Goodness Gracious

 

Feeling good today.

Feeling grateful

The combination is best summed up by ‘Goodness, I’m gracious!” or “Gracious for goodness” or the very reliable, “Goodness gracious!”

Reason #1:

Goodbye, Sallie Mae. We’ve been acquainted for seven years now and, frankly, I’m sick and tired of feeling like I always owe you something. What kind of relationship is this, anyway? We’re no longer friends and I will not miss you.

Big, gigantic, enormous monstrosity of a grad school loan is now…gone.

Quite gone.

Vanished. Poof. Big, fat ZERO.

Sayonara, Sallie. We twain shall never meet again.

Reason #2:

Our Magic 8 manuscript in the hands of a very capable agent. The anticipation is killing me. But I’m grateful for it because, well….it means we did something right.

Check out these  stats from The Agent:

Queries read: 472

Rejected: 434

    *Requested: 38

*(There we are! In this category!)

**Request rate: 8%

**(There we are, in this percentage!)

In her own words:

“If I’ve requested  your full, I've  already decided  you're a good writer  and I like the  concept.”

One big, gigantic, enormous monstrosity of a hurdle JUMPED!

I refuse to think about the 8,732  remaining hurdles. One at a time, my friends, one at a time.

And then there are all these reasons:

I mean, it’s FALL. What is there NOT to be grateful for?

Goodness gracious, not a thing. ;)