tiredAs always happens when I'm sleep-deprived, pretty much anything that wasn't word count or absolutely essential business has fallen by the wayside. I'm behind on email, LJ comments, various accounting bits...everything. I managed to book my tickets to Europe (I'm going to DISNEYLAND PARIS!) and continue dealing with my taxes, but everything else? Hoo nelly, no. It's all been put off until I could say, with sincerity, "I am awake, and will not accidentally slice my fingers off."
On the plus side, I'm staying current with word count, and I'm on track to finish A Red-Rose Chain (aka "Toby book nine") this month, allowing me to get it off to the Machete Squad and move on to the next items on my list. I will never finish the list. The list is an endless road stretching off into the ever-moving future. But the list is a guide and a map and a benediction, and nothing makes me happier than knowing that it's always growing. I'll reach the end when I die.
Also on the plus side, I have finished copies of Sparrow Hill Road and Robot Uprisings, and they're both gorgeous. I have now filled two long shelves just with books I've written, and I'm about to have to rearrange my shelves again. So I'm doing okay at my job.
How's everybody else?
(Comment amnesty is on. I genuinely want to know how you are, but I don't want to put myself any further behind than I already am.)
April 13 2014, 04:57:33 UTC 3 years ago
Hazel is settling in and taking charge with her mini Maine Coon adorableness. (seriously, she's half Johnny's size. She has both a tiny, adorable mew and a tiny, sometimes frustrating, but still adorable fierce. Johnny has pounced on Hazel a few times trying to play with her, but I've also seen her chase him away from his food dish. For only 2 months together, I think they are doing pretty well)
We miss Smudge, but it's so much less raw now. I still cry looking at the last week of pictures we have of him, but I'm getting closer to actually being able to make the memory book we want.
I ended up having emergency gall bladder removal surgery April 1st. I'm really glad I'm not known for being an obnoxious kind of April Fool's Day pranker, because it made it much easier for people to believe me when I said I was headed to ER shortly before midnight on the 1st and then started talking surgery later in the day... It was a good thing it came out when it did. I'm recovering pretty well, although it feels like a million years inside. I'm trying really hard not to get frustrated with how quickly I get tired.
I will be at Norwescon, although I won't be doing much. I'm looking forward to seeing you and will do my best to be at the concerts. We'll have Hazel and Johnny with us if you need to escape and have a short cat break. :-)
April 23 2014, 20:24:40 UTC 3 years ago