School starts this Thursday. I'm pretty sure we have the important stuff taken care of: school supplies, school uniforms, and summer reading is finished. Taking her to school won't be as easy as walking her to the school behind our house. Nope, she will have to be driven across town to Cascia Hall . . . luckily, I'm not stuck with THAT particular chore in the mornings! Hubster will be taking her through the horrendous road work areas (three lanes on major expressway narrowing down to one--are they serious??) and then continuing on to work.
I'll be picking her up at 3 PM, well, 2:55.
With school starting I'd like to start a nice normal writing routine again, but I have a lot of little things I'd like to accomplish before I can do it. This is just the stuff that piles up over time, until you know you need to do something about it.
Saturday night I finished one the them.
The magazine pile--I had about six month's worth of magazines to go through. Of course they were all cooking magazines and I had to pull out the pages of the recipes I found interesting, then trim them to a reasonable size before filing into one of my thirteen cookbooks. -- DONE!
My earrings---I keep my earrings in four fishing tackle boxes. These are only 1-inch deep and clear(ish). I need to take a picture when I'm finished. Well, about two years ago, it was in fantastic shape. My hubby had spray glued the polyester backing to fuzzy stuff so I could hook my earrings through the material and keep them nice and neat. I need to cut new pieces for the earrings I use and to reorganize the boxes, as my earring habit seems to keep growing.
--I picked up cute little person with a pearl head earrings in Seaside and a pair from the Italy venue in Epcot that I'll be getting for my b-day.
My blog---yep, I need to do some housecleaning on this blog: hyperlinking my WW and FF blogs to their respective places, updating my book info, copying and pasting all my WW blogs to a document and then organizing them for my weight loss book.
My documents folder--I've been really bad about this one, as it has grown to unimaginable proportions . . . when you have to scroll down to see all the documents, it's too large!
And then there's the 'other' stuff I need to do:
Reformat my Goblin's Apprentice books for print--which means I need to do another editing job.
Fill out my Weight Watcher's leader info when it arrives--if I decide to actually take the job. I'm still waffling on this one. The pay isn't good, but there are some perks. But then there's wear and tear on my car, the lack of ability to call my own shots, plus my mom might be needing more of my driving skills in the near future.
Brainstorm my Elemental series.
Plot Goblin's Apprentice book 4, DRAGON DAYS OF SUMMER
Finish working on my Christmas projects
Order chocolate supplies to be ready to make and mail the donated items I've already promised.
And of course, last but certainly not least, act as chauffeur to my kidlet. Swim hasn't started back up, but it will when the pool is ready to go. And we already have two other school activities PRIOR to school starting!
Monday is a get-together pool party for the kids. And Wednesday is orientation and a retreat, but hubby wants to do the driving on both ends of it so he can figure out his driving plan of attack.
While there is no firm deadline on any of this--with the exception of the Christmas items and the donations to Lee Lofland's Writer's Police Academy in September--I don't really have to DO anything, but I'm ready to work . . . and that's a big plus in my book!
Oh, BTW, does anyone know how I can make book marks or something like that I can put into the candy boxes?? I have no clue where to start on this!
Later, Peeps!
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8/13/12
10/10/11
Lost My Mind
I HAVE SERIOUSLY LOST MY MIND. . .
Sorry for the late post, but I have been totally discombobulated (doncha love that word??) since coming home from Canada late last Wednesday. I'll try to get back on a regular schedule by the end of this week.
Here is my list of stuff:
--Pictures are downloaded on my computer waiting for me to have the time to blog
--Still haven't caught up with the laundry
--we had a nice soaking rain last night, which made walking today wonderful since most of the pollen had been washed out of the air.
--need to run lots of errands today, but many are closed due to it being Columbus day
--need to send the City of Tulsa a note to try to get a crosswalk painted across a residential street in Woodbine. The cars go too fast and the day care walks their kids across this street to the school. I did manage to cattle prod them into removing three dead evergreens that caused some serious visibility issues in this same location. If the KinderCare directer does her part and I do mine, then we might get some signs or a crosswalk painted. I'll keep using the words: children, accidents, hazards, etc.
--trying to nag cover artist. She sent me a cover for SUGAR PLUM DISASTER, and I HATED IT!! This was a first for me. I've never hated anything she's done, but this was a cut and paste disaster! it was very Chick-lit and NOT middle grade, nor did it have the same 'feel' as the rest of the book covers. I sent her some images and described in detail what I wanted to see. Hope the next version is better. I know she's seriously overwhelmed with a bunch of deadlines, but I hope I don't get lost in the mess.
