Busy aside from the normal parenting, I mean, and aside from the neverending Battle Of The Laundry (why do I always lose?). I’ve been busy writing. Writing “stuff”.

I’m now writing for the incredibly vast Metroblogging network with a great team over at Metroblogging Montreal. I’m supposed to post at least three times per week, but I’m aiming for at least five. If you’re interested in reading, you can see when I make a new post by checking out that very nifty “recent posts” box over in the top left sidebar.

I just had my first article published at Imperfect Parent*. As of right now you can actually see it splashed right across the front page, which took me by (pleasant) surprise this morning; I knew it was going in today, I just didn’t expect to see it so… gigantic and header-like. Very exciting! You can read the entire article at its permanent location here.

Finally, I had another piece accepted at Mom Writers’ Lit Mag, and it will be published in their December 2006 issue, which I’m also very excited about.

Since I got so many acceptances one after the other, I decided I may as well be ballsy and I went and pitched an idea for regular writing work elsewhere – paying, as in a holy-shit-I-get-a-salary-to-write! position and hopefully that will work out too. In the meantime, I have a few other ideas swimming around in my head too, ideas that I would have never entertained in the past, but it’s almost as though writing a few things here and there went and unblocked something, making me want to write more and more. If only there were more hours in a day. Preferably, hours where children are SOUND ASLEEP, unlike a certain little puffin who is wide awake on my lap right now, staring trance-like at the monitor.

So that’s what i’ve been doing.

*Every time I go to write Imperfect Parent, I start writing Imperfect Partner. That would probably be a great site too, full of humourous tales.