I tried to get some revising done in the car, but I only managed to finish one page. 
Just one.
Yes, I'm that lame.
Revising is very slow going at the moment. I'm at a point where I can read over a sentence 20 times and still not know whether it's coherent or not. I keep wondering, does this new sentence fit with the rest of the feel of this chapter? Does it flow seamlessly? Will a reader point out that sentence and say, "Where did that come from?"
I have no answers. I honestly can't tell.
To clear my head, I spent the day in The Lou with fellow book reviewers, Jill and Claire. Annnnnd there were shenanigans.
First off, let me say that Park Avenue Coffee in Lafayette Park makes a MEAN mocha.
Secondly, I have an affinity for large stone frogs.
Thirdly, finding old civil war canons will make YA book reviewers talk about Beautiful Creatures for hours. This here's for all the boys in Gatlin!
That's Jill lighting the canon fuse, running for her life, then taking cover.
K A - B O O M ! !
That evening was filled with much frivolity, as you can tell from this photo...
as well as a Wii sword fight tournament. In which I lost. Badly. (Don't tell my characters, or they'll never let me write another sword fight scene again.)
The rest of the week was spent gabbing, laughing, eating, and going for walks in the snow.
We had an amazing time, but now that my brain is clear again, I must away to my revisions. I'll leave you now with this:
Things I learned this Christmas:
- Disarming a 3 year old with a nerf sword is harder than it looks.
- Cats love blanket forts.
- I truly adore all my YABC reviewers!
- If you give little girls makeup for Christmas, expect this to happen:
- Introducing Doctor Who to your non-sci-fi-loving family may result in early bedtimes and indigestion. (Is anyone else excited to see Matt Smith in a Stetson?? "I wear a Stetson now. Stetson's are cool.")
- My brother can make wine! And it's delicious!
- If you get a 13 year old girl her own DVD of Eclipse for Christmas, you'll be DA BOMB. Also, listening to said 13YO try to explain Twilight to her grandparents = priceless.
13YO: "He's her boyfriend, but he's also a vampire, and he can't resist her because her blood is so tasty."
Grandmother: "How in the world does he know her blood is tasty?!"
13YO: "Because that bad vampire's mate bit her, and Edward had to suck out the venom, and he almost couldn't stop sucking out all her blood because it tasted so good. He almost killed her."
Grandmother: O_o
HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EVERYONE!
