Erulisse Dances

Let me start out with this. If I have sent you a Solstice Card in the past and you want one this year - Email or PM me your address. No address - no card. Simple. I'll be working on these like a crazy person for the next three weeks and should be able to stuff them into the mail just before the Solstice. At least, that's the ideal. I love making these, I love sending these, and I don't require a card in return. But I do require an address...I know...such a concept - LOL.



( goals for today and balancing acts below the cut... )

It's been two weeks since my last "normal" day off and I finally get one today. Call me happy! That doesn't mean that I'll be sitting around, I have a long list of things that I need to do, but I'll have a chance to do some laundry and talk with Aearwan late this afternoon - yeah...happy. I have to make serious inroads to cleaning today and I owe Lai some serious beta work, so those two things are my focii today.

( pics and thoughts about the Olympics and the Eowyn Challenge below the cut )

My foot is healing, but I think one more day of no running will be better for healing than stressing the skin just when it is trying to grow new skin. My dermatologist once told me that skin grows at the rate of 1mm in 24 hours, so I'm going to let the raw edges heal for one more day. Then I'm back to the treadmill...I promise (you and myself because those are the promises that really stick!).

( thoughts on thunderstorms and pie below the cut )

So, I've been trying to be good to myself and treadmill every day again. I'll try to make it a habit, which I know from studies means to do it for at least 30 days to make it ingrained. I have been doing a quick run when I wake at 3:30 am, but today I'm pushing things off until I return home around 10 am instead so that I can take a bit longer and not feel as rushed. Then I'll settle down to continuing edits on my AinA (and reading the crits that Keiless gave me as Beta yesterday) and working on a beta for Lai. It's very much looking like this will be a sit on my behind day, and that's why I want to take a bit longer run before I become sedentary.

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Today is my studio day and I have my usual long list of things that I want to try and get done. I need to do the budget that I mentioned yesterday - no way around it this time, it has to get done. I will talk with my friend in California late this afternoon, something that I look forward to every week. I would like to phone my friend's widow and find out how she's doing, it's been about two weeks since I last spoke with her, but I can't spare the time for lunch with her today. Maybe I can schedule something for next week. I'm almost finished with a complete "throw everything out except the premise" rewrite of one of my B2ME stories. When I finish this I can add it to my queue for that particular story-line which will leave me with a single story to review before beginning to post this group.

( Why is my life crazy? No question - it's all down to time management. )

Still checking and experimenting about how to get things posted on the "new" blogspot. If I didn't have a backlog of more than 1000 posts and feature my blog on my business cards, etc., I would just find another host, instead I'm checking out a variety of different ways to make this work. Now for try number three... My day off was very fun. I picked up Meghan and Sebas (her 3-year-old son) and drove all of us to meet Chickie for breakfast. So good! And Sebas was well behaved, it was really fun to see them again and catch up with Meghan. Many years ago she worked for me and we've kept up as friends ever since. After breakfast I drove them to drop Sebas off at day care, and then Meghan forward another 1-2 miles to drop her off at work. Remember this...it comes back later in the day...

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So my Manager is still too sick to come to work, although he is slowly getting better. I am hoping that I'll get a day off tomorrow, but I have to work today. Of course, I normally do work on Thursdays, so it's not an unexpected schedule, but I would really like my day off at some time this week. Even if I can take tomorrow off, I'm not 100% sure that he'll be feeling well enough to actually be of any help to my other staff instead of just sitting in the back room reading the newspaper or perching at the computer working on possible purchase orders and order recommendations.

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We had a relaxing Sunday. I did a bit of editing and reading, played LOTRO with DH for several hours, and we had Subway for dinner (love the price and the food - hard to beat). In fact, I can't think of anything earthshaking that I did at all. I think that's nice for a change :-)

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 I love my writers group.  I know for a fact that I would never have started writing without knowing that they were behind me, ready, willing and able to take a look and tell me where I messed things up.  But I also learned quickly that weekends were going to have slow responses and that vacation times would also result in slow reads.  Unfortunately, that's just not working well for me any more. 

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Not that I will quit my writers group.  They are amazing and any input they give me is gold.  But, I'm going to have to fund a beta.  I need someone who can look over and seriously crit my chapters because I'm falling too far behind and want to start catching up a bit.  I usually read through and correct my pieces 4-6 times before I release for crit anyway (except for my drabbles) so things are pounded and refined, but that extra set of eyes to pull out misplaced commas, correct poor word order, suggest words to delete here and there, and to tell me that I'm off track on plot or reactions by my characters is more than valuable - it's essential.  It's what a good editor will do, and that's what I need, a good editor. 

So if you are a beta, or if you know of one who you think might be willing to take one more author on, please let me know.  In the meantime I'll continue to self-beta and to post to my writers group also, but...I NEED A BETA!