chapter yet, so nothing new to post, but I found time to write which is a major accomplishment. I am also nearly finished with the baby blanket for my cousin. I have almost completed sewing all the individual blocks together, and all I have after that is to put edging on it. Then it is ready to mail out. I also did all of my school work for the week in one marathon session today. So, lucky me... nothing to do this week in the evening other than crochet the rest of that blanket and work on my story.

I'm at a bit of an impass on my story, because... well... I don't really like the direction it is going. I don't really have any desire to write a love story, and I refuse to write a romance novel so, I'm not sure where that is leaving me. So far, everything I come up with revolves around Arabella and Allarick in love, but I don't know if that is what I want. I've resigned myself to it, but now I am trying to avoid too many cliches that will really just take away from the story. I need to really sit down and outline where I'm going with this, instead of having things be a surprise for me as I'm writing them. Does anyone know if this works well for them??? I'm not one to really plan things out, and maybe this is why I normally scrap most things that I write. I get to a certain point in the plot, and just decide I don't like it. Then, rather than trying to go back and correct it everything just ends up in the trash can. I'm determined to not let that happen this time, so any advice would be really appreciated.

Everything else is just moving along here. Two more weeks of school after this, and I'll be a college graduate. I've a countdown in my head, and I can't wait to be finished. We are trying to figure out the best way for me to go about buying a home when I move back to Ohio. I am trying to spen as little time at my parents as possible, but right now we are considering building a home. That will take three or four months through the builder we are looking at. Anyhow, the real trick is getting financing. We could get it out here, but then my income isn't included. I could get it in Ohio on only my income, but then we'll not have enough financing to get the house we would like. So, our solution at the moment is having a power of attorney written up that will allow me to take out a home loan in both mine and my hubby's name so that both of our incomes are included, and we are not trying to make the application process work from 2500 miles away. Hopefully that will solve the problem. I'm going to ask at banks if it is possible, and then we'll have legal draw one up for us. I also need to start looking at plane tickets, and I need to finish polishing my resume. I'm also getting ready to start submitting my resume to companies, and I hope to line up interviews for the second week I'm back. That should make me and the kids mostly ready to move in a few months. It will give me a week to get them a bit settled before really pursuing a job, and hopefully I'll be employed within the month of getting back. That's the general idea, but I don't know how confident I am that it will work out that way. I'm starting to panic over this whole move, but I keep telling myself it will be over soon and then I'll not have to worry.

I'm off to bed for the night. I've already stayed up much later than planned.

Take Care,
Meg