I Has...

Because I was given a deadline. A very important deadline. Like, a really very important deadline. Yeah. It's that important.



to finish by this deadline, I has. But self-confidence? Not so much.



Hubby got tough. "You can do it," he said. "I know you'll do it." I'm suspecting he believes this strictly because he took away all my frozen M&M's and told me I couldn't have them back until I finished. I give him props for his plan's sheer geniosity. It's just annoying how he emails every few hours demanding my most recent word count.



My secret goal is to finish so I can have my M&M's back. Don't tell anyone. But my main goal is to write something someone will find worth reading. My concern is I'm actually creating something that's merely worthy of being printed on a roll of toilet paper. This main goal? It's a lofty goal and it's getting to me.

I'm having a hard time believing I can do this.

The good news is I don't have to. It seems there are people out there who say they'll believe enough for me. People like my mom. Who went out and bought me more Acceptance Celebration Twinkies. Banana-flavored. Just because she loves me and knows how much I want this.



And, she wrapped them in DANGER tape as a warning to Hubby.

(Touch them and die, big boy.)

People like Miss Frango, who sent me a box of magic, so I could do this.



Remember Dorothy's magic red shoes? How she never really needed them to get home? Because she had the ability to do it, all by herself, all along? Make her wish come true? That's sort of what she sent me. Only, it wasn't a pair of sparkly shoes.

It was even better than that. But I can't tell you what it was, because it's magic...

So. Hubby snapped these of me when I wasn't paying attention. (As you can see, I seem to be at a very important and perplexing scene...when in reality I was horrified because he'd just informed me of his confiscation of my M&M's.)

Thanks to Miss Frango, I don't need to worry anymore. I can do it. I have magic.


That's me, donning my magic, making my wish come true. The Twinkies are in my kitchen cabinet waiting. And my M&M's are twenty pages from being mine again.

I'm a lucky girl, eh?

:)