Just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays, vacation days, or whatever you have in store for this time of year. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I haven’t been writing, or thinking about writing, for a bit as my furry best friend (black and white kitty) became very sick and had to have surgery. She’s doing well now but it was a tough time for us. I’m going to take this holiday season as a little break and a chance to officially ‘move in’ to my house, which we’ve owned for two years now with nothing up on the walls and a room full of still unpacked boxes (Crazy, I know. My husband and I are lost causes.).<\/p>\n
I’m also a bit late in sending out the giveaway prizes (sorry!) as it took a while to find the time to get over to Santa Monica with everything going on. But I did spend a nice crisp winter day there yesterday, and it doubled as my 4 year wedding anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n
As promised, here’s the video of the winner’s artwork being created (if you listen closely, you can hear me say a word or two. \ud83d\ude1b Well, actually, just the same word twice).<\/p>\n
http:\/\/youtu.be\/nIXiovYQouA<\/p>\n
http:\/\/youtu.be\/YUVt5TNA3QM<\/p>\n
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A couple other things:<\/p>\n
*Voting for the M\/M Group Member Choice Awards is open until 12\/31 \u00a0http:\/\/www.esurveyspro.com\/Survey.aspx?id=31dc63a9-f374-40b9-a220-b3aad4f2ba0d<\/a><\/p>\n *If you’re looking for a place to do a little donating, recently engaged M\/M authors TJ Klune and Eric Arvin are dealing with unexpected serious health concerns. Surgery and a lengthy hospital stay are in Eric’s future and they could use the support.\u00a0http:\/\/www.youcaring.com\/medical-fundraiser\/eric-arvin-support-fund\/116877<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Happy Holidays! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays, vacation days, or whatever you have in store for this time of year. \ud83d\ude42 I haven’t been writing, or thinking about writing, for a bit as my furry best friend (black and white kitty) became very sick and had to have surgery. She’s doing well now but it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraalva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}