Thursday, March 15, 2007

Many congrats!

I wanted to offer my deepest congrats to my colleague and good friend, Heather Osborn. If you haven't heard yet, Heather will be leaving EC to run the paranormal line at Tor. Ec's loss is Tor's gain.

Congrats, H.!

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Buh Bye Pathfinder!

After six years of service, our little Pathfinder is finally being sold or donated to a charity (we're not sure yet). It died the last time two years ago and has been in a repair shop for amost a year. Unfortunately, the owner of said shop went under, disappeared, needless to say it has been an absolute nightmare, but it is almost over.

That car served us sooo well. When Mark couldn't find other work, he drove a courier route for six months and put about ten thousand miles on it. Mark first drove in snow (THREE FEET) during the blizzard in '02. It served us well and we have a wonderful nearly new car, but the SUV will always hold a place in my heart.

Mom update. She is out of the hospital and seems to be doing really well. She's having some stomach issues though, so is going through all sorts of wonderful tests at the moment. But her breathing is great and the last I knew, she hadn't smoked a cigarette since she became ill!