THE BIG NEWS!
I heard back from my editor and will be starting back to work on my book!
Just kidding. Well, kind of. I did actually hear back from my editor, and I'm really excited about the direction I will be taking "The Imaginings" next. It's been a little frustrating lately, but I have a renewed energy after hearing back the editor (and relieved to hear that I still have a confident agent even though our year "contract" has lapsed.)
But the real big news is... I'm getting married!
It's not happening as soon as it sounds, but I like the sound of it better than "I'm engaged." Kinda like that whole "fiance" thing.
Anyway, for anyone who doesn't know, Jennifer and I have known each other since high school (a couple years older than me, I actually had a little crush on her). In the haze of our early college years, we somehow managed to never run into each other in the small Southern Utah town (at least that we can recall). We both tried our hands in marriage (separately, of course), Jennifer a bit longer than me, for those of you who remember mine (I barely do). At some point, I stopped going to school and left Utah to find my way in the world, returning a little over eight years later to help the family biz, and I saw Jennifer at the house of some other friends of mine from the high school years. I had given up on finding anyone in Cedar City, ticking off the time I would be here, and she had given up on finding anyone, period. It only got better from there, and on my birthday, I decided the best gift she could give me would be to say that she would be my wife.
[Funny footnote: When I told my good friend/shaman, Zim Broadway, that I was going to ask her on my birthday, he laughed and told me that it was an awfully big present asking her to give me her whole life.]
Anyway, that's the abbreviated version (I'm also planning on copying this to an email to all my friend's and family who don't see my blog), but to sum it up, Jennifer is absolutely the perfect woman for me, and while I agree that it seems strange that I had to leave Utah, spend several years in Montana, travel around for a couple more, only to return to my hometown and meet the woman with whom I'd want to spend the rest of my life, I also know that it might not have worked out had it happened any sooner. As I'm fond of telling her, I had to come all this way to be ready to love her like she deserved to be loved.
The picture below is from my birthday dinner at my parents' place the day after I asked her. Okay, actually, I'm having difficulty figuring out how to post pictures now for some reason. So you'll have to wait.
Just kidding. Well, kind of. I did actually hear back from my editor, and I'm really excited about the direction I will be taking "The Imaginings" next. It's been a little frustrating lately, but I have a renewed energy after hearing back the editor (and relieved to hear that I still have a confident agent even though our year "contract" has lapsed.)
But the real big news is... I'm getting married!
It's not happening as soon as it sounds, but I like the sound of it better than "I'm engaged." Kinda like that whole "fiance" thing.
Anyway, for anyone who doesn't know, Jennifer and I have known each other since high school (a couple years older than me, I actually had a little crush on her). In the haze of our early college years, we somehow managed to never run into each other in the small Southern Utah town (at least that we can recall). We both tried our hands in marriage (separately, of course), Jennifer a bit longer than me, for those of you who remember mine (I barely do). At some point, I stopped going to school and left Utah to find my way in the world, returning a little over eight years later to help the family biz, and I saw Jennifer at the house of some other friends of mine from the high school years. I had given up on finding anyone in Cedar City, ticking off the time I would be here, and she had given up on finding anyone, period. It only got better from there, and on my birthday, I decided the best gift she could give me would be to say that she would be my wife.
[Funny footnote: When I told my good friend/shaman, Zim Broadway, that I was going to ask her on my birthday, he laughed and told me that it was an awfully big present asking her to give me her whole life.]
Anyway, that's the abbreviated version (I'm also planning on copying this to an email to all my friend's and family who don't see my blog), but to sum it up, Jennifer is absolutely the perfect woman for me, and while I agree that it seems strange that I had to leave Utah, spend several years in Montana, travel around for a couple more, only to return to my hometown and meet the woman with whom I'd want to spend the rest of my life, I also know that it might not have worked out had it happened any sooner. As I'm fond of telling her, I had to come all this way to be ready to love her like she deserved to be loved.
The picture below is from my birthday dinner at my parents' place the day after I asked her. Okay, actually, I'm having difficulty figuring out how to post pictures now for some reason. So you'll have to wait.
posted by A Man without a Band at 9:19 AM
3 comments
