My life with teenagers and other stuff

So I have the opportunity to write a blog about raising teenagers for a "Mommy site".  My husband told me to ask if they minded before I went ahead (something that didn't even cross my mind).  My daughter, surprisingly, thanked me for asking her first and asked to read it before I submit it.  My son reminded me that he was no longer a teenager.  He likes to remind me that he is an adult. Or when he's home he reminds me that "I don't live here anymore."  That really grates on my nerves.  Maybe because it really makes me sad and reminds me just how fast time has gone.  Anyway, I told him that I will email him my blog before I submit it anyway.

Otherwise, the work on my book is going at a snails pace.  Some days I'll really be on a roll and able to bang out a chapter or two and then nothing for a week.  Maybe there's too many distractions at home.  I'm going to try working at the cottage over the long weekend we have coming up here in Canada.  Of course, I won't be there alone so we'll see how that goes.  What I should really do is go up there by myself but I have this nonsensical fear of long driving trips when I'm the one doing the driving.  I have gotten lost so many times, even just here in the city.  My kids bought me a GPS last Mother's Day. Maybe I should actually hook it up to my car!

So, back to the book. Self-publishing is probably the route I will have to go but I have no idea how to go about marketing it.  It was suggested that I simply start sending out query letters to agents and go from there.  Any comments about this would be greatly appreciated!

36 degrees

What a hot weekend! I think I can safely say that summer is here.  I haven't been able to write  single thing in two weeks (at least).  Partially due to the fact that I was having a lot of trouble breathing.  Normally I would have gone to the emergency room at the hospital where my transplant was performed.  But, it being the first weekend in July, I knew that here in Canada, July 1st is when all the residents graduate and July 2nd (for the most part) is when all the staff doctors go on vacation.  I wish I didn't know so much about our Health Care System.  Anyway, I made a proper appointment which involves bloodwork, a chest x-ray and a breathing test. After all this information is gathered the doctors sit down and review it and decide on a course of action.  I knew my breathing test was compromised.  For a woman of my size a normal test shows 2.0.  My tests have been 1.37 for the last several years.  Lousy, but consistently lousy.  Last week they were 0.8.  The docs determined that I have a respiratory infection and put me on a puffer and an anti-biotic.  That was Wednesday.  By Saturday I was walking around the Art Museum with my husband and later that same day, through the "cool" downtown neighbourhood my son is living in this summer as we went in search of food.  I hope that by the end of the week I will be exercising and writing more of my book!