Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all
well and staying safe! I’m late. I’m sorry. I lost track of
time. Well, that’s not technically true…what’s happening is that I’m taking a
tea-cup saucer up to the buffet bar and overfilling my plate. I’m sure you
understand. The old adage “too much to do and not enough time to do it” is certainly
true in my case. Between the day job, getting ready for Christmas, keeping the
house nice and tidy, and writing, I find that I’m getting less sleep so I can
get it all done…and as you can plainly see, it’s not working well.
I am making progress though. All the
Christmas decorations, etc., have been taken down from the attic (which is a
feat within itself…I’m afraid of heights so getting me on a ladder takes a lot
of convincing as well as gearing myself up mentally. The DH usually does this,
but he’s been under the weather, so it falls to me. Which is fine. I don’t have
a problem at all pulling my weight so to speak, but yeah…that ladder…not my
finest moment. I am proud of myself that I didn’t fall and break my fool neck
(though it was a close call for a moment or two)!
Christmas cards have been mailed, the
shopping is done and most of the packages have been mailed off (I have a few
that I hand deliver). The DH and I don’t exchange gifts (and haven’t for a very
long time) so that part was easy. I did not bake. I thought about it, but
ultimately decided that I just didn’t have time to do it right. I will be
making a cheesecake within the next week, but that doesn’t really count. I’ve
been making this dessert for so long, I no longer need the recipe and I’ve cut
the prep time down to ten minutes. Once it’s in the oven, I don’t have to think
about it for an hour (then another hour with the heat turned off).
The other bit of progress is that I
finally (yes, finally!!!) finished getting caught up at the day job from taking
that week off in November. I know…that seems like a long time but given the
business I’m in and the sheer amount of emails (all requiring I do something) I
get on a daily basis, I’m surprised it didn’t take longer.
What else is taking so much time? I’m
probably a fool, but I’ve been getting estimates to have my front yard redone.
Yup. It’s time. Past time, really. I’m finally getting rid of the sparse grass
and doing a decorative rock. I’ve had a couple people come out and give me
proposals…now it’s time to make a decision and *gasp* part with the dollars I’ve
been saving up (I will admit, that’s the hardest part!).
Lastly, there is the writing. Every
spare moment (between everything else) is going toward finishing my current work in progress and I am sooooo close! Maybe another 1 to 2K words and I’ll be
able to type “The End”. As you may know, this story has taken much longer
to write than any other I’ve written—not because it was harder, but because I
ran into so many “issues”. Still, I’m happy with what I’ve done (though I have
yet to read it from beginning to end…that’s next! I’m taking a few days off around
Christmas (which I’ll pay for later) to print out and read aloud…yes, I do that…it’s
so much easier to hear your mistakes because your brain will automatically fill
in missing words, etc.). I’m looking forward to doing that.
You know, now that I’ve written out everything
that I’m doing, I find that I’m tired. Maybe I should take a breath! Hahahaha!
And a nap!
Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to
spread kindness wherever you go!
Marie
