A Saga Finished

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Wow.

I've just finished listening to all 7 Harry Potter books. It took 3-4 weeks. I'm not sure when I started. I feel just as I did when I finished reading book 7 last summer - as if there's a hole in my life because something is missing. Yikes! How do books do that? I think I feel this way because there are no more HP books coming. But what a saga it is.

This time as I listened, I was paying more attention to how the books were crafted. I'm so intimidated! J.K. Rowling is truly gifted. How can I become an author? Can I do this? Do I have it in me? (Truly rhetorical questions - no need for you to boost my ego.)

So now I'm shifting from books to talk radio on my MP3 player. It's Dave Ramsey time now...lots of sob stories and people wanting advice. Maybe I can use real life as inspiration for my next assignment for my writing course. I'm supposed to write a fiction piece now.

I'm at home with both girls this morning instead of being at Bible study. Jules has RSV (respiratory virus) but it's not serious enough to put her in the hospital, so it's just a "mild" case. She has a fever and an awful cough - the doctor said her fever would last about 4 days (we're on day 5, though) and that her cough would last 2 more weeks after the fever ends. She's not having problems sleeping yet, but she is very clingy and is always saying, "Mommy, hold you" to me (she wants to be held). I'm keeping her dosed up on Tylenol and ibuprofen to keep her fever down and I can tell when the meds begin to wear off. That's when she gets clingy and whiny again.

I should go now - somebody is screeching in the living room.