Life realizations

Not much actually happened this weekend, or in the past few days. I've been looking into what conferences are happening where. Then I began to think about the possibility of me going. Ali is still pretty attached and Katie is still literally attached because I am still nursing at night. (I'm beginning the weaning process). Now Preston and I are talking about our third, which will probably be attached for at least the first six months. After thinking about this fact for a while I came to a few realizations: 1. There is virtually no possibility of me making a multi-day writing conference. The further I thought about this, even if I somehow could get over my aversion to the price of said event, the more I realized I want to be this type of mother. I fully realized that, right now, I could hire a baby sitter, allow them to stay with Preston (probably incredibly unhappy the entire time, or some other option I haven't thought about) it just isn't what I want, that is why I haven't done it. 2. So now, not dis lauding conferences in my areseanal, I've decided to work solely on my ability to write. I'm also learning the ins and outs of on-line social networking sites. To work solely on my craft I've recently adopted a new "training technique" as it were. I have been reading The Art of War for Writers by James Scott Bell. I love the suggestion of having a word quota for the week. I am going to try that and make a daily journal of what I have written, if anything and how much I have written. On a more personal note some friends and I have entered the Color me Rad 5K in Indy. It's going to be so much fun. From what I understand the runners all wear plain white shirts and each carry color packs to throw. When it starts we all run and pelt each other with color, then have an awesome commerative shirt when it's done!