Changes

More changes in the Stullover household. I mentioned the paint job that's finished in the front room. This weekend, it looks like we're measuring for drapes. I had planned on buying a couch or chairs for that room in November, but now it looks like that might have to wait. Because we bought a car.

Nate's been driving a ten- or eleven-year old Buick for at least the past six years, since before we started dating. It was our only car in Chicago (when we put less than 3,000 miles on it a year) and after we moved back to Dallas, we eventually got a second car. Dallas is a two-car kind of town, unfortunately. Nate's also been working at home for the past two years, so not having a snazzy, dazzy car wasn't a big deal because he hardly drove anywhere. But this past year, we've had to put quite a bit of money into the Buick. It broke down in August as Nate was driving home from the store with a trunk full of groceries. After several hundred dollars of car repair, it stopped running again on Monday. So we said fugget. Nate is now the driver of a new Honda Element, which is pretty exciting. It's the first new car he's ever bought.

In book news, I think the last thing I wrote about was letting people read the book and incorporating their feedback. I finished that draft. I think it took about two-three weeks. Then as I was doing a find and replace for OK (replacing all oks with OKs), I hit save. What I didn't realize was that a bunch of words were affected. So my manuscript now looks like, toOK, jOKe, shoOK, you get the idea. GAH! What can I say, it was late. So I've been going through and correcting my dumb mistake. I have about 200 pages left to read, the changes to input, and then that puppy is going out! I have a list of about ten agents who are going to be my first gauntlet. I'll wait a week or two and send out the next ten queries. So wish me luck. I hope to be finished with inputing the corrections by the end of the weekend. For those counting at home, I am now on draft #7.