Back In LA

I’m back!
Back in  LA, back to my blogging, back to working on my novel, back, back, back.

Let me get you up to speed on what happened over the last month. First of all, and most important, the little guy has basically been given a clean bill of health. The cardiologist, urologist, nephrologist, physical therapist and his GP have all checked everything thoroughly and aside from one slightly undescended testy which should come down on its own in good time (how embarrassed will he be in 10 years when his friends come across this?) ALL IS WELL! He’s been scanned and ultrasounded from top to bottom (they literally had to scan his butt crack at one point, to check his spine), and it seems that we are finally coming through the other side.

It’s hard to express how relieved I feel as he begins crawling, laughing and eating real foods like Cheerios. He’s still small for his age, but he’s gaining well again since I weaned him (no lectures from the LLL, please). Everything’s coming up Baz!

Celeste had her fourth birthday party, which was a blast. We set up the kiddie pool and her new slip and slide and this rainbow thingy that shoots water, and the kids (all 14 of them!) just played and played while the grown ups hung out over BBQ and beers. It’s good to be home.

My writing has been very self indulgent, which is awesome. The freelance work I struggled to get done while we were in SF has slowed dramatically since we’ve been back, leaving time for my novel. I revised the first three chapters last week and wrote 10 new pages. I’m hoping to make some more progress this week. I feel like I might be hitting a grove with the rewrite, but I don’t want to jinx it.

In other exciting news, a company my guy is working with wants to shoot a low budget horror flick and their writer flaked (or something, I don’t really know the whole story). All I know is that Daniel asked me on Thursday – “do you still have a copy of ‘Straws’ anywhere?” (“Straws” being  the script for a horror flick I wrote in 2004). I said yes, but it needed work. He said “do you think you could have it presentable in 24 hours?” and I said hells yes, and dropped everything to rewrite it as best I could in such a short time frame. I’m actually pretty happy with how it came out, though if it does go ahead it will need a few more revisions. So, now that’s out there in the universe. Who know what will become of it, but it’s kind of fun to see an old project revived.

The only bummer of our return to LA has been that Daniel has still been traveling for work. He’s been back and forth to SF, and this last weekend had to go to Singapore for a business schmoozing thing. I’m missing him. He gets back tonight, then has to leave again tomorrow morning to go back up to SF to check out the first rough cut of Knife Fight (yeah!). Hopefully his schedule will calm down soon and we’ll finally get a chance to go to dinner to celebrate our 7th wedding anniversary.

So that’s the news from this end. I’ll be back to blogging two/three times a week now, children and work load permitting. Thanks for hanging in during my short hiatus.

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