Friday Five

Friday Five. Hey, why not?

What is your favorite experience in your life so far? Birthing Anna.
What motivates you to keep going every day? A desire to continue to see my dreams realized, and to spend another day with Tim and Anna and the other wonderful people in my life.
Where do you want to go in life? What do you want to accomplish? Wow, big question. I want to continue to become a better writer. I want to raise a happy and healthy and emotionally well-adjusted daughter. I want to write poetry, fiction, and one day be fully happy with a completed novel, instead of redrafting a few times and shoving it in a drawer or box in my closet. I want to live in a happy, fun, and nurturing, loving relationship with my husband for our lifetimes. I want to share the findings of the girls' diary project in some kind of helpful way with adolescent girls and those who care for them. Oh, and one day I'd like to make enough money to give a signficant portion of it to climate change research. And I'd like to finish Anna's baby book before she starts Kindergarten.
Is there anything that you regret? Do you try to change it? Yes: not going away to University for my undergrad, but living at home those four years. Too late to change that! Ah, well. Next lifetime.
What is your most cherished gift you have received? Why do you cherish it so much? Easy. My wedding band. Why? Self-explanatory, really. :)

Happy weekend, and Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate this week as opposed to last month!

editing oddity

Funny experience this afternoon. Editing the tests for the Grade 10 package for Open School when I come across my own stories, written under a different contract. I now get to copyedit them. That was only partly odd. The real strangeness came when I read the answers to the multiple choice questions, and discovered what others thought the themes were, what the characters were thinking. I think I would have passed the test on my own writing, but I don't know if I would have got 100%. I mean, they ask if the character in my second piece made the right decision at the end of the story. Man, I don't even know. I pity the poor sixteen year olds who have to answer that.