Nobody reads these blog post titles anyway, right?

So, as Carrie rightfully pointed out in her last post, things have been a bit...shall we say quiet around here as of late? And the funny thing is I think we actually posted more when there weren't a ton of things going on in our lives. Navel gazing is funny like that.

Anyway, big things have been afoot! I was just glancing at my goals list, that "25 things to do before I turn 25" thing, and I've actually managed to complete some of them, especially the big ones. Observe:

1. Read 80 books (I'm at 51 right now; I don't know how many I'll actually get to, it being October, but, well, we'll see.)
2. Redesign my blog (Eric is "working" on this, and when I say "working" I mean "not working on it at all because Jenny is visiting")
3. Get an agent
4. Get a book deal (ha!)
5. Finish my next book
6. Go on a date
7. Go to California
8. Go on an interview
9. Get a review published in Contrary (I'm pretty sure this is never going to happen, because the editor of Contrary blew me off months ago.)
10. Go to Chicago (Sadly, this will not happen before my birthday, but it will happen right afterwards if I have my way.)
11. Save $300 (The advance will pretty much make me go way beyond this.)
12. Pay off half my credit card debt (I'm planning on paying off all of it with my advance money.)
13. Send birthday cards to all my close friends before their birthdays! (fugged this up, maybe next year)
14. Write 1 letter a month and actually send it (again, maybe next year)
15. Get a raise (I'm hoping this will happen on my jobiversary in November)
16. Volunteer for Seeds of Peace (I just submitted a volunteer form online today)
17. Go to Boston (I guess not this year, no time)
18. Attend a concert
19. Attend a Broadway musical
20. Do at least one thing in each of the boroughs (Well, I've done this if you don't count Staten Island. If you do, I probably won't make it this year)
21. Lose 10 pounds (to start!) (YAR! 13 pounds and counting!)
22. Go to Atlantic City (did you know all the properties in Monopoly are named after Atlantic City streets?) (I, uh, don't even really want to do this anymore. AC is expensive!)
23. Cook real meals (I do this sometimes)
24. Go to a book signing for an author I really love (I'm going to give this to myself right now, since I'm planning on going to John Green's October 16 signing in New York)
25. Um, I guess this one's for me? Because I'm a lemming? (To tell you the truth, I have no idea what this one is. Whoops!)

Now, perhaps I should back-back-back it up a little. Book deal? "Ha!" as I said. Except that actually happened a few weeks ago. My lovely agent was able to sell my graduate school thesis (a young adult novel) in a two-book deal to Delacorte, an imprint of Random House. Very exciting, I know. I've already got a second book done, but now I have to edit it so my editor can see it and make a decision of which book to debut with (I'm going to take bets right now, and my money's on the first book, AUT). So I'm hoping to finish that this weekend and then send it to my agent on Monday so that she can read and comment so that I can incorporate her changes and then send it off to my editor in a few weeks. I'll probably get my editorial letter from my editor on the first book by Thanksgiving, so I'll probably be really frantic and ridiculous at Thanksgiving. Get excited!

So that's my news. Anyone else have any? MAGGIE PERHAPS?!