Should you be MALE or FEMALE?* created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Male Being mostly male / masculine, within your structures of thinking simply means that your reasoning powers are (the way they are perceived in Western Culture`) higher than the one of the opposite sex. Psychoanalsis claims this to come at the price of creative expression - a rational thinker can not think out of the box, it is claimed. Male 46% Female 39% Neither 32% Either 25%

In other news, I sold a horror story yesterday morning to a new as yet to be titled anthology edited by Janrae Frank. It was a wonderful Christmas surprise! Looking forward to it.

The kiddos were at their dad's yesterday and today, so we did "Christmas" on Christmas Eve. Fun was had all around and Teh Hotness aka Christopher cooked a Christmas Ham and I baked a pear pie. The pie was a hit...disappeared in one day. The ham was yummy and we're still eating on it.

Today we hit the after Christmas sales. Went to Walmart where we stocked up on mostly girl gifts, along with some regular household items that were on our to buy list. Then we headed to 1/2 Price Bookstore...we had a small basket of stuff that got abandoned in the horror section because the Buy line was practically out the door...no thanks. We then went and ate some dinner and dropped by Barnes & Nobles to shop [thanks Erica & Marc!] where we picked up a boxed CD set of Zatoichi movies, some Halloween cards, and a lap desk for Kiddo#2.

Kiddo#1 was chosen as an on-camera reporter for his elementary school's new news team [broadcasted within the school...thank you Bob for the reference :)] so once a week after school Kiddo#2 and I will have car time for an hour after classes let out while we wait for him. The trip to the school is 20 min one way, so it would be stupid for us to go back home and then back to the school...so I can sew or read and Kiddo#2 can sew or color. We made up a bag of stuff for her to stay occupied with, and the lapdesk will be perfect.

Then we came home...I'm supposed to be writing now...but instead I took a dumb quiz with the expected results, and am now posting on my journal...well, it IS writing...lol. Got a nice royalties paypal payment a few minutes ago. yay.

The BIG event of the weekend will be the UFC Nemisis  79 fight between Hughes and St Pierre and Liddell and Silva. Christopher and I are going to a local sports bar to watch the fight. We had considered splurging the $40 to watch it on pay per view, but when we discovered a local sports bar had it, we decided to go to dinner and watch the fight for free. Woot! I'm still bummed that Matt Serra pulled out of the fight due to injury, but I really want to see Hughes fight, so all is okay. I'm sure once Serra is deemed healhty he'll be gunning to get into the octagon with Hughes...if Serra is ever pronounced healthy. Those spine injuries aren't anything to be taken lightly. And I just LOVE watching Chuck Liddell fight...so fingers crossed Hughes and Liddell both win!

Okay...I really am going to go write now.

What's left to come out in 2007:

*Chaosium, Frontier Cthulhu, "In Waters Black the Lost Ones Sleep", shipping now
*Fate Magazine, "Talk to Me", December issue

Here are my upcoming publications for 2008:

*Publisher to be announced, The Swan Road, Fantasy novel reprint, February 2008
*10 reprints to be released through Fictionwise [details coming, among the list The Commandments [2006 Bram Stoker Nomination in Collection], Madam Chang's Red Dragon Saloon, "All Becomes As Wormwood"[ from the 2006 Bram Stoker Nominated Anthology, Aegri Somnia], and other short stories]
*Elder Signs Press, Eldritch Steel, "Upon this Forgotten Altar: A Tale of the Barbarian Kabar of El Hazzar" TBA
*Black Death Books, Blackest Death III, "The Piper of Glamis Hill", TBA
*Bradford House Publishing, Until Somebody Loses An Eye, "First Love", March 2008
*Dead Letter Press, Bound for Evil, "A Lesson In Therapy", TBA
*Simian Publishing, Twilight Temptations, "Shattered Mirrors and Smokeless Flames", TBA
*Flashing Swords Publications, Return of the Sword, "Lair of the Cherufe: A Tale of the Barbarian Kabar of El Hazzar", TBA
*Flashing Swords E-Zine, "Sacrifice of the Utukki: From the Tales of the Barbarian Kabar of El Hazzar", May 2008
*Night to Dawn, Issue 14, "Opportunity", April 2008
*ScienceFictionFantasyHorror.com, "The Crone's Curse", TBA
*Echelon Press, more tales in The Isgor Chronicles, TBA
*TBA, Anthology TBA, "What Goes Around", TBA