It’s our anniversary. Fourteen years ago today, fosteronfilm and I were married in a private ceremony beside a waterfall in the Pocono Mountains. Matthew is my best friend, my sweetheart, my helpmeet, my confidant, my joy, and my sanctuary; he’s my everything.
Happy Anniversary to us!
And, amusingly apropos, a link ganked from teflaime: The Kama Sutra as performed by gummi bears.
Writing Stuff
7 out of 7 sections on the research/writing freelance gig completed. Counting on my toes, yes, that is indeed the whole thing. Whee! Donedonedonedone.
Before sending it off, I want to do a few passes for editing and style, and make sure I didn’t contradict myself somewhere or make any embarrassing gaffes. But for the most part, it’s ready to go.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: writing nonfiction is tons easier than writing fiction.
And for my next freelance job, I’ve tentatively tossed my hat into the ring for a gig to write up wedding veil descriptions. Ah, the glamorous life of a freelance writer. Snerk. Until I get concrete specs and confirmation, it’s back to work on le fiction. Except my gears seem in need of oil. I’m having a hard time disengaging from analytical scientist mode and activating creative fantasist mode. *shakes muse*
As a serendipitous segue, I’m writing up my answers for two interviews: my Apex Digest featured writer one (psst: Buy a Best of Apex Digest 2005 chapbook, yo!), and also one from a college student who found her way to my ferret and skunk website, and is writing a paper on animal rights and how the Internet has impacted the movement. So, yeah, I need to make sure I send the right interview to the right interviewer or crazy wackiness may ensue.
Received:
– The tentative ToC from dsnight for Heroes in Training. Tentative still, so I can’t post it, but I can engage in some preliminary squeeage. *squee!*
– 111-day personal “pass” from Fantasy Magazine. They “thought the story was well-written, but . . . ” Snartleblast.
Have a great anniversary!
Thank you!
Happy Anniversary!
Thanks, sweetie!
Happy Anniversary you two!!!
Thanks!
Happy Anniversary!
Did you get married at Bushkill Falls?
Thanks, sweetie! And yepper, it was in Bushkill at Mount Airy Lodge. It was actually a bit chilly, as I recall, but I was so nervous I’m not sure if me not being able to feel my extremities was due to nerves or the cold.
Happy anniversary to you both!
And echoing your squee on the TOC! 😉
Thank you! And *squee*
Wow! I didn’t realise you guys had been married that long. Go you!
Yepper. We got together during my sophomore year in college . . . and I started college when I was sixteen.
Happy anniversary!
Thanks!
Yay, happy happy joy joy! 🙂
Hee! Thanks!
14? Damn, you’re beating out most couples by a mile these days. Congrats and many happy years together.
Yeah, it’s sort of a surprise to me too whenever I think about how long it’s been. And at the same time, I can’t conceive of a time without.
Happy Anniversary!
Thanks, sweetie!
happy anniversary – what an auspicious day to get married (I would think that, woouldn’t I). May you have many , many more happy anniversaries.
Hee! It is a pretty awesome date, isn’t it? And many happy returns of the day to you!
Happy Anniversary!
Thank you!
Congrats! Fourteen years is a good start 😉
Thanks! I totally agree.
The conga rats are dancing for both of you!
And, coincidentally, I live next to a waterfall in the Poconos.
Okay, it’s not an impressive scenic waterfall, like one might get married next to, but it does descend, and water runs there.
Okay, okay, water only runs there when it rains. Lots. But, still…
It is in the Poconos.
Or on the edge of them, anyway.
Ahem. Now back to your regularly scheduled congratulations… =)
Happy anniversary!
And hee! Gummy bears! 😉
Thanks! And now I’m craving gummy candy . . .
I think the readers of Apex would be interested in animal rights, especially skunk rights. Of course, the grad student may not be as interested in your other interview.
