Sort of Excited

I would be more excited if I had more energy.  I have just made some soup as the men really need some good fuel in this weather (though we haven't been too affected here).  When I say 'home made soup' I mean I tipped some oil in a pan, added a large amount of lazy garlic, a bag of frozen sweet potato chunks, a bag of frozen chopped onion, a bag of frozen butternut squash, some lentils, some curry powder, a couple of stock cubes and a lot of water.  I left it to simmer and then DH blitzed it with a hand blender and I'll freeze anything left for later.  I am now barely able to move - I'm flattened!  And it's not exactly haute cuisine. 

However on the bear front, he got good marks for his pizza (the egg arrived in one piece!) and some of the pizza even made it home!  What is even better, he came top in the first round of a spelling bee.  I am so proud of him.  In the interests of being fair and not trying to present a false picture, we are glossing over a lot of not so good stuff in French, but I'm proud of the spelling bee.  I'm proud of bear in general.

I need to get moving more. I nearly died of shame when the piano teacher turned up.  Bear's lesson has switched to Tuesdays and I had forgotten.  The house is a pit.  I really need to get it sorted.  All I need is the energy...

Writing stuff - This is also sort of exciting and if I had more energy I would be a lot more excited.  The vaguely exciting news is that I have volunteered to be a very minor part of OWS CyCon.  You may not have heard of this, and that's okay, because until last week neither had I.  There is a big cyber convention of authors and readers every year (this year it's May 17th-19th 2019), where wonderful, convention-type stuff happens.  It looks like there will be discussions, giveaways, and all sorts!  And it's all online so those who can't travel much, for whatever reason, can mingle with authors and readers, even those from different continents.  If you are interested in this, the website is here, but I will be posting snippets as it gets nearer the time. I know the people at Our Write Side who are running it this year, and they are awesome and I can't wait to see what goes on. 

And what is exciting right now is a guest post on my writing blog by Jennifer Zamboni about her journey towards writing 'Beauty is a Beast' (and she's a knitter, which is also awesome). 

I plan to be back tomorrow with more energy to be excited!