Erulisse Dances

Today is my studio day and I'm hoping that I actually get it. But that may not be the case. DH is still sick and he works for me on Wednesdays. I may well get a phone call in the afternoon to come into the shop and work the rest of the day. That would mess up my laundry, working on my final pic for Binky, and my weekly phone call with Marlyn. All things that I was looking forward to (well, to be truthful, I usually don't look forward to laundry, just to the results of having clean towels and clothes). But, if I have to, I'll go in and try to work on my laptop instead of at home. I won't be happy though.

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I have a day off today, so I might get a chance to get my illustration done for the LOTR Community Art Challenge, I need to do some samples for my upcoming lecture, and I want to rewrite the drabble I was discussing yesterday and see if I can be happier with it.

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So, my auto repair people are pretty amazing. My DH did a total number on our car - after cleaning the throttle cable, draining the overage of gas from the engine, replacing the gaskets and spark plugs, and changing the oil (along with other things that were affected by DH's inability to start his car properly) we walked out of the repair shop much poorer. Ouch! I need to make an appointment for my own car to get a 100,000 mile checkover in February, I'm going to begin to feel as if I'm supporting these guys singlehandedly.

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Yesterday was just as filled with work as I had thought, but things worked well. I had a fun-filled morning with Meghan, meeting Chickie for breakfast and then taking Meghan with me to the fabric store for some decorative braid, and Penco Art Supply Warehouse store. It's always so much fun to catch up with her.

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So today is my day off - my studio day. It's the 7th of December, and I've received the first of my Holiday Cards from people on my f-list (Thanks, Silver Trails!!!). That means that I will be working like crazy on things today. I need to finish this repair because I want to have it available for her to pick up on Friday, and I need to do the interior of my cards and determine what, exactly, I want to do for the exterior. I can do some work on them tomorrow also, because I'm taking a second day off then. But, tomorrow is tomorrow and I'll discuss it then.


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I actually got a lot done yesterday. I finished up my "Feast" story, now I need to get a quick beta on it, but that's not a problem. I did get some work done on my repair, although not as much as I had hoped. I got a chapter done for my writing friend in Germany, and did my errands, etc.


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I'm always happy to have my studio day, a day when I can work on my own projects. Today, however, will be an extremely busy one. I have a list of errands that will take me all over town, the repair I started last week still has hours of work remaining on it, and I want to get my Solstice cards designed. Come to think of it...I've wanted to do that for the past two weeks so it has to move a bit higher on the list, I'm running out of time.

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So it's my day off. That means I have a list of errands a mile long to accomplish this morning, and I think I'll start designing my Solstice cards while finishing some pending writing projects this afternoon.

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 I finally had a good night's sleep last night, probably because I was too tired to do otherwise.  And I also had finally fixed the toilet in our guest bathroom. 


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After getting the water level down a bit, I noticed that it actually was an interior valve that leaked, not the water supply pipe.  The interior valve which is attached to the float is not something that will be easy to replace.  It was the very top of it that was leaking, badly, causing water to wick down the tank top and down the tank body to the floor.  Very bad.  I did, however, work a temporary fix.  I wanted to keep the spray totally in the tank, so I enclosed it.  I cut an empty margarine container to fit over the valve and duck taped it in.  Then I tested it.  It works beautifully.  With the tank top back on, it is completely invisible.  This will have to get fixed, but not immediately, so I'm very grateful that my fix - using something that my recycling people don't accept, ended up getting recycled to a good purpose anyway. 





I spent the rest of yesterday on two things - scrubbing walls and floor in the main bathroom and the guest bathroom (still more to do, but some serious inroads - very happy, and finalizing a story for the August ALEC contest.  Thank goodness for friends who are willing to help me out by looking over stories at the last minute.  Thanks to Elfscribe, I ended up with a story that I'm quite pleased with.  So, all in all, my day off was a successful day, even if I did post late - LOL.  

 Wednesdays are my day off, and Mondays come after Sunday which is my other day off.  So Tuesdays always seem like a bridge day, a day to almost ignore in the road to Wednesday.