No video today. This week has been insanely busy, for good reasons and bad.
My husband Luis’s grandfather passed away on Tuesday at the amazing age of 98 — two months shy of 99. We’re fortunate to have spent time with him in November when we visited Guatemala.
Luis’s phone has also been dramatic this week. His Pixel wouldn’t turn on, so he took it to a place to get it fixed; they kept it to “fix it”, then gave it back two days later saying they couldn’t. So he got a backup phone to have while Google works on receiving his old phone and replacing it. It’s been a lot of extra stress he doesn’t need. 😢
Meanwhile, on Sunday, we celebrated our twelfth anniversary of the day we met (our “Meetaversary.”) We went to two of the Smithsonian museums we went to on our first date and we got some pizza. Have I mentioned I love pizza? When we got home, we watched You’ve Got Mail which I hadn’t seen since it came out. I liked it a lot more than the first time, primarily because of how quaint it is nowadays. I wish they’d pointed out how slow the early Internet was!
In writing news, things have been chugging along well. I’ve been finding more magical cohesion in my plot. Things are starting to tie together and everything has some kind of payoff. So that’s good. It feels amazing. Some of it was semi-unconscious, too. I wrote things in and then realized they helped further something else I was planning.
It’s funny how it’s difficult to explain some of this writing stuff. You’ll just have to read my novel someday and see for yourself. 😉
Sara Mazariegos 