I shall, ye verily, endeavour to satisfy any and all skunk-related curiosity in my Apex interview. Wouldn’t want to disappoint any readers. Undoubtedly my brilliant and astute interviewer will steer the questions skunkward toward the end
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And many, many more happy anniversaries to you both. Beautiful people like Matt and you deserve each other!
Writing up wedding veils? Hilarious; I worked for a bridal shop part-time while in high school and used to write whole wedding ensemble descriptions for the local newspaper announcements. Any one else know what a “dirndl” is? It’s a great word for stumping people at hangman!
Mixed news looks mostly good to me. Great that you finished the non-fiction assignment. Even your “Invitation to submit elsewhere” included a back-handed compliment. All in all, not a bad day at all.
Aww, thanks, sweetie!
“I worked for a bridal shop part-time while in high school and used to write whole wedding ensemble descriptions for the local newspaper announcements“
Seriously? Coolness. If I end up landing this gig, I may plunder your wealth of experience for fresh adjectives
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Happy Anniversary to you,
Happy Anniversary to you,
Happy Anniversary to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (dogs begin howling)
Happy Anniversary to you!!
:huggles: Many congratulations, Eugie! And to Matthew as well! (However does he do it? My family has trouble putting up with an obsessed writer for as much as a day! ;-P )
And a double helping of congratulations on finishing the nonfiction! Now whip that muse back into submission and start churning out more of your brilliant and delightful fictions! I refuse to lose my favorite living writer to the world of nonfiction. So there. 😛
:huggles again:
Thanks, sweetie! *huggles back*
“However does he do it? My family has trouble putting up with an obsessed writer for as much as a day! ;-P“
Hee. He does put up with much, but he’s incredibly supportive. We’ve both put in our time in the trenches, doing the cubicle monkey thing, so now we’re both chasing our dreams, trying to make a go at doing what we love. We’re both so deep into our individual artistic obsessions it makes it easy for us to empathize with the other’s needs and idiosyncrasies.
“Now whip that muse back into submission and start churning out more of your brilliant and delightful fictions!“
Yes’m!
“I refuse to lose my favorite living writer to the world of nonfiction“
Happy Anniversary you crazy kids!
Let’s see, so that means you got married in 1991. Hey, what year did you two come out visit me in southern California? I can’t remember if that was before or after 1991?
Thanks, Dean!
“Hey, what year did you two come out visit me in southern California? I can’t remember if that was before or after 1991?“
Urm, um, I’m not sure. I wonder if Matthew remembers…?
Happy Anniversary! That’s great. Congrats also on the freelance writing project. That sounds like a potentially lucrative niche, go for it. You’re right that nonfiction writing is way easier than fiction. I got into nonfiction because my fiction was going nowhere in a handbasket (I’ve since sold a short story, with a good possibility of selling another, go figure), and nonfiction can pay better than fiction, depending on the market. For me, 31 cents a word for Gwinnett Business Journal is better financially than 5 cents a word for F&SF. In terms of writerly prestige however…
Seriously, good luck with everything.
Thanks! And yep, it seems that nonfiction is the way to go to make a living, at least until I can manage to write that break-out, bestselling novel (*snort*). But it’s not what my writer within yearns to write.
Still, way better than being a cubicle monkey!
Same here. And this cubicle monkey envies you. 🙂
Happy anniversary, happy anniversary, happy anniversary, haaaa-py anniversary!
(I just woke up and my eyes are still blurry, so I misread that you had a “pirate ceremony” by a waterfall. Which was, really, a delightful image.)
Thank you! Hee, pirate ceremony. That would’ve been pretty cool. We did wear medievalish garb, though.
Just sheeping along to say “Congratulations!”
(We’re coming up on the 4th wedding anniversary, year 12 together… ain’t it grand?)
Thanks, sweetie!
Happy anniversary to both you and fosteronfilm, and here’s to many more happy years together!
And congrats on finishing that freelancing job. That sure was efficient.
Thank you!
Congrats! Sorry we couldn’t make it to frolicon.
