Oh, February. You were a gross, snowy and grey month, and I'm sad to say you won't be missed. I'm so ready for spring and I am SO ready to be rid of my writing funk. Since I haven't really been feeling up to social media this month, I decided to do a recap of everything that's been going on!

The biggest news of note is that the hubby and I have started looking to buy a house! WHAT? I'm still pretty sure I'm not adult enough to buy a house, but our bank seems to think we're mature enough humanoids that they'd loan money to us. True story: buying a house is super complicated and not at all a low-stress process. Luckily we are already in a great apartment so we aren't on a time crunch and we have time to find just the right place, and time to listen for the plans God has for us.

Since January, I've been in a generally awful patch of writer's block. I wrote about how I've been dealing with that nasty little beast here.

In other news, I quit my job at the magazine, and I now am exclusively working part time at my church as the church administrator which involves lots of graphic design, and about all the other random things that are needed to keep a church running (building maintenance aside).

I'm still trying to finish my Christmas novella, Mistletoe & Matrimony which I got a very late start on last year. Yeah, I mentioned the writer's block didn't I? I can write about 200 words a day, and while that's not much, it's still progress. Hard fought progress. I'm still in love with the story, I just need the words to come faster. Please, words. I miss you!

I'm slowly working away at I Wish I May. I'm currently editing a chapter a week mainly for posting on Wattpad, but I will be ramping up the speed on my major edits soon. I've already overhauled chapters 1-5 while also second-guessing decisions I made about some of the overarching plots, but these changes are something I'm going to feel out with more feedback. My plan is to have it ready to send out to Beta readers and to submit to contests at the end of March.

BEST OF FEBRUARY

So I watched Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and it was nice. So nice I saw it twice. In theaters. I have even contemplated seeing it for a third time it was so fierce. It was quirky, and silly and so unbelievably amazing. Overall, I learned two things from this film: first, that Jane Austen is, truly, even better with Zombies. Second, that everyone is gay for Mr. Darcy.

"Do as Peggy says."