Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 59: And off to the editor goes Indio Zoop

And so today after finishing the synopsis, the back cover blurb and last minute nips and tucks to the manuscript, I sent it off to Cathie, come what may! EXCITING!!

Steve and I celebrated with some champagne tonight over dinner ... YAY!

and Rachel sent me a shot of "two little jockeys" with dad Michael ...

Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 58: A tad down ... so I ate Flipz

Had a meeting with my Centrelink-appointed jobs provider today and while it went well as always - Chloe is very friendly and supportive of my job hunting efforts - I left there in a very dark, my life is f**ked mood and snapped at a person collecting funds for WSPA or something.

I just suddenly felt SO HOPELESS and tweeted this ...

I don't think anyone on Twitter took me seriously because while the tweet was favourited not a single person responded in any meaningful fashion. Sigh ...

So I came home, ate the last of my white fudge-covered pretzels and started work on getting my novel ready to send to the editor Cathie Tasker, an exciting development that has been a long time coming ...

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 253 (Saturday 10 September) - Toasting IKEA Jinnah?

Big sleep in today and we didn't really sit down for brunch till about 11.

Fun part was that it was the first time my gorgeous guy and I had really used the new IKEA dining room table and it looked fabulous with the pink/orange placemats and coasters contrasting gorgeously with the chocolate brown colour of the table.

I then got down to finishing off a passage of my novel I am rewriting, while my gorgeous guy headed back to his place for vacuuming and cleaning (yep all the sexy fun stuff!), we regrouped for a quick trip to IKEA to swap a damaged panel of his new entertainment unit with a brand spanking new one, before we went to Jinnah's for dinner in Dulwich Hill (we were going to have Bangladeshi cooking in Marrickville but the restaurant ended up looking almost empty and not quite what we were after). It was as quirky as ever, down to the owner starting to turn off the music and some lights when it got to 9.30pm to encourage us to leave. (Oh and I got to wear my scarf one last time so cold was it - yaaaaay!)

Some things never change..