And wow, gummy sex.
Thanks! Yeah, bummer that you couldn’t make Frolicon too. You planning on doing Dragon*Con this year?
We can never afford that one when the time rolls around, so most likely not.
Happy Anniversary. Hope you both have a great day.
Thanks!
Wow. I had no idea you’d been married that long. You don’t look old enough. 🙂
A hearty congrats to you both.
Thanks both for the congrats and the age-related snaps! and I met when I was a sophomore in college . . . and I started college when I was sixteen.
“and I started college when I was sixteen.”
*blink*
Sixteen?!
Well, that explains why you have health issues. Clearly, you spent all your starting points on Intelligence and Appearance, and had none left over for Stamina. 😉
(Wow. I’m not entirely sure I could possibly have said anything dorkier.)
Well, sure. But D&D doesn’t have an Appearance score, so I was going with (old version) World of Darkness rules. And those use Stamina, not Constitution. 😀
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Dear God. Every time I think I can’t possibly get any geekier…
“Well, sure. But D&D doesn’t have an Appearance score, so I was going with (old version) World of Darkness rules. And those use Stamina, not Constitution.“
Good point. But it did use Charisma, which admittedly isn’t the same. Although didn’t it incorporate a Comeliness stat later on?
Mmmf. Yup, shameless geeking here.
I miss gaming.
GAMING RAWKS!! I miss it too… little things like full time job, going back to uni, and having a mortgage got in the way…
*nods* ran a weekly gaming session for years back when we lived in the Midwest. But after we moved here we never managed to assemble a new gaming group, and now I don’t see that we’d have the time. Sigh. I do miss it.
I miss gaming, too. Half my group is in the National Guard, and as soon as Jerry got back from Iraq, Dan got sent. And the his kids aren’t allowed to play without Dan around to supervise, so it’s just me and Jerry until he gets back. Just 6 months left…
congrats on the anniversary. husband and i are approaching #12 and have definitely reached cruising altitude. it is nice up here.
on the gummy bears: i am not sure if this is more or less titillating because i can’t tell one end of the bear from another ;).
Thank you!
“on the gummy bears: i am not sure if this is more or less titillating because i can’t tell one end of the bear from another“
Hee! You too, huh? In several of the pictures, I found myself squinting, trying to figure out which way was up and debating whether that made the positioning more or less piquant.
Happy Anniversary!
Thanks, sweetie!
Eee, Happy Anniversary, Eugie. It’s so nice to hear about a *happy* ending once in a while.
Thank you!
Happy Anniversary!
Nonfiction easier than fiction? It always felt the other way around to me. Or maybe I just hate writing essays. I’m sure I’ll get used to it, eventually.
And now everytime the words “eating gummi bears” pops up, I’ll have a completely different image in my head. Mmmm, gummi bears…yum…
Thanks!
“Nonfiction easier than fiction? It always felt the other way around to me.“
You’re not the only writer who’s expressed the opposite sentiment as mine on the matter of fiction v. nonfiction. But with nonfiction, it’s all about conveying information in an accurate-but-accessible manner. I don’t have to fret over story arc, character development, or pacing, so I don’t engage my muse at all. And with her out of the picture, I can just hammer out words as needed.
“And now everytime the words “eating gummi bears” pops up, I’ll have a completely different image in my head.“
*snerk* Oh, the wrongness!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
Thank you!
Congrats!
Thanks, Doug!
Happy Anniversary!!! –Jodi
Thanks, Jodi!
Here is a Maneki Neko for luck, wealth, health and happiness!
Go you!
*squeezes Maneki Neko* Thank you!
Aw, happy anniversary, Eugie!! 😀
Thanks, Maggie!
Fourteen years is such a very long time these days! I’m so happy for you both!
silly me, a day late and a dollar short, but I thought I still should give a congratulations, since you two are after all one of my favorite couples. Howver one grades these things. Wishes for many more happy years! :throws confetti::