January: Got laser vision correction surgery. Despite having been given a Valium, during the surgery I was terrified that I was going to move my eyes when I shouldn’t and ruin my vision. But I didn’t. The day after surgery, I drove without corrective lenses for the first time.
February: Went to a convention in Seattle. Got my picture taken with James Marsters (Spike from
March: My newest nephew, David, was born on my birthday. Went of a convention in Pasadena and got my picture taken with Bill Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk).
April: Went to General Conference.
May:
June: The Parents
July: Spent a week in Greensboro, North Carolina at Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. I learned a lot about writing and had a lot of fun.
August: I started this blog.
September: Fantasy football season started! And there was real football, too.
October: Met up with my best friend from law school in Las Vegas. (No, I didn’t go to law school in Las Vegas; that’s just where I met up with my friend.)
November: I found out that one of my short stories was a finalist in the Third Annual Phobos Fiction Contest.
December: I won my family’s fantasy football league and found out that another of my short stories was a finalist in L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest.