A Day of Sleep, Rejection, and Baseball

My slight fever is now gone, but tiredness seems to reign. Perhaps because my body is trying to recover and my diet has been very light. I slept half the day. I still can't bite down all the way (stitches in the way) and my lip/chin is still half-numb. But the area has shrunk slightly. I keep thinking I shouldn't press it, but duh, it isn't the extraction site and doesn't hurt. Funny how I think sometimes.

Today I received a rejection of my nonfiction story Special Shoes from Ladybug magazine. I'm so used to getting rejections that when I finally get an acceptance in the kid's genre people in the next two states will probably hear me hollering with glee.

When I first decided to learn how to write, I entered a course to learn writing for children. As I learned the trade in general, I ended up publishing in other genres. Now I'm returning to my first interest and am looking forward to what's ahead. So long as I keep writing, submitting, and writing some more, it's only a matter of time.

Tonight IJ (my oldest) has his last baseball game of the season before playoffs begin. Even though it's two days post-op, I'm taking him. It will be good to get out of the house, and finally get to see one of his games. I sure hope they win! Either way, his team's record has been good enough that they've already made it into the playoffs. Two years ago his team in a different town won the local championship. What a year that was! It'd be nice if it happened again. We'll see.