Not What I Had Planned

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Ho! Ho! Ho!

It's Monday, less than two weeks 'til Christmas, and I haven't even started my holiday cards!  But that is because I had something else very important to focus on over the weekend.

(It has nothing at ALL to do with the fact that I have totally lost temporarily misplaced my comprehensive mailing list in my oh-so-tidy office!  My office is PRISTINE!  Hahahahaha!  Sorry!  I couldn't even say that with a straight face.  You guys have seen my office (here and here and here) and "tidy" "pristine" and "organized" are not words that apply :))

Anyhoo...

I don't know about you guys, but I spent a lot of the weekend working on my sample Holiday Contest story and guess what?  Turns out it's really hard to fit it into 40 lines!  I think I'm more cut out for an epic poem version - 'Twas The Night Before Christmas - The Odyssey Style :)

I'm having a lot of fun with it, though, and I hope you are too!  I can't wait to read all your stories, so I'm really hoping there will be more than one (mine) to read!

But enough about the awesomeness that is the Holiday Contest.  (Please scroll down that link to see contest rules.)  I know you are all here today to learn from the fabulous Erin, whose thoughts on Dee's pitch you have been looking forward to all weekend.

This is me distracting you with cuteness so you won't notice the glitch :)

I was looking forward to that, too.  But it's the holiday season.  People are mucho busy.  And Straight From The Editor notes have yet to land in my inbox.  Even though I dawdled.  Even though it's 9:45 AM and I'm just posting... (Great Scott!  The day is practically over :)!)  So I guess we'll be combining Straight From The Editor with Would You Read It on Wednesday - double the awesomeness!

So for a little fun and games today, I'll refer you back to a couple of holiday season posts I wrote last year, before anyone knew I had entered the blogosphere so I'm pretty sure no one's ever read them :)  I hope you enjoy them, and please feel free to leave comments because they have an inferiority complex and you would really boost their self-esteem by reading and commenting :)

If You Give A Writer Wrapping Paper
The Writer's 12 Days Of Christmas
*#@*! or What To Give (if you click on the 150 tab when you get to Mother Reader it still works :))

Before you head out, one earth-shatteringly important question:  egg nog, mulled cider, or other?  (And if "other", what other?)

See you Wednesday, hopefully with twice the fun!