Last night we gathered for a celebratory dinner with the Nano-chums, including partners and children and ended up being a 20+ group! Arranging the tables took some serious thought, and we ended up in three distinct sections: kids, parents, grown ups.

It was lovely to mark out our success (seriously only 19% of Nanoers completed, and we had something like a 60% success rate, how awesome is that?) and to include our long-suffering families (it being Hobart, most of the hubbies knew each other already). But the kids were all very excitable, and however pleasant the dinner was, it was kind of exhausting. There were no tantrums or injuries (never something to take for granted!) and they’re all great kids (heh especially MINE) but… pfeh.

After my third attempt to get from the restaurant to the car I confessed that – hell yeah, I made the right decision to not go to the Aurealis Awards. However wistful I might be about it – and I’ve been wistful about not going to this one since the last one, basically, when I had so much fun but knew I’d be babied up this time around – yeah. Sometimes just getting a meal leaves you needing a three hour lie down.

Speaking of the AA’s,  girliejones is rightly delighted that Twelfth Planet Press has scored seven nominations across the categories, and that every TPP project of the year received a nod in some way. She’s offering all the nominated works now with free postage (half postage overseas) for Christmas sales. If you’ve been meaning to pick up Horn for someone’s Christmas stocking (what else to do with evil unicorn fiction?), she’s getting low on copies, so grab one now!

Tags: family, nanowrimo, twelfth planet press