--Amazon has now opened a French kindle store. YAY! But my stories are still in English, which will limit my ability to sell. My Sis-in-Law offered to translate (she's French, but lives and teaches here in town), but considering my sell-through in the states and the fact that I haven't even broke even yet, the odds are against me. I simply couldn't afford to pay her unless I could guarantee some sales. And even if you aren't knowledgeable about the book biz, you know that no one can guarantee this!
--I volunteered to help the 5th grade class on their field trip. it's to a local Junior Achievement place called Biz Town. The kids have 'jobs' and earn money and have to spend money for products. Well, today is the volunteer's orientation day. So, I'll be running late to my daughter's first swim meet.
--but first I'll have to take her to Girl Scouts. Of course, they are sending a care package to a soldier, but only notified the parents one day ago. . . A little more warning please! So I get to buy some junk food for the young man, while the Girl Scouts write notes to him. Plus they have fall products for sale. No we haven't bought anything yet. Yes, it's due today, but we were gone and couldn't walk around the neighborhood with her to sell stuff.
--Swim meet tonight is an intra-squad meet. She hasn't been timed in any of the strokes yet, so we have no idea how she'll place. So instead of swimming laps with the rest of the White and Blue team, they'll be competing against each other. This Saturday is her first REAL swim meet at Jenks.
--Oh, and this doesn't even count trying to edit TROLL or SUGAR PLUM DISASTER!
--And now, I need to go to hop in the shower before the I go weigh-in at Weight Watchers.
Let the chaos begin!!
Oh, yeah, I forgot a few things:
--judge the Emily contest--just got 5 entries
--finish putting together a presentation for RWI's Nov. meeting
--help kiddo with her pumpkin project, due on Friday
Later, Peeps!
Sorry for the late post, but I have been totally discombobulated (doncha love that word??) since coming home from Canada late last Wednesday. I'll try to get back on a regular schedule by the end of this week.
Here is my list of stuff:
--Pictures are downloaded on my computer waiting for me to have the time to blog
--Still haven't caught up with the laundry
--we had a nice soaking rain last night, which made walking today wonderful since most of the pollen had been washed out of the air.
--need to run lots of errands today, but many are closed due to it being Columbus day
--need to send the City of Tulsa a note to try to get a crosswalk painted across a residential street in Woodbine. The cars go too fast and the day care walks their kids across this street to the school. I did manage to cattle prod them into removing three dead evergreens that caused some serious visibility issues in this same location. If the KinderCare directer does her part and I do mine, then we might get some signs or a crosswalk painted. I'll keep using the words: children, accidents, hazards, etc.
--trying to nag cover artist. She sent me a cover for SUGAR PLUM DISASTER, and I HATED IT!! This was a first for me. I've never hated anything she's done, but this was a cut and paste disaster! it was very Chick-lit and NOT middle grade, nor did it have the same 'feel' as the rest of the book covers. I sent her some images and described in detail what I wanted to see. Hope the next version is better. I know she's seriously overwhelmed with a bunch of deadlines, but I hope I don't get lost in the mess.
--Amazon has now opened a French kindle store. YAY! But my stories are still in English, which will limit my ability to sell. My Sis-in-Law offered to translate (she's French, but lives and teaches here in town), but considering my sell-through in the states and the fact that I haven't even broke even yet, the odds are against me. I simply couldn't afford to pay her unless I could guarantee some sales. And even if you aren't knowledgeable about the book biz, you know that no one can guarantee this!
--I volunteered to help the 5th grade class on their field trip. it's to a local Junior Achievement place called Biz Town. The kids have 'jobs' and earn money and have to spend money for products. Well, today is the volunteer's orientation day. So, I'll be running late to my daughter's first swim meet.
--but first I'll have to take her to Girl Scouts. Of course, they are sending a care package to a soldier, but only notified the parents one day ago. . . A little more warning please! So I get to buy some junk food for the young man, while the Girl Scouts write notes to him. Plus they have fall products for sale. No we haven't bought anything yet. Yes, it's due today, but we were gone and couldn't walk around the neighborhood with her to sell stuff.
--Swim meet tonight is an intra-squad meet. She hasn't been timed in any of the strokes yet, so we have no idea how she'll place. So instead of swimming laps with the rest of the White and Blue team, they'll be competing against each other. This Saturday is her first REAL swim meet at Jenks.
--Oh, and this doesn't even count trying to edit TROLL or SUGAR PLUM DISASTER!
--And now, I need to go to hop in the shower before the I go weigh-in at Weight Watchers.
Let the chaos begin!!
Oh, yeah, I forgot a few things:
--judge the Emily contest--just got 5 entries
--finish putting together a presentation for RWI's Nov. meeting
--help kiddo with her pumpkin project, due on Friday
Later, Peeps!
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