Checking my daytimer, I see I have written "7:30 - Piedmont" for this Thursday. What this refers to, I have no clue. Would that be 7:30 AM or PM? Am I to meet someone somewhere in the Piedmont area where I live? Is it in reference to Piedmont Magazine, which I sometimes write for? No idea. I'm open to any hints or suggestions my readers may care to give me. Please???
I went computer free this Thanksgiving weekend. It was lovely. But I've missed my little on-line life and am ready to dive back in.
Frankly, my head is swimming with a wide range of "to-do's." (That, and cold medication. The pesky cough/cold insists on hanging around.) December is BOOK WRITING MONTH. Or rather, editing month. I've written drafts of all the chapters for my new cat humor book but need to go back and up the humor, edit for brevity and flow, and make sure it all comes together. It's one of those months where I'll sit down at my desk each morning to discover the great wit and hilarity I've recorded or else I'll turn lightly suicidal, wondering how on earth I'm going to pull a rabbit out of my hat. Regardless, 8 AM - NOON every day is writing time. Afternoons are for everything else, including:
I am in the holiday spirit. The tree's are up, the house decorated, it's cold and rainy outside and warm and snuggly inside. My cold gives me an excuse to eat oatmeal for dinner and then go to bed at, like, 8 PM. I am methodically working my way through six piles of laundry which, oddly, brings me peace.
Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. Now let's kick into high gear for the last month of the year!
This is a week of tying up loose ends. I'm finally (finally!) getting around to sending out long past due invoices in an effort to get all monies in I'm owed before the New Year. I'm tying off small projects as I prepare to hit a big one Monday monring with full steam. The house is clean, Blair's sister and our nephew arrive this afternoon for Thanksgiving, and I have forbidden my cold to get any worse.
Blair and I have 4-5 small household/finance projects that need to be dealt with this weekend. And--yuck, yuck, yuck--we'll pull the holiday decorations out this weekend and get the tree up and house decorated. (I'd be fine sticking a candy cane on a houseplant and calling it a day. Blair, not so much.) It's time to write the holiday newsleter and start thinking about goals/dreams for 2009. I can't be expected to enter the New Year without a LIST now, can I?
So today is about inovices, e-mail, yoga, a quick treadmill run, and clearing off my desk. (Are matches and kindling an option?) Notice that WRITING is not listed in that to-do list. Monday will kick off a month of hard-core writing days. I have a book that needs to be finished and sent out for editing.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Travel safe.
Twitter is the online social networking site that asks, "What are you doing?" You "tweet" up to a 150-character reply. Here is my vote for the funniest posted tweet to date.(For non twitter folks: writing @ before another twitter account holder's ID will ensure your "tweet" will be delivered directly to that person's account, so they'll be sure and see it, even if they don't catch it when it scrolls by at the original time of posting.)
Tweet by Anil Dash: "@barackobama I will paypal you $20 if you intersperse the phrase "Allah willing" throughout your inaugural address, just to piss people off."
Picture it: Obama onstage saying, "Yes we can! Allah willing..."
Almost peed myself laughing...
(Props to Melody Watson who alerted me to this tweet.